Category: Richmond, VA

  • Isolation

    Ah, YHC forgets OC’s slogan on the t-shirt, isolation in masturbation perhaps, but not as crude. Where to begin….balls and shaft? I recognize a kinship. Christmas party masturbation unemployment? Let’s start with the lounge, shall we –

    10 regulars joined up for a Lounge-type workout. some might say not full lounge, but YHC felt with the chill in the air, keeping moving would be best. Mosey to bottom Twin Team. Warm ups. Slight jog up the hill, dora back down. Mosey to neighborhood street – Love Hill with lunges. Mosey to bus loop – 1 curb crawl. Mosey to basketball courts – 15 minutes of OC’s flat-ball basketball.

    The lounge mentality was on full display today and it was glorious. Too many laughs to recount. Join us if you can boys, it’s a hoot. Thanks to Last Call for providing refreshments. I’m taking my ball and I’m going home.

    -Singer

  • Metrics

    Six searched for Christmas lights but surprisingly few were found.

    Here’s where the runners traveled:

    • R on Pump
    • L on John Rolfe
    • L on Glen Eagles
    • L on Summerwood
    • L on Burnside
    • L on Pump
    • R on Thistledown to Brookmont
    • R on Cox
    • R on Ridgefield
    • L on Raintree
    • R on Maremont
    • Circle Godwin back to VSF

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    Pull of the fartsack was strong today.  Topics at coffee included a weekly renaming of the newest WestHoe AO that remains off the Q sheet and the history of the metric system.  What is the metric measure of the gravitational force pulling PAX toward the fartsack?

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Pinto party on 20th

    Fireman Ed party on 27th

    Breaking Bread

    The Bridge

  • Do you have one of those for your…

    Nine runners and two or three riders, including one with a new pair of battery powered gloves, convened for today’s snow-less edition of RAMM. After a quick route creation from the warmth of YHCs heated seats, and a possible reverse (or regular) Carillon route was almost suggested, we chose for the newly created route. Which in reality was simply retracing of old routes with a goal of maximizing holiday lights.

    The Route

    6s go west on Grove to Wisteria, Wisteria to east on Patterson

    4s / 5s north on Commonwealth to east on Patterson

    4s turn right on Roseneath

    5s / 6s turn right on Allen

    Everyone turn right on Floyd and work their way back to Grove an the VSF

    Announcements

    • See this thing called Slack for details on Swiper’s son’s Eagle Scout project. Small donations accepted. Beware of the tip.
    • Prayers for those in our PAX that are dealing with various health and life issues, especially in this holiday season.

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

    Moleskine

    So much for holiday lights. Data centers must be drawing all the power for LED twinkle lights. Lots of dark segments out there today. Still a pleasant route through the fan.

    Apparently YHC can’t follow his own directions. Enamored in conversation, we missed the turn at Allen and went all the way to Lombardy. My bad.

    For those that haven’t noticed, Bodo’s has moved onto a new pair of shoes with a much darker cause associated with them.

    Thanks for letting me volunteer a route with 2 minutes to spare. Glad Sippy caught up to us all.

    Splinter out.

  • Muck Fichigan

    11 grown-boys showed up to run around this morning at Satan’s Hill. After trashing the University of Michigan, here’s what went down…

    WARMARAMA – XL mosey to Futon and Heist’s houses to judge their Christmas decor and say what’s up to the Fawn in the Lawn. Back to the parking lot for the mission and stretches.

    COP#1 – “Build-a-Beast” style circuit

    • Round 1 – LOTS of running, (45) Merkins throughout
    • Round 2 – LOTS of running, (45) Squats throughout
    • Round 3 – LOTS of running, (20) Burpees throughout

    COP #2 – Pullups, Dips and Merkins on the playground

    Passed it to Mudslide for a 5-minute broga session.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Rosie’s 12 days of Christmas
    • Gift exchange

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • Prayers for grateful hearts

  • Hot Potato AO

    The Tunnel, Tunnel Vision or just the permanent Hot Potato.  Take your pick.  A respected and hobbled PAX converged upon Wellsley in the Friday gloom.  Here is how it went down:

    • Attila
      • COP
        • SSH
        • Ukrainian soldiers
        • IW
        • Helicopters
        • Arm circles
        • DMH
        • Merkins
        • LBC
        • APD
      • 4x check
        • Run
        • HRM
        • WWII sit-ups
        • Lunges
    • Tater
      • 100 abs exercises
        • 25 WWII sit-ups
        • 25 side crunches, each side
        • 25 H2H
      • 100 arm exercises
        • 25 merkins
        • 25 CDD
        • 25 decline merkins
        • 25 incline merkins
      • 25 ab exercises
        • 50 American hammers
        • 25 WWI sit-ups
        • 25 crunchy frogs
    • Blue Moon
      • 4 corners
        • 10 burpees
        • 15 Ltd Dan’s
        • 20 HRM
        • 25 box cutters
    • Gomer – stretching and COT

    Great work from the PAX today, a respected but hobbled crew.  Eventually this AO will get on the Q sheet and the reign of potato will end.  Out of principle, Gomer insists Roger Roger follow through.

    The Bridge with Kubota on 12/27.  Breaking Bread is 12/27 and 12/28.  Holiday parties are all around.  Gomer is meeting folks tomorrow for Army-Navy.  Text him if interested.

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Run by yourself or ruck as a team?

    Five posted on this sunny and 70 morning in Rutland. The one runner took off along the normal route into Rutland, Cool Spring Forest, Knollwood, Cool Spring West, and back through Cool Spring Forest for about 5.4 miles. The Ruckers, travelling as a team of 4, journeyed to destinations unknown to the runner with the exception of completing the route in Rutland.

    COT: Numberarama, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Yardsale took us out.

    NMS:

    YHC was a little surprised to be the solo runner this morning but did enjoy the weather and route this morning. Good numbers for the Ruckers again this morning. As the COT was closing, YHC told the pack that a former student of his passed away a little more than a week ago and a neighbor of his has cancer. As we go into the Christmas season, just remember and pray for the many who are suffering or have had tragic loss during this time of year.

    Gotta Run!

    Phonics

  • Pre-Festivus

    Twas the week before Festivus, and you know what?

    There were 21 hombres, in the parking lot.

    Soon we would be, the coffee a drinking,

    And in anticipation, I had been thinking.

    We were short on grievances, so to Google I went.

    To find more Kettlebell exercises, was my intent.

    We began with the Issuance of the standard disclaimer:

    • I am not a professional.
    • Feel free to modify.
    • Push yourself but don’t hurt yourself.
    • You vs You
    • Don’t leave here with more injuries than you came with. 

    Warmup:

    • 20 SSHs
    • 20 IWs
    • 20 Ukrainian Soldiers
    • 10 Don Quixote
    • Stretch: Right foot, Right Hand
    • Stretch: Left foot, Left hand

    Mosey to the closest end of covered walkway: Divide up into 8 groups beside each of 7 printed out exercises laid down in a line parallel to the road plus one place in front of the first printed out exercise. Everyone advances to the next station when the timer returns to the beginning of the line.

    • Timer rifle carries or waiter carries KB to orange cone and returns to the beginning of the line of exercises
    • Thruster
    • Snatch
    • KB Clean, Squat and Press
    • Clean and Press
    • Skull Crushes
    • KB Goblet March
    • Goblet Clean

    Run around Circus Maximus:

    Turn over printed out exercises to reveal exercise on back. Repeat groups.

    • Timer rifle carries KB to end of covered walkway
    • KB Swing Changing Hands
    • KB Push Press
    • Overhead Squat
    • KB Single Arm Deadlift
    • KB Good Morning
    • KB Goblet Thruster
    • Clean

    Run around Circus Maximus:

    Ring of Fire: Your favorite KB exercise: I started with 15 Triceps.

    • Each person calls an exercise for the group.

    We got all the way around the group and went back to the flag for the following in cadence

    • 20 KB Swings
    • 20 KB overhead presses
    • 20 KB pullovers
    • 60 count 4-inch leg lift

    Announcements

    • December 20: Pinto’s Party
    • December 25: Circus Maximus 5:30
    • December 27: Fireman Ed’s end of cancer treatment party
    • December 27:The Bridge: contact Kubota

    Prayer’s Request

    • Gypsy’s Stepfather: Chemo
    • Banjo: check on him, cheer him up
    • Mr. Ed in Denver, death of dad and stepmom, tough holiday season
    • Pax members looking for jobs

    COT

    The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus

    You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Exodus 20:17

  • Dr. Chapvick Von Painenstein

    4 strong at the latest edition of The Crossing. The parking lots were ice free! – time to put in some work.

    Mosey around the south entrance parking lot, then circle up for Warm-Up:
    Penguins, Copious amount of Flutter Kicks, Alabama Prom Dates, Hand Release Merkins, Shoulder Taps, Side Straddle Hops, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Mario Jumps, Mummy Kicks, Knee Pulls, No Cheat Broad Jumps.

    Mosey around the parking lot for Exercise One: Island Crawl
    Curb Crawl around island 1; Bear Crawl to next island. Curb Crawl around island 2; Bear Crawl to next island. Curb crawl around island 3.

    Mosey to the back of the church for 50’s. 50 WWII Sit-ups, 50 Dips, 50 Jump Squats.

    to the North Side for Exercise Three: Mash-ups. Across the parking lot with Crab Rolls, Super Crabs, LBCrawl Bears, Flying Monkey Humpers.

    On the way back towards the flag stopped for 25’s: 25 incline merkins, 25 Crunchy Frogs, 25 Bobby Hurleys.

    Finished up with 20 count ab exercises lead by Birdman, DTH, and Du Hast. American Hammers, Rosalita Dips, Flutter Kicks.

    COT with YHC taking us out.

    Final Thoughts: Du Hast’s name will likely need to be modified in 12 years or so. It was great seeing him back out. There is also a new “Birdman Clause” in effect related to modifying exercises. Kind of a long story. Strong work by all the PAX this evening – these guys were pushing it.!

    SYITG

  • Timberwolfs Gauntlet

    On a crisp winter morning the 10 of the 12 PAX aligned at the local middle school track. No snow days off at this workout it was time to get down to business. Simply put it was a good day to sleep in, but it was too late to turn around now. Like a true millennial the Q had consulted the only person what will always respond to his questions his wife. Just kidding he talked to his preferred data center environmental killer Grok on what to do for this workout. After a half jog around the track and a light warm up (Side strattle hops, Imperial walkers, Merkins, Light stretch and Arm circles) they got straight into the meat and potato’s of the workout.

    The Task simple. 4 laps around the track. 4 Corners of fun. Corners were constant

    • Corner 1: 10 Burpees
    • Corner 2: 20 Merkins
    • Corner 3: 30 Air Squats
    • Corner 4: 40 LBCs

    The laps how ever came with increasing and different difficulty

    • Lap 1: Spring on straights of Track and Walk on curves
    • Lap 2: lunges on straights of Track and Karaoke on curves
    • Lap 3: Bear Crawl on straights of Track and bakwards jog on curves
    • Lap 4: Spring on straights of Track and Walk on curves, but mid way around the curve do 5 more squats

    The Beatdown ended with some core.

    The 10 PAX had persevered and performed valiantly. Out of the darkness 2 additional PAX appeared in Rudy and BoBerry. Due to scheduling difficulties (being a tad late) they couldnt find the others on the track and instead ran around the parking lot (I think?). As a free workout group I think the only solution to this problem would be angel investor to get us some night vision goggles. Just a thought. Feeling accomplished they ended the workout as all do in F3.

    Announcements: Rudy double feature Friday and Monday in SOJ. Rudy to post fundraising information for a great cause his family is supporting. Reach out to him for additional details

    COT/Prayer Requests

    On the topic of the season of giving just going to throw out a bible verse I read that hit home the other night. Read if that is your type of thing. Acts 20:35

    Additional local news. If anyone likes to hunt. Seen in the Trey is a 20 foot tall 6 point buck . Its origins are unknown and scientists are saying it might have mythical other wordly properties. It seems to find a new victims front lawn daily this week. Additionally, it seems to have a tamer who may not ever sleep and can sneak onto your property at any moment. More news at 11. Just SOJ things

  • Court adjourned, suffering commenced.

    YHC spent the last few weeks prepping for trial as plaintiff’s counsel: long hours, late nights, the usual grind. Got to court ready to roll, and the whole thing got continued. No witnesses, no opening, nothing. Just a quiet little gut punch from the system.

    So instead of wasting that energy on frustration, YHC decided to dump it all into a block beatdown. The pax didn’t deserve it. But they got it anyway.

    Warmarama:

    • Side Straddle Hops
    • Don Quixotes
    • Ukrainian Soldiers
    • LBCs
    • Merkins
    • Alabama Prom Dates
      Standard fare. Quick, uncomfortable, and not the worst part of the morning.

    Mosey to the amphitheater

    Block Ascent (2-Minute Timer):
    One pax runs amphitheater loops. After each loop, stop and do 5 merkins. Switch with Pax doing block work after 2 minute timer sounds.

    Partner does ascending block movements on each level of the amphitheater, moving up one level after both pax members finish the round:

    1. Block Thrusters
    2. Block Swings
    3. Block Halos
    4. Block Squats
    5. Bent Rows
    6. Block Lunges
    7. Floor Press

    Mosey back to the flag.

    Announcements:

    Rosie’s 12 Days of Christmas Dec 23. Secret Santa – don’t forget to grab something for your guy