Category: Richmond, VA

  • Enthusiasm deficit

    A somewhat hesitant, post-Halloween crew of 7 showed up this morning. The Q sensed a lack of enthusiasm, but the pax soldiered on. Here’s what went down:

    Mosey to the triangle for COP: SSH, Ukrainian soldiers, Don Quixotes, merkins, and LBCs.

    Off to the neighborhood where we looked for Halloween decorations. Houses decorated on the left = 5 merkins; on the right = 3 burpees. The pax was less than happy, but a mutiny was averted.

    After making our way back to Ridge Road, we headed to the Church parking lot for People’s chair and balls to the wall. Then 3 sets of dips with planking in between. Then two rounds of 4 corners – 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 monkey humpers, and 40 American Hammers.

    We then headed back to the flag for a ring of fire with American Hammers and merkins.

    Announcements – merkin challenge month (We did around 100? this morning).

    Glad to finally get back on the Q sheet. Thanks for hanging in there this morning. Ronnie out.

  • Not your regular scheduled programming

    Two stallions explored the streets of Westham by foot; surveying the aftermath of Halloween. It was in fact pretty calm and quiet with no signs of the previous night’s events.

    Pucker came up with a nice running tour of Westham, UR, and the surrounding neighborhoods. Crisp morning for a run!

  • Revenge of the mutant zombie nerds

    5 guys showed up for an All Saints Day beatdown that looked something like this

    COP — helicopters, copperhead squats, balance on one foot, tempo Freddies, Tempo Flutterkicks, Tempo AST’s, some other stuff

    11’s
    10 Burpees, 1 KB Swing

    Bus loop fun
    R1 –Walk the bus loop with the bell. Do 5 presses for each bus
    R2 — Every bus add the numbers up and do that many of the exercise. This time it was single legged deadlift (mostly)
    R3 — Multiply numbers and do the same thing with varied exercises at each bus. Although this was not a smart move bc three of the buses had zeroes in them…

    Back to the start.
    Mary time
    Ring of Fire merkins — 5 a piece, then 10 a piece.
    20 IC flutterkicks.

    Fun times had by all — some were more awake and alert than others.

    Peace

    Opus

  • WTH Thriller

    Darkness falls across the land
    The 5:30 half hour is close at hand
    Five Creatures crawl in search of blood
    To terrorize the West Broad Village neighborhood
    And whosoever shall be found
    Without the soul for running up and down
    Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell
    And run inside a parking deck shell
    To the top we ran in the air
    The funk of four corners fear
    10 Merkins, 20 Plank Jacks from every tomb
    30 Squats and 40 Smurf Jacks to seal your doom
    And though you run up and down the stairs to stay alive
    And at the Gazebo your body dips and steps up & starts to shiver
    We finish with 35 merkins and 40 WIIs because we can’t resist
    The morning of the WTH thriller
    AH HA HA HA HA HA HA

  • Rocket Fuel

    I saw NTB post a solo beat down at The Forge recently. “Pretty cool,” I thought. A different type of “test” as Rosie commented, a different mental angle on resolve and commitment. As I watched the clock inch closer to 5:30, a solo outing appeared imminent. Then headlights beamed across the asphalt and our notorious Wildcat emerged from his parked car. Who better to light the fuse of a post Yeehaw beat down? The rain had lightened up, and millions of bags of wrapped candy lay in the back of cupboards all across town. LET’S GO!

    Warmarama: Mosey around the school, reach high (Shawshank stretch?), deadman hang, helicopters, copperhead squats, merkins, slow count Freddie Mercurys

    Dora #1: Runner across the lot and back, 50 double-count KB lunges, 100 KB swings, 150 KB calf raises

    Dora #2: Runner across the lot and back, 100 merkins, 150 KB lawnmower pulls, 200 arms circles

    Dora#3: Runner across the lot and back, 50 overhead KB presses, 75 KB front raises, 100 single-count Freddie Mercurys

    Triple Check-ish: 30 KB curls, 30 KB skull crushers, 100 single-count Freddie Mercuries, lower reps to 20 and repeat KB curls and skull crushers, keep Freddie Mercurys at 100 single-count, a final run through of 20 KB curls and skull crushers, Freddie Mercurys again at 100 single-count

    Time called. Numbers. Announcements. Wildcat took us out in prayer.

    As you all know, Wildcat is a great guy and the perfect partner for a fast-paced beat down. Wasn’t my time today for a solo run. Thanks for the company, for the iron, for the faith and fellowship!

  • Bermuda Triangle

    5 zombies ventured into the cold mist of the Bermuda Triangle. It was a great morning for the living dead to put this AO to some good use on Halloween.

    Mosey over to the picnic pavilion for a typical warmarama

    SSH IC, Don Quyotes IC, Imperial walkers IC, LBCs IC, American Hammers IC

    Multi tasking

    Slow and fast calf raises while doing arm circles

    Dora

    run to the parking lot and Bernie back and complete the following

    100 chair dips

    100 squats

    100 merkins

    100 ball dippers

    Mosey to the playground inside the running track for a clunky triple check

    PAX does the following

    Toes to bar

    Walking jerkins (walk hands to each end of one dip bar and do a jerkin)

    timer does a lap

    Mosey to the Graveyard (basketball court) for zombie suicides

    Sneaky lunges (walking lunges on tippy toes wit hands out like zombies) for the duration of Thriller. Stopping at each quarter of the yard for mountain climbers, then kick throughs on the second round.

    State Farm had to jet so we chased him back to the flag. He made his departure as the PAX headed for the wall of the bathhouse for the people’s broken chair (one legged wall sits) followed by a standard people’s chair.

    Made a short run around the parking lot with multiple Burpee stops to finish off with 5 burpees.

    Names and numbers

    Announcements

    Ruck for food on November 11th. No Rocknroll. Meet at Twin Team at 6 am

    Prayers for Florence that he is guided on his career path. And Prayers for Shaw-shank and his family with his newborn.

    Have a Happy Halloween!

  • Solo Again

    Two ruckers started the day the right way. YHC hit the wet pavement and surprisingly dry gravel track for his second consecutive solo Raider Run. Despite on-and-off drizzle, the weather was not bad with pretty much ideal running conditions. Sorry you all missed it.

  • Halloween Havoc

    Eight of the area’s finest gathered in the light mist for today’s Spider Run. With no one reviewing routes prior to launch, one round of instructions didn’t suffice. YHC had enough and off we went, offering traveling instructions for the sixes. Today was the middle section of the turkey trot route, everything up through going south on Westham. Here are the instructions, typed out as complicated as possible.

    The Route

    Left out of parking lot and left in front of the Commons. Veer right around the lake and take your first left up the hill. Right at the top of the hill, behind the Greek Theatre, then right at the tennis courts, down the hill, dumping you out at the lake bridge. Left through the path, right on College, left on Lakewood then left on Westham. That’s mile 1 folks, and the end of this week’s turkey trot preview.

    Everyone turn right on Sunset (aka the fake university according to Wedding Singer). Left on Ridge, right on Holmes to Ziontown. 6s go right on Ziontown to Ridge then turn around and head back, following these directions. Ziontown to University, right on Ralston. 6s continue on Ralston and do a loop around Windsor on the James before heading back on Ralston. Turn onto Rose Hill, right on Kingston, left on Gaymont, right on University. Back University, through the path, left across the bridge and BTTVSF.

    https://onthegomap.com/s/d2ep2a1j

    4s did 4. 6s did 6. YHC was the only 5 so mother goose it was.

    Apologies for the number of turns this morning. There was good intent.

    Announcements

    • Turkey Trot 11/21 @ Spider Run. Launch whenever needed to finish a 10k by 6:15. Full route will be posted soon

    Be safe out there today everyone.

    Splinter out.

  • Get on your hands and knees for my birthday

    Ten men showed up for some tricks and got no real treats except me. According to the guy running laps around the parking lot, we did the the following:

    Ran to the end of the lot and then did a right reverse turn to the center of the football field for warmups: treats of 20 SSH, 20 Ukrainian Hammers, 20 Don Q, 20 Bird Dogs, 25 Candy Corns.

    Stayed in the area for a round of shuttle runs/suicides with 10 Merkins at each stop with a final run of the full 100 with 12 Merkins at the end (52 treats in total)

    Hit the hill neighborhood hoping for full size candy bars and partnered up for safety. One partner ran to the top and then ran the bases on the baseball field and returned while the other did squats. 3X. No treats, just extra running.

    Split up the group at the bases. Home plate with a 5 burpee timer, 1st base Flutters, 2nd base WW2, 3rd base Hammers. Trick was that 2nd base was on the far field. More extra running and it made for longer ab exercises.

    Now searching for fun sized candy, we found the blacktop and did a fun sized (2 times) partner exercise with one doing balls to wall toe taps while the other ran to the end and back.

    Moseyed to the sidewalk behind the schools and ended up finding ten people in bear costumes crawling while the bear in the back did 5 burpees and ran to the front. Chaos.

    Ended up back to the start for 5 minutes of reverse crunch bars, little baby ruth crunches, 50 candy corns and 10 sour burpees.

    All rejoiced except Handshake, who expected me in costume and candy. He got a full refund.

  • 2Q

    8 gathered in the rainy gloom for a special edition double q partner beatdown featuring OC and Snuff.

    Both agreed that neither of them would have gotten out of bed on such a rainy cold morning if not for the fact that they couldn’t let each other down.

    Warmarama under the pavilion – 50 SSHs with Chaplain arriving just in time to complete the even number. 20 DQs, 60 arm circles, 40 LBCs, some plank jacks and other stuff.

    At that point Snuff was out of ideas so OC came up with countdown to November 11s: burpees and WW2s. Slight audible: booyah burpees and booyah WW2s. Teamwork.

    10 minutes of mirkins, squats and WW2s while the partner ran to the gate and back.

    Partner carry halfway across the field, then switch. Wheelbarrow back across the other half, then switch. 3 rounds of 20x PLTs.

    Back to the flag with a stop to pay the toll: 10 partner dips + 10 partner mirkins on the bridge.

    COT.

    It’s true – accountability is what carries us. Funny how we’re all just trying to keep up with one another – that’s the gift we give each other and that’s what keeps us coming back out no matter how deep the gloom. Who in your life do you hold accountable?