Category: Richmond, VA

  • No Magic Mile

    Not enough guys for Draper to pull out a Magic Mile so the group opted for a loop into Salisbury with modifications on the fly – Bullseye opted to run in the dark down the gravel road. Good conversation made the pace pick up through the middle miles.

  • Irish car bombs

    4 men posted for some iron tossing. PAX decided to do a hot potato Q.

    Bulkhead Q

    • 11s – KB swings, deadlifts, around the world in between
    • COP

    Yardsale Q

    4 corners (C1 – 40x demon crushers, C2 – 40x heels to heaven w/ pump, C3 – 40x lawn mowers, C4 – 40x calf raises

    Partner up – 100x squats between partners, Dora style with lap around parking lot

    Corned Beef Q

    Boat canoes, stretching to close out

    Names, numbers, Corned Beef took us out

    Welcome back Spit!

  • Better late than never, no fines according to Lighthouse

    The Thing Regular Cul-De-Sac workout for us, run to neighborhood and 20 merkins and 20 LBCs each cul-de-sac. 10 cul-de-sacs once completed mosey around pond long way and then over to John Rolfe to get back to the flag. 4.25 miles covered, 200 merkins and 200 LBCs. Great combo for getting chest abs and some fat burn. Q closed with prayer.

  • WTH Fall Fun

    5 gathered to enjoy the fall temps and get our workout in. We cover 3.8 miles of distance with some workout in the midst. Ran from flag over to Barrington neighborhood, first cul-de-sac we warmed up with 15 Side straddles, 10 Ukrainian solders, 10 merkins, and 10 Suzzanne Summers to pay tribute, mosey down the road to another street end, 20 merkins 20 LBC and 5 burpees, mosey around and find anothe cul-de-sac to start 11’s Merkins and Jump squats. Turned out to be a big spread of distance and covered 2 miles doing 11’s. headed back to flag, loop around bus loop, finished with 20 merkins, 20 LBCs, 5 burpees and 1 minute plank to end the time YHL closed us in prayer. Praying for White snakes family with the loss of his Mother in law and Father in law who needs care full time.

  • Jorts Takeover #3

    The South has risen again! 7 SOJ versus 5 Tuckahoe natives = successful Q steal from Kubota, in spite of some initial protests about technical clown car regulations (this is where NTB hangs his head in shame). Kubota was made to poke a couple holes in his weinke and wear it like a ghost sheet for the entirely of the following workout:

    The THANG:

    MACHISMO: 

    • Warmerama
    • DIRTY SOUTH 4 Corners – Hillbillies, APD’s, Humpers, & Lt Dan’s

    DTH:

    • Mosey behind the church
    • OLD HUNDRED with movement exercises between descending sets
    • Mosey BTTF for final x10 Burpees

    COT:

    • Counterama # 12
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • SPLINTER took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  Dear Tuckahoe, 3-2 SOJ, come get you some! We don’t call him HEIST for nothin. It aint over till it’s over! Love, SOJ

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Saturday 10/21 – 3pm Brewery Tour (text DTH for details)
    • Sat 10/28 Dogpile Costume Party
    • Mon 10/30 YeeHaw’s VQ
    • ONGOING – Shoe Drive (and suits?)

    Prayer Requests:

    • Fudd lost his job – prayer for peace, and an even better career door to open!
    • Prayers for Israel and all those affected in the conflict

  • Honoring a favorite of Atilla

    Six strong veterans of HBR were surprised when the Q took off in a new direction for the COP. Here is what we did:

    COP on football field: SSH, Don Qs, Hillbillies, Ukrainian Walkers, Merkins, LBCs. Stop to do some Suzanne Summers in honor of her passing. Over to Jerkin Gym. 3 Rounds of 8 Jerkins. Up HB hill and back down 3 times with 10 Heels 2 Heaven. Back over to Jerkin Gym for 3 rounds of 7 Jerkins. Over to bleachers for HD favorite: Benchkicks. 4 rounds starting at 30 Benchkicks, increase by 10 each time. 10 Derkins in between. Another 3 rounds of Jerkins, 6 this time.

    Mosey up to DK wall for Triple check: Balls2Wall, Flutterkicks, & run blacktop & back. Finish with alternate bear crawl and lunge on basketball court. 10 Squats each hoop. Back to flag, 2 min of Mary then out.

    NMS: It’s been a while since we varied the COP from our normal spot. Pigskin said he’d never had a COP down at bottom of the field. Always good to shake things up. Our normal Mumblechatter machine is on the IR but plenty of fun with this small but strong PAX. YHC almost forgot Atilla’s favorite Suzanne Summers in the COP. Days like today remind YHC how great an AO Heartbreak Ridge is. Surprised SOJ did not forge the James and take this AO over.

    Annoucements: 2nd F ShovelFlag date coming soon. If you do not have a ShovelFlag now is the time to make one.

  • A Lot of Running for a Bootcamp

    A fit fourteen of RVA HIMs avoided the toll roads around SOJ and emerged from the crisp Fall gloom for an NTB beatdown. The early-rising dog walker told Snuff to tell Last Call to tell Mr. Roper to tell YHC what he observed this morning:

    WARMARAMA

    05:29:45 – Excited for the day, DTH takes off early for extra credit while YHC and the PAX catch up for a half-mile lap around the parking lot and soccer fields. Circle up in the parking lot for welcome, disclaimer, and various IC movements to get the large muscle groups firing.

    COP 1: Couplet Ladder – The rep count gets shorter as the run gets longer. Crank up the tunes to drown out the monotony. Don’t even bother keeping up with Doozy.

    • Round 1: 100 Flutter Kicks / 100 Single-Leg Lunges / Lap Around the Parking Lot
    • Round 2: 75 FKs / 75 SLLs / Lap Around the Parking Lot and Field 1
    • Round 3: 50 FKs / 50 SLLs / Lap Around the Parking Lot, Field 1, and Field 2
    • Round 4: 25 FKs / 25 SLLs / Lap Around the Parking Lot, Field 1, Field 2, and Field 3

    Six is in, 15 minutes left on the clock. Mosey to the basketball courts.

    COP 2: Suicide Bear – 10 WWII’s at the baseline. Bear crawl to the free throw line. 10 Merkins. Crawl bear back to the baseline. Rinse and repeat to half court, opposite free throw, and opposite baseline.

    Two minutes remaining. Stay on the baseline and spell the alphabet with feet together off the ground. Time was called and we gathered for COT.

    COT: Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests

    • 10/19 Timberwolf – OC’s Birthday Q
    • 10/31 Alamo – Yee Haw VQ
    • 11/11 Ruck for Food from Twin Team to SOT/MOT.

    NMS: Great mumblechatter from the back of the PAX today. YHC is grateful for the consistent showing at NoToll and the push from the rabbits to always run a little faster than what’s comfortable. There’s a name for everything in F3 and YHC’s new vocab word of the day was the smurf jack.

  • Three Amigo Kettlebells

    Three beasts met at the Old Hundred parking lot to get their kettlebell on.

    Quick mosey and the warm-a-rama. Helicopters, Ukrainian soldiers, DMH, merkins.

    COP 1- Legs. 25 squats, 50 calf raises, 10 each single leg toe touches, held an Alabama prom date up position and raised one leg for 10 second each for a minute each leg. Lunge to squat walk to the center of parking lot.

    COP 2- Abs. 50 American hammers, 20 WW3s, 10 sit up to stand, 20 each side- side bends, 100 bent knee torso twists, 20 good mornings.

    COP 3- Upper body. 15 each arm curls, 40 skull crushers, 15 each arm plank lawn mowers, 20 upright rows with shrug, 20 behind the back shrugs, 10 merkin pull throughs, 20 KB swings, 20 chest press with KB raise, after set, held KB above chest for 10 seconds, 20 presses, 10 second hold, 15 press, 10 second hold, 10 press, hold 10 seconds, 5 press.

    Walked the length of the parking lot farmers carry, switch hands at half. Walked back to flag KB overhead, switch half way KB out front.

    Reliving our younger 6 pack days, we finished with 3 minutes straight of flutter kicks with KB above chest.

    Time.

    Count, Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests

    Thanks for coming out gents!!!!

  • Just a Taste of the Turkey

    Seventeen or so young lads gathered to discuss what a non Lockjaw Q may look like. We waited for Lockjaw to appear but he never did. The only directions this morning were that we were tackling the first third of the turkey trot route. Off we went, ready for some intervals.

    The Route

    Warm up run by the lake, veering right up the first hill. Pause for brief instructions. Two intervals up the first hill with the first treated as a warm up and the second continuing up the hill and out Campus.

    Continue up Campus then u-turn down Towana. 1 mile marker is right at the u-turn. Collect ourselves at the intersection of Towana & Roselawn. Two intervals up Towana and two up Roselawn. Recover uphill after the second interval on Roselawn to a right on Ridgeway.

    Continue down Roselawn, briefly disturbing the peace, earmuffs for “shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit”, then collect ourselves at the corner of Ridgeway and Fairway. Two intervals back up Ridgeway plus a bonus interval for Bodos to try to prove himself.

    Recover back to the VSF for numbers, names, and YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    Great turnout for the first non-Lockjaw run in these parts since August. The thirteen or so runners today shouldn’t have any difficulty remembering the first 2.25 miles of the Turkey Trot on 11/21.

    Prayers out to our PAX members that are dealing with difficult times, whether work, personal, or physical.

    Good luck to Bone Thugs as he tackles his first half marathon this weekend. You will crush it!

    Peace out fellas.

    Splinter

  • Can’t Go Bowling

    7 gents who are just as eligible for a bowl game as the undefeated Dukes rucked or ran on a dark and cool October morning. Ruckers started at 5:00, looping back at 5:30 for a late arrival. The 3 runners took to the track for another tempo effort, which, according to Opus, did not suck but instead really sucked. There was some discussion about rucking a 10k at 5:00 on a Saturday before Dapile and a possible lunch club upcoming. Numbers, names, and Opus took us out.