Category: Richmond, VA

  • It’s Friday!

    4 guys came out for a hot potato Q — good times!

    YHC doesn’t really remember all that happened. but it was a good time had by all!

  • Grumpy older men

    12 able bodied men, 11 regulars and an FNG (welcome Jelly Roll) came out looking for a workout, maybe even a beat down. For some reason, at times some of the regulars were not happy with aspects of my workout. As people get older, they complain more often.

    COP: DQs, DMH, merkins, mountain climbers (the ones that went to Circus noticed similarities between that COP and this one), FMs (flatulence makers) and Arm circles. Mosey to curb next to main football field.

    Curb crawls with 2 WWIIs added per merkin. Jelly Roll found it challenging but was a good sport. Went from 1 to 5 back down to 1. Mosey to bus loop.

    Ascending exercises of 5, 10 , 15 and 20 with pole smokers, HRMs, Carolina Dry docks and heels to heaven. Mosey to tennis court.

    Suicides for the 4 tennis courts with 5 squats on court 1, 10 on court 2, 15 on court 3 and 20 on court 4. Second set was 2 burpees, then 4 burpees, then 6 burpees and lastly 8. Mosey to bus loop again.

    Triple check with bear crawl, donkey kicks and flutter kicks. The length of the bear crawl was reduced to account for the grumpiness of some PAX with doing too many donkey kicks. they were right. The donkey kicks sucked. Long mosey to chin up bars.

    First set: 10 chin ups or whatever your max is, 20 dips. Second set 7 chin ups and 25 dips. Third set 5 chin ups and 30 dips. Mosey to home base.

    American hammers, APDs, LBCs (at half Jville speed) with stretching to end the fiesta.

    No announcements from us. No prayer requests. Welcome Jelly Roll whose given name is Jeremy. He works as a lawyer and lives out in the far far west end near Tater. The name came out of him telling us he likes alternative music and was more family friendly than the other suggestions. Congrats on the Spiders for a big victory over 16th ranked Dayton. Now they just have to beat VCU. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Safe returns for Pigskin, Gomer and Fudd’s parents from Honduras.

    Fireman Ed

  • Intersections and Sac’s

    11 brave Pax stood ready for another edition of Satan’s Hill.

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

    The thang. Run the trail to road stopping at each cul-de-sac and intersection to perform 25 of called exercise. 6 intersections and 8 Cul-de Sac’s with a lot of running in between. Excercises to name a few: Merkins, Squats , SSH, WWII, LBC, Plank jacks, MT climbers, Dollies, Imperial walkers, Lunges, etc.

    Back to rock pile with 8 minutes left. Grab a rock and and do 25 of called exercise.

    YHC took us out in prayer.

    Always an honor to lead. Make today AWESOME !!!

  • Buttermilk Trails & Dogpile COT

    Three men launched from just outside Belle Isle Park at 6a for a 2 hour, ~6.5 mile Ruck throughout the Buttermilk Trails. Morning temperatures were perfect for getting after it to start the weekend off right.

    PAX enjoyed a casual hike filled with banter and even made a mid-hike pit stop at Dogpile just in time to join Handshake and the PAX as they closed with COT. First bumps and welcomes from all at Dogpile before turning around to complete the remaining ~3 miles back to our starting point.

    Excellent view of the sunrise while crossing Nickel Bride and grateful for a morning of fellowship and Ruck training, despite YHC’s navigation abilities (Thank you AllTrails).

  • Exploring New Ground: Brett Saberhagen Edition

    With the names of mid-1990’s MLB all stars filling the air……..22 strong hit the streets of Rockwood Park. The following is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    To the Basketball Courts for Warm-Up:

    Ukrainian Soldiers, Monkey Love Makers, Helicopters, Mummy Kicks, Alabama Prom Dates, Freddy Mercuries, Hand Release Merkins.

    On the baseline for Butt Kicks, High Knees, Karaoke, Jumping Herpees, Bernie Sanders.

    Mosey to the Side Road and partner up:

    Partner one crab walks – partner two runs to the sign and back, then takes over crab walking. Greatly underestimated how long that road is.

    Mosey up to Hull Street and gathered the PAX. One the way back – Gorilla Munch (??), Walking Lt. Dan’s, 75% Sprint.

    Cut through the woods to the area behind the Dog Park for a Triple Check: Run to the fence, Bernie Back – Jump Squats – Heels to Heaven.

    Beside the Dog Park: Another 75% Sprint;

    Mosey to the Nature Trail, stopping at the Picnic Shelter: Dip Challenge. PAX does dips until someone hits 100 (Mudslide).

    Run up the trail – stopped and did a Ponch style bear Crawl through a large mud patch.

    Mosey down the trail to the Lake. Polar Bears back up the trail to the paved path.

    One the way back, stop for Carolina Dry Docks Challenge. Dry Docks until someone hit 100 (Hermie).

    75% Sprint up the parking lot. Mosey back to the basketball court.

    3 minutes of Monkey Humpers until time is called.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    Hardywood took us out with some powerful words.

    Final thoughts:

    What a great morning! Amazing weather and lively mumblechatter. Hardywood was in the zone today. We welcomed a Downranger from Kansas City (Never2Late) who did the workout with no shirt – what a stud. Welcome anytime!

    Lots of events coming up including Grow Ruck and related training; and The Frozen Triangle. As always – check Slack for details.

    SYITG

  • Aliens…Special Forces?????

    The morning started early in Big Rig’s world. He was getting his mileage in joined later by Boberry and Hardywood. After a while the ruckers arrived, 6am hit were took off to venture around. Big Rig was joined by State Farm, Posh, and Shaw-Shank during that time while we rucked anywhere from 3.2 to 3.4 miles depending on what you did at the end. Good mumble chatter about climbing and other topics plus with the lights around and the wolf moon you may have presumed there were withers aliens or training for the next mission to get a terrorist on the top 10 list.

    2 rucks tomorrow: Larus Park at 7 plus another one on the Southside in Chester(see Slack for details plus any during the week). We finished, a little break then those who stayed, 7am Rock and Roll!!

  • Herding Cats

    16 men gathered to see what Handshake had to offer and enjoy 53 degree weather and this is what happened:

    Traveling COP – Mosey from the Parking Lot across Boulevard and stop at various places. Each stop we did (2) exercises and moved on. We went down Shirley and took a left and made our away around the Lake into front of the Maymont Nature Center and end at the Maymont Nature Center Parking Lot.

    Triple Check – P1 Runs the Parking Lot Loop, P2 Squats, P3 HRM’s. At the end Bear Crawl to the start of the Parking Lot.

    Indigenous Peoples Run from the Parking Lot back over to Shirley Road and across the Boulevard and down to the bottom of Love Hill.

    Mosey back over to the bottom of the grassy hill and Bear Crawl up the hill then switch to Bernie Sanders and then Mosey the rest of the way back to the flag. EF Hutton clocked us at 3.5 miles.

    NMS – It was a great crew today. Good to see Nancy Lopez, Wilson, Fergie, and Bone Thugs at Dogpile. Also good to see Heist, Swoop, and Yeehaw who were doing a training Ruck.

    Announcements – Heading Place 10k Challenge starts February 10th, something else is going on with the Healing Place on March 16th, Grow Ruck Feb 10th? Grow Ruck Coaches training starts. Grow Ruck practice tomorrow (Sunday) at Stony Point/Larus Park at 7:00, meet at Trader Joes. February 10th Frozen Triangle at 0600. Breaking Bread – see Oyster/Slack. Oyster is challenging people to pick one of the days in the Birthday Month. Cheers to Chumbucket for doing Saturday/Sunday this month for Breaking Bread.

    Prayer Requests – Flatline/Flatline’s family with his son starting to drive

  • Hot Potato Beatdown

    3 runners and 4 boot campers posted today on a beautiful morning.

    Runners started early and got between 7 to 10 miles.

    Boot campers did a hot potato.

    Bulkhead Q – COP, mosey to bus loop for catch me if you can.

    Corned Beef Q – pole smokers, mosey to hill by football stadium for 11s

    Helix Q – Mosey to CMS playground for a circuit, mosey back to flag with stops in between for planks and other exercises.

    MoM

    Numbers, names, Opus took us out.

  • January Murph

    11 brave men took on the warm Jan. Murph Friday!
    Mossy to the main playground.
    10 rounds of the below with each round consisting of the following exercises.
    • 10 pullups
    • 20 Merkins
    • 30 squats
    After we completed the 10 rounds we headed back to the parking lot

    Strong work today!! Great to see the numbers slowly growing at Twin Team.

  • Why am I doing this hill again?

    I have a new idea, let’s do this route where we get to go up a Raintree hill twice and never go down it. We can also find more hills later as we run around in circles. Sound good?

    Seven of us followed my dizzying 4 different circles route without error and enjoyed ~4.5-5 miles while Blue Moon continued his comeback routine.

    There was one error, YHC picking this route.

    A good group at Dunkin’ followed. Looking forward to Pigskin and Gomer returning from Honduras and hearing about their trip.

    February has a few different challenging events for this group. Come join in!

    Feb 10: Frozen Triangle CSAUP starts at 6AM at Dogpile

    Feb 17: Oak Island Race-Blue Moon (10k) and Gypsy (Half) (along with others from F3)

    Feb 25: Bear Creek 10 Mile- Whitesnake and Upchuck (along with others from F3)