Category: Richmond, VA

  • We did stuff

    YHC almost forgot to post this BB but was reminded as I have to post today’s. To be honest they are kind of blurring together.

    COP- 20 each SSH, LBC; 10 Each DQ’s, Jazzercise, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Tic/Toc’s, Coper head squat, Dead man hang, Merkins, Flutters, Dollies.  

    The thang:

    Mini Dora- 50 merkins, 100 LBC’s, 150 Coupon squats

    Full dora- 100 Curls, 200 Triceps, 300 Rock copter.

    Runner up the hill while others perform called exercise

    Prayer Requests: To our kids returning to school.

    YHC took us out in prayer.

    Make Today Awesome!  

  • Birthdays on Mondays are the worst!

    15 strong who were trying to get their week started off on the right foot, converged at Tuckahoe E.S. for a rare Kubota Hoedown Q. According to the lap swimmers at Kanawha Recreation Association, this is probably what happened.

    Mosey to the front of the school for:

    COP:

    DQ’s x 10, Helicopters x 10, Dead Man Hang x 10, SSH’s x 45

    Enough of that, let’s mosey.

    Colt 45’s on the go (Bro-Code style):

    Merkins and Flutter Kicks

    40/5, 35/10, 30/15, 25/20, 20/25, 15/30, 10/35, 5/40

    Finish up at the KRA parking lot

    Line up for curb crawls/lunges 1-5 Carolina Dry Docks at each end

    Mosey to the KRA field and partner up for:

    Wheel Barrow the length of the field, switching up as necessary

    10 Booyah Merkins with partner

    2 x 20 PLT’s each partner

    Mosey back to KRA parking lot and complete 11’s on the go back to the flag. Squats and WW2 Sit-ups.

    20 Alabama Prom Dates to finish us off.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements and YHC took us out!

    Announcements: See Slack 🙂

    NMS:

    First of all, welcome to FNG – Buttermaker! He is an assistant football and baseball coach at Freeman. He loves all things military and goes to church with Bodo’s and half of the other pax in Tuckahoe. Handshake was disappointed YHC hasn’t seen Bad New Bears yet.

    YHC took us out and prayed for our brother that most of us know, Two Can, who is in jail and awaiting trial. Let us not judge, but let us pray and put things like this into God’s hands.

    Finally, thank you for coming out to celebrate YHC’s 45th birthday beatdown. It’s brothers like you and the pax not there that help keep YHC going even when the physical pain and the mental drain get worse.

    Enjoy your week, men and SYITG!

    Kubota

  • Offensive Linemans Nightmare

    For an lineman, a seymour Q is bad news. Using powers of persuasion we convinced Wilson to stay when he saw Seymore was the Q. Warmup with SSH, DQX, ImpWalkers, Merkins, Cherry pickers. It took wilson time to recover from the shock that he was going to have to run more than 10 yds, so we all did an extra 5 cherry pickers to help him through his microtrauma. Ran to the bridge- on the outs did 10 merkins at every light pole, on the back 20 LBCs. Ran behind the toll booth and did 3 sets of Butkuses on the curb 45s intervals followed by lineman handball squats on the curb.
    Had further group counseling with wilson as to the origins of his manopause. Group therapy is good. I am sure Recall had a lot of counseling to do on the ride home with wilson.
    Ran up to the field and did a welcome to the Big10 UCLA/USC 1&10- sprint 10yrds then 10 merkins, one burpee, jog back, then out to 20 and rinse and repeat with increasing intervals until the end of the field. Returned to flag

  • A Run around Kroger

    8 Davillians including a FNG and four legged friend got after it for some running and rucking on Thursday morning

    Route for the running including go a reverse way than normal over to Cool Spring West then running the Rutland loop reverse. Shortly after passing Bulkhead’s house we took the cut through next to the pond to get over to the Bojangles loop. Crossed over Atlee Station and ran the Kroger loop reversed before heading back to the clubhouse. Distance depending on detours by the PAX was between 4 to 4.25 miles

    Ruckers did they thing with a little later start than normal getting in 3+

    Welcome Cliffhanger who is a contractor friend of Corned Beef’s who shared he enjoys hiking with his kids

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Wish We Had Known

    In hindsight, running prior to Doozy’s cardiovascular themed workout may have been a bad idea. But we all survived! Ran on some of the park’s trails, past the lake, then back to the flag. It was great catching up with Florence and HP.

  • The Other Side of the Street

    The geese stayed on the field and were too chicken to cross the road because of the following beatdown at Blackwell:

    COP: SSHs, IWs, DQs, LBCs, CDDs, Helicopters IC

    Mosey to the side of the school for a Triple Check. People’s Chair and American Hammers. The timer runs to the playground, up the stairs, and down one of the slides. The directions included an implicit “Weeeeeee!” or “Woooooo!” as PAX went down the slide.

    At each of five sets of picnic tables: 4 Box Jump Burpees, 20 Dips, 10 Derkins. When finished at one picnic table, find an open picnic table and repeato.

    Dora with 100 Freddie Mercurys, 200 LBCs, 300 Squats

    Double Merkin Ring of Fire. Double Heels to Heaven Ring of Fire.

    COT

    Announcements: BRR, Labor Day Convergence, RVA 8 Year Anniversary, Sit and Sip.

    Prayers: YHC’s neighbor, families of bikers and drivers from last weekend’s accident, the men of THP.

    NMS: Tclaps for the PAX who ran from THP to the AO and back again. Their timing was a bit off, though, as they arrived late for the COP. They’ll nail it next week. The other PAX took a lap around the school to check if others had mistakenly posted to the field. Nope, just geese. The runners arrived with two FNGs just as the non-runners completed the lap.

    Welcome to FNGs Kindergarten Cop and No Regerts. Their first concerts were Judas Priest and Reba McEntire. Strong work today!

    Gomer was upset YHC couldn’t figure out the timer on the iPhone camera. If it doesn’t have a CLI with Vim bindings, YHC is lost. Hitchhiker saved the day. YHC still managed to make it look like a photo-bombed selfie, much to Joey Chestnut’s frustration.

    Coffeteria at Cafe Zata afterwards. They are up to 1 cook from 0 last week. The coffee, food, and patio are F3 approved. The parking situation needs some help. THP is 0.7 mi away – too far? It is potentially a location to EH new PAX members.

    The PAX are looking forward to getting Shakedown back out there after he recovers.

  • Doozy lied to me

    5 regulars joined together for what was to be a beatdown with minimal running, according to the walkers this is what actually happened

    Mosey to the very back parking lot for COP

    DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Dead Man Hangs, Squats

    YHC brought 12 frisbees and a bucket, each frisbee and the bucket gets a parking space

    You choose what space you start on, do 10 of the exercise that is written on the tape run to the far sign (150 +/- yards) Repeto until you’ve done all the exercises on the frisbees and the burpee bucket.

    Stay in this parking lot

    YHC puts 8 of the frisbees in a star pattern around the lot with the Burpee bucket in the middle. Hand out the 4 remaining frisbees (YHC does not get one). The frisbee you carry has an exercise on it, you can trade out that frisbee if you don’t want to do the exercise that your at. Once you do 10 of the exercise that you decide on run back to the middle and do 3 burpees (you can not trade a frisbee for the burpee bucket)

    Mosey around the back to the steps

    5 PAX split into a triple check 2 PAX = 1 partner with YHC being 1 partner

    Partner 1 run down steps touch the sign back up opposite side steps, Partner 2 is doing Dips, Partner 3 is doing balls to the wall

    Mosey BTTF

    Numbers / Names Florence took us out

    NMS:

    YHC may or may not have said the running was going to be kept to a minimum today but plans had to be changed because the gates where closed when YHC arrived and a proper set up couldn’t be done ahead of time. Whenever YHC has to plan on the fly running will be had, sorry not sorry. ?‍♂️?

  • Crazy 8

    Upcoming Events.

    • RVA 8 year anniversary. Talks have started on a Convergence at the orginal AO.
    • Sit and Sip
    • BRR teams still needing drivers
    • 2nd Tuesday 2nd F lunches

    The Thang.

    Route was The Crazy 8.

    5.25 miles with 300ft elevation gain. An opportunity to cut a corner for the 4 milers and do just the top part of loop for 2 miler walkers.

    Heck of a route with Glenn Eagles hill at mile 3 to 4. It’s a .8 mile climb. Ouch.

    All got a little better. No one left behind.

    V/r

    Gypsy

  • Ready for some football?

    A lucky 13 All Pros worked hard this morning to get ready for the season. With my first bootcamp Q at Gridiron, we stayed on the football fields and did the following:

    Warmups in the center of the field of SSH, DQ and Imperial Walkers. White Deer complained it was very cookie cutter so…

    Gathered in one end zone and worked our way to the other to score a TD. Fought through 10 burpees at the 10yd line, 20 Merkins at the 20yd, 30 two count Hammers and the 30, 40 LBCs at 40yd and 50 Smurf Jacks at the 50 then 40 LBCs at the 40, etc until you scored.

    Unfortunately, I told them the game was now tied so we had to do it again (groans).

    After the repeat, we did a Quarter Pounder. Ran to 25 yd, 25 Merkins, Bernie Sanders back to goal line, then run to 50, 50 two count mountain climbers and Bernie back, run to 75, 75 plank shoulder taps, Bernie back, run to goal line, 100 SSHs, Bernie back.

    We then got lazy and did a Lazy Dora: 100 merkins (one did 10 while the other planked then rotate), 200 LBCs (one did 20 LBCs, partner kept legs 6 inches from ground and rotated), 300 Squats (one did 30, other did standing peoples chair).

    Went to a triple check of dips, step ups and running the width of the field and back.

    Then with some inspiration from Polly, we went to the lower field and did the 5 man football sled. With White Deer and Blue Moon standing and motivating us on the sled, the group rotated pushing it ~10 yards. We did this 3-4 times each. Followed that with some football drills of up-downs on my call while running in place and then some mountain climbers with me calling “left’ or “right” and the pax rolling in that direction and then back to climbers.

    Went back to the start and did some Freddie Mercury’s, Mercury Freddie’s and Flutter Kicks to finish.

    Announcements: Convergence 9/5 at Dogpile 7AM. 8 year Birthday for F3 RVA coming in September.

    Prayers and then ended with a Coach Whitesnake speech ending on 1-2-3 “Together!”

    The team is ready for the next challenge.

  • Better Late than Never

    Under the better late than never category, we did kettle bells 2 weeks ago.   It had everyone complaining.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • DQ
      • IW
      • Arm circles
      • Helicopters
      • Merkins
      • LBC
    • Deck of death – full deck of cards, each suit is an exercise of 12 reps, work through the deck
      • 156 overhead pulls
      • 156 curls
      • 156 high pulls
      • 156 sit ‘n presses
      • 24 burpees (jokers)
    • Run the bus loop 2x
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    YHC has been on vacation since the workout.  This prepared his body for a week on the lake.  Everyone else was sore.  You’re welcome!

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila