Category: Richmond, VA

  • Almost a Mutiny

    15, yeah 15, men of purpose gathered on the shores of Lake Sultree for the latest edition of The Clinic Satan’s Hill. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to Marmaduke, sleeping soundly barely 150 yards away, the following quite likely happened:

    COP: Quick run up and down the hill, returning to the NM clubhouse. Circle up.

    SSHs – 30
    IWs – 10
    Dead Man Hang – AYG
    LBCs – 25
    Flutter Kicks – 20
    Reverse Crunches – 10
    Hand Release Merkins – 10
    Scorpion Kicks* – 10 (* Clearly, a Satan’s Hill favorite)

    Mosey Up the Hill for a Triple Check:

    1st Man: Run down the hill to the parking lot; Bernie Sanders up
    2nd Man: squats
    3rd Man: Flutter kicks

    Mosey down the Hill for a New Triple Check:

    1st Man: Bear crawl to the silver car
    2nd Man: hold 6 inches
    3rd Man: monkey humpers

    Traveling COP, bro-code:

    Mailbox on the right: 5 HRMs
    Mailbox on the left: 10 LBCs

    After 1st intersection, add 5 more HRMs for an over-road vehicle or pick-up truck. SUV means nothing.

    2nd Intersection: LBCs
    3rd Intersection: reverse crunches
    4th Intersection: SSHs

    Mosey back to the Clubhouse:

    Freddie Mercury and American Hammers until time.

    Numbers, names, Wilson took us out with a message about peace, love,…yadda, yadda, yadda (no really, he said,”Yadda, yadda, yadda”) and brotherhood.

    Announcements:

    Hump Day Happy Hour – The Answer, Wednesday, let’s call it 6:00 p.m. But, YHC’s time may be off. Be there, grab a beverage, and your friends will appear.

    Tuckahoe Takeover this week. Basically, someone who may not post at your AO very often will appear as the Q, but it won’t be Corned Beef.

    May 30, Convergence at Tredegar Iron Works. This will involve brotherhood, getting your butt kicked off the steps, and getting your butt kick on the big hill. Starts at 7. YHC thinks Gomer has the Q.

    June 4th – big day. Cancel your other plans and kid’s sporting events, recitals, graduations, etc. The Bridge, 7:00 a.m., Buckingham, VA for a convergence with Charlottesville (those dudes brew their own beer professionally). Stay for food after (and sign up so Vinny can get a rough headcount).

    Also, June 4th, give your blood starting at 10 a.m. Location is that church at the corner of Horsepen and Monument where YHCs nephew went to pre-school, but whose name YHC cannot remember even though YHC drives past it every day. YHC is getting older and takes statins. Pigskin has a sign up sheet.

    Breaking Bread – This is our volunteer event. YHC asks that you do this 1 time per year (F3 has 24 nights annually). Make dinner for 8-12 people, drop it off on Belt Blvd. at 5:30, and make some people in need very happy. Heck, learn a little about how happy this makes you (and your M and your kids and everyone you brag about this to). We need 2 people for June and 2 for August. You can do this. Drop YHC a line with any questions. Sign up on the Q sheet (it’s on the far right).

    NMS:

    Rockin’ good turnout today. 15 is exceptional. Way to go. As part of Tuckahoe Takeover this week, YHC switched to take Satan’s Hill at the last minute and broke a Cardinal rule of Q’ing: don’t Q somewhere unless you know the AO in advance. By “advance,” YHC’s newly created, super-selfish definition is 5:12 a.m. for a 5:30 start. This resulted in YHC casing the neighborhood pre-dawn to find beautiful properties and abundant construction (thanks to whoever left a port-a-potty conveniently in the road – super helpful). YHC found that:

    1. Parker runs to the AO,
    2. Men in New Market do, in fact, ride their Huffy’s to the AO,
    3. Southside Costco had a deal on white mailboxes and black lampposts,
    4. There is genuine concern about waking the neighbors (YHC thinks we escaped without disturbing the peace),
    5. PAX who skip in order to walk the dog will be noticed, and,
    6. It’s great to meet some fresh faces.

    Well done today, fellas.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • River Run Duo

    Two gentlemen with a newfound common bond, launched from BWES for today’s River Run. Not knowing who or how many would show up, YHC had a couple of different options planned. Since it was just two, neither of those options held true so we wandered through Tarrington. Route was something like this for around 4.5 miles.

    Route

    • Left on James River
    • Right on Riverton
    • Left on Welby
    • Right on Chatwell
    • Right on Henlow
    • Right on Wilcot
    • Right on Ashwell
    • Right on Powderham
    • Left on Twin Team
    • Right to the baseball fields, by the stadium to a right on James River
    • BTTVSF

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    Good catching up with Doozy today. Seems like all my social conversations always end up with baseball and today was no different. Hope to see your son on the field some time soon.

    Always good to get back to the old homestead. Glad the SOJ crew is keeping it rolling.

    See ya somewhere else this week.

    Splinter

  • Celestial Alignment

    A cool 10 broke double digits for one of the first Tuckahoe Takeover workouts of the week.

    After admiring the alignment of what appeared to be four planets from atop the hill, the clock chimed 530 and off we went for COP.

    Deadman Hangs, Scorpion Kicks, Hill Billies, Helicopters, Don Quixote got us warmed up.

    While on the blacktop sea, we did incremental 4 Corners:

    10 Copperhead Squats

    10 Copperhead Squats, 20 LBC

    10 Copperhead Squats, 20 LBC, 30 Flutter Kicks

    10 Copperhead Squats, 20 LBC, 30 Flutter Kicks, 40 Mountain Climbers

    Off to the field for a Triple Check – Dips, Bench Step Up, 10 Hanging Leg Lifts as the timer.

    Over to the walkway for a Pigskin Special: 11s with Bulgarian Squat Splits and Derkins. Lots of fun!

    Over to the grass for Jack Webb – 1 Merkin: 4 Arm Presses: 8 Arm Circles with 10 iterations.

    To the parking lot for Lindsays: Box Cutters and Carolina Dry Docks; Bear Crawl between arrows. We got about half way through and were disrupted by a teacher car.

    We finished the day off with some American Hammers.

    YHC took us out.

    Announcements:

    • Memorial Day Convergence at 7 am
    • June 4 – Donate blood or trek to the Bridge

  • Dialing It In or Phoning It In?

    Four PAX posted on a chilly May morning while the rest telecommuted. The thang: fire road to Belle Isle, around the west end of Belle Isle, across the suspension bridge, back across TPot to the south side, then back to the fire road. According to Turbo’s watch, 7.7 miles. Because of the recent rain, we minimized time on the trails. Coffee at ETs afterwards with LabRat.

    Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers!

  • Takeover OTB

    One mother rucker ready to launch Tuckahoe takeover week found no ruckers off the books, but one runner instead. After some quick debate the sack was left behind and the two moseyed about 5.2 miles in 45ish minutes.

  • 2 For Moms Day

    2 OTBers hit the streets of New market for an early morning Mothers Day! 3 Plus miles done!

    Happy Mothers Day to all the Ms out there, love on em today fellas, they deserve it!

    Duke

  • Seis de Mayo

    Cinco de Mayo has its merits, but Seis de Mayo has more history. It was a workout and a history lesson today.

    COP — Imperial Walkers, SSH, Copperhead Squats, butt kickers, dQ, flutterkicks, makhtar n’diayes, IJR

    On this Day in 1937, the Hindenberg blew up in a fiery crash.
    In honor,we did BLIMPS
    B– 5 burpees
    L — 10 lunges each leg
    I — 15 Imperial Walkers
    M — 20 merkins
    P — 25 plank jacks
    S — 30 squats

    In 1954, some dude in England broke the 4 minute mile
    In honor we did
    1 minute plank
    1 minute SSH
    1 minute LBCs
    1 minute merkins

    May 6, 1945 — Victory in Europe Day
    We celebrated by doing 45 of every exercise listed below in 4 sets of 10 and one set of 5
    WW2 situps, American Hammers, divebomber merkins

    Freud’s Bday 1856
    25 alabama prom dates
    25 monkey humpers
    25 pickle pounders

    George Clooney’s bday
    Oceans Elevens
    10 o brother hillbillies
    1 heartbeat flutterkick

    May 6 2022 only happened once and it started off with the right way. I heard this story recently about the famous rocker Warren Zevon. Zevon was dying of cancer in 2003 and made an appearance on the David Letterman show. Dave asked him if he had any different perspective on life based on the fact that his life was really short at that point. Zevon’s response was this “Enjoy every sandwich”. I don’t believe the quote was meant to be flip in any way, but as a guideline to life to remember to enjoy everything even the stuff that seems super mundane. Be present in the moment, gentlemen.

  • Circle Up

    One PAX launched early and stayed late for the latest edition of The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to Handshake’s whining about The Clinic, the following most definitely happened:

    COP: run 1/2 mile, SSHs (x94), ab exercises (20 of the following: WWIIs, asphalt angels, rosalitas, 4-count flutter kicks) and 14 reverse crunches.

    Four corners: 3 rounds, 10 merkins, 20 WWIIs, 30 squats, 40 SSH (4 count)

    mosey to the DHL building: 6 driveway lamps, do 20 of an ab exercise (WWII, hello dolly, flutters, reverse crunches), then run the loop…after 4 rounds, interrupted by security approaching, so a quick mosey to…

    Lake Florida: 2 loops with the following stations:

    WWIIs, dips, derkins, squats, rosalitas, flutters – 20 per stop.

    mosey BTTVSF.

    number, name, mumble to self.

    NMS: Long week, longer trip. Spent the time thinking about my aunt and the honest, selfless devotion she made to setting an example for others. Her words at her birthday party last December: ”I pray each morning to my God that I can do what’s right and set a humble example.”

  • A Dirty Dozen

    3rd F (Faith)

    Thank you Probation for taking us out in the COT

    2nd F (Fellowship)

    • 2nd Tuesday 2nd F lunch in west end at Joey’s Hotdog on 5/10.
    • Free to Bleed 6/4. Sign up for time at Red Cross. Look up F3
    • Tuckahoe Take Over next week. Support the pax as they Q across the region
    • 2nd year of Currahee next Friday. We are asking the pax of RAMM to come join us for some running out this way.

    1st F (Fitness)

    The Routes
    4 miles
    Right out of Godwin onto Pump.
    Right onto Ridgefield
    Left onto Cox rd
    Left onto Brookmont Dr
    Right onto Crowncrest Dr
    Right onto Pump
    Left onto John Rolfe Pkwy
    Left onto Glen Eagles
    Left onto Ridgefield Pkwy
    Righ onto Pump back to AO.

    5.5 mile
    Right out of Godwin onto Pump.
    Right onto Ridgefield
    Left onto Cox rd
    Left onto Brookmont Dr
    Right onto Crowncrest Dr
    Right onto Pump
    Left onto Church rd
    Left onto Copperas Ln
    Left onto Ridgefield Pkwy
    Righ onto Pump back to AO.

    NMS:

    Its great to see the numbers of pax continue to grow at Currahee. It allows for various speeds and efforts. The 12 today ranged from 2 mile walk to 5.6 mile run with a few distances between.

    As always.. if you have read this far, take the next 5 mins to text someone you haven’t heard from in a while.. it may be just what that person needed.

    Thank you for letting me lead the route

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Two More Saved Souls Welcomed into SOJ Heaven

    Leaving the darkness of sloth in the dust, ten mighty warriors embraced the misty gloom of Rockwood Park to join the heavenly song of triumph over the flesh. With two awesome FNG’s swelling the ranks, DTH provided a nice tour-de-AO with a bit of F3 theology thrown in the mix. 

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA:

    • Moseycises around parking lot and circle up at the Basketball Court
    • F3 Welcome, Review of the Core Principles, and Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps top to bottom

    COP #1:

    • Mosey out to the liter loop road and line up for a Bataan Death March – Indigenous People Style, except PAX lunge while last Burpees x5 before running to front, continued until completed by all 10 PAX

    COP #2:

    • Mosey to Large Parking lot & circle up for a Pusherama Drill
    • Q calls type of Merkin, PAX complete x5 reps on Q’s call of Down/Up 
    • Werkins, Ranger, Chuck Norris, Dive-bomber, Staggered (ea side), & Carolina Dry-docks

    COP #3:

    • Mosey loop around lot to Big Center lot
    • 50’s:  Q calls an exercise, 1st PAX to complete x50 reps calls out, group runs across lot to other side where new exercise is called and x50 reps completed.
    • Flutter Kicks (2-ct), Incline merkins, American Hammers (2-ct), Monkey Humpers, and one other…

    COP #4:

    • Continue Mosey around the outer loop
    • Detour into small lot for a Bearmuda Triangle – PAX bearcrawl between three corners, completing x20 LBC’s at each corner

    COP #5:

    • Mosey back out along the outer loop then detour in another small lot to circle up for Guantanamo – PAX on their six holding legs 6”, then each man jumps up in turn to Lift legs up and/or slap them down. Two rounds completed.

    COP #6:

    • Continue Mosey around outer loop and Detour in third small lot for a Burpee&Groiner Escalator – increase in burpees from 1-5, while also increasing Groiners per burpee (so by the end ot was 5 burpees each with 5 Groiners)

    COP #7:

    • Mosey around to parking lot at Tennis Courts, and Broad Jump from bottom to top, stopping every 3rd parking line to complete x10 2-ct Mtn Climbers

    Mosey BTTF:

    • SNUFF hooked the PAX up with some deep breathing mindfulness

    COT:

    • Counterama # 10
    • WELCOME FNG’s!
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  This Rock&Roll AO is on FIRE with all the FNG’s coming out – big kudos to Florence igniting the AO. Was really enjoyable introducing F3 to Heartburn (works in endoscopy) and Van Damme (enjoys Muay Thai). These guys brought some AWESOME energy to the PAX this morning and look forward to seeing them back out more! Also super encouraging to see House Party, Floppy Disc, Rev and Ponch diving into the F3 deep end with regular posts – keep it up fellas!!! We are stronger together, and this AO has so much more growth to come! It was a pleasure to lead and serve you guys. SYITG, DTG