Category: Richmond, VA

  • Just say no to banana boats

    Down in the cell dead zone that is The Old Hundred, nine PAX gathered to better themselves. According to the school employee who gets to work early to drop off their trash, this is what may have occurred. 

    Lap around the school

    Wamrerama 

    Descending count starting with 10 eac of the following:

    American swingers

    Halos each way

    Allen iversons 

    Press and clean each side 

    Around the world each way

    Tea pots each side

    Nolan Ryan’s each side  

    Man maker merkins

    We made it to 4 reps each before a little broga cool down. 

    Numbers, names, announcements, prayers for oyster, his M and their family. Happy hour Friday at 5pm at Diamond Billiards

    NMM 

    Great to be back out after vacation and sickness hiatus. I’ll get the music figured out Eventually….

  • The Carpenter brought the PAX out

    9 Davillians and 1 Down Range Jersey man enjoy a nice reunion this morning for the first run of the week.

    Route

    Headed down the sideway of the two school then turned into far entrance of Giles onto Hill fork Drive. Took a left onto Pleasant Level Rd unto the roundabout before heading to the back out Giles. Heading up hill on Giles Pond Dr then took the cut through into Craney Island.

    4.5 milers – Headed to the back of Craney Island for the down and up hill before looping around the neighborhood to Carpenter’s old house and head out of Craney Island on Westone Rd. Headed back to the SF thus Atlee Station Rd and loop around Cool Spring Church

    4.0 milers – Skipped the the back hill and took the same way back with a shorter loop around the Church

    Ruckers – Did their thing and walked around the schools and Giles

    Since Carpenter was in town, we all finished with him leading us in 100 SSH IC.

    MOLESKIN

    Great to have The Carpenter stop for visit on his way to NC for college visit with his daughter. We he comes to town it seem everyone make its out. Good to have Phonics back out after being on IR for a while and also to see Anchovy.

    Corned Beef decided to ruck with this morning with his new weighted vest including 45lbs. Hash joined him for the first 30 mins then ran with the PAX and Bulkhead joined him for the last 45 mins

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Crawl to Action

    Quick warm up on the Basketball court with some Don quiotes, Helicopters, 50 side Straddle hops and Arm Circles.

    Mosey to the side of the elementary school for a Partner Bear crawl and run around the oval shaped parking lot island.

    Mosey on to the poles for an Indian pole heels to heaven, pax to complete 10X before running to the last pax member. Rinse & repeat 3X.

    Mosey on to the baseball field for my signature ” “THE BEARMUDA TRIANGLE” ~3 markers ~3Oyds apart in shape of a
    triangle. Pax performs one burpee at first
    marker and bear crawls to 2nd marker, 2
    burpees and bear crawl to 3rd marker, 3
    burpees and bear crawl back to 1st marker.
    Rinse and Repeat x 2. Named Bearmuda
    Triangle as it has been known to
    mysteriously lose some pax along the way

    Next using the bleachers and up the Press Box we completed 10X each of Dips and Incline Merkins L, Rinse & Repeat 5X… Then off to an Indian run around the football field (2) Laps

    Lined up on the side line on the 50 yard line to complete lunges halfway and sprint the other half, repeat back to the start.

    Mosey to the hill for some more bear crawls, 5 burpees at the bottom of the hill & 5 burpees at the top, Bear Crawl up & crab walk down, Rinse & Repeat 5X

    Back to the flag with 1 minute left which we finished off with American Hammers…

    Numberama (4) Pax

    Announcements: Friday Happy Hour at Diamond Billards in Midlothian

  • We all have to start somewhere

    8 regulars and a self EH’ed FNG made their way out of the Gloom to find themselves at the first Doozy Q of the year, it also was a birthday Q so extra fun was had by all.

    5:30 mosey to the parking lot but pay the Toll on the way

    20 Dips, 20 Incline Merkins

    Circle up in the lot

    52 SSH, 2 Burpees, DQ’s, Helicopters, 52 Crunches, 5 Burpees, dead man hangs, 52 Imperial Walkers, 10 Burpees

    Mosey to the corner for a four corners prostitute with a twist

    First corner 10 WWII’s, second corner 20 American Hammers, third corner 30 Scrunchy Frogs, fourth corner 40 Lunges. The twist is that there is no free return corner, every time you return to the starting corner you do 52 Squats

    Mosey to the parking spaces just past the gate for some parking lot crawls

    Bear Crawl to the first line and do 1 Merkin, increase be 1 Merkin at each line until you end at 10 Merkins

    Mosey BTTF but pay the Toll on the way, 20 Dips / 20 Incline Merkins

    Circle up in the basketball court for a ring of fire

    PAX holds a Lazy Boy position while each HIM does 15 of his favorite ab exercise

    Numbers / Names Greenbow took us out

    NMS:

    Welcome to our latest FNG “Fritos”. The title for this BB was based off a comment that Fritos made during the four corners. Greenbow was jabbing at YHC about turning 52 and Fritos said “there is a difference between a 52 year old that been working out for 30 years and a 20 year old that hasn’t”. The comment really got me thinking, YHC hasn’t been working out for 30 years but YHC is in the best shape of his life and its all because YHC started (5ish years ago) with this PAX and this PAX has made me better. We do all have to start somewhere but starting is only part of it, we all get out of it what we put into it.

    I did take some time off from the Q sheet but in the words of John Wick, “people keep asking if I’m back and I really haven’t had an answer but Yeah I’m thinking I’m back”

  • Experimenting with Pizza Barefoot

    15 runners -or at least we started with 15 runners – embraced the pollen and cooler temps for some miles.

    Off we went around the lake, over the trail and ascending University Dr. A quick turn on the parkway and an immediate exit on Lakewood takes us to Ziontown. We then connected with University again to Gaymont and survey the First Watch AO. All was well.

    4s head back on Westham to Glen to College to the trail/lake combo. 5s/6s drop down to Westham Station and the bat cave with 6s taking a detour down and up Ross.

    Bodos took us out.

  • Just Try Hard

    No literally, it was just Tryhard this morning. But without tiny humans slowing things down the Q absolutely smashed the PAX today, and it was soooooo good. An hour later and YHC is still feeling the lactic acid shakes! With just a couple weeks left here in PNG, and attendance still being completely variable, it’s unlikely Ground Zero will continue beyond our departure, but YHC is confident in the positive impact on those who have attended. God is good all the time! SYITG, DTH

  • The Running Dead

    3 zombies made it to Rockwood Park in the gloom at 430am for another version of the Graveyard Shift. We were moving a bit faster than your typical walking dead.

    Conversation started on the topic of Chaplain’s son Touchdown, who was throwing up yesterday. And we discussed our weekends like Florence’s birthday and Easter festivities.

    YHC took us around the park then took Courthouse Rd toward Providence. As we took Courthouse at one point it smelled like something had died. I thought Florence was going to throw up, but he pushed through. YHC took us into my neighborhood and right in front of my house. We turned back the way we came, but I threw in a trip down a pretty big hill, which we had to turn around and climb back up. As we made our way back down Courthouse towards Rockwood, I think Chaplain may have been coming down with whatever Touchdown was dealing with over the weekend. It slowed him down, but he persevered and pushed to the end.

    When all was said and done, YHC’s watch said we did 4.8 miles in 48 minutes.

    Glad to have Florence and Chaplain out with me this morning. YHC took us out on a pretty tough route that I am pretty used to. Hope Chaplain makes it through the day ok.

  • Pyramid Engineering

    A lucky 7 emerged from the end of Spring Break, equipped with plenty of Easter candy to tackle all that was in store for them. According to the Easter Bunny, the following may have happened.

    Mosey over to 3rd Pres for COP. Report overhead flickering light to the appropriate Pax. So noted.

    Over to the back parking lot for indigenous people bear crawl. The pax at the end does 5 burpees, runs to catch up, taps the new 6, and takes point at the front. Somehow Fudd found us and joined mid-exercise.

    Over to the third parking lot where we picked up blocks for a modified 4-corners. Curls, overhead presses, APDs with blocks, squats, swings, and tricep extensions.

    LBCs

    Triple Check – Partner 1 runs with the block, partner 2 does block bench, and partner 3 does elbow plank.

    Repeat the 4-corners exercise.

    Replace blocks in their wooded enclave and perform Lindsays the way home – box cutters and carolina dry-docks.

    American Hammers and Flutter Kicks to finish up.

    YHC took us out.

  • Batt-OH!

    If two is a pair, and three is a crowd, then five must be a PAX.  Flatline planted the flag.  Here’s how it went down.

    Mosey down to the near left patio area.

    COP (IC)

    • Helicopters
    • Dead Man Hang
    • Sky Reach
    • Ukranian Soldiers
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Inverted Scorpion Kicks
    • Suzanne Somers L/R
    • Freddie Mercurys
    • Merkins
    • SSHs

    Mosey down to the Lake

    DORA 1-2-3

    • P1 – Run to the 2nd Street Light up the hill and back
    • P2 – Exercise
      • 100 HRMs
      • 200 Reverse Crunches
      • 300 Monkey Humpers

    Lindsay

    • Mosey about 10 feet to the picnic tables
    • 30 Dips/ 10 Imperial Squats
    • Mosey to Lake Pavilion
    • 25 Dips/ 15 Imperial Squats
    • Mosey up the Stone Stairs to the rock pile
    • 20 Dips/ 20 Imperial Squats
    • Mosey past the Tennis Courts
    • 15 Dips/ 25 Imperial Squats
    • Mosey to the picnic tables near the Stone House
    • 10 Dips/ 30 Imperial Squats

    Conveyor Belt

    • P1 – Incline Merkins
    • P2 – WWIIs with feet on picnic table
    • P3 – Bench Kicks
    • P4 – Regular A$$ Squats
    • P5 – Run the Loop

    Mosey to the SF

    Mary

    • Cross Leg Lifts R/L
    • American Hammers

    Ring of Fire

    Numberama

    Nameorama

    COT

    Senor Frog commented that this was the best AO he’s seen so far and today barely scratched the surface, well except for those god-awful stone stairs.  Fortunately, he found the meeting spot, no thanks to the F3RVA location map.  The only thing Batteau lacks is people.  YHC highly encourages everyone to make the trek to this AO and enjoy its splendor at some point.  Oyster can parallel park is butt off when there’s 100 feet of space in front and back. 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • See Flatline, Gomer or Gypsy – 2 spots left for each day of CPR training
    • May 6th – CSAUP at Currahee 6am just show up
    • Prayers for M Oyster and family

  • Mystery Q at The Alamo

    A Sunday night 8:00 check of the Q sheet showed no Q for the newest-hottest AO in town. YHC had been thinking about making a trip down to The Alamo and this proved to be an easy opportunity.

    Mosey around the full parking lot to get the muscles warm and start with a COP full of various fun exercises to include Inverted Scorpion Kicks, Suzanne Summers, etc.

    Mosey to the Tennis Courts and for Wheelbarrows. P1 Wheelbarrow from the end line to the net and complete 10 Derkins. Mosey back to the line and repeat with P2. Repeat for 3 rounds for each partner.

    Mosey to the street in the front of the main building. When there is no four corners to run around we can still do a Four Points run. Mosey up the street and complete 10 Jump Squats, next stop 10 Jump Squats and 20 WWII’s, next stop 10 Jump Squats and 20 WWII’s and 30 Merkins, next stop 10/20/30 and 40 LBC’s. Now descending 30/20/10 then 20/10 then 10.

    Mosey back to the front of the Tennis Courts. Get 2 partners for a Triple Check. P1 run to the front door of the building and back. P2 LBC’s, P3 Squats. 3 people, 3 rounds.

    Mosey back to the front of the building for Curb Crawls. Bear Crawl and then (1) Incline Merkin, Crawl Bear back for (2) Merkins. Ladder up to 5 and then back down.

    Finish with 2 minutes of Mary featuring Flutter Kicks and WWII’s.

    Announcements – SOJ Happy Hour this week at Diamond Billards. Not sure the exact date/time.

    NMS – It was a good day to make a road trip. Definitely surprised some people when they rolled up and Lil’ Blue was sitting in the parking lot. Great job to Vagabond and others for taking charge and getting The Alamo started and getting new people out. Way to use the power of Facebook and weaponizing spousal guilt.