YHC was running late to Q this morning, luckily the PAX picked up the slack.
COP
Hot Potato Q – each PAX called out an exercise. Squats, halos, merkin rows, gorilla curls, tricep extensions, etc.
Mini Dora – mosey to bus loop overhead cover. P1 run to basketball hoop and back. P2 does exercise. Switch, rinse and repeat. 50 squats, 100 curls, 150 LBCs
Finished up with some Yardsale’s boat canoes.
Numbers, names, Spit took us out.
YHC and Greenbow left the safe space of SOT to get out and take on the wind and the rain of MOT. Greenbow predetermined that he would not be running 10 -12 miles today so together we ran to the bridge on Charter Colony which is the 2 mile mark where Greenbow turned and headed back to the flag. YHC bound and determined to get in 10 miles due to the fact that a Monday and Tuesday runs where missed kept pressing on towards Tomahawk Middle, Brandermill PKWY to Genito back up and over to St Francis, up to Manders Dr, to Coafield to Queensgate back to the flag
10.58 Miles total, didn’t feel good in the rain and had to walk more than one uphill battle. In all it took about an hour and a half +
NMS: Its always good to get out and after it with someone, while Greenbow didn’t go the whole route with YHC it was good company for the time that YHC did have with him. YHC will do this route again but hopefully in dryer weather, it has lots of short hills that add a fair amount of challenge to the already challenging distance. Starting off the day, basically (not quite) running a half marathon is not for everyone but I enjoyed it.
Just Lighthouse and me today. So we headed for the parking deck and did the following: At each ‘back and forth’, did 10 merkin exercises and 15 or 20 ab exercises. For example, after warming up with SSHs and Don Quixotes, we ran up one full level and did 10 Diamond merkins and 15 Knee-ups. Next full level up, we did 10 merkins and 20 LBCs. There are, counting the first level where you enter, 4 levels. At the top level, we went to the end and back. So we stopped 8 times for a set of merkins/ab exercises. Then we (mostly) repeated up and back down. When we got to 8 minutes left, 6:07, we started back. Lighthouse took the long way around the lake and ran directly back.
10 Completely Stupid and Utterly Pointless Thrill Seekers decided to get wet this morning with not just sweat, but rain water and river water. After all boats had captains at 0500, the task force steamed over to the North Bank of the mighty James River.
Paddle up the little creek to our new beach area and waddle up the sand dunes for:
COP:
Dead Man Hang, Reach for the Sky, Helicopters, DQ’s, Sand Merkins, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Sandy Scorpion Kicks 🙂
5 Burpees OYO
TRIPLE CHECK:
Using the three coupons that were collected on the voyage over, we did:
Partner 1: Carolina Dry Docks
Partner 2: Squats
Partner 3 (Timer): Carry coupon Hallelujah-style across the knee, then waist, then shoulder deep creek and back!
Three rounds, of course.
Lunge Walk 50 yards back to the boats, stopping on the way for 5 more Burpees. Go ahead and do your burpees in the water, Machismo 🙂
Hop back in boats and head out of the creek into the main river for:
INTERVAL PADDLING:
60 seconds on Hard Paddling upriver/30 seconds light paddle
10 minutes of this. Time is now 0545. Gather together and spend a minute of silently reflecting, praying, meditating. Turn to the American Flag on the South Bank and recite the Pledge of Allegiance out loud.
15 minute paddle/float at your own pace back to the landing! No pretty sunrise this year.
Circle up on the landing for 5 more Burpees OYO. Time!
COT:
Numbers, Names, Announcements, Pictures and Upchuck to us out!
NMS:
What a fun time this morning, Men! We knew we were going to get wet, but that did not slow us down or make it suck. The new beach wasn’t too bad to workout on compared to the old beach the first couple of years. No one flipped over this year like last year, but there were a couple of near full immersions with cinder blocks that occurred. The rain didn’t get heavy until the float back, but who cares, we were already wet.
Thanks for coming out this morning, gentlemen! This will be done again in June 2024 as close to the Summer Soltice, as possible.
Happy Summer, everyone!
SYITG!
Kubota
A four pack of southsiders came out to 70 and rainy weather for a proposed hot potato Q.
Mosey to front of school, warm up – SSH, Dead Man, Ukrainian Soldiers, merkins, prom dates, heels
Mosey to parking lot – dora. Partner 1 runs across and up to street, partner 2 exercises – 200 dips, 150 jump squats, 100 merkins, 50 WWII
Mosey through woods to neighboring commercial lot. Burpees at stop signs. Triple check – run up parking lot, SSH, jump squats.
Mosey back in front of buildings. Wall sits with various exercises mixed in.
Mosey to school. Dora #2 – 100 irkins, 200 LBC.
Wall sits – dirty hookups.
Back to flag. Ring of fire merkins. Stretch.
Job men. Enjoyed the camaraderie from our SOT usual suspects. Wet morning but we endured. Conversations commenced, workout completed. SYITG.
-Singer
Got to the AO, last minute audible on who’s gonna be the Q.
Went to insert my shovel flag into the ground, and with all my mighty strength, I snapped my shovel flag in half… either that or I bought the cheapest shovel I could find.
3 hard chargers showed up for a make it up as you go Q session.
Mosey to the basketball court.
Warm up:Side straddle hops, Don Quixote’s, imperial walkers, super Mario jumps, karaoke
Mosey to the football field.
Four Corners: 10 burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 jump squats, 40 flutter kicks, no prostitute style, there was a preacher with us, didn’t seem appropriate.
Florence’s Black Jack, Choose your own adventure style:
Black Jack, Still 1 rep on one side run 40 yards 20 rep on the other side, run back to the other side, working your way up to 20 on one side, and down to 1 on the other. The choose your own adventure part, each of us had the freedom to choose what workout we did when we got to each side. This work out is a great filler if you don’t have an extensive game plan.
Mosey back to the parking lot: few extra minutes left.
Ring of fire, 10 of our favorite Merkins
COT: No prayer requests
Special Thanks to State Farm and Preach with suggestions during this Q.
Looking forward to the summer, hoping the weather stays the way it is, and that I can hit as many AO’s as possible this summer.
Oyster checked another box on the Summer Tour with a visit to Heartbreak Ridge. The first month of the Summer Tour is 2/3s over! Got to visit some other AOs!
Mosey forward, Karioke left, Mosey backwards, Karioke right back to start
Disclaimer
Warmup: in cadence
20 SSHs
20 Imperial Walkers
10 Don Quixote
Mosey to benches in front of Quioccasin;
10 Dips in cadence
10 Derkins in Cadence
10 Step-Ups in cadence
3x
Mosey to the wall at Quioccasin
15 People’s chair airpress
10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence
15 Donkey Kix OYO
15 People’s chair Milkers
10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
15 Donkey Kix OYO
15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali
10 BTTW toe taps
15 Donkey Kix OYO
Mosey to hill between Quioccasin and Pemberton
Jacob’s ladder with 5 Knee-ups at bottom each time: up the Heartbreak hill 7 times with 1, 2, 3, etc. to 7 Burpees at the top
Mosey to wall across the parking lot at Pemberton
Dora with
100 Merkins
200 Crunchy Frogs
300 SSHs
Mosey to parking lot in front of Quioccasin for
20 Ukrainian Soldiers
10 Diamond Merkins
Mosey to flag
15 Heels to Heaven in cadence
60-count 6-inch leg lift
No Announcements
Takeout by YHC using an excerpt from Romans:
We also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
6 gents showed up at UR, listened intently to the route – which was described as simple and straightforward – and you-know-who went the wrong way anyway….
announcements:
Saab abides- when he chooses to.
A quartet of early risers denied the temptation of the fartsack to enjoy the spirited elementary recess playground favorite of the past. According to the plethora of squirrels enjoying the various waste disposal facilities, here is what occured.
Mosey to the parking lot for introductions, disclaimers and warm ups that included SSH’s, DQ’s, Ukrainian Soldiers, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, Dancing Bears, Hello Dollies and Dying Cockroaches. All is warm and good with the world, onwards to the plush, sprinkled turf.
COP 1: Quarter Pounder: Start at the well saturated touchline. Run 25 yards – 25 merkins, return to the touch (Bernie if your nasty). Run 25 yard – 25 merkins, 50 yards – 50 LBC’s, return to the touch. 25 yard – 25 merkins, 50 yards – 50 LBC’s, 75 yards – 75 flutters (2 count), return to touch. 25 yard – 25 merkins, 50 yards – 50 LBC’s, 75 yards – 75 flutters, 100 yards – 100 monkey humpers, return to touch.
COP 2: Mosey to the gate: Quadruple check. Timer runs to the water tower and back, Squats, Pole Smokers, Carolina Drydocks. 2 rounds.
COP 3: Dodgeball: Short jaunt to the tennis courts. Teams of 2 for partner dodgeball. Must stay within the single tennis court unless retrieving a ball. Upon getting hit or someone catching your throw, victim runs around both courts with burpees at each corner. DTH and Dealer were the victors on this day. NTB was admirable in defeat with YHC hit multiple times.
BTTVF: Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayers, YHC took us out
Announcements:
Prayers for Dealers coworker who lost her daughter recently.
NMS: Thank you for the fellows for joining me this morning in trying something new. Dodgeball was a good mix with plenty of burpees for YHC. Balls are sloppy with DTH finding an interesting way to carry his arsenal. Look to bring this back in the future. Thank you gents for playing along.
Warm up:
Run around old hundred school, side straddle hops, Ukranian soldiers, copperhead squats, arm circles, deadman hangs, mericans, LBCs
Four corners around basketball court:
Walk around court while lifting kettlebell above head with right arm and 1st corner was 10 kettlebells swings, 2nd corner was 10 Goblet squats with kettlebell, 3rd corner was 10 kettlebell pushups and 4th corner was 10 kettlebell sit-ups. We repeated a total of 4x with switching every other arm overhead.
Obstacle course:
We circled up and each person called out an exercise with kettlebell while one person ran the obstacle course in the old hundred play ground. More of an American ninja course where we did some climbing and tight rope walking. The two slowest times were required to do 10 burpees at the end. We all went hard and had good times so our reward when every one finished was for all of us to complete 10 burpees.
Tripple Check:
1st man ran, 2nd man did kettlebell high-pulls and 3rd man did Goblet squats with kettlebell.
Completed workout with AMRAP push ups in our circle.
We ended with a devotion on “Life is Short”. “What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” James 4:14, Every time someone I know dies, Im reminded of the brevity of my life. Truly Im like a mist that appears for only a while and then vanishes. Life is short. But every Christian’s life is long enough for your to accomplish your purposes. I don’t know how long I have to live, Father, bu tI do know that I have today as a gift from you. I will treasure it as yet one more opportunity to live for you. Thank you for my life, as brief as it is, its still long enough for me to find satisfaction in you.
Announcements and prayers. Prayers go out to Warby’s Mother-in-law and Father-in-law as they are going through some procedures and are in the hospital. May God’s army of angels and his healing power be with them.