Category: Richmond, VA

  • Abandoned in Aberdeen

    Four RAMM regulars gathered under the tree to admire Hitchhiker’s choice of running shoes. That was until a shirtless man came galloping towards us. Distracted by the streetlights glistening off this bulging man, directions were given:

    The Route

    • Everyone head west on Grove
    • Access road to Iris then down to the golf course
    • 4s Tapoan back to Three Chopt then back to Grove
    • 5s Tapoan back to Three Chopt then cross to St Chris, east on Patterson, back on Westmoreland
    • 6s Ridgeway to Roselawn to Towana to Campus to Pepper to Patterson, back on Westmoreland

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    YHC sucks at summer running, but I still enjoy seeing these groups on a regular basis. Thanks for sticking with me as I push through the gloom.

    Good mumblechatter with the 6s for a bit, then breathing took over. Hitchhiker planned on going wading in the river today but instead decided to run and didn’t bother changing shoes.

    YHC started handing out SQL access to #bigdata this morning. Be on the lookout for your next assignment.

    Announcements

    • Sign up for the pickle ball coup de grace 8/26.
    • Saab is in the market for a german car

    Splinter out.

  • One Large Wet Loop

    3 SOJ regulars, 1 soon to be regular, and YHC met the rainy morning at Twin Team for a few hills and miles. The loop was the shortened OG RiverRun loop of James River Road, into Tarrington and down Twin Team for a total of 3 miles. Stopped 6 times along the way for a variety of exercises including Hand release merkins, SSH, flutter kicks, crab cakes, dancing bears, among others.

    Mumble chatter on YHC’s recent high profile jury case, the upcoming home grown half marathon at Twin Team, how old is too old for F3 (according to Pigskin, there is no limit).

    Great job this morning, thanks for the company and letting me lead. Twin Team is an ever evolving AO from kettlebells in the winter to adding some miles now in prep for the half.

    Announcements

    • Happy Hour at Diamond Billiards tonight – 5-7ish
    • Twin Team Home Grown Half marathon in Late August – more info soon

  • A Date With Cindy

    12 shy gentlemen went on a blind date with Cindy. She was a mean ole bessie. Here’s the torture she put us through :

    Mosey lap around parking lot

    Circle up for Definition of 3 F’s, Core Principles, Mission Statement and Disclaimers

    Warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 10 Ukrainian Soldiers IC, 15 IW’s IC, 10 Merkins IC

    THE THANG :

    Grab a Cindy and mosey to playground

    15 Blockees (Burpee on the Cindy, pick it up on the way up and do an overhead press)

    *From this point forward until time expires, carry Cindy and don’t let her touch the ground*

    Mosey up satan’s hill, take a right, then take another right down the cul de sac hill

    20 goblet squats

    Mosey up the hill to next street then stop

    Lay on your back then do 150 bench press while doing flutter kicks

    Mosey down the street, eventually take a left then down to the bottom of the next hill

    20 Thrusters (this is a squat with an overhead press on the way up)

    Mosey up the hill, take a left, go down that street, take a right then go all the way down the hill

    25 Curls with your hands through the Cindy holes

    Mosey up the hill, take a left, go down that street, take a right then go all the way down the hill

    20 Cindy Swings

    Mosey BTTF

    DONE

    Numbers, Names, YHC took us out

    Announcements :

    – Tonight Happy Hour at Diamond Billiards on Midlo Turnpike

    -Tomorrow’s AO options : DogPile Ultimate Frisbee, Rock N Roll with Snuff Q, Gridiron with Attila Q

    -Sat 8/26 Pickleball Tournament at Batteau (doubles team play format)

    NMMS : Welcome Dan Brown now known as Carvana! He works in automotive parts and sales, lives in Ashland, and Futon invited him out. You may see him start posting with the DaVille crew. Been awhile since YHC has Q’ed out at satan’s hill. Enjoyed it fellas!

  • Taking the Horse & Buggy up the hill

    Twin Team

    Warmerama 

    Invisible jump rope

    Jazzercise 

    Hairy Rockettes 

    Imperial walkers

    Scorpion kicks

    Merkins

    On the hill

    10 merkins every drive way going up

    10 squats every driveway going down

    Mosey to the playground 

    Triple check with pull ups, lap, WW2s

    Murder gorillas / the harambe

    Halfway down fence and back

    Donkey kicks waterfall  on side of school 

    BTTF

    numbers, names, prayers and announcement s

    NMM

    Welcome back to an 8 year Kotter. Horse & Buggy didn’t skip a beat! 

  • The Perfect Square

    Four sharp dressed guys came together to make the perfect square

    WARMARAMA

    • Side straddle hops
    • Several stretches
    • Imperial Walkers
    • Ukrainian soldiers

    Thang 1: 10 Burnie Macs on the tennis court

    Thang 2: Eye of a Hurricane on the football field

    20 reps of Carolina Drydocks, Step-ups, Merkins and Dips at each point with 3 Burpees the center each time.

    Thang 3: 11s on the U trail. WW2 and Squats

    Finished with Ring of Fire

    Numbers, Names, Announcements and Prayer

    I hope it was a great day fellas!

  • Science

    Lighthouse and I ran around the school approximately 8 times for a distance around 5K. The first 5 trips around the school included 2 stops each circuit for 20 Merkins and 20 Dips. After the first 5 circuits, I think we got around another 2 stops each circuit with 2 stops for 20 Squats and 20 Crunchy Frogs. One last trip to finish off the remaining time. Lighthouse took the long way.

    We discussed science and the replication of results.

  • Swim Teams, HOA’s, and Trash Services

    3 runners and 2 ruckers got showed up for the second ruck and first run day of the week

    Runners Route – Head over to the trail in Cool Spring Forest West then turning around and come back. We did and run/walk to get in 3.75 miles

    Ruckers did their thing

    Title to the backblast said it all. Typical suburban Dad mumble chatter this morning

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Tuckahoe Derails the Caber-bearing Pain Train

    YHC rolled into the Forge to find Tuckahoe clown cars erupting with First Watch maniacs (all proudly wearing their nonsense shirts …you have to be one to understand), including Kubota who claimed a virgin attendance at the AO – well that changes everything! Scrapped the planned field trip for a caber beatdown to run a tour of the Forge favorites. Here we go! 

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey loop around the top lot and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

    COP #1:

    • KNOLLS TRIPLE NICKLE
    • x5 Jump Squats at the bottom
    • Bear crawl to the top
    • x5 Groiners
    • Run back down to the bottom
    • x5 Sets total

    COP #2:

    • Moseyrama around the bus loop with karaoke, bernie, high knees, butt kickers, low shuffle
    • ECHO CHAMBER
    • Line up in People’s Chair
    • Hoedown’s x10 IC
    • BTTW for Hip Slappers x10 IC
    • Dirty Hookup’s x10 IC each side
    • Donkey Kickoffs up to 20

    COP #3:

    • Mosey around to the Amphitheater
    • TRIPLE CHECK
    • P1 – Flutters
    • P2 – Merkins
    • P3 – Box jump steps up and down

    COP #4:

    • Mosey back around to the grassy slope
    • CLOCKFACE WWII’s
    • PAX on their Six on the grassy slope
    • x3 WWII’s at each hour of the clock

    COP #5:

    • Mosey over to the small loop
    • INDIGENOUS CURB CRAWL
    • PAX lines up in carousel plank while last man does x3 Burpees and runs to the front

    COP #6:

    • Mosey around the school and down to the handicap rails
    • AWKWARD PARTNER RAILWORK
    • P1 holds legs while P2 completes:
    • Jerkins x10
    • Cliffhanger Merkins x10
    • Dips x10
    • Each Partner completes x3 Rounds of each set of exercises

    COP #7:

    • MOUNT CHAPLAIN
    • Mosey up to the top of the Knolls stopping for reps at each level
    • x5 Burpees
    • x10 Merkins
    • x15 Ball Dippers 2-ct
    • x20 American Hammers 2-ct
    • x25 Mtn Climbers 2-ct
    • x30 Sunrise Sump Squats – stopped early since overtime

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 11
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  What a pleasure to have the summer tour in force at the Forge today – you can always count on some hilarious mumble chatter from the First Watch gang. The Forge tour ended up producing a wonderful well rounded sweatfest, and everyone was in agreement that it was better than the caber alternative. Also enjoyed the iced coffeerama afterwards. SYITG, DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Tomorrow! Friday 7/14 SOJ HAPPY HOUR at Diamond Billiards after work, roughly 5-8pm.
    • 7/20 McRib playing music at Innsbrook After Hours
  • Welcome to new pickleballer at WDog!

    Welcome to new pickleballer at WDog!

    YHC was pleasantly surprised by five pickleballers for the practice. Moseyed to the tennis court and COP (10 x deadman hang, 10 x helicopter). YHC briefly reviewed the rule for the newer. Played doubles and single.

    A couple of things to note:

    • Boberry beat YHC twice on single
    • Swirly and Bootleg picked up the rule really quickly
    • Lockjaw and Oyster were just awesome

    Moseyed back to the flag and numbers and names.

    Announcement: “Back-to-School Pickleball Tournament on 8/26/2023” Please refer to the detailed posted in the preblast in Event section.

    Bobbery took us out and coffee was provided by YHC.

  • The 1st & Last MOT Hot Potato

    Lots of mublechatter in slack but no one grabbed the Q so Rosie and YHC combined the worst of our grabbag of ideas and hit the pavement. It went something like this:

    1-mile warmup (Left on Midlo Turnpike, Left on Coalfield, Left on Woolridge, Left on Grove Hill) – Circle up at the bottom of Mt. Midlo.

    1 hard pace trip up Mt. Midlo, recover jog down to the Midlo Middle track.

    1 x Magic Mile – (A prediction formula based upon a one mile time trial… You can run a measured mile at a good, hard pace for you, and use the time to predict what you could run at longer distances.)

    Recover back to the bottom of Mt. Midlo.

    2.5 more trips up Mt. Midlo to finish out the workout.

    Circle up to close out with the SOT crew.

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    It was great to have a 10-man crowd out for some miles this morning and a heck of a workout. Thanks for pushing it this morning gents!