Feeling the high of Mondays birthday Q, 4 HIMs hit the mean streets of RounTrey with some pep in our step.
Gather at the stop sign, cross checked the “thumbs up” from the night before with the faces in the gloom…we were a little light but off we go!
Usual loop with great chatter amongst the HIMs. Good to get out there and put some work in!
2 Midlo residents left the bootcampers to do their own thing with Dumar and went out in an unplanned tour of the thawed streets of Midlothian. Both Draper and I were working off the rust of minor tweaks and the avoidance of icy streets. Easy pace, solid conversation, 4.5+ miles later and we’re back on track.
Frozen Triangle: This Saturday 6am at Dogpile – come for Bodo’s 10-year F3 Manniversary to kick it off and stay for the extra miles and the fellowship. Gumbo and Gypsy on the Q for the other Boot Camps.
Lots of missing regulars at FW. Does YHC have a Pigskin reputation or something?
Here’s what transpired:
Mosey to Church patio
COP
Mosey across the road to S Ridge
Booyah Fest
Mosey to Cameron and Culpepper
DORA 1-2-3
Long Mosey down Cameron-Grattan-Culpepper-Ross-S Ridge-Country Squire-River-VSF
Mary
Numberama, Nameorama, COT
MOLESKIN
Great to have CB return to First Watch after a long hiatus. I’m sure the regulars are sad to have missed him. The upper body was hit hard, then the lower body was hit harder. Then a nice long cool down mosey. The weather was almost too mild. YHC felt naked from the shoulders to the head band with no foreskin. Perhaps a cooling version should be the next addition to the line.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Frozen-ish Triangle – Saturday 0600 @ DogPile
Prayers for Hash in Air Force bootcamp
3 HIMs were in the gloom for a classic beatdown that went like this…
We started with a classic Warm-o-rama that consisted of 20 SSH, 20 Ukrainian soldiers, 20 arm circles and 20 imperial walkers. Then proceeded for a mile long run around the AO ending at the wall. 2 sets of 1 minute walk sits and 20x ho downs. Mosey to the field for 11s – merkins, step up over railing to body squats. Then to the pavilion for abs. 50 reps the mosey to the curb and Bernie back. Ww2 a, penguins, flutter kicks. Ended at the pad for man killers and elevated merkins. Names, numbers, announcements and prayers.
We showed up for the movies Tropic Thunder Triple Check and Training Day “Earn That Badge Rookie” Adora.
Warmup: Side Straddle Hops, Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers
Tropic Thunder Triple Check: 1 (Pecker)= Coupon run; 2 (Les Grossman) Side Strut Squat; 3 (Tugg Speedman) Mountain Climbers
Training Day Adora: 1 (Alonso)= “King Kong Burpees” – Burpee with a Firecracker finisher; 2 (Hoyt) = Run coupon to Stop Sign
COT: Some announcements were said about Frozen Triangle; prayers for a child recovering from surgery
FNG was named Bookkeeper
Nice to have a warm morning again for a little exercise and fellowship. A little smaller crowd than usual for our Wednesday workout, but we made the best of it. Here’s what the melting ice saw take place. Moseyed over to the gazebo at West Broad Village for a little warm-up. Side straddle hops Don Qs , Ukrainian soldiers, Merkens, and LBC‘s helped to get our muscles into the right elasticity. We then headed out from there over towards golf galaxy and the little townhouse community hidden at the end of the parking lots. We found two extremely expensive and small houses had been recently built there. Whitesnake quizzed us on what we anticipated the pricing to be, and all of us were surprised at the million dollar price tag. We did three loops around the circle and at the end of each loop we did 20 exercises, first Merkens second World War II’s third jump squats. We did that two times and then moseyed over to REI. We took advantage of their sturdy benches and did two rounds of 20 dips and 20 derkens. We headed from there over to ACAC, we did 20 World War II’s and then our favorite F3 salute of 20 monkey humpers in a line saying good morning to the treadmill runners on the second floor watching us. We moved to the end of the street by Dave & Buster’s did a little more ab work this time with 20 LBC‘s in 20-2 count penguins. We headed back to the flag from there the long way with a little bit of time left and needing a little more distance. We circled the bus loop twice to hit our 3 miles, ended at the flag with a minute left so we knocked out another 20 merkins. Several of our regular were out today, numbers and names, we closed in prayer of Thanksgiving for a beautiful morning and prayers for those who are sick or traveling. Until our next meeting, Peace
The balmy gloom of Larus (aka Lazarus) Park welcomed a 10 PAX of ruck lovers to trail blaze some new ground and enjoy a wide range of topics on our 3 mile jaunt, some off trail, some on. Sandy (60#) accompanied our adventures and was shared among YHC, L Woods, Sable, and Snip. Our FNG for this morning is Snip’s brother in law who enjoys bourbon and will be hiking 47 peaks with Snip this summer – welcome STAG! Great discussion at Einstein after including the concept of a Shield Lock. Snip’s apt summary was that a man on his own is a danger to himself and others. Until next time brothers. Yours AYE! ~DTH
**Warm-Up (9 min)**
We practiced the AMRAP and timed ourselves doing it to set a baseline to beat. It took us 9mins together to run the half mile loop and do the exorcises.
AMRAP:
The route is 0.6miles. At the bridge we do 10 incline pushups. On the trail we do lunges between signs about 50 feet apart. We bear crawl across the parking lot, then 10 pull-ups and 10 dips on the playground and start over. Everyone was able to complete over 3 rotations in the 28 minutes they had so everyone beat the warm-up time. Impressive group.
Mary to the finish
– Circle up: Dealer’s Choice abs (each PAX calls 1 exercise x10-15 IC, e.g., plank, LBCs).
Nine gentlemen showed up at Atlee High School this Tuesday morning despite the thick frost that tried to keep us away.
The five ruckers took off and possibly headed into Giles. The four runners, including Opus whose car looked like it had been in the artic, took off towards Kings Charter. Opus did the 4/1 while the other 3 looped back every so often because in DaVille we brocode as much as possible. The farmhouse loop in the opposite direction was completed.
COP: Numberarama, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Trail Mix took us out.
NMS:
It was great having so many out today. Hopefully, as our area thaws, we will have a few more join us over the next month.
Announcements:
Gotta Run!
Phonics
12 Northern Virginia Redwoods made it out on a foggy morning to see what guest Q Gomer from RVA had in store. According to the teachers who (strangely) come in a little hot on the way to work at 0555, this is what went down more or less.
Welcome. Quick disclaimer. 9 burpee start. Mosey to the parking lot. 10 mountain climbers at each lamppost (6?)
Full disclaimer. COP all IC: 10x Don Quixote, 10x helicopter, 10x turn and bounce, dead man hang. ‘Mer’canrama: 10x regular, 10x wide, 10x diamond, 5x fingers pointing out, 5x fingers in, 10x Ranger, 10x Shazzam(R). Ab blaster: 20x WW2 setup, 15x flutter, 15x LBC, 15x LL straight LBC, 15x RL straight LBC, 15x both straight, 15x feet up, 10x APD, Tuscaloosa Trailer park twister stretch, 15x Sumo Squat, 10x Split squats both legs. 23 minute COP.
Mosey to center lamp post for a starfish; Burpee in the center, at the corners: 15x Mercan, 15x WW2, 15x Sumo Squats, 15x Mountain climbers. Burpee when returning to the center.
Mosey to the corner for four corners prostitute, 15x mercan, 15x WW2, 15x Sumo squat, 15x Mountain climber.
Mosey back to the flag, Gurpee (Burpee, touch knees, touch ankles add mountain climber and extra squat) at each lamp post.
YHC took us out. Prayers for family with cancer, loneliness, sharing our energy in the world.
Announcements. Chili cookoff at Ramblers. Convergences coming up. RVA mild frozen triangle this weekend.
NMS – Thanks for the hospitality, Summit for the invite, and Gherkin helping with the recon, and site particulars. YHC has been meaning to get out on my travels to Northern VA and DC, but work schedules have been challenging until today. Hopefully next time at the General we can get on the track so we can partake in the magic. Glad all passerby’s returned our greeting – though we can always use a few more burpees. FWIW YHC received his birthname at what is now Alexandria inova hospital – just escaped to RVA with university (Go SpidURs!) and decided to stay below the snowline and out of traffic. The General has some double meeting for YHC – My 2.0 Tippecanoe (CLT) went to W&L, and some of my Lieutenants and Captains I helped grow (so I like to think) are 1 and 2 bangers now. Till Next time!
Get some!