With many of the Morning Wood regulars at Monument or other races – YHC had to hold down the fort. Ran primarily around the perimeter of the park while enjoying the bustling activity at the Latino Market setup. It was peaceful run – but who could have foreseen Purple Rain’s savage beatdown?
SYITG
Category: Richmond, VA
-
Really Roscoe?
Instead of attending RVA’s own Monument Ave 10k today, we did a run-heavy beatdown.
After Fudd’s dog, Roscoe, made a beeline for my shovel flag and proceeded to piss on it, we were ready to begin.
Warm up: Run around the parking lot (high knees, butt kickers, karaoke).
Circle up for COP: Disclaimer, SSHs, Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, DQs, Mt Climbers, WWIIs, & Merkins. Recover. Enough of that: Let’s roll!
Line up on the saturated Gridiron.
25 MH on the 25 yard line, run back to the start.
Repeat and add 50 Shoulder Taps on the 50 yard line, run back. Repeat, add 75 LBCs (we got nice and soggy here)…
finish with 100 SSHs. Roscoe had a ball running all over the place, when allowed. Besides his antics within 30 seconds of showing up, he was a perfect gentleman otherwise.Next up: Track Attack
Run the track twice. If you get passed, do a Burpee. This was gonna be fun, in my mind. IRL, we just ran around the track twice.Eye of the Storm
Audible to a parking lot instead of another saturated field. 5 Jump Squats in the center between each corner exercise, which the Pax picked in random order (20 Merkins, 20 AHs, 20 Lunges, 20 Plank Jacks). Just for funsies, we did it twice.Triple Check in front of Short Pump MS
P1 runs loop. P2 Balls to the Wall. P3 WWIIs.Mosey BTTF, but we stopped for 5 burpees OYO. Mosey, stop, 5 more burpees. Mosey, stop, 5 more burpees… I think we did about 40 burpees in total. Some grumbles here. I let Chum know that we ran out of time and got off easy. I had a 100 burpee Dora planned. There’s always next time. And I still have the ghost flag.
Circle up for some Mary (FMs, Heels to Heaven, finish with 60 second elevated leg hold).
Names.
Numbers.
Announcements: Piglet has another little piglet joining the litter on Tuesday, 4/15/25, as his M. will be induced at 12pm. Prayers for a healthy M and baby piglet. Century Classic 2.0 May 2-3. Don’t think about how Completely Stupid And Utterly Pointless it is – just sign up.
Prayer requests: prayers for GomerPyle’s upcoming (possibly?) knee surgery. Prayers for Fudd’s wife’s cousin, Hannah, who at only 23 yo is facing serious health concerns.
Moleskin: If you’re breathing today, you have something to be grateful for and the ability to do something for someone else. Make it happen.SYITG!
-
Dora’s unholy Mountain
4 guys showed up on a Saturday for an Opu sbeatdown for the ages 🙂
Run around the parking lot until a few others showed up.
mini COP — several exercises including SSH and IJR’s
Run to the destination doing merkins and squats along the way.
Dora’s unholy mountain
partner runs up the hill and back down
combo of exercises
100 merkins
200 Squats
300 SSH
200 LBC’s
100 merkins
4 corners of the bus loop
20 Flutterkicks
lunge
20 AM HAM
run
20 FM’s
lunge
20 WW2
Run back to flag stopping at speed bumps for accumulating
10 AST’s
20 IW’s
30 Arm circles
40 IJR’s
Back to flag
GRAMS
Opus took us out -
Soccer is canceled
Nine studs set this overcast, damp morning aflame, while some of our brothers ran in the 10k, or the blue ridge marathon (Big Rig!). We honored their efforts today with max effort of our own. F3 workouts always leave me in an improved mood, the mumble chatter, the HIMs, the accomplishment of not fartsacking, showing up and putting in the work. It sets the tone for the whole day.
Start things off with an indigenous people’s run, man in back does 3 burpees, runs to the front. You know the drill. We ran around the main track to end where we began.
SSHs, Andy Dufresne, dead man hang, cherry pickers, copperhead squats, merkins, tempo Freddie Mercurys, butterfly and “high school” stretches, Thor’s chair (10 scrunchy frogs, 1 double count American hammer, 9 scrunchy frogs, 2 American hammers, 8 scrunchy frogs, 3 Am hams, etc.), downward dog and cobra stretches
Run to the far trailhead where the pull up bars are. Exercise bank time.
-500 burpees, one man at a time does 8 pullups then rejoins the circle, next man does 8 pullups, until the total 500 burpees is reached
-1000 squats, replace pullups with 10 dips
-1500 monkey humpers, replace pull-ups with 15 incline merkins
Four corners, no prostitute. 10 burpees, 20 jump squats, 30 shoulder taps, 40 high knees
Four corners, no prostitute. 10 spiderman merkins, 20 ball dippers, 30 SSHs, 40 double count mountain climbers
Run to the snack shack. People’s chair for a 10 count, 10 we’re not worthys, bernie up steep hill. People’s chair for a 20 count, 15 WnWs, bernie up hill. People’s chair for a 30 count, 20 WnWs, bernie up hill.
Triple check. Donkey kicks, single leg step ups, runner down the stairs then back up the opposite staircase.
BTTF. Heremy led broga for a couple of minutes. Time called.
Names, numbers.
Century run/ruck. Do it. Woodsman 1-year Q @ The Alamo this coming Monday. Opportunities to travel to The Bridge coming up with Corned Beef this month and Hermey in May. Reach out to either HIM if you’re interested in posting. It’s an awesome experience.
Prayers for Big Rig’s safety, endurance and resilience, for Liv, for Wildcat, for The Tryhard Family, and for the PAX at large. Thanks for our countless blessings, help us to see them.
Great morning fellas. Thanks for letting me lead!
-
Wet Peter’s
5 of the east-ends finest and 2 little savages got together this morning in the true gloom. This is how it all went down……
Warmarama
- Arm circles in all directions
- Chinook’s
- Michael Phelps
- Ukrainian soldiers
- SSH
- Flutters in all directions
COP 1
- Partner up!
- 10 booya Merkins
- Rock Paper Scissors and winner runs 50 yards out 2 Burpees and runs back while partner planks
- 5 rounds
COP 2
DIME POUNDER COUNT DOWN: Bro Code Style! When finished with your workout do SSHs until last person finishes up then sprint back together on each work out!
- Stops at every 10 yard line, and reversing order to start with the 100 and counting down to 10
- 100yd, x100 Flutters (2ct)
- 90yd, x90 SSH
- 80yd, x80 Copper head squat
- 70yd, x70 Mountain climber
- 60yd, x60 Outlaw
- 50yd, x50 WW2
- 40yd, x40 Merkin
- 30yd, x30 High knee
- 20yd, x20 Burpee
- 10yd, x10 Dragon walk
Let’s do some Mary!
- Flutters
- Penguins
- Crunchy frogs
- Starfish
- LBCs
Finished with some Broga!
Numbers, Names and Prayer Request
Respect to these men for sticking it out, even through the cold and wet. That kind of shared struggle and encouragement is exactly what builds that strong brotherhood and mindset for growth. Iron sharpens iron! Keep pushing and lifting each other up!
Yukon Cornelius took us out on a very nicely said prayer!
-
Oh Baby!
4 crazy PAXanimals rallied for a beatdown from the labyrinth of YHC’s mind. I don’t think I can recall everything that occured, but here we go!
Warmarama! Mosey to end of parking lot.
- SSH 25 IC
- Tie Fighters 6 forward 6 reverse IC
- Michael Phelps OYO
- DQ’s 10 IC – this is a stretch?
- CopperHead Squats IC – keep going until somebody counts us in. We got to 10 but we did way more than 10.
- Ukrainian Soldiers – 10 IC
Mosey to the parking blocks – 42 yrds of em.
Per block – 10 toe tappers & 1 burpee. On the way back – plank walk, every block 1 merkin & rotate 180 degrees.
Bear Crawl half way across parking blocks, run to the end. Lunge half way(“Oh baby!”)run. High knees half way, run. Fletcher Reede’s halfway, run. Repeat!Dragon Walk halfway, run. Choo Choo wants his heart rate up! 8 burpees at starting line, run halfway, 8 burpees, run. 8 burpees at the end. 8 ball dippers at start, halfway and at end, repeat. Return with 8 plank jacks in same fashion. Repeat 8 Plank Jacks add 2ct 8 Mountain Climbers. Cocaine bears the stretch of parking blocks(Merkins or CDD’s your choice). Finish off with lunge the parking space merkin at every line half way, bump it up to 3 merkins per line for the remainder.
Mosey BTTF!
CoT
Counterama 4 & Namarama.
Announcements and Prayer Requests.
We all managed to stay fairly dry this morning and gathered for a solid hour of coffeteria at Safari. It was great to have the band back together!
-
Eight Rights, Six Lefts, DUH!
Over the years YHC has learned that any route beyond an out and back will draw blank stares. YHC continues to keep it complicated anyway. Here’s where today:
The Route
- R on Pump
- L on Old Prescott
- R on Glen Eagles
- R on Bridgehaven
- L on Burnside
- L on Pump
- R on Crowncrest or Thistledown
- L/R on Brookmont
- L on Cox to the tip
- Reverso on Cox
- R on Ridgefield
- L on Raintree
- R on Windbluff
- R on Willowick
- L on Maremont
- Back to SF
Numberama, Nameorama, COT
MOLESKIN
YHC couldn’t possibly have kept it any simpler, plus we just ran this route February of 2024. You can lead a dog to water, but you can’t make them drink. A few put in overtime and finished via Falconbridge and Pump. No additional #BD points are awarded.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The Bridge – join Corned Beef in April or Hermes in May
- Century Classic May 2-3 – HCs needed
-
Yardsale Crusoe
3 men decided to start their Friday properly with The Creek beatdown.
COP – various exercises
Pull Up/Merkins Pyramid
1 pull up + 2 merkins
2 pull ups + 4 merkins
3 pull ups + 6 merkins
Back to 2 pull ups + 4 merkins
1 pull up + 2 merkins
Opus 4 Corners
Opus’s version of rotating 4 corners. Exercises were squats, WW2s, T claps and reverse snow angels. Rotating reps of 10x, 20x, 30x and 40x
Some calf raises and stretching to close out.
Names, numbers, Surf n Turf took us out.
-
Fly, Boy!
I wish I had more time to give this backblast the TLC that it deserves but I’m currently sitting at Midlo High School, hooked up to my HotSpot and am getting ready to announce their game tonight. GO TROJANS!
Long story short, FLY BOY NEARLY POOPED HIS PANTS!!
WARMARAMA – Moseyed over to the bus loop, stretched out, gave the F3 mission and got into it.
COP #1 – Ran the bus lines with a mix between running, Bernie, side shuffle and high knees.
COP #2 – Lightpoles
- Stopped at each lightpole and the PAX performed called excercises. About (8) stops along the way with QTY’s rising by 5 at each light. Returned back to the starting point after each exercise.
COP #3 – 4 Corners, LOTN Style
- Corner 1: CDD
- Corner 2: Freddy Mercury
- Corner 3: Squats
- Corner 4: Arm Circles
COP #4 – Ring of Fire (Abs)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CSAUP – Hit up Hesit
- 4/14 – The Alamo, Woodsman’s 1-year
PRAYERS
- Big one here. Warby’s wife’s father passed away this week. Prayers up for her, Warby and the whole family.
Love y’all and you KNOW I mean it!
-
Potato Inferno
With no one on the Q sheet – everyone got a chance to shine at The Crossing. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure.
YHC handled the warm up: Side Straddle Hops, Helicopters, Ukranian Soldiers, Hand Release Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks, American Hammers, Heels to Heaven. Still had my medicine ball from Twin Team last so week so we did an Indigenous Peoples run with Power Slams around the perimeter of the church.
Pass the Q to Broadway for partner shoulder presses with one man running around the parking lot and back. Mosey to the lower parking lot for 11’s with Flutter Kicks and WWII sit ups.
Seadoo lead us in some wall exercises: People’s Chair with varying arm circles and merkins in between sets.
Birdman elected for 4 sprints – out and back with 20 Merkins in between. Ouch.
Our newest addition to the team, Ghostbuster, lead a run around the church with varying exercises: Broad Jumps, Burpees, Worlds Greatest Stretches, WWII sit up.
Wrapped things up with 2 minutes of medicine ball bounce passes.
Seadoo took us out
Final Thoughts: Strong work by Birdman and Ghostbuster dipping their toes in the
Q pool for the first time! Also, it had been a minute for Seadoo. Broadway continues to be an innovator with his military style partner workouts. A great time was had by all!
SYITG