Category: Richmond, VA

  • Imperium

    Holiday gone, time marches slowly on. 5 men, our bodies and our minds locked in a war of attrition with entropy itself. The expectations of a mechanized society, the weaponization of technology. In the gloom, we are winning, but it is trench warfare and we had the soundtrack to prove it.

    Mosey to the flagpole for warmarama.

    Mosey back and down the hill for some knoll work: 11s with mirkins, bear crawl the knoll, jumpsquats, lunge down.

    100 WW2s.

    Mosey to the roundabout for a cinco de checko. Timer runs the loop, flutter kicks, mountain climbers, squats, burpees. Rinse and repeat 5 times.

    COT. Peace.

  • “The Slow Pace”

    2 Davillians enjoyed post Christmas run this morning.

    For Phonics this was a “cool down” run after running with his daughter over the weekend at 7ish pace and Spider Run 6 mile group Tuesday.

    Today we got in a short run of 3.5 miles but at 8:15 pace

    Spit On That

  • Christmas Morning Charge-Up

    On a crisp 30-degree Christmas morning, three regulars gathered to start the day before diving into the festivities. The workout consisted of four loops around the lake, alternating directions with each lap. At the end of each loop, we stopped for 15 Step-Ups, 25 Dips, and 25 Crunchy Frogs. Surprisingly, not a single dog walker crossed our path—perhaps all the pups were enjoying a holiday sleep-in. By the end of the session, we had logged 3.5 miles.

    Merry Christmas to all!

  • Saab saves Christmas

    Five left the AO and were met with a runner joining as we crossed River. After normal COP spot and stuff we went down River to Gaymont. Stopped for WWIIs, then at bottom of hill time for a Triple Check: HRMs, Reverse Crunch, & run up hill. Mosey up to top of Gaymont and then down to Kubotas road with stops to do a Burpee for any outdoor Christmas lights.

    Stop at Site Qs house for Dora 123: Merkins, Squats, LBCs. Back up Ralston to River. Stop a few spots along the way for some Mary. Back at parking lot: 2 Rounds of PLTs then 2 min of Mary. YHC took us out.

    NMS: It was 3 PAX at 4:59 and Hitch & Handshake pulled in to make it a dreaded 5 PAX. The Q took off for the COP cursing the prime number 5 but then something arose out of sight: Saab appeared out of nowhere to make it an even 6 as we hit the COP. We stopped at Kubotas for the Dora assuming he was at he was away but apparently he was home while we were outside. No neighborhood children were woken up from sophmoric mumblechatter so not a repeat of last week. Nice to have 6 PAX out to start Christmas off right.

    Merry Christmas!

  • Christmas Eve Beatdown

    3 Goyne Gloom Warriors came out to Goyne Park for a Christmas Eve Edition of The Bermuda Triangle. It was a frosty 70 and sunny, but that didn’t stop this trio from putting ourselves to the test, with a State Farm Classic. Here’s what the UFO drones reportedly saw.

    Warmarama

    SSH x34 In Cadence for the amount of points the Green Bay Packers scored last night!

    Burpees x0 times for the amount of points the Green Bay Packers allowed last night!!

    Helicopters, Don Quyotes, Imperial Walkers, LBCs.

    The Thang

    2 Minute Maximum Reps or carry for each exercise

    Merkins
    Sit ups
    Thrusters
    Jump Squats
    Ball Dippers Double Count
    Curls
    Skull Crushers
    Polesmokers
    Imperial Walkers Double Count
    Double Cindy Farmer’s Carry
    Rifle Carry

    We all chose to do each exercise in different orders. Pool Boy disputed YHC’s form on the Polesmokers.

    Announcements

    YHC has a 100 Qs for 2024 Q at Rocknroll on Saturday,

    Pool Boy, Choo Choo, and Beaver are all hitting 100 posts at about the same time and are celebrating with a CSAUP at The Lumberyard on Saturday!!  Congrats Boys!!

    Merry Christmas everyone!

  • No Copyright or Patent Infringement

    A wintry day that felt like Christmas without the snow greeted 8 noble warriors on the eve of Christmas.  Here is it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • DMH
      • Suzanne Somers
      • Merkins
      • LBC
    • Move to Heartbreak Hill for an uncopyrighted 12 days of Christmas, with cumulative exercises mixed in the 12 hill runs:
      • 144 HRM
      • 121 WWII sit-ups
      • 100 FK
      • 81 reverse crunches
      • 64 monkey humpers
      • 49 CDD
      • 36 H2H
      • 25 burpees
      • 16 2x shoulder taps
      • 9 2x crab cakes
      • 4 crunchy frogs
      • 1 12 second deep squat and hold
    • Mosey to the jerkin gym for 12 jerkin reps
    • Mosey back to the flag for COT with YHC taking us out

    Nothing original here.  No one has copyrighted anything with the Christmas season Q.  Just a simple way to prepare for all of the celebrating that lies ahead.  Gomer’s watch claims he was having a heart attack.  If it called anyone, they did not care as no assistance came to HBR.  Mumble-chatter questioned whether the M was using that to summons her boy toy for some holiday joy or if it was simply an opportunity to double-check the whereabouts of his life insurance policy. 

    Happy Birthday to our brother Chum Bucket!

    Prayers up to those dealing with sickness and death during this holiday season.  God is good all of the time!  Merry Christmas to all!

    Attila

  • Kettle frost

    Hermey brought the tunes, Tzatziki screeched into the lot last minute, Heist was like “I’ve been waiting for you,” and Dumar brought his signature whit and selective adherence to any called exercise. With thankfulness in out hearts and a pinch of vinegar/good humor:

    Run around the school

    SSH, Andy Dufresne, helicopters, dead man hang, merkins, LBCs, downward dog and cobra

    Farmer’s carry to the back of the school

    20 swings, 20 (10/leg) single leg squats, 20 (10/leg) single leg deadlifts, repeat 3x

    50 pull-ups, 50 merkins

    20 Romanian deadlifts, 20 upright rows, 20 overhead presses, repeat 3x

    Farmer’s carry back to the front of the school

    20 curls, 20 skull crushers, repeat 3x

    Names, numbers, Hermey took us out.

    Prayers for Dumar’s sister and bro in-law. Crisp and cold but a fantastic way to begin Christmas. We all have so many blessings. Love you guys, and Merry Christmas!

  • T’was the Morning Before Christmas

    Walkers, ruckers, and runners of different paces converged today for some holiday cheer! Up the main entrance and ascend Boatwright to Edgehill. Down Three Chopt to Patterson and back on your respective cross street.

    Announcements – Fudd is leading January’s trip to the Bridge. See Fudd/Slack for details.

    Swirly took us out.

    Coffee afterwards was a rare Tuesday treat!

    Happy Holidays!

  • Rockin Around the Sweatfest Tree

    11 southern studs embraced the frozen tundra of NoToll, all pumped up for the Christmas musical beatdown promised by the good doctor. Here’s how these fine brothers wrapped the best kind of Christmas gift: 

    The THANG:  Mosey over to the big parking lot, provide a brief welcome and disclaimer while Q’ing up the first song. After each song, run to the next stop (the PAX unwittingly outlining a Garmin map picture).

    1. Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (2:07) – SSH’s to the beat, and a Burpee for every “Christmas”
    2. Jingle Bell Rock (2:11) – Mtn Climbers to the beat, Merkins for every “Jingle”
    3. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2:32) – Flutters to the beat, WWII for every “Wonderful”
    4. This Christmas (3:52) – Squats to the beat, Burpees for every “This Christmas”
    5. Here Comes Santa Claus (2:30) – Shoulder Taps to the beat, and a Groiner for every “Santa Clause”
    6. You’re a mean one, Mr Grinch (2:57) – V-ups alternated with Supermans to the beat, switching (rolling) with each “Mr Grinch”
    7. A Holly Jolly Christmas (2:16) – Monkey Humpers to the beat, with a Monkey Roll for every “Holly Jolly Christmas”
    8. Run Rudolf Run (2:45) – SSH’s to the beat, with a Lt Dan for every “Run Run Rudolf”
    9. Last Christmas (4:23) – variable movements for each of the 4 loops of the gift box ribbon bow – Bear Crawl, Lunge, Crab, Broadjump

    Mosey BTTF and do a minute of Nancy Kerrigans to close out the 45min funtastic frozen sweatfest

    COT:

    • Counterama # 11
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    Prayer Requests:

    • Machismo shared about a neighbor who recently had a heart attack playing pickup football, and also mentioned SwipeRight (only ever posted once) who’s a couple years out from a heart attack. The reminder is that none of us can guarantee tomorrow – that every day we may be writing the last lines of our legacy. Let’s make each day count! 

    NMS:  Awesome to have solid numbers out for a fun holiday music beatdown. The workout pattern outlined a Christmas Gift complete with ribbon and bow on top, though we clearly didn’t make our bow loops big enough. But extending those loops any bigger may have killed one of us.  Tough to have much mumble chatter getting through all 9 Christmas hits, but awesome coffeerama at Starbucks after! Heart is full, thank you brothers, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • DETAILS TBD FOR JAN 1 CONVERGENCE – stay tuned on Slack 

  • “Do you guys ever think: what the **** are we doing out here?” Birthday Scrabble


    A frosty morning indeed (19 F) with five posting for a delayed birthday Q: “Beat It’s 40th Birthday Scrabble.”

    There were zero “coming in hot” today per Opus’s stern warning the night before. Beaver from New Kent was actually on site 10 minutes early. We all deserve rounds of applause for waking up 10 minutes earlier to defrost cars, grab extra mittens and make it on time.

    After some warm burpees and a mozy, Bulkhead said what we are all thinking :

    “Do you guys ever think: What the **** are we doing out here?”

    Warmup: Butt kickers, high knees, karaoke, side straddle hops, squats and the soldiers.

    Thang 1: Wheel of Musical Fun
    One partner runs a lap around the bus loop, while the other follows the Jello Legs directions. A clock is running 1:50 intervals and when the whistle blows, anyone running does 5 burpees on the spot. They are exempt if they beat the time and tag their partner. Soundtrack: Home Alone 2 Music

    All was fun and games until Beat It tore his calf muscle out of nowehere on lap 4. Ah — the irony the 40th birthday. Shoulda done more warmups in these temps I guess. Or … blame the Duck Walk.

    Thang 2: Scrabble
    One partner holds plank position with the Scrabble tray and the other partner runs across the field to the scrabble bucket to grab one random letter. First team to form a 5-letter word gets to take a break (truthfully the team with the most points wins, not the first to finish). However today, there was only one word formed and that would be the word “SCOOT”

    Winners: Opus & Bulkhead with “Scoot” – 7 points

    COT –
    Appreciate the concern and awareness for Mitchell Leahy, a senior at Hanover High and at our church youth group, that just ran away from his adopted parents this weekend. He’s 6’0″ tall skinny red headed kid, can’t miss him. We have hope that he is still in the RVA area.