Category: Richmond, VA

  • Come for the oversharing, stay for the Corn

    A titillated ten came out to see what the Q had to share and which of the 4 FW quadrants YHC was able to achieve in the last 24 hours. For those wondering the answer is: 3

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, APDs, Scorpion Kicks

    Mosey all the way down to bottom of S Ridge. Stop for some pickle pounders on the way. Partner up and work way back up: Alternate Bear crawl & lunges with 5 burpees and chase. Switch to 10 Merkins and chase while partner Bernies. Stop for Diamond Merkins, then keep going up with side lunges and 5 burpees again. Back at top switch partners for a Dora 123: 100 Merkins, 200 Flutterkicks, 300 LBCs.

    Over to parking lot: new partners for Wheelbarrow half way across. 3 Sets of 25 Dips and 15 Reverse Crunches. Finish back at flag with more pickle pounders and some slow & steady Alabama Prom Dates.

    Announcements: New morning option coming soon: F3 Croquet. Get your white shirt and shorts ready!

    NMS: Strong and rowdy bunch at FW this morning. You know it’s going to be a fun one when Last Call shows up with a trashbag full of corn at 4:57 in the morning! Oyster made the trip to FW and although he has posted 5 times in the last week this was his 1st bootcamp in a while…

    Florence made the trip to FW and tried to win OSOTW with his Snip-Snip countdown clock. Alas YHCs activities were able to secure the award for the week. Hopefully more of those to come.

    Coffee after was great as always. If you get injured at Coffeeteria Ronnie will be happy to represent you, he’s a closer.

  • Lone Wolf

    Solo workout this morning at WDOG.

    Sure missed the pax! It’s never the same alone!

    See yall in the gloom!

  • East of the Hudson

    One man rose to see what the Left Bank of the Hudson had to offer in the latest edition of The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the dog taking a Fudd in the parking lot, the following quite possibly happened.

    Warm up: find a parking spot for 100 SSHs, imperial walkers, 20 hand-release merkins (which the dog found no bueno; apologies to the lady who got a workout holding Cujo back), 20 copperhead squats, and some assorted stretching).

    Loop the building plus a 4-pack of exercises. 10 merkins, sometimes incline, sometimes decline; 10 dips, 20 WWIIs, 20 reverse crunches. 2 rounds.

    Mosey over to the Homewood Suites parking lot. Loop that building a few times. Balls to the wall in the interim.

    Mosey to the parking garage. Run up 2 flights of stairs, then down the incline, then up 3 flights on the opposite corner. Perform this loop several times. Like his golf score, YHC loses track of the loops after a while.

    Return to base. Numberama, name-a-rama, YHC took himself out with a little request for some strength and a bit of patience.

    NMS: YHC is on the banks of the Hudson doing a bit of college prospecting with Veers, YHC’s 17 year old. Points of note: Canadian fires stink. Homewood Suites apparently has hoops courts and a putting green, while Residence Inn has a putting green and what appears to be a pickle ball court installed backwards (the kitchen is on the ends, not in the middle). Hitchhiker has been notified.

  • No tracks in sight

    8 or 9 “not big guys” hit the mean streets of Midlo to get some miles. Route will be below this post. Route was followed to varying degrees by the PAX as needed. You against you! Great push today guys. We hit the Manders climb and finished with Mt. Midlo! Next time YHC will take a headlamp when venturing on a trail in the woods. SYITG.

    https://footpathapp.com/routes/664954E3-B779-4096-A074-6670BF087289

  • The story that really never ends

    Six men woke up out of their fart sacks to enter the gloom of the Bearmuda Triangle and found themselves Bear Crawling trying to make it home but ended back to the same base they started from! ?

    How it all began with Don Quixotes who entered into the Helicopter crashing down to LBCs and had to American Hammer they’re way out!

    The six men found themselves in a steep hill and had to challenge themselves to crabwalk up which a burbee stumbled the back down to tag there partner which was stuck doing some Merkins which took 3 times to finally make it all up the hill.

    The storm started to get rough and that’s when we ran into the Bearmuda Triangle…(back to beginning) Bear crawling to where they thought it would be safe they mosey’d on to an island which each person with a partner managed to lunge along side its perimeter while the other looked for help and found none to return back to have his partner give it a try until they got to the end of the island.

    Into the woods we went trying a different tactic switching partners one ran to find help again but again found none to return to his partner bear crawiling and others crab walking under brushes switching positions until they got to the corner of the woods.

    At the corner there was a body of water so we had to make a bridge across the creek so everyone lined up to a plank position while the other did an Over/Under repeatedly until they made it across.

    Almost at the end of their journey they decided to do a workout!!! Partner leg tosses out of all things!

    We saw a flag from a distance which signaled our circle of trust! No man was left behind… End of story! (Or is it)

    I do want to add while this was a tough workout it was a lot of fun!

  • Soggy Jorts, Fast Hands

    15 hungry studs dutifully awaited their fearless leader in the NoToll parking lot, with Oyster (making sure a hot potato bootcamp didn’t happen) standing ready with backup cones and disc just in case their Q fartsacked… haha, yeah right! Let’s go to work! 

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey to the field and circle up
    • ROSIE led the PAX in a warmerama while cones were placed
    • Moseyrama lap around the Ultimate Field
    • Split up into 2 teams of 8

    ULTIMATE FRISBEE:

    • With a strong short pass game, the darker shirts led 4-0 before the lighter shirts finally made a TD. x5 Burpees was awarded to the WINNING team for each TD while the losers walked. 
    • Machismo put his legs to work in the blocking of passes. Snuff became increasingly irritable. Mr Roper got handsy. Hornydo made love to the sideline. Last Call made some effortless catches and took a bow in the end zone.
    • But you can’t get past fast hands walking the disc up the field – extra credit to Oyster, Draper, Roger Roger and OC in this department.
    • The dark team continued their dominating performance, ending the day with a 10-4 win. That’s 50 burpees making the strong guys stronger. 

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 16
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS: No significant injuries were endured in the making of this softcore 8mm reel – sorry Snuff. Good to meet Balay though we really need to get this guy to a bootcamp so he knows we don’t just play spanky in the gloomy dew. Always a pleasure to play on the winning team. Thx for letting Oyster, I mean Rosie, I mean YHC lead today. SYITG, DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • This Thursday, 7/20, come enjoy live music by McRib at Innsbrook After Hours (Hurley’s Tavern, 5-8pm)
    • 7/27 2nd F Lunch at Rusty Taco, 1145am
    • 8/5 – our next “School of Kid” kid’s workout after R&R
    • Don Draper is prepping a CSAUP half marathon – details coming
    • OC and crew prepping a Ruck for Cans CSAUP in ?October – details coming

  • Coming to the Nuisance

    6 Davillians as a group did a triathlon the F3 way. A pair of bikers went about 10 miles, with both YHC and Phonics contributing to correct and wrong turns along the way. Opus and Marco Polo kept the traditional Anvil Run going with just under 5 miles, and Corned Beef and No Idea both posted to ruck so that Yardsale would not have to ruck by himself. Their loyalty must have created enough good karma to ensure that today no one rucked alone, even if Yardsale succumbed to the fartsack. After some 10 minutes of good-natured chatter, we realized we had not done numbers and names, so we took care of that business. Announcements included early planning stages for an upcoming 2nd F event and the assumption that any AOs in the city are now pickleball AOs. There is also a planned The Carpenter Q upcoming at The Creek Friday. Mark your calendars. Also thoughts and prayers for those who move next to a community pool and suffer through pool noises and those whose open windows next to a lake let moisture into a house. Opus then took us out.

    After an impromptu discussion of cycling last week when YHC posted elsewhere, a cycling option was added to the run and ruck options for the summer. We can keep cycling, running, and rucking as long as we have the numbers to do them. Summer tourists are welcome, and if you let us know you are coming in advance we can make sure no one runs/rides/rucks alone. This is the way.

  • The Bob Ross Beatdown

    9 strong at YHC’s first trip to the Old Hundred. A good time was had by all! Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure.

    Mosey to the side of the school for Warmarama:
    SSH’s, Ukranian Soldiers, Apple Bottom Poppers, Bruce Lee Punches, APD’s, Freddy Mercury’s, Hand Release Merkins

    AND Butt Kicks, High Knees, Lunge Walk, Bernie Sanders, all across the parking lot.

    Retrieve the Kettles and do Around the Worlds while we head to the picnic tables for exercise one:

    Each PAX calls an exercise, then bear crawls to the cones and back. The group does that exercise for the duration.
    -One arm Curls, Kettle Burpees, Upright Row, Single Arm Overhead Raises, Squats, Flutter Kicks with Kettle, Kettlebell Swings, Kettle Copters, Figure Eights.

    To the parking for Exercise Two: Strider Circuit

    rd 1: Strider, 25 Merkins, Strider, 30 Lawnmower Pulls
    rd 2: Strider, 25 jumpsquat, Strider, 50 bench Press
    rd 3: Strider, 25 Hand release Merkins, Strider, 50 American Hammers with Kettle
    rd 4: Strider, 10 burpees, Strider, 50 calf raises with Kettle
    rd 5: Strider, 25 incline merkins, strider, 50 reach arounds (??) with kettle

    I may have misremembered the order on a couple of these.

    Walking Lt. Dan’s across the parking lot, then around the worlds back to the flag.

    1 minute or so of Monkey Humpers to wrap things up.

    Nancy Lopez took us out after Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    Final thoughts: Strong work by all the PAX today! If you havent gotten a chance to get down to some of the deep south workouts, I would highly recommend it. They have a great culture and a welcoming group of guys. Hope to get back soon – will have to check if there any AirBnB openings this summer.

    SYITG

  • Hot Broga

    2 vets and 1 newbie set foot on the bball courts of NoToll to improve their flexibility. The temp/humidity offered up a natural environment for Hot Broga. Some people pay $30 for that!

    Lots of grunts and groans but we’re better for it and I’m pretty sure we were the best players at Ultimate today.

    Get yourself out there next time.

  • No One Stays Dry

    Absent a few fart-sackers, five noble warriors assembled in the dew of the morning to a late-night Q volunteer.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • Suzanne Somers
      • Merkins
      • LBC
    • Cumulative beast
      • 180 HRM
      • 144 WWII sit-ups
      • 108 side crunches – each side
      • 72 monkey humpers
      • 36 2x crab cakes
      • Last round – 36 burpees as out of time
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Great work from the PAX today.  Great to have Whitesnake back.  Too bad Horneydo and Handshake were not there.  Many of the PAX have been injured at some point in the last 6 months, so grateful hearts that we were able to come together and do some ground and pound.  The ground was moist to say the least, so no one went home dry. 

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila