Category: Richmond, VA

  • Heavy Stuff, Repeato

    A rabble of 15 studly gloom warriors accepted today’s Ruck challenge, including NTB’s two high-spirited FNG’s. Yoko and Sandy (75lb punching bag & 50lb sand bag) joined the PAX from the get-go, and we didn’t travel far before collecting all four 8’ logs plus other cindies. Here’s how the PAX carried ‘em:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA:

    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Shoulder Yoko & Sandy
    • Ruck 200 yards to Casa De DTH
    • Collect x4 eight foot telephone poles and a number of cinder blocks
    • Ruck the woods loop behind DTH’s house
    • Circle up at the Shed & stretch

    TRIPLE CHECK:

    • Get into groups of four
    • 2-man log carry the woods loop
    • Overhead press using either ruck or Cindy
    • Squats +/- holding Cindy
    • Stop once all PAX have carried the logs for three loops
    • Return all coupons

    LOVE HILL:

    • Speed Ruck out onto Stratford and to the bottom of Love Hill
    • Lunge half way up, then ruck backwards the rest of the way, then hug a tree for the Six

    RUCK BTTF:

    • Speed Ruck back up to Forrest Hill Ave
    • Plank at the top awaiting the Six
    • In plank, review F3 Mission, Core Principles, and Credo
    • Speed Ruck BTTF

    COT:

    • Counterama # 15
    • Namerama *will wait to name the FNG’s until they post to a legit AO
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  Solid crowd for the OTB ruck today! Congrats to LWOODS breaking the seal on his first of many rucks! Welcome back to SABLE who’s already becoming a regular within just a week of his first post! And Tclaps to all the PAX who have Registered for GTE#47. Let’s get you other guys signed up! 💪 Also, great to meet Ian & James. Ian is in the military and currently visiting RVA – he’s invited everyone to the upcoming “Monumental Honor” 3/30 (details below). James is from NTB’s church and has the best Australian Irish accent you’ll ever hear. Hoping these two fine men return to earn their F3 nicknames at an AO real soon! Your Humble Ruckateer, DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • CHAPLAIN on deck at The Crossing tonight! Mummy Kick-Off at 6pm…
    • DEALER making his Q re-debut tomorrow at The Forge!
    • NTB swing Kettlebells Friday at TwinTeam!
    • Saturday 6-7am Ruck at Rockwood before the 7-8am MUDSLIDE slaughtefest
    • GTE RUCK TRAINING SUNDAY 6-8AM – all registered and interested PAX should come! Meet at the Stone House. 
    • 3/30 Monumental Honor Ruck – https://www.monumentalhonor.org/

  • Run it again

    Solo runner at MOT this morning and feeling uninspired YHC decided to run the same route as last week.

    Walton Park to Queensgate to Coalfield and BTTF

    The hills in the middle of this route are brutal

  • Solo FNG for a Morning of Kettlebells

    Graced with the presences of a walk on FNG, 5 HIMs showed up for another addition of KBH. Here’s what went down.

    Disclaimer, short mosey, SSH, Imperial Walkers, DMH. kicked it off with a dozen tracers.

    COP 1 and only. 4 corners lady of the night style around the perimeter of the parking lot.

    10 pull through merkins, 20 WW3, 30 Lt. Dans, 40 shrugs.

    With a few minutes left, mary with abs PAX choice.

    Numbers, names, announcements, COT

    Welcome to the group Taziki (Chris)!!!!

  • Mutiny on the Numberama…

    A diligent dozen descended on campus to celebrate…something.

    Here the route:

    4s, 5s, 6s: Fairway to Iris to Grove, heading East…

    4s and 6s: Left on Tuckahoe to Seneca and return to Grove:

    4s: Return from whence you came…Iris to commons

    5s and 6s: Right on Greenway (south). Cross Cary to Ampthill. Take to bottom and return back to Cary via Paxton. Cross to Tuckahoe, then to Grove. Return to Iris/Commons.

    Saab abides (when able).

  • Extra weight

    5 of RVA’s elite rucking crew threw on some weighted packs, grabbed some extra weight, and headed out for the morning. Route was Libbie Market, down the hills to the bat cave and to the Huguenot Bridge – cup o’ joe on the bridge, back up the hills. Tclaps to Heist for grabbing the extra 40# and not giving it up for the return up the hills. Good to see the large Sunday Funday crew at Libbie Market post ruck.

    More ruck options coming up – tomorrow am at The Forge, 0530

    GTE 47 Training Ruck Sunday at 0600 – Forest Hill Park Stone House – if you’ve signed up come out and get yourself ready for the event. If you haven’t signed up come see what it’s about.

  • Bert and Gurtrude are recovering well. Thanks for asking.

    Bert and Gurtrude are recovering well. Thanks for asking.

    2 very athletic, probably workout every day, very fast and limber professional players were on the courts. There were also two F3 brothers ready for Batteau, day light savings edition aka #Pickleball nights.

    Warmarama: Let’s dink. Whoa Whoa – not that kind. Short passes over the net, try to stay in the kitchen. Long shots, Short Shots, Cross Court, 3rd shot drop, Serves. Stretch it out!

    The Thang:
    Oyster: It’s time to throw the paddles in and dominate these courts.
    Honeydo: Are you sure?
    Oyster: Hardywood would say “Boots on Throats”. Let’s goooo!!
    Honeydo: How about those 2 over there.. Drinking Ovaltine and wearing knee braces.

    Game 1: Honeydo rushes the ball every damn time like a Friday night Hinge date. YHC notes it’s windy and proceeds to hit the ball out. Repeats that strategy. 11-9 L

    Game 2: Let’s get it together. Honeydo – Try Hullk Smash and see what happens. It was 0-6 and Honeydo went on a serving rampage.. 0-6 turned into 11-8 W. Let’s Goooo!!

    Game 3: Tie Breaker… it was 4-10 and we were falling apart. Words were exchanged. New strategy; lets hit it over the net but inside the court. 13-11 W.

    Let’s get out of here before we are kicked out for running our mouths…

    NMS: Pickleball Monday’s is a thang. 5:00pm – 7:ish… Great to have Honeydo out, he can smash that ball y’all….

    Oyster

  • Lawyers never ask a question they don’t already know the answer to….

    A merry band of 13 gathered for this weeks Heartbreak Ridge and this is what transpired….

    Mosey to the from of Quioccasin Middle for various exercises to include Pencil Rolls, Scorpion Kicks and Inverted Scorpion Kicks.

    Long Mosey over the big field behind PES and start with Four Corners: C1 – 10 Burpees, C2- 20 WWII’s, C3 – 30 Jump Squats, C4 – 40 SSH’s

    Mosey over to the playground and partner(s) up for a Triple Check, P1 Runs the Track, P2 various exercise, P3 various exercise. The exercises shifted between WWII’s, Flutter Kicks, Squats, LBC’s, HRM’s, etc

    Mosey over to the Jungle Gym and partner up, P1 does 5 Pull Ups and switch while the opposite partner switches between Merkins, Dips, WWII’s.

    Mosey to the front of PES and Bear Crawl to the arrows in the lot and switch to backwards Crab Walk.

    Mosey to the lot at PES and do 20 Derkins and 30 WWII’s.

    Mosey back to the from of QMS and do 30 Dips.

    Atilla takes us back to the Flag at great speed.

    1 minute of Mary with Flutters and Inverted Scorpion Kicks.

    Announcements – WestHoe Second F Lunch today at 12:00 at Firehouse Subs in Innsbrook. Grow Ruck Coming in May.

    Prayer Requests – Gypsy’s dad went into the Hospital yesterday and they’ve done a bunch of tests but they don’t know what’s wrong. Whitesnakes FIL is moving to another facility, the move itself won’t be hard but it will be confusing for him given his condition.

    NMS – Backblast Title comes from YHC asking the Pax which they preferred Scorpion Kicks versus Inverted Scorpion Kicks and the answers weren’t what YHC was expecting… Otherwise it was a good morning and hopefully a good workout was had by all.

  • If it bleeds, we can kill it

    As Big Rig and State Farm were hitting some pre-workout pull ups, I arrived getting gear ready for another insane session. 6 came out what looks to be the start of warmth( no rain, I am tired of it) to see what laid before them. After a little WARMARAMMA(SSHs, Don Quixotes, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Merkins) it was time

    I set up a circle of pain and pleasure: the goal for everyone to finish 3 rounds of it, plus a little run around the parking lot as a break. The exercises: 100 battle ropes, 5/side clean and presses, jump squats w/ 25 pound sandbag, WW2 with 20 pound slam ball, tire slams, kb swings then a lap around.

    After we finished the 3 rounds of that, down to the football field for Build a Beast with a twist: the twist was battle rope pulls with a 50# sandbag at the end to pull towards you. The build was Merkins, lunges, Freddy Mercurys, 4 count mountain climbers. Once everyone has a chance to pull, one final run down and back the whole field. The end was near so back to the start for a quick dead mans hang and done.

    Numbers, names, prayers for State Farm’s M, Broadway’s daughter and Posh getting used to a new medicine, prayer lead by YHC to close it out

    Saturday I have the Q at Rock and Roll, I have a new, sadistic idea or 2 ready plus the weather will be nice so no skipping out see you soon

  • Hit by a car!!!!?

    1 Early riser, 9 on time and 1 in the middle of the COP showed up to see what a No Toll Doozy Q looked like. According to the keepers of the “stay off the Field” signs this is what happened.

    Mosey to the bridge to pay the No Toll, Toll 20 Dips and 20 Incline Merkins

    Mosey to the parking lot for COP – SSH, DQ’s, Helicopters, Dead Man Hangs, Imperial Squat Walkers, Merkins, LBCs

    Mosey to field number 1, from the center of the field there are frisbees in each corner with an exercise wrote on them, do 10 of that exercise run back to the middle do 5 burpees run to the next corner and repeto until you have completed all four corners.

    Mosey to field number 2 Repeto with different exercises, mosey to field number 3 Repeto with different exercises

    Collect all the lights and frisbees mosey back to the bridge to pay the Toll again 20 dips 20 incline merkins

    Mosey to the basketball court and circle up for some man killers and finish with 10 Burpees OYO

    BTTF Numbers / Names Last Call took us out

    NMS: Mr Roper started todays mumble chatter off by telling us that he has been out since January because he was hit by a car “?????”. The fact that nobody knew or has said anything if they did makes me question how our accountability is going in RVA. If there is a brother out there that you haven’t seen in a while, YOU (Me) need to reach out and find out how they are doing.

  • Seńor Frog (1) Year Q!

    14 F3 Brother’s, Friends and Co-Workers gathered this morning to support me on surviving my 1st year of F3. I could not have done it, or really stuck with it, without ALL of your support.

    I would like to give Swirly and Handshake a big Thank You for their constant encouragement, badgering and mentorship. This has made all the difference. I often wake up feeling sore and beat down not caring one bit about going to a work out, but then I think of the privilege of getting to hang out with all of you high level F3 brothers running around mumbling in the dark cold gloom wet and cold acting like kids again and I say to myself. Hell Yea I’m going.

    This is somewhat probably what went down this morning.

    1 Burpee to get everyone’s attention.

    Mosey around bus loop to right back corner of school for COP. SSH, Imperial Walkers, Dead Man Hang, Don Quixote, Merkin, HRM, LBC.

    Mosey to back soccer field for 4-Corners. 15 Merkins, 20 Merkins, 25 LBC, 30 Squats. Round 2. 4-Corners. 20 Merkins, 25 Merkins, 30 LBC, 40 Squats.

    Mosey to soccer goal. Line up for some wind sprints to other soccer goal. Recover with 50 Squats. X4.

    Mosey to back jungle gym for 8X4 Partner pull ups.

    Mosey to school for a triple check. Muhammad Ali Wall Sits & Dips while timer runs to jungle gym for 1 pull up.

    Mosey around entire soccer field to side of school fenced in area. Line up near school for some bear crawls. Bear crawl to fence for 20 merkins then run back. Bear crawl to fence for 30 LBC then run back. Bear crawl to fence for 30 deep squats then run back.

    Four Corners of concrete. 20 merkins, 30 LBC, 40 Spuats, 50 WW2.

    Mosey to flag for COT.

    No Prayer Requests.

    (1) Announcement. 5PM Pickle Ball with Oyster.

    Seńor Frog closed us out with a somewhat lengthy inspiring prayer.