Category: Richmond, VA

  • You Gonna Join Us?

    Four pandits assembled quietly in The Gloom for the latest edition of Broga. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the guy who almost ran us over in the parking lot, the following might have happened:

    Lots of stretching, starting with the shoulders, then the neck, chest, back, and legs. Wrap up with a peaceful shivasavan, as always. At some point, Senor Frog showed up. A few minutes later, he joined the Broga.

    Numbers, names, all silent, of course.

    NMS: mumble chatter was strong today. Many thanks to Kubota for pointing us in the right direction with his vacation pictures.

  • All Kettlebells on deck….of cards

    I almost pulled a did not wake up bit, luckily inside of me said time to get up, we need to hit the bathroom now. Once I was up, then headed over to Old Hundred for today’s workout. A group of 5 came out to tackle something new. It should be warned that Mudslide and new are dangerous words.

    A good warmup: SSH, Helicopters, Ukrainian Soldiers, Don Quixotes, Copperhead squats, Merkins, LBCs and Alabama Prom Dates. The new part: today’s training involved kettlebells and a deck of cards. Each card associated to the type of exercise and number of reps. Spades(Clean and Press), Diamonds(Rows), Clubs(Swings) and Hearts(plank Pull-thrus). After every 13 cards, we ran a lap around the parking lot, came back for the next round(the jokers were included). The last round, couple of changes switched up to the double hand clean and press and cut the planks to single count. We finished it all. I am sure there will be some tired puppies today. At the end a little stretch, no announcements(everything should be on Slack) Count outs and prayer from YHC

    It felt good this morning…..the weather making a slow return to the warmth(only bad thing wait till the humidity kicks in where we will be soaked). An FYI, I plan on doing it again with all bodyweight plus a little devil says I have cards with workouts listed on them. Is he/she right, find out one day!!!!

  • A Post March Madness OG

    8 stalwarts posted to NoToll this morning (2 extra early for some Broga) and most knew exactly what was in store…perhaps others stayed in the fartsack or traveled to a different Nano region to avoid it – only they know.

    The 8 of us crushed an Old Glory and are all better off for it.

    Log your laps here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L8e9W24ygnU0suaGyKxzi1PgPqY1CBd57hLrKTZI-g/edit#gid=1717732871

    Well done men!

    Announcements – see slack

    Prayers for Wildcat and Dinky.

    No More Gumbo for You!

  • Spring Breakers

    For the folks that do not have 2.0s on spring break, this workout was for you.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Arm circles
      • Dead man hang
      • Merkins
      • FM
    • Mosey to the tennis courts and partner off – wheelbarrow to the net and do 10 derkins, rinse and repeat 3x
    • Mosey to the black top for a one-man Dora
      • 100 HRM
      • 200 squats
      • 300 LBC
    • Mosey back to the parking lot with a stop at the railings to side crawl up
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Great work from a noble PAX of 8.  The mumble-chatter ceased about the time we started the one-man Dora…odd.  YHC appreciates the opportunity to lead these men, and blessings and safe travels to all of those away this week.  Talk to Gypsy if you are interested in the upcoming CPR classes.  You never know when you might be a CUSAP and will need that skill.

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Respect Respect

    To celebrate TYA’s double respect the PAX ran his favorite route, Grooooooove. During the COT, our honored leader talked about being grateful for many things and prayed to be a better man, father, friend, etc. Notably absent, a better and more reliable backblast writer.

  • F 45MOMary Kill

    TYA took the PAX off campus. He found a perfect number of street lights for 11s. Also did a triple check, a partner Dora, and some exercises at each cross street between Jenny Maraghy Realty and Mary Munford.

  • FloRig

    Big Rig and YHC stayed in the 5th dimension of the Bermuda Triangle while Posh and Shank escaped for vacation this week. We set out on this expedition :

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

    THE THANG :

    Mosey to exercise station behind basketball court

    6 rounds of the following : 5 Pull Ups, 10 Jerkins, 15 Calf Raises on balance beam, 15 Incline Merkins, Swing Across Monkey Bars, 20 American Hammers DOUBLE COUNT, 10 Dips

    Mosey to basketball court

    3 rounds of Broad Jumps across the full length of the court

    Mosey to trail on the side of football field thinking it leads into a forest trail. Turn around once YHC realizes it ends up at a dog park gate

    Mosey to bleachers

    On each step of the bleachers, do 10 Incline Merkins and 10 Dips all the way to the top

    On first step of the bleachers, 20 Step Ups on left leg then switch to 20 Step Ups on right leg

    Mosey to football field

    2 sprints from goal post to goal post without stopping in between

    Mosey BTTF

    1 minute of flutter kicks IC, 1 minute of rapid fire punches while holding Al Gore position

    DONE

    Numbers, Names, YHC took us out in prayer

    NMMS : YHC pulled up to Goyne Park to see Big Rig already doing his own workout as usual. Bad move on his part doing pull ups before we started the Q as we did plenty of those today 🙂

  • Broga for Two

    YHC and Last Call arrived early at No Toll for a little pre-game stretch. We stretched and commiserated with one another about the pain of raising teenage boys. Great hanging out with Last Call.

    Hope more will join post spring break.

  • 6 Bands, 3 Nights

    9 hard rockers charged up their metal for the latest edition of The Spider Run. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the dog walkers at the first exchange zone, the following might have happened.

    All runners, leave parking lot, turn left towards UR student center, bearing right up the hill on Richmond Way. Left onto Campus. Left onto College, keeping football stadium to your left down the hill.

    Follow College and take a right onto University. Up the hill staying on University to Ridge. 4s turn around at Ridge, and return by the same route.

    5/6s stay on University, do the quick right/left at Ralston to stay on University, and right onto Ziontown.

    5s: turn around at Holmes and return by the same route BTTVSF.

    6s: continue on Ziontown to Ridge. Right on Ridge, then right again at Walgreen’s to stay on Ridge and continue to Holmes. Turn around at Holmes and reverse your route BTTVSF.

    Numbers, names, and Saab took the cold call to take us out. Today is the day to make a difference.

    Announcements:

    Humpday Happy Hour manana at The Grill on Patterson and Libbie at 5:30. See Gomer for details.

    May 6, CSAUUP (Completely Stupid and Utterly Under Publicized) at Godwin. Boot Camp, then Ruck, then team track meet. Team must have one IR person. Details on how to find IR guys…see Gomer.

  • A lit Hoedown

    5 of RVA’s finest lept from the Fartsack for this weeks Hoedown. At 9:45 pm YHC saw no Q on the sheet and decided to take it. With no plan in mind we wandered and triple checked with 5 people.

    COP

    Mosey to Triple Check 1

    Mosey to Triple Check 2

    Mosey to the bottom of Lindsay and complete 20 Bunny Hops followed by 20 Lunges of Squats to the top of the Hill

    Mosey back to campus for another Triple Check

    2 Minutes of Mary

    Announcements – Spring Fest at Gomers Church (Trinity UMC) Saturday, April 15th. Whitesnakes Bluegrass Festival at the American Legion Post on the River off Robious Saturday, April 22nd.

    NMS – light number and light Mumble Chatter with a lot of people gone for Spring Break. YHC was happy to lead.