Category: Richmond, VA

  • I just can’t get enough

    Polly was in a weird mood and sang to me the entire 3 1/2 miles:

    We run together
    We’re running down the street
    And I just can’t get enough
    And I just can’t get enough
    Every time I think of Brunch Club
    I know we have to run
    And I just can’t get enough
    And I just can’t get enough

    Must have been from the Depeche Mode cover band he saw Friday night. It also prepared us for Attilla at Gridiron:

    So we’re different colours and we’re different creeds
    And different people have different needs
    It’s obvious Attilla hates us, though we’ve done nothing wrong
    Even though he knows us, what could we have done?

  • A Little Red @$$

    A lucky 7 descended upon the Gridiron, sans of any plane tickets to Honduras or dreams of frozen triangles.  With a little red @$$ on the Q, here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • Parking lot tracers
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • Suzanne Somers
      • Merkins
      • LBC
    • Mosey to the SHMS football pasture for a one-man Dora – each PAX member divides the exercises into 5 increments, with a 100 yard run between each set
      • 100 HRM
      • 200 squats
      • 300 LBC
    • Mosey to the entry road for a curb crawl – 1 to 6 down to 1
    • Mosey to the Pavilion for a 3x check
      • Run
      • Step-ups
      • H2H
    • Mosey to the football field for a jack Webb
    • 2 laps around the football field
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Great work from the PAX today.  T-claps to Polly and Whitesnake on their pre-run.  YHC started with a little red @$$ and the high rep, one-man Dora.  Many thanks to the PAX for persevering. 

    Prayers for those that have recently lost loved one.  Prayers for Fudd, Pigskin and Gomer on their trip. 

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Flex Friday

    Warm up

    3 Rounds of Jerkins, curls with coupons, overhead press, squats, people’s chair, and only 5 burpees!

    8 minutes of Mary

  • Bottle in a Brown Bag at 5:30

    One PAX scraped out of The Fart Sack and launched in F3RVA’s earliest, least Richmond-based, Downrange run. Conditions remained 70 and sunny. According to the man walking – and appearing quite sober and well dressed – with a bottle in a brown bag, the following quite possibly happened:

    Broward route. Out 2.5. Back 2.5. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

    Number, name, YHC took himself out.

    NMS: really, at 5:20? Wow. Would love to know the circumstances. Dude was dressed nicely, in an apartment and condo saturated area with no retail…and carrying a brown bag with a bottle at 5:20. Must have been a really good night or an exceptionally terrible night. Let’s hope it ended safely.

    Annoucements: UpChuck is Qing Mary tomorrow on the CSAUP.

  • Seymore’s First Currahee

    11, no 12  , 13?   No actually 12 Tall Timbers posted to currahee for a unseasonable morning run. 

    4+ Left on Pump, L Burnside, R Summerwood, L Glen Eagles, cut across gas station to Pump,R Three Chopt, R JRP, L Pump.

    5+ add a loop through Short Pump Park; extra credit for hitting Broad Street

    Brokedick brigade; Run around the school, roll on the ground doing merkins and more. Gomer ran 2.5. 10 min warmup; 3 on , 1 off x5; cooldown.

     

    Announcements

    • Jan 21 frozen triangle
    • May 6 Currahee CSAUP, Ruck + Bootcamp + Ragnar relay. Do some or all for a prize. PAX grousing that its too challenging / ambitious – Best indicator its on the right track.

    YHC took us out. Prayers for Corned Beef, his mom and family. Prayers for Honduras mission team. Prayers for Pinto in Zermatt for a good time and no permanent damage – there is always something going on there.

    NMS – Good crew today; Glad to have Seymore out – since this is the closest AO to his house, we are hoping to see him more.

    Coffeeteria topics ranged. You had to be there for the entertaining bits. VMI cannot be a prison because it has its own passport system and roommate respect protocols. Comment of the day. If the (adult boomeranging) children come home, they can sleep on the couch like everyone else who is crashing overnight.

  • Tobit’s watch was talking some serious s**t.

    6 HIMs showed up at Twin Team for a little kettle bell style beat down from YHC. Here’s what went down.

    Warm-a-rama

    • Side straddle hops
    • Helicopters
    • Arm circles forward and backward
    • Don Q’s.

    The Thang: Set 1, EMOM style workout

    • Rows
    • American Style Kettle Bells swings. No communism lovers in this circle.
    • Shoulder Press
    • Upright Rows
    • Goblet Squats
    • Squat Cleans

    The Thang: Set 2, Dora

    • 100 alternating merkins crossing over on your kettle bell
    • 200 heels to heaven pushing the kb to the sky
    • 300 goblet squats
    • Partner runs to the second driveway

    Back the Flag a bit early for a ring of Fire, call out an exercise and the group does 20 of that exercise. Chaplain took us out in prayer.

    YHC has really enjoyed the kettlebell style workouts. Hopefully, we get some more folks out to join. Thanks to the men who joined me today. Florence has been nice enough to bring coffee the past two weeks; an added bonus to have a cup and catch up on life with great people for 15-20 minutes after the workout is finished. Thank you!

    Announcements:

    • Frozen Triangle – Tomorrow.
    • SOJ lunch at Chicken Fiesta, Jan. 26
    • Other announcements, check Slack

  • The Walls Come Tumbling Down

    We’re going to begin this morning by turning in our bibles to Joshua 6:1-27….the Old Testament story about the walls of Jericho. Most are familiar with the story, if not, it’s a quick and good read. There’s some legit OT stuff in there about war and God’s power, and marching.

    Traditionally, if it is all logistically possible, on VCU Gamedays, I try to enact my own walls of Jericho situation by jogging around the arean in which the Rams will be playing later that day. Road games in general are hard to win, so I’m not always successful but it has led to some cool runs over the years including, but not limited to…

    That arena in Maui you watch the games from during Thanksgiving. Atlantis. Over the Brooklyn Bridge and back to Brooklyn on the Manhattan Bridge. St. Lake City (where the Utah Jazz play). Portland on the Portland River (where the Blazers play). Key Biscayne in Miami. Alamodome in San Antonio in 2011 on the run to the Final Four.

    Anyway, in full Jericho tradition the PAX ran 22:30 towards the Robins Center to get ready for the Richmond Area Honda Dealers Capital City Classic and then 22:30 back to Munford. Splinter and YHC were actually able to make it around the Robins Center and circle it. No trumpets were blown and no walls came down, but we SpiderNation should know we were there.

    Have a good weekend, fellas.

  • Repeating is not a bad Q strategy

    I came on the relatively warm confines of MGHS (AKA the bomb shelter) to find the temperatures approaching a non-sunny 50 degrees, not bad for 1/19. 5 others joined me in a KB workout. I decided due to limited brain capacity to replicate the coupon workout I led yesterday but with kettlebells. I made a couple modifications.

    COP: DQs, DMH, HRMs, FMs and arm circles. I don’t vary the COPs very much. The FMs did drive a couple of backblasts. Mosey to bus loop.

    Triple check (we had 6 – awesome): Coupon bench presses, coupon flutters (switched to LBCs) and run around the loop. Mosey to run parallel to Pump.

    Elevens with sit and presses and merkins. Mosey back to bus loop.

    Four corners with 10 burpees, 20 2 count mountain climbers, 30 squats and 40 curls for the of age girls. Mosey to home base.

    Rifle carry across parking lot, run back, bear crawl back for coupon, rifle carry again.

    Ended workout with American hammers and DQs.

    Prayers for Attila’s family, Offshore’s friend, Corned Beef’s mom and anyone on the mend physically or mentally. There is the Frozen Triangle this Saturday where there are details a plenty on Slack. Also, Crucible is going to start 10K training on 2/11. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to lead.

    Fireman Ed

  • Final Pre-Blast for the Frozen Triangle

    All of the morning announcements, slack comments, and mumble chatter about the latest RVA homegrown CSAUP will finally come to an end after Friday. The only thing you’ll hear about the Frozen Triangle Part Deux after that is mumble chatter about how much fun you missed out on if you weren’t there. We’ve gotten some hard commits, soft commits, offers to help and we appreciate all of the offers and updates on participation. A few final notes for everyone:

    • We start at 6:00 am at Dogpile – that’s the only thing about the day that will be typical
    • Bring a flag if you’ve got one – we’ll carry them between AO’s
    • See Gumbo’s preblast for the full estimated schedule Schedule
    • We have a few volunteers that will transport provisions between AOs, if you want to tag along and drive between AOs there will be options.
    • We will have water, Gatorade, and refueling food at each AO.
    • We plan to finish around 9:00 am and will hang out as long as anyone wants to be there
    • Chairs and dry clothes are recommended for the 2nd F
    • We will have a few adult beverages for the finish but if you want more or something specific – BYOB
    • Running Routes between AOs are below

    This is not an all or nothing thing – there are plenty of people around if you want to drop a car at a location to leave early or meet us later, feel free to coordinate something.

    Dogpile to Punisher

    Punisher to Mary

    Mary to Dogpile

  • The Legend of Crab Mountain

    10 strong for another round of fitness, fellowship, and flagellation that we call The FORGE. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    Massacre Start – Plank walk on the upper hill, switch to decline plank walk for the latter portion.

    Warmarama: SSH’s, Helicopters, Mummy Kicks, Hillbillies, Alabama Prom Dates, LBC’s.

    Mosey to the base of Mt. Chaplain for Exercise Two:

    11’s – run up hill, crabwalk down. Crab cakes and Hand Release Merkins.

    Exercise Two: Broke Back Railing indigenous people’s run. Man in the back does 10 jump squats. PAX worked their way down the sidewalk going under each section of the rail.

    Exercise Three: Ab run with stops at each light for 25 count exercises. PAX choice! Mountain Climbers, WWII sit-ups, Starfishes, Rosalita Dips, Freddy Mercury’s, Flutter Kicks, Heels to Heaven, Side LBC’s, Elbow Plank (one minute).

    On the way back to the flag: Bernie Sanders, Squatting Side Shuffle (x 2), high knees, butt kicks between light poles.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests

    DTH took us out

    Final thoughts: Strong work by all this morning! Enjoyed meeting Flywheel and seeing Swamp Donkey back out. Lots of great mumble chatter throughout. Hope to see everyone on Saturday for the Frozen Triangle!