Category: Richmond, VA

  • Mystery Box 2024: Remembering Puddles, Oreo, and Sherpee

    Lighting the Christmas Tree, drinking egg nog, and gathering with friends around the Mystery Box at The FORGE……….This is what the holidays are all about! 8 of SOJ’s finest posted in the cold for some revelry and exercise. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    Mosey to the front of the abandoned Middle School for warm-up: Side Straddle Hops, Ukranian Soldiers, Mummy Kicks, Copperhead Squats, Alabama Prom Dates.

    To the back of the school for the main event: Mystery Box
    PAX take turns pulling an exercise out of the box, then grab the medicine ball and run to Forest Hill Avenue and back……….everyone else does said exercise for the duration:

    Bear Crawl, Jumping Herpees, Lt. Dans, Plank Walk, Crab Walk, Crunchy Frogs, American Hammers, Squats, WWII Sit ups, Mountain Climbers, Appalachian Lunge Walks, Freddy Mercuries, Mummy Kicks, I probably missed a few

    Back to the Flag for Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests

    YHC took us out

    Final Thoughts: Mystery Box is typically a time to celebrate. But it can also be cathartic as evidenced by several PAX discussing dogs that died tragically?? Still not sure what a Sherpee is. The latest Mystery Box Mixxx had just enough euro metal to satisfy Last Call. Until next year…………………

  • They came for the gumbo and only got a bagel

    Gumbo, be warned: if you miss another Q, Swirly may actually log in to Slack and make a fuss.

    7 gentleman plus 2 geriatric walkers gathered without Gumbo this morning, so YHC grabbed the Q at 0529. Off we went.

    COP on the Blacktop. standard fare. Mosey to the tree line.

    Chutes and Ladders: Run 2 trees, Bernie back 1, drop and do 5 reps of the called excercise. Round 1: Squats, Round 2: Merkins, Round 3: LBCs. Mosey to corner of school.

    Triple Check: P1: Wall sit, P2: dips, P3: run to pull up bar, 5 pull ups, run back. Mosey to Tennis courts.

    Dora: 100 Merkins, 200 2x American Hammers, audible called, mosey back to the flag.

    COP: end with 50 IC Pickle pounders.

    SMS: Welcome Mountain Man from Columbus, Ohio! Lots of debate about the proper way to conduct chutes and ladders. Lots of moaning and groaning during the Pickle Pounders. Great group, great way to start the day! SYITG

  • We’re Not Melting

    We did not venture out of the West Broad Village Parking Garage due to the rain. We started with uphill 11’s (going up the parking deck) doing burpee’s and WW2’s. Then we ran another 1.5 miles up and down, and down and up the parking deck doing exercises on the ground floor. We completed 2.75 miles but it felt like most of it was up hill. No one melted but we were wet with sweet by the end.

  • hot pot

    COP

    warmarama in the normal fahsion

    THANG

    4 sets of 3 exercises with kettle bell and 1 runner (quad check) followed by some mary

    COT

    HErme brought us out after name/numberama, annnouncments and prayer req’s

  • Rain Run

    Out Coalfield for 22 mins and back.

  • Ruckhenge 121124

    What goes down must come up. It was great to see 9 men out this morning for a rainy 3.5 miles of hilly terrain. Great work everyone. This mornings Q.source was focused (maybe not so focused) on Articulation and Persuasion.

    Announcements (check slack), Numberama, Names

  • Late HC

    YHC committed to a dry 65 degree broga post UpChuck’s bedtime, but the pull of the shavasana was too strong. Warriors, Cats, Cows, Scorpions, Cobras, Pigeons, Dogs, and many more were displayed.

  • Club of Months, Jelly Edition

    Ten enthusiastic and insightful human beings gathered in the post-broga gloom for this week’s edition of First Watch SZN of Giving. After some debate on whether or not Gomer was early or late, Handshake rolled in and off we went, determining that only our guest would be late today. Short mosey over to the not dry patio for:

    COP

    • 10x Helicopters – choose your own direction
    • 10x Don Quixotes – apparently too fast at first, but just slow enough to greet our guest
    • 25x SSHs – to perfection
    • 10x Mountain Climbers – with no comments
    • 10x Inverted Scorpion Kicks – to much fanfare
    • 20x LBCs – just enough to get the joints lubed

    The Thang

    Slow mosey to the small back parking lot, ignoring a request from one PAX to show everything the AO has to offer. Up for debate, but the AO proper is the church. Everything else is bonus territory. Go ahead, change my mind.

    We (read YHC) decided to do escalating 4 corners, compounding style. What does that mean? It means what I decided at the time. Small lot 4 corners, repeating previous exercises at each new corner. 10x merkins, 20x jump squats, 30x SSHs, 40x LBCs. Bear crawl between stations.

    Use the full parking lot for round 2. HRMs, monkey humpers, plank jacks, reverse crunches. Bernie between stations

    Use the full AO for round 3. Diamond merkins, lunges, mountain climbers, american hammers. Run between stations.

    Mosey to the triangle park for a variation of triple check, competition style. Two partners run to the light and back while the 3rd does an exercise. If you beat your partner, guess what, you get to run again! Swap out a number of times. Exercises were american hammers, squats, something else everyone was excited about. Even thought the Q never said stop, the PAX eventually stopped. So we meandered back to the launch site for one quick round of ROF, dealers choice.

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    YHC has missed this crew the past few months. Good to see everyone and to share in the season with some partially home-baked goods.

    Thanks for coming out. Glad it never rained on us till the end.

    Announcements

    • 12 Days @ NoToll next Tuesday. Too late to participate in Secret Santa unless you get a waiver from Hutton.
    • Clown car to the Bridge this Saturday. Regrets to Upchuck.
    • Gomer & Pigskin accepting donations for Barnabas, see Slack.

    Splinter out.

  • Lone Wolf

    I waited till 5:35 just in case a pax member might show up – negative… So because it was freaking pouring down I drove over closer to the track and got started. The workout consisted of run the track in the rain – get back in the truck soaking wet towel off and drive home ( short workout) . Yep these were the adventures of a lone wolf this morning in the gloom – not very exciting I know but better than fart sacking!

    See y’all in the gloom!

  • Me vs. You Lubricant

    4 brave souls decided to post on a rainy Wednesday morning. The PAX found some cover and got to work.

    COP (Corned Beef Q)

    Dora (Bulkhead Q) – 100x kb swings, 200x curls, 300x lunges/around the world.

    Bus loop – stop at each lamp post for an exercise. 20x tricep extensions, 20x snatches, 20x squats.

    Stretching to close it out.

    Numbers, names. Mr. Holland took us out.

    Notes: Happy hour this Thursday 7pm at PBR on 301.