Category: Richmond, VA

  • OTB D-Day Ruck 8.2 for 82nd

    In honor of the 82 anniversary of D-Day, two hard core ruckers (@Sable and Rodeo Clown) launched on an 8.2 mile ruck at 6AM. With 50lb packs, we were off to a good pace and paused on Robious Landing at 6:30 (the time the invasion began) to pay our respects to those who paid the ultimate price that day, and those who made it through. Hat tip to Rodeo Clown’s brother in law’s father who jumped with the 101 Airborne that day. We also honored the 82 Airborne by rucking with both their unit standards (flags). We banked 4 miles in Robiou’s Landing park, then another 4.2 around Tarrington and its river front park. Got to love those hills in Tarrington. Ours was a walk in the park compared to those we honored, their loads were 100lbs+ and they were dodging flack and bullets. Had they not prevailed that day, the world might be very different and far less free today. Please take a moment to remember and honor them today. Let’s honor the past by how we live today.

  • Not a Murph

    10 noble warriors threw the tour stop and significant wear and tear from a Murph aside to assemble at Gridiron on this glorious Saturday.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • Ukrainian soldiers
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • DMH
      • Suzanne Somers
      • Merkins
      • LBC
      • Penguins
      • APD
    • Mosey to the bus loop for an indigenous people style pole smoker matriculation
    • Mosey to the tennis for a Dora meets 4 corners; 20/40/60 reps at each corner with one repeat corner
      • 100 HRM
      • 200 monkey humpers
      • 300 LBC
    • Mosey to the basketball courts for 3 rounds of partner wheel barrow with 10 derkins
    • Mosey to the school courtyard for 3x check
      • Run
      • Dips
      • Step-ups
    • Mosey to the parking lot for 2x of:
      • Wall sits with 15 air presses then milkers
      • 20 WWII sit-ups
      • 10 Mike Tysons
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    No Murph, but our shoulders and arms are closer to looking like Mr. Rogers.  Great work from the PAX.  As usual, plenty of mumble-chatter and only heaven knows what White Deer was doing ½ the time.

    Lunch on Tuesday at Taziki’s.  Continued prayers for our brothers looking for, starting new or struggling in their jobs.

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • The Great Pickle Pounding 2026

    The Warmarama

    We kicked things off precisely on time with a quick, eye-opening jog over to the baseball diamonds to get the blood pumping. Once there, Machismo led the PAX through:

    • Don Quixote’s / Ukrainian Soldiers
    • Imperial Squatwalkers
    • Merkins
    • Freddie Mercurys

    The Thang

    Part 1: The Catch-Me-If-You-Can Nine of Diamonds

    We launched into a… unique rendition of Nine of Diamonds, blending it with Catch-Me-If-You-Can style around the bases. We alternated movements between the bags and paused to hammer out 9 Pickle Pounders at every single base. Look, was it weird? Yes. Would the Q do it exactly the same way next time? The jury is still out. But did it work? Absolutely. An unprecedented volume of pickles were pounded.

    Part 2: Four Corners (Prostitute Style)

    Shifting over to the adjacent ball field, we hit a four corners rotation, dubbed “Prostitute Style.” The PAX hit each corner for a heavy dose of:

    • 20 Squats
    • 20 Merkins
    • 20 Pickle Pounders (because you can never pound too many pickles)
    • 20 Side Straddle Hops

    Part 3: The Bus Lot Escalator

    Next, we migrated to the vacant bus parking lot for a grueling Pickle Pounder Escalator. Spread across 14 total lines, the rep count ascended with every line. We started with 1 at the first line and worked our way up to 13, bear crawling the entire distance between the lines to keep the shoulders thoroughly smoking.

    Part 4: Bank Seize 11s at Stony Point Church

    We wrapped up the main event at Stony Point Church with a round of 11s on the bank. The plan was Inclined Merkins and Incline World War II sit-ups. However, gravity had other ideas. Once the PAX realized their silos were actively sliding down the grassy bank, we audibled on the fly to Decline World War IIs to keep from sliding completely out of bounds.

    Mary

    We wrapped up the morning with a solid 5 minutes of Mary to ensure the cores were thoroughly cooked before calling it a day.

    Coffeeteria & COT

    The coffee was spectacular, and the conversation was even better. The PAX traded culture recommendations, covering a wide spread of media:

    • Movies: Inglourious Basterds, The Patriot, Rocky
    • Books: The Bomber Mafia, Revenge of the Tipping Point, and Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult

    Mumble Chatter of the Day: Ranger proudly flexed his newly found six-shooter action, offering to hold someone up for a premium caffeine fix and bring it to our next cafeteria following the beatdown. Watch your backs, men.

    An excellent push by everyone today. Way to lead the men, Machismo!

  • The return of Doublemint

    As YHC pulled into the parking lot at Twin Team, he saw someone he didn’t recognize. It was Spinal Tap and then from out of the Gloom Doublemint also appeared like it was straight of a Hollywood Romcom.

    5:30 time for some stretching

    Mosey to the back lot various exercises, YHC made it known that he was trying not to do any merkins

    We did 4 corners, triple check and another 4 corners mosey walk back towards the flag for some dips and step ups to kill time. At the flag we are almost done

    1 Burpee

    Numbers / Names Rosie took us out

    NMS:

    It was so good to see Doublemint this morning after many months. YHC also saw Flange at the James River baseball Regional finals. We were down 6 early came back and made it 13 – 6 but Glen Allen put on a show in the 7th and made it 13 – 11. States will start Tuesday at home. Flange has promised to meet us at the Forge soon.

  • where’s phonics?

    4 guys, none of which was named Phonics, showed up to take on the day the right way

    COP — arm circles, helis, APD’s, HRM’s, other things

    Dora
    100 incline merkins on bench
    150 situps on bench
    200 skull crushers


    partners alternate between short bear crawl, medium lunge, longer run and back

    4 corners
    20 merkins
    20 situps
    20 sumos
    20 ??

    4 corners dos
    20 flutters
    20 jump squats
    20 Dry docks
    20 ??

    Great times this morning!

  • Ascending / Descending Kind of Day

    With a lie of stretching and walking, 10 of SOJs finest dominated Satan’s Hill this morning…. the rest can “find out” on BB.

    Short mosey and back to the parking lot for the Warmarama. SSH, Don Quixote, Jazzercise, merkin to plank to mountain climbers, windshield wipers, Alabama Prom Dates, a mom stretch, LBC.

    Starting at the parking lot:

    50 jump squats, 10 merkins, 5 burpees, run to the top of Satan’s Hill.

    40 jump squats, 20 merkins, 10 burpees, run to the parking lot.

    30 jump squats, 30 merkins, 15 switched to WW2 , run to the top of Satan’s Hill.

    20 jump squats, 40 merkins, 20 WW2 , run to the parking lot.

    10 jump squats, 50 merkins, 25 WW2 , run to the top of Satan’s Hill.

    Slow mosey to the bottom stop sign and a walk to the parking lot.

    Partner up for a DORA. 100 plank jacks, 200 double count flutters, 300 LBCs.

    Just a sliver of time for half Ring o Mary PAX choice. TIME.

    Numbers, Names, PR, COT

    Always an honor to lead you gents!

    Thank you for the coffee EL Heisto

  • 82nd

    Three ruckers departed Jack Browns at the stroke of 6:30 with the intention of covering 8.2 miles for the 82nd anniversary of D-Day. According to the dozen or so deer seen in the first four miles, there was a significant amount of hills and steep elevation as we repeatedly dropped down to the bottom and climbed out.

    We hit all the favorites:

    • Both forks in the snake’s tongue of Tempsford and Kennondale
    • Wilton, Paxton, and Amphill
    • West Hillcrest and the long grind up Charmian

    As we entered Windsor Farms, the ambiguous street signs on Sulgrave caused us to take a wrong turn at St Mere Eglise and tack on extra miles – coming a few doors down from Hitchhiker’s place.

    The sunset as we reached Dover and headed west was spectacular as we powered through the final miles. In all, we covered 8.9 miles or so.

    Moleskin: The bouncer at Jack Brown’s searched our rucks – as confusion in discovering cinder blocks gave way to respect that we had just finished almost 9 miles. Beer and burger has never tasted better!

  • Like an Accordion

    10 runners and at least 2 bikers embarked today on various routes. Runners zig zagged to Monument and back to Grove for their respective distances – all with a victory lap around the school block upon return.

    YHC took us out.

  • The Juiciest

    In a reverso of two weeks ago, Wally posted and Mr. R fartsacked.  Here’s where the rest of us went.

    • R on Pump
    • L on Sunrise
    • L on Waterford
    • L on Church
    • R on Pump
    • R on John Rolfe
    • L on Glen Eagles
    • L on Summerwood
    • L on Burnside
    • R on Pump
    • Back to Godwin and VSF

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    Whether it’s a hand gesture or a comment about being juicy, Salt Lick has a knack for making the COT uncomfortable.  Some of us talked bourbon this morning.  It’s SpiritsPalooza today and tomorrow for those in the know.  Happy hunting.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Summer Tour

    Prayers for Charlotte

    Lunch Tuesday at Taziki’s (Innsbrook)

  • 2 Clydesdales and a Jockey

    Three of us posted this morning (Attila, Wojo and Tater) and for some unknown reason the title of the Back Blast became apparent after the Q may have been running a little too fast for the pax 🙂

    After warmup we integrated a new 12-sided die in a mosey around the AO, with each side representing a different exercise. So much fun.

    First stop- rolled Dips three times, so 10, 20, then 30.

    Second stop- 4 Corners and we rolled: 10 Diamonds, 10 Merkins, 10 Lunges, 10 Dips…but after each exercise we had 10 Burpees in the center (50 total).

    Third stop- An Ab break: 10 WWIs, 20 WWIIs, 30 Crunchy, 40 Side Crunches, 50 American Hammers, and 60 second plank

    Through the Tunnel with 5 stop of what the die told us…10 Squats.

    A double Triple-Triple check rolling the die for new exercises each round in addition to a run (Carolinas, Lunges, Squats, High Knees, Crunches, Deep Squats). Second Triple Check was on playground for Pull-Ups, Dips, and Step-Ups.