Category: Richmond, VA

  • Soup for Six

    Six strong braved the soupy conditions for the weekly rendition of WDog. Here’s how it went down.

    Head to the track 2 loops – 2 miles – exercises at each station = 220 merkins – 220 squats. 

    Faceplant is at 999 posts! Will he make it 1,000 tomorrow? You have to come out and see for yourself! Big Data motivation.

  • Hold my sweater…

    A lucky 7 arrived for a run in temperature and humidity that was less than optimal.

    Saab abides

    Routes: (Starts in direction of River Road shopping center and Westham Station)

    6M

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    5M

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    New 4M

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  • Three Amigos…

    At 0520 on the last day of August, YHC stood in the parking lot of (formerly) the darkest AO in town wondering if he would be leading a solo workout. Fortunately, Marv arrived followed by Beta.

    At 0530, we moseyed to the bottom of Lindsay Ct for warm up.

    1. SSH 
    2. DQ
    3. DMH
    4. Arm circles 
    5. Helicopters
    6. WWII
    7. LBCs

    With just the three of us, we headed up the hill doing a series of exercises broken up with 10 merkins.

    1. Bear crawl
    2. Crab walk
    3. Lunges

    Halfway back up Lindsay Ct, we switched to Bernie Sanders’ up the hill broken up with various excersises.

    We returned to the main teacher parking lot for 11s.

    1. Flutter kicks
    2. Crunchy frogs

    Mosey to the upper field for triple check #1.

    1. BTTW
    2. Dips
    3. Run across for pull ups – 5

    Triple check #2

    1. Freddie Mercuries
    2. Donkey Kicks
    3. Run across for 5 pull ups

    We then returned to the VF with 1 minute left, so we did American hammers until time was called.

    Numbers / Names / YHC took us out.

  • 3 Regulars & FNG Walk Into a Park

    4 humble chumps walked into Pine Fork Park with a modicum of understanding what might take place for the hour at hand, not even this guy.

    Mosey 400m lap to get warmed up. Do some leg stretches and Merkins to warm up the Pecosauruses.

    Partner Up with a coupon – PAX with coupon performs 8 curls while partner runs out 20 steps and performs merkins until partner with coupon arrives. Rotate until reaching the east side of the 50 yard line.

    Swap Partners for a double check?
    PAX with coupon walks down the hill and back in reverse while partner performs the following exercise per each round:

    • Squats
    • Carolina Dry Docks
    • WW2’s

    Partner up with the only PAX you haven’t partnered with. 3 sets – PAX 1 Mario’s from Helipad 1 to Helipad 2 and Burnies back while PAX 2 performs incline Merkins(modify to Shoulder press if needed).

    Send the coupons over to the bank and mosey BTTF.

    Numbers & Names – we got an FNG which we have knighted Dart Board.

    Announcements – Convergence coming up on Labor Day at 7 AM. Gridiron Location? Stay tuned.
    Summer Tour at The Lumberyard this Saturday.

  • Thick, Soupy, Stromboli Powered Old Glory

    12 Warriors, including 2 dedicated Summer Tourists, posted to NoToll for a good old fashioned Old Glory in the most humid of glooms. The Garmin struck 0530 and off we went past the gaggle of tomatoes gearing up for a run.

    2 laps with OG, plant the OG in the corner and set the timer to 20 minutes for the THANG (4 corners – 20 merkins, 20 jump squats, 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs), then 2 laps indigenous people style until the jailbreak for time.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayers

    The sweat was rolling. The Stromboli from the F3 Fantasy Football drafting was gurgling, and the fields were glorious. Great morning.

    Announcements:

    • 2 tour stops left – Lumberyard Saturday and Batteau for the Labor Day convergence.
    • Labor Day convergence at Batteau (Forest Hill Park) and by popular (Gridiron) demand, Wojo has moved the start time back to 0700.
    • Prayers for Speakeasy (see meal train if you can support)

    No More Gumbo For you!

  • Add title

    Fun times were had by all on this super humid morning. We traveled to the baseball field behind the elementary school and back over the 45 minutes. During that time of joy, we did some warmups, a long triple check with the timer running up and down the hill with the exercises of Mike Tysons and Pole Smokers, and a baseball diamond workout (2 rounds) with the home plate timer of 10 burpees, 1st base WW2, 2nd Shoulder Taps, 3rd Flutters. Some of us ran around a lot while the walkers made their way but still it was only 1.3 miles total. If you want more, come to WTH tomorrow.

    7AM Convergence Monday at Forest Hill Park. See Wojo for more details and to help.

    I lacked inspiration for the title of this backblast, call it whatever you want.

  • is it white or clear when it came out

    cop

    rolled up to a fairly stacked up crew ready to kb

    Thang

    Do 3 sets each

    Curl x20
    Front shoulder raise x10
    Clean and press x5 each side
    Skull crusher laying downx15
    Bench x20

    Romanian deadlift x10
    Single leg deadlift x 5 each leg
    WW3 x10
    Forward lunge x5 each leg
    Reverse lunge x5 each leg

    Merkin pull thru x 5
    lawn mower x15 each side
    Upright row x15
    Thruster x10
    Halos x5 each way

    Squat x10
    V sit x5
    Merican hammer x15 double
    APDates 10

    COT

    names, numbers, el heisto brought us out

    pleasure gentlemen

  • Service Road Beatdown

    3 men posted on this muggy Monday morning. Yardsale took the Q and off we went.

    Mosey to Atlee entrance for some usual COP.

    Mosey to service road. Stop at each light pole to do an exercise. Keep going about halfway through then run back doing the same thing.

    Some GRAMS to close out. Numbers, names, Trail Mix took us out.

  • Pickleball at Dapile

    4 gentlemen showed up on this nice Saturday morning. 4 was the perfect number for some pickleball doubles action.

    The PAX moseyed to the tennis courts and started some pickleball. Rules were play to 5 points, winner team calls out the exercise for the loser team. Rotate partners, rinse and repeat until time.

    Mosey back to flag. Numbers, names, Opus took us out.

  • Blame Mr. Rogers

    Bright and early at the Deep AO. Due to a confusion, we had three Q’s, who vied for the honor of leading (confusion due to technical difficulties, a conspiracy led by Tater, or the Mandela Effect: unclear).

    Mr. Rogers, always eager, took the initiative and won the honor. He led us for a short mosey. Then:

    1. 11’s across the parking lot (merkins / jump squats)

    At this point, Mr. Rogers used his Q powers to hand off control to Spine (this was a mistake, as all the PAX will attest). Given this absolute power, he decided to run with it and took control of the remainder of the bootcamp.

    Spine’s workout began thus:

    1. Cocaine Bear Challenge: We bear crawled across the parking lot. And at each white line did 5 dry docks. At the middle barrier, we did 10 merkins. Then we finished the parking lot.
    2. DORA: 100 WWI’s, then 150 Squats
    3. “APD’s with Crabs” [new Spine invention]: We crab walked back across the parking lot. At each barrier with stones, we thrust in the air 5 times.
    4. Mary: 50 real APD’s, 20 cadence count Flutters, 20 cadence count Penguins.
    5. Indian Run Back to the Flag

    And there was much rejoicing.