Category: Richmond, VA

  • I’m not going to puke!!!

    4 Well bundled, half frozen HIM left from the parking lot to head down the hill. NTB rolled in hot so the 4 stopped to stretch the legs while he made his way to join.

    At the end of the road circle up for the COP, SSH, DQ’s (Snuff arrives) Helicopters, some not so tuff exercise I saw on the internet, Imperial walkers, Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Burpees

    Mosey walk the the first light pole

    Bear crawl to the next pole, Crawl Bear to the next pole, Lunge to the next pole, Backwards Lunge to the next pole, Murder Gorilla’s (on the right side) to the next pole, Murder Gorilla’s (left side) to the next pole, High knees to the next pole, Butt kickers to the last pole

    Starting at the bottom of the ramp get in a line 1st person does 3 burpees then crosses under the hand rail back and forth, person two does 3 Burpees and follows, all the way to the top.

    Mosey walk to the ticket sales booth for a Triple check

    Partner 1 does Wall Sits, Partner 2 does Dips, Partner 3 runs to the stairs does Tooth Fairies to the top and back

    Mosey to the bottom of Mount Chaplain for 11’s using the hill

    1 Jump Squat at the bottom, Bernie up, 10 Ball Dippers (single count) run back down

    From the top of the first hill we stopped at each curb for an exercise as we made our way BTTF as we ran back Wedding Singer joins in

    Numbers / Names Doublemint took us out

    NMS:

    The title of this BB brought to you by Dealer who said “I kept telling myself, I’m not going to puke” in reference to the 11’s on the bottom hill. YHC has no idea what the actual temperature was this morning but as cold as it was, it was less cold than yesterday. 14 degrees is stupid low.

  • We wore red because we were on fire!

    Three red warriors showed up to melt some snow. YHC put out the battle cry text the night before to the Wdoggers and the warriors emerged from the frozen tundra to take on the 15 degree temperature. Since it was cold we started with some good stretching to get the muscles ready.

    Then it was go time. Mosey to the amphitheater stage, where YHC pulled out a trusty deck of cards that had been written on the previous night. Each card had an exercise, there was everything in there from Monkey Humpers, to arm circles. The jokers were the fun ones – first joker was run to rusty cage and do 20 pullups, second joker was run to rusty cage and do 30 dips, third joker was 45 burpees on the amphitheater stage. Each Ace was a run to the top of the amphitheater and back.

    Lots of mumble chatter about life, kids, frozen fingers, and cards.

    We got through the entire deck of cards – SUCCESS!

    Mosey back to the flag where Flatline took us out!

    Frozen Triangle on Feb 10!!

    Sign up for breaking bread!

  • cold potato

    COP

    Assorted warmups hermey style

    THANG

    triple check with lbc, squats and runner, door numbers game with assorted , hand off to bullseye for Dora with merkins, ssh’s, squats, walsits, other stuff I forgot, hand off to cookie for assorted hard leg exercises I’ve never done, dips, more leg stuff that I’ve never done.

    COT

    Numberama, namearama, cookie took us out

  • Snow Dong

    The middle schoolers created a snowman with a dingaling beside the Midlo Middle School track that we passed 20 times this morning on our beautiful, 14-degrees and dark, mile repeats. That was certainly memorable.

  • Don’t pull out too early

    3 men braved the cold to throw some iron around.

    Mosey around parking lot to warm up.

    COP: SSH, invisible jump rope, helicopters, imp walkers, DQs, etc.

    Triple Check – P1 kb swings, P2 WW2s w/ pump, P3 lap around parking lot.

    11s – lawn mowers + merkins, mosey in between.

    4 corners – c1 10x halos each side, c2 10x squats, c3 10x good mornings, c4 something

    Boat canoes by Yardsale.

    Numbers, names, Corned Beef took us out.

    Great workout gents, as usual great mumble chatter about life.

  • Cat Got Your Tongue?

    A lucky seven reluctantly left the warmth of their cars to begin the workout. Ultra brief mosey across the parking lot for COP. Once sufficient blood was flowing, we lined up on the edge of the parking lot.

    Working down the line…..

    Pax member lunges across the parking lot and back. Upon returning, everyone does elbow planks. While that person is lunging, the other Pax are cycling through 10 HRM, 20 Heels to Heaven, 30 squats – repeating this cycle over and over..

    Once everyone has had a chance to lunge, a second round followed. This time, the Pax member broad jump burpees over and moseys back and the group recovers with a sustained bridge. While the Pax member is broad jump burbeeing over, the rest do 15 dips, 30 Monkey Humpers, 45 LBCs – repeating this cycle.

    Third cycle – Bear crawl across and mosey back. 20 Dying Cockroaches, 40 Carolina Drydocks, and 60 Flutter Kicks – repeating this cycle.

    Off to the other side of the parking lot for a ring of fire.

    YHC took us out.

    Announcements:

    • HDHH this evening 645 with a 545 run/ruck option prior. See Slack for details
    • Sign up for GrowRuck! See Slack for info.

    Coffee was fun as always and great to connect with Splinter and Hutton.

  • Q Confusion

    Over the course of two days and two messaging platforms there were many mixed signals from YHC to Doozy about ownership of the NoToll Q and the potential for a fartsack disguised as a sick child at home. YHC was glad to join the NoToll brethren, but at 05:29 this morning it seemed as though solving the war in Gaza had a clearer solution than determining who would lead the nine at NoToll into the mornings’ gnarly, snowy conditions. At 05:30 all was resolved when YHC took the Q and ran with it to the parking lot for the following:

    WARMARAMA

    On the way to the parking lot, stop at the bridge to pay the toll. 20 incline merkins and 20 dips. Mosey on for IC SSHs, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, and the like.

    COP #1 – Parking Lot Squat

    We lined up at one end of the parking lot and performed one squat at the first white line before running to the curb island at the other end. Repeato that interval back and forth across the parking lot, each time stopping one stripe closer to the finish line and adding one squat to the total reps at that station. In the end, one parking lot was crossed and 190 squats were completed.

    COP #2 – Field of Trees

    Mosey from the parking lot to the pavilion.

    From the pavilion run across the field of your choosing and touch five trees, then head back to the pavilion for 50 LBCs. Repeato for the other two fields. 15 trees, 150 LBCs.

    That was a good bit of running… let’s do it again.

    Touch five new trees at each field and rack up 25 WWIIs between each run. 15 new trees, 45 WWIIs.

    COP #3 – License Plate Punisher

    Each of the PAX stands in front of their vehicle and adds up the numbers on their license plate to set the rep count for the movement of their choosing. Take turns going down the line hitting things like merkins, SSHs, starfish SSHs, mountain climbers, Freddie Mercuries, and of course burpees. Made it through 1.5 rounds before time was called.

    COT

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    NMS: Not a lot of mumblechatter today due to all of the running around the AO. Perhaps Last Call should host a Broga Q so we can all sit around in a frozen circle and chat. Always an honor to lead.

  • The FIGO Variable

    6 West-Ender HIM’s donned their toboggans and answered the call to join DTH for a frosty beatdown on the Heartbreak tundra. Here’s how we showed Figo (2nd-ever post) a good time:

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA: 

    • x1.5 Mosey laps around the parking lot and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom – Nancy Kerrigans, Imperial Squat Walkers, DQ’s, Opus, etc

    COP #1: 

    • Mosey around the the bus loop covered area and every man pick a pole for Pole-smokers x30 IC
    • Followed by WWII’s and Oblique LBC’s IC

    COP #2:

    • Line up on the wall for WALL WORK
    • x20 Hoedown’s IC
    • x15 Hip Slappers IC
    • x10 Dirty Hookup (ea side)
    • Then mosey and sprint around the bus lanes

    COP #3:

    • INDIGENOUS POLE BEARS
    • PAX complete pole smokers while last PAX bear crawls to front and restarts pole smokers. Continue end to end.
    • Mosey around back of school and down to the track

    COP #4:

    • TRACK WORK
    • Mosey around the track stopping every quarter for variable exercises – Dips, Copperhead Squats, Incline Mericans, Monkey Humpers, Raise the Roof in People’s Chair (les by PIGSKIN), Lt Dan’s (led by MR ROGERS), more dips, and then a finale loop with just variable movements

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 7
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  Been too long since I’ve rubbed elbows with the Heartbreak gang (last time was playing Ultimate!) but having a brother from church “FIGO” living in the Short Pump area seemed like a fantastic reason to introduce him to an AO closer to home. Appreciate you guys coming out on a frosty morning and giving this workout solid effort. Handshake commented it was much better than if YHC hadn’t been looking out for a newer brother. Maybe true… will just have to come back and supply the over-unders in the muddy snow you missed out on. SYITG, DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

  • Postulate

    We had 2 runners and 4 ruckers this morning for our workout. We met at 5:30 today due to weather delays, and here is what went down:

    Ruckers walked a Giles loop and runners posted about 4 miles today. WE had great mumblechatter about the Wildcard football games, the Iowa Caucus and life in general. Some fun facts came out and YHC had high school memories of postulates as defined in geometry. For a refresher for some home-schooled folks a Postulate is a statement that is assumed true without proof. Like Corned Beef is a stud, Yardsale is an awesome skier, Bulkhead loved being a Marine!

    So, in Math (Geometry) there are 6 Postulates ( I knew 1,3, 4 and 6 had to look up the others)

    1. A line contains at least two points.
    2. A plane contains at least three noncollinear points.
    3. Through any two points, there is exactly one line.
    4. Through any three noncollinear points, there is exactly one plane.
    5. If two points lie in a plane, then the line joining them lies in that plane.
    6. If two planes intersect, then their intersection is a line.

    We never really came up with these 6 during our discussion as we were having too much fun with life’s application…Men are pigs, the wife is always right, and some more that you had to be there to appreciate!

    Numberama, Namerama

    Phonics took us out in Prayer

    Always great to get out with the PAX. Have a great day Gents! Cheers…CB!

  • It Sounded Like a Good Idea

    Thirteen on foot gathered for multiple purposes at today’s Spider Run. Most runners were fully aware of what was in store, and they still showed up. Some runners opted for rucking. Then there were walkers. If you chose the run portion, here’s what we did.

    The Route

    Slowsy as a group on the main road, crossing 1 bridge (sorry Upchuck), before convening on the far side of the intramural field. After a few trips across the turf at 60% and then 80%, instructions were given.

    Line drill intervals. Sprint across the turf to a predetermined position depending on your usual pace. Touch the turf then turn around and sprint back. 4 milers went across to the far side of the midfield soccer circle. 5 milers to the snow man. 6 milers the full length. We rested about 1:15 between intervals.

    Oh yeah, we did 12 of these.

    Slowsy back to the VSF a few minutes early so we could throw snowballs at the ruckers/walkers.

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    YHC truly appreciates those who knew what was in store and still posted. It was a wild hair idea that I figured I’d try on a day where the roads may be a bit slippery. Turns out the field was likely more slippy.

    Kudos to Bodos who made it maybe one interval before he started making snowballs. YHC is honestly shocked it took that long.

    For the record, he’s also a sandbagger of a sprinter.

    Enjoy the day fellas. My quads and hamstrings are toast!

    Splinter out.