Category: Richmond, VA

  • A little longer 11s

    YHC was greeted with fifteen brave PAX members including a visitor from GA this morning and we took a little field trip as follows:

    Moseyed to the square near Police Memorial Way for COP as follows: 10 x dead man hang, tippy toes with hands in the air, left and right side stretches, 10 x imperial walkers, 10 x SSH, 10 x LBC, 10 x American hammers, 10 x merkins.

    Moseyed to the the lake. A set of exercise at each light post: 3 x merkins, 3 x WWII, 3 x lunges. Including one broken one, there are 28 light post.

    Moseyed to the neighborhood on Westover Road. A little long 11s on the entire block. merkins and WWI.

    Moseyed back to the flag.

    Number, names, and announcements. YHC took us out!

    Thank you for allowing me to lead this morning! Enjoyed it a lot!
    P.S. A FNG was supposed to join the beatdown, but he came 4 minutes late and was not able to find us. McGruff and I will try to bring him next time.

  • Broga?? Not on my watch

    13 pavement pounders with a fresh FNG circled up at the Alamo this brisk morning. Here’s what went down.

    Warmarama- SSH, Don Quixote, cherry pickers, helicopters, merkins, LBCs, scorpion kicks.

    COP1- Mosey to the Endstone hill for a triple check. Timer, LT. Dans and WW2s. Mosey back to the parking lot.

    COP2- Four corners lady of the night style with fence smokers, monkey humpers, squats, LBCs.

    COP 3- Split the group. Group 1 performed flutter kicks, LBCs and SSH each until fail. The rest of the PAX circuit was a 10 count bear crawl into 5 merkins for half of the parking lot. That went into a short sprint to side shuffle between placed cones to the next corner of the lot. Next was broad jump burpees to the end of the parking lot, mosey around the back. Met with the flutter kick PAX and rotated.

    COP 4- There was a request for a 5 min broga to finish, to which the YHC declined and performed 2/3s of a Dora with merkins and SSH. Time called.

    Names, announcements, COT and welcomed oshA (pronounced oshay) to F3.

    Always an honor to lead you men. Thank you for every F3 member for the accountability, motivation and momentum to capture my 100th post!

  • Stay Thirsty My Friends

    14 of the Most Interesting Men in Westhoe converged for a Monday morning beatdown. Here’s what happened:

    COP in the first Third Church lot: Deadman hang // DQs // Imperial Walkers // Ukranian Soldiers // LBCs // Hand Release Merkins // a whole lot of Pickle Pounders. Mosey to Third middle lot

    Jump Rope Triple Check: P1: Jump Rope // P2: Plank Jacks // P3: Run the loop, Bernie Sanders the second half. Mosey back to TES dropoff loop.

    Elevens: Grab a place on the wall. 1 Mike Tyson on the wall, bearcrawl to the other side, 10 WW2s, lunge back. Keep going until 10 and 1. Mosey up to blacktop.

    Blacktop Sprints: Sprint to the other side of the blacktop and do 100 LBCs. Sprint back across and do 75 SSHs. Sprint back, 50 Merkins. Sprint back, 25 Burpees. Mosey back to the flag.

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

    NMS: Welcome FNG Dos Equis! Handshake was whiney that I named him so quickly, but when a good name is suggested, why waste time? Lots of shoulder work this morning, Pigskin take note for tomorrow. Thanks for letting me lead guys! SYITG.

  • Old Man Speech and 52×2

    Apologies to Oyster for being so late on the BB. What better way to start off your Bday then to Q in the gloom. A hearty Pax was ready to go at the bottom of the hour.

    **The events described here are based on true events.  Some of the names, places and exercises may have been changed to protect the innocent.  This was also modified to fit your screen.  

    Quick mosey around to Otterdale to start.  COP- 20 each SSH, LBC; 10 Each, Jazzercise, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, , Copper head squat, Dead man hang, Merkins, Dollies, Flutters.  

    Simple run to every 2nd mailbox on the right and perform 52 of called exercise. PAX called exercise. Some of these were: Squats, Monkey humpers, Gorilla humpers, Lunges, WWII, Merkins, MT climbers, Plank jacks, LBC’s, Dollies, Flutters. Ran big loop and out to main entrance before heading back.

    YHC took us out in prayer.

  • Back on the buttermilk trail…is that Fudd?

    Two SOJ vets gathered back at buttermilk trail this morning for some ruck training. The trails were quiet this morning as we rucked 5.5 miles. As we came to our turn around point we ran into Fudd and the boys out for their morning trail run. Great work guys! F3 was taking over the trails this morning!

    Grateful for the weather and the quality conversation. Have a great day!

  • 24 x 5

    Three intrepid ruckers explored the beauty of Larus Park. It feels like spring is in the air and time in the woods is what the soul needs.

    Next weekend we will not have our normally scheduled Sunday ruck option. Instead, consider the Frozen Triangle ruck option on Saturday.

  • TTFN

    16 hard chargers gathered in the brisk morning for a fun fueled time.

    The warm up: Mosey to the basketball court. Side-Straddle Hops, Helicopter, Cherry Pickers, Super Mario Jumps, Karaoke

    The work: Suicides with Merkins at each interval—5 at the free throw, 10 at half court, 15 at opposite free throw, 20 at other end of court—with Bernie back.

    Run to tennis court. Break into groups of five. Indigenous Canoe. Each group sits in a straight line doing American Hammers while hard charger in the back does lunges to the front of the line. Indigenous Canoe went from one end of the tennis court to the other end.

    Run to the begining of the baseball fields. Triple check One hard charger doing donkey kicks, second doing tricep dips, third running down the stairs, around the bleachers and back up.

    Next triple check, One hard charger doing flutter kicks, second doing wall sit, third running down the stairs and back up other set of stairs.

    Run to parking lot. Four Corners, Prostitute style. First corner, 5 burpees, second, 10 Merkins, third, 20 WWII, fourth, 50 squats.

    Run back to the basketball court. NASCAR (essentially an indigenous run in a circle): All hard charges line up along the line. Hard charger in back runs a complete lap around the basketball court and positions himself in the front of the line. While hard chargers are doing their run around the basketball court, everyone else in line is doing a group workout while waiting for their turn to run. LBCs, Heels to heaven, Alabama Prom dates, Squats, Monkey humpers.

    Crunch Time, 5 minutes left: Run back to parking lot. Form circle. Merkins on my cadence. Down—hold—up—hold—down—hold—up…

    Time.

    COT

    Announcements: No bootcamp at Rock n’ Roll next week (February 10) for CSUP at Dogpile. Growruck the weekend of May 5th.

    I had a blast Q’ing for the second time at Rock n’ Roll! We met two new FNG’s, Duplo and Appllo. WELCOME! Showing up is the hardest part, but the fun begins shortly after. It’s crazy to think that Posh dragged me out to Rock n’ Roll nearly a year and a half ago. I hope both friendly new guys become regulars.

    For the purposes of making child care easier, I’ll begin working weekends for more than likely, the next couple of years. I’m not saying good bye to F3 by any means, I plan on showing up to different AO’s during weekdays, and hopefully some appearances at Rock n’ Roll, albeit much fewer than I would like to.

    As always, if you have yet to do a Q at Rock n’ Roll, I recommend you get on that saddle and take the reins. Don’t worry, you’ll make mistakes and blunders, but you’ll enjoy every minute of it.

    No prayer requests: A general prayer of thanks and appreciation for being able to get together in the early mornings, and do these workouts together. To never forget that this is a privilege, and to watch over us and our families, and to help those in need and/or going through a difficult time.

  • Speakeasy’s still running

    6 boot campers and 4 runners posted today.

    Runners got between 7.5 to 10 miles. Speakeasy might be still running.

    Boot campers did a whole lot of boot camping with lots of merkins.

    Merkin count = 145

  • The Frozen Teaser

    7 SOJ stud-ruckers crushed the 8.6 mile Frozen Triangle course in just under 2.5 hours, keeping a 16min/mile pace. We enjoyed excellent conversation, some cramping calves, and only one stop for Broadway to drop a mighty deuce at MM Elementary causing the fire alarm to go off. 😆 Way to get after it fellas! GTE #47 is only 91 days away. Let’s GO! 🔥👊💪 ~DTH

  • Darkness has friends

    Big Rig needed to get to work so he started out on his run(cranking up that training for his race, the rest of us ventured onto the dark trails with the creatures hiding going “the humans are back again with those strange lights”. We are getting a little closer to the time that we get more early sunlight. That will allow us to hit the trails, get used to that type of environment. Overall a good one, all except one stayed for the main workout 3.3 miles today. Ruck tomorrow see Slack have a good Saturday