Category: Richmond, VA

  • No longer a virgin

    13 men came out for the 2nd Hoedown of the year and YHC’s first Q. Here’s what went down.

    COP: Head up to the blacktop. Dead man hang, lean left/right, 15 SSH, jog, karaoke, and back pedal to fence and back. We would’ve skipped too, but that was shot down due to the wetness of the blacktop.

    Partner up for a mini dora: 50 burpees, 100 double count shoulder taps, 150 double count mountain climbers. Partner bear crawls to fence and back.

    Head down to the wall and wall sit for 30 seconds with the Pax counting to 30. 10 donkey kicks. 20 SSH. Repeat 5 times.

    Indian run 6 laps around the carpool loop. They were the Tuckahoe Indians when YHC went to school there. No idea if they still are or not.

    Circle up and plank for 60 seconds with each member of the Pax counting out then 10 squats. Repeat 3 times. May need to work on counting going forward.

    Head back up to blacktop for four corners. 10 merkins, 20 LBC’s, 30 monkey humpers, 40 squat jumps. Repeat and add 10 for each.

    Head down to parking lot and partner up. 1 partner bear crawls up to fence and crawl bears back down. Other partner does WWII’s.

    Circled up and stretched. Ended with 5 burpees.

    Numberama and Namerama. Pretty sure there were two announcements, but YHC can’t remember what they were. Will work on this next time.

    *Thanks to everyone who showed up and encouraged me to sign up for my VQ. Special shoutout to offshore who invited back in the summer and introduced me to F3. I’ve enjoyed it.

  • Gridiron-2023

    Was the first workout at Gridiron in 2023 so we had a bit of a 20-23 theme.

    Chest- Burpee march for 100 yards with 20 burpees, then turned around for 23 burpees. Then a Polar-Bear march (two paces and a burpee until 20 burpees).

    Abs- 20 Crunchy, followed by 23 WWIIs, 20 WW Is followed by 23 Reverse Crunches, 20 Freddy Mercuries, followed by 23 Mercury Freddie’s, 20 V-up Roll ups, followed by 23 side crunches, 20 Heels to Heaven followed by 23 side crunches other side. Finished with 23 American Hammers

    Legs- 20 Heel raises toes out then jog to the other side of 1/2 field for 23 heel raises toes in; 20 squats, jog to the other side for 23 squats; 20 lunges, jog to the other side for 23 lunges.

    Shoulders- 20 Carolina Dry Docks; Jack Web (1 Merkin:4 Air Press)

    Arms- 20 Dips while we did sets of Pull-ups to total 23.

    Before we left, had 20 burpees on Burpee Hill. Then went back to circle to finish off with good stretching and balancing exercises…and 50 Ukrainian Hammers (because we were tired of 20 and 23 counts)

  • PRE-BLAST: Frozen Triangle January 21

    If you have been posting or reading Slack you have been hearing about an upcoming CSAUP – The Frozen Triangle. It is 2 weeks away, so below are some more details, and we are looking for HCs (and soft commits – if you must) to help us plan provisions. Please add to the HC count on Slack if you are in. Give a thumbs up or something else if you are a soft commit.

    Many folks have reached out to Rosie and me to let us know they want to help. Thank you. We will be touching base with you over the next week to divvy up responsibilities. If anyone else wants to help, let us know. Help can include chipping in for provisions, bringing provisions, bringing coolers, setting up/cleaning up at one of the AOs, etc. Many hands makes light work – and more fun for the hands doing the work.

    GOAL: As always, push ourselves, but don’t hurt ourselves and have a damn good time doing it and enjoying some fellowship.

    Rough Details:

    • Starting time and location: 6:00 a.m. at Dogpile parking lot
    • 6:00 – 6:20’ish: Bootcamp at Dogpile
    • 6:20’ish: depart Dogpile for Punisher (3.3 mile trek) – travel on foot, by bike or however you want.
    • 7:00’ish – 7:20’ish: Bootcampt at Punisher
    • 7:20’ish: depart Punisher for 45MOM (2.9 mile trek)
    • 8:00’ish – 8:20’ish: Bootcamp at 45MOM
    • 8:20’ish: depart 45MOM for Dogile (2.5 miles) to complete the triangle
    • 9:00’ish: arrive Dogpile and let the fellowship ensue. Bring lawn chairs and dry clothes and hang out for a while. Hot dogs will be on the grill and beers will be in the cooler.

    Remember – this is not an All or None – participate in it all or participate in whatever piece or pieces that you can. See you on January 21.

    No More Gumbo For you AND Everything is Coming up Roses….OUT

  • Just another OTB with a little FW Overshare Feel to it

    3 Walkers and 5 runners this morning. It was brisk. Pace and distances are in question, depending on the watch you consult, but one thing that is not in question is that miles were slayed, fellowship was had, and it was a great start to the day.

    YHC is thankful for Rosetta deciding to kick off the new year by posting and bringing all sorts of fun stories. Nothing that would probably satisfy the FW crowd, but for OTB and a Sunday at SOJ – good stuff! Thanks, Rosetta.

  • Late start, but new beginning

    YHC came in hot. We started from Early Birds Biscuit Co. and ran around the park. The run over was great. The run back was straight from Dogpile to the EB.

    Thanks Bodos for waiting for me!

  • Swirly-esque 8 Years

    16 gloom warriors showed up at the AO to see what Swirly had in mind to celebrate 8 years of F3. Due to Swirly coming down with Covid, Swirly made a call to the bullpen and YHC took the Q. According to the deer at the edge of the woods that watched the entire workout, this might be what transpired:

    Mosey to the first circle for the following: Invisible Jumpropes, DQs, Merkins and LBCs.

    Mosey to the poles beside the road. Hold six inches while the first PAX perform Heels to Heaven Native American style until all poles were used. Others exercises performed included Freddie Mercury’s and LBCs.

    Mosey to Amphitherater for Self Destruction. 1st step=1 vup, 1 SSH and 1 merkin. 2nd step increase number of reps to 2 and so forth all the way to the top of amphitheater.

    Mosey to Rusty Cage and perform 1 pullup, run to fire hydrant for 1 burpee. (Say hello to the deer) Repeat increasing the number of reps of each exercise. YHC got to 8 reps and audibled to get to some more of Swirly’s favorites.

    Mosey back to first circle to Merkin Ring of Fire x 3.

    Burpee Ring of Fire.

    Mosey back to Shovel Flag (Virtual)

    Announcments – Frozen Triangle 1-21. Godspeed to Gomer, Fudd and Pigskin? traveling to Honduras for medical mission the same weekend as CSAUP. Prayer requests for family in the community.

    Circle K

  • What Lies Behind The Nature Center?

    5 of us ran around the confines of Rockwood Park before Mudslide’s VQ. Chaplain showed up late but eventually found the rest of us. YHC took us down a new trail that starts behind the Nature Center building then cuts through the middle of the Trail Loop. Took a left when we connected to the main Trail Loop then circled BTTF and ran a couple more laps around the parking lot. Big numbers for Morning Wood today!

  • If you’re in the mood for an early run on Saturday’s, I have just the place for you. Richmond’s new hot club is…

    BRUNCH!

    Club promoter Gay Liotta is back, and this time he’s… gone… crazy. This place has everything. Full moons, key fobs, pretending your car is secure, and the debut of DJ Whitespace.

    Located in the clogged heart of the Broad Street. This gang ridden coffee spot was the ceremony spot for Pigskins 1982 wedding. This place has everything. Peeps, ted talks, someone complaining about his shoes, Kain road, Kane from WWE and Senator Kaine, all holding hands. And be sure to hit the dance floor and do a jig with COVID’s hottest hyped up Polly Pocket dancers.

    Pax: Wait. What’s that?

    It’s that thing when Polly runs into Starbucks to get a shot of expresso to help his run.  And before you get to Grid Iron for some white lines, you can party with a broken almost pregnant Ukrainian Lighthouse.  And before you ask, it’s that thing of when Lighthouse is almost late and does not have a light.

    After getting crazy high on cocaine at Grid Iron, Brunch Club travels back down Pouncey Track to see and hear the other Pax play with their horns, do some Frogger, hear more hit tunes from Whitespace and prove the answer to the Gridiron pax question “You’re running back to Starbucks?!?” is “Yes!” unless you jumped in a car filled with Johnson’s.

  • Finally….Mudslide does a Q!!

    In the back of my mind….I knew the day would come to get out there, knock a Q out and now that I have one under my belt, I want to do more. Here’s the breakdown of today and if you missed it and wanted to come(don’t worry, another opportunity will happen soon).

    Started out with the warm-up: 20 SSH, 10 Don Quixotes, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, Cherry Pickers, then to the ground for Merkins, LBCs, and ending with some Alabama Prom Dates. A little mosey over to one of the many lots and it was truly time to get rolling.

    First part: 11s(a combination of Groiners and WW2s(10-1, 9-2, etc)

    A little rest then over to the area near the fields for a triple check: runs up the stairs or side hills with tricep dips and scrunchy frogs as the missing parts.

    A short pause: then over to the field for a Loreine(40s). Monkey Humpers with plank jacks(30-10, 20-20, 10-30)

    A short mosey, then onto a Dora(in this case Mega Dora) 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 supermans, 400 toe taps(now what ended up happening is the supermans were cut to 250 cause they will work not only your back but the core and areas you aren’t used to using)

    A mosey, then some walking lunges and finally coming to the end with a little Burpee madness(regular, Leonidas(2 merkins) 3 merkins, bodybuilders and bodybuilders/lieutenant dan combo. A few of us did some side shuffles down each of the lot, a little mosey back then the hour was up. Scary part is I know harder ones that you will see one day

    A few announcements: Welcome aboard to Purple Rain(courtesy of Heist). Poor guy will be feeling this later and tomorrow. Highlights from last night’s meetings over at Diamond Billards, Posh and Shank getting ready for the first Bermuda Triangle on Tuesday(I will be there). Frozen Triangle coming up 1/21/23 help in any way possible(I am sure I can come up with a good 15-20 minute workout). YHC led us out in a short prayer, a few of us joined up at Starbucks. Enjoy your day, rest up I will see everyone soon

  • Coordinate Your Dress Code

    Eleven runner/walkers of the gloom admired the bring moon, cooler conditions, and great road conversation.

    4s head north on Commonwealth. 5s/6s head east on Grove and north on Lafayette. Everyone turns left on Fitzhugh, left on Staples Mill, right on Monument, left on Willow Lawn Dr, right on Patterson.

    4s/5s turn left on Westview and 6s turn left on Maple. Everyone comes home on Grove.

    Upchuck took us out.

    It turns out after further inspection at the end of the run, five of us were wearing the BRR shirt. Coincidence?