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!
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!
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!
A wintry day that felt like Christmas without the snow greeted 8 noble warriors on the eve of Christmas. Here is it went down:
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
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!
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!
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).
Mosey BTTF and do a minute of Nancy Kerrigans to close out the 45min funtastic frozen sweatfest
COT:
Prayer Requests:
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!)
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”
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.
A cool dozen emerged from the warm enclosure of their idling cars. The clock strikes 530 and off we went with a short mosey to the small teacher’s lot. The circle was small to preserve warmth, and got even smaller with the Ukrainian Soldiers bringing us in nice and snug.
A jog down the road and up west drive got the blood flowing as we transitioned into teams of three for triple check. Run the loop, monkey humpers, and box cutters. Though the little dog noticed us with barks, no angry neighbors shouted out the time of day.
Over to YHC’s house for two sets of 20 PLTs. Mosey down to the shopping center and form a circle for a ring of fire with Mary. Dealer’s choice as we worked the abs.
Mosey back to the AO with some 11s – Bulgarian squats and derkins. Now let’s finish with BTTW – last man standing. It came down to Bodos and Pigskin and Pigskin prevailed.
YHC took us out.
Announcements – Welcome Salt Lick to F3 Richmond. He joins us from the middle of Texas.
Excellent 2nd F coffee and a tour of Bodo’s pad. A spectacular space and an office that is exactly what you would imagine Coffee and discussion rivals none. Who will take us on next month’s tour?
Four fan favorites braved the cold and went Deep. We started with a bus loop warmup and then circled up for some SSH, IW, Ukrainian Soldiers, Flutters, H2H, Merkins and Helicopters.
We then crossed the street and went into Greengate down Vinery Ave. We did consolidated 7’s at every section of row houses. Started with 6 two count shoulder taps and one merkin and then 5/2,etc.
At the end of the street we partnered up and one partner ran around the block and the other did flutters, then squats and then HRM .
It was now time to get Deep. We moseyed a bit down the street until we came to a sign warning us about a steep decline. We ventured down the paved path until it flattened out and I gave instructions: Ukrainian Soldier walks until we get to the bridge, bear crawl on the bridge and then lunge walk after the bridge.
Into the dark we went, and this is where we found out the bridge went on FOREVER! So after too many bear crawls, I called an audible and we lunged. At some point the bridge ended and we moseyed a bit and then turned around. On the way back we did more Soldiers and then bunny hopped up to the bridge and ran on the bridge back to the start of the path. We then bear crawled up the steep decline.
We reversed the same 7’s on the way back and then had time to hit the hairy Nuckol. There we did balls to the ball toe taps and then Australian mountain climbers with runs up the hill in between with 5 burpees at the top.
We then moseyed back to the cars and did some Mary until time.
No announcements and I took us out in prayer.
Mr. Rogers and I enjoyed some coffee and company afterwards. We had the Starbucks all to ourselves.