Category: Richmond, VA

  • Spandex Nation

    9 headbangers came to Circus Magazine’s inaugural kettlebell workout. According to the groupies, the setlist went something like this:

    Animal, Def Leppard: warmups of SSH, Arm Circles, Helicopters, Crunchy Frogs

    Nothin’ But A Good Time, Poison: Walk to the courtyard and do some curls for the girls until the song ends

    Dr. Feelgood, Motley Crue: Rotate through 10 Goblet Squats, 10 Guitar Strums, 10 merkins until the song ends

    Dude Looks Like a Lady, Aerosmith: 10 Curtsey lunges with bell, 10 Swingers, 10 Jazzercise (no bell) each side through the song

    Lick it up, KISS: 10 Lawn Mowers each arm, 10 Goblet Squats, 10 Dips (no bell) through the song

    Run to the Hills, Iron Maiden: Step Ups with Bell, run to the hills and back during the chorus and repeat

    Still of the Night, Whitesnake: 10 two count hammers with bell, 10 Headbangers (skull crushers), 10 Tawny Kitean Prom Dates

    Hells Bells, AC DC: 10 Bench Press, 10 Sit and press, 10 WWII (no bell)

    The Final Countdown, Europe: Partner up. One does Burpees while the other does a courtyard lap and switch

    Here I Go Again, Whitesnake: Walk back to the flag, on six for ~two minutes of 6 inches and then reverse crunches

    Lots of mumble chatter about wives and girlfriends and girlfriends of wives. This great music brings it out. That and bad gas. Great to see Handshake and EF Hutton join the fan club. A famous rock star once said: “It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh…clever”. Not sure which side of the line this workout was on but hope it was fun.

  • Train in Vain

    A classic 6-pack of characters came out to give each other a hard time, crack some jokes, discuss music, and possibly workout.

    Over to the front of the school for COP. Introduced some yoga to stretch us out a little.

    Off to the side of the school for Lindsays: Donkey Kicks, bear crawls, merkins, and lunge back.

    Over to the parallel bars for Jerkins.

    Over to the next station for Wilson’s Dying Boxing Cockroaches.

    Over to the field for Triple Check – Run the length of the field, flutter kicks, Carolina Dry-docks.

    Over to the monkey bars for leg lifts and copperhead squats.

    Finish up the 4th quarter with Merkins. Lots of them. Lots of different types.

    YHC took us out.

  • Non Denominational First Watch

    7 First Watch regulars and 1 SOJ traveler woke before most to brave the tepid temps along River Road to see what YHC had in store. According to the 5.30 biker that cuts across the parking lot, this is what was rumored to have or have not occurred.

    5.01 hit on Handshakes timer so off we go to the front of the church for disclaimer and warm ups that included DQ’s, Helis, Invisible Jump Rope, Jazzercise, Merkins and a bit of Broga to finish us off.

    Mosey to the small side parking lot for 11’s. Donkey Kicks, bear crawl to the opposite side for Merkins. Lunge back.

    Mosey to the front of the church for quadruple check. Timer runs to the vans, Australian Mountain Climbers, X Planks, LBC’s.

    Mosey down Ridge to the southern end of the park for Burpee Dora that included 100 mountain climbers, 200 merkins, 300 jump squats.

    Still time on the clock. Florence selected option A so BTTF for 3 minutes of ab work. Not So Lazy Boys with each Pax performing 10 ab exercises on their own.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayers. YHC took us out.

    Grow your stache for November. Merkin challenge vs. Jersey happening.

    NMS: Good to have Florence join up today with an overshare. A bit mumble chatter but it seems the group is on a bit of a dry spell. Maybe the warmer temps and the leaves falling on Splinters trampoline will provide better tales next week. With Kubotas hopeful return, could some Florence Nightingale adventures be forthcoming? Well done fellas. Enjoy the day.

  • Midlo Mountain and then some. 

    YHC was expecting a crowd at SOT, but only a small band of dudes ventured into the Gloom this morning. 

    Four runners (Boberry, Draper, Honeymoon, and Tobit) took off and the five remaining began bootcamp (Belichick, Bullseye, Heist, Nancy Lopez, and Wedding Singer)

    Warmorama: Mosey to track for a lap. Circle up: SSH, Imperial Walkers (Bullseye said it looked like I was doing hillbillies….true true.) Copper head squat (YHC still cant do cadence right), LBCs, Hello Dollys, Flutter Kicks, Wilson’s wife, Fudd’s wife.

    The thang:

    Track Hill: 5 rounds of sprints up small hill near track (where we typically do bear crawl). Jog back around down sidewalk to starting point. Begin each set with 10 reps with called exercises (LBC, Drydocks, Squats, WW2s, and 2x count Flutters). End each set with 10 merkins (aka ‘Muricans). That’s 50 jersey boys. 

    Paved Hill (near bathrooms): 2 rounds. Each dude runs up hill and back while Pax completes exercises. Return runner calls new exercise. We did all sorts of things: SSH, Freddie Mercury, Mountain Climbers, Toe Taps, Wall sit, Planks, LBCs, jazzercise, Etc. 

    Mount Midlo: Pax bushwhacked to the start of mount mido. Performed 10 sets of 10 merkins at various intervals running from bottom of mount Midlo back to the flag. 

    Made it back to flag for a few ab reps. Time ran out. 

    Running note: Heard they got in 5.5 miles. Nice work. 

    Outro: Numbers/Names. 

    Prayers:

    1. Continue to pray for Honeymoon’s father and his battle with cancer.
    2. Pray for Boberry’s dad who started an experimental prostate cancer treatment.
    3. Pray for the family of Tobit’s friend. His mother passed away suddenly. 
    4. Prayers for all our Pax on IR or fartsacking. Hope to see you all out in the gloom soon.

    Good work everyone. See you next time. 

  • Old Snake Smell

    Seven beautiful men ran to the newish Everleigh 55 and Over apartments to see what my future looks like in 4 years. After a quick warmup of arm circles, Suzanne Somers and helicopters, we then did the Cooper which is 10 burpees, squats and merkins followed by a lap around the Everleigh carpark (~ 200 meters), then 9 of each exercise, 8, 7, etc. down to 1. The lap included certain areas to hold your breath as either we were near some sewer gas outlet, the residents use some area of the carpark as a toilet or there is a Depends recycling bin nearby.

    We then ran back to the flag. 3.9 miles total running plus 55 burpees, squats and merkins. Primo was visiting/auditing us from Charlotte and it was great to see Termite back at WTH.

    All are welcome at the best AO in Richmond.

  • No Merkins??

    YHC pulled up early to WDog only find Swirly had already secured the AO for the 5 that would eventually head out for a Doozy Q. According to the mountain bike mafia this is what happened.

    Mosey to the circle for COP

    DQ’s, Helicopters, Ukrainian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, LBC’s, Heals to heaven (with a shooting star)

    Mosey to the grassy pit for a Dora

    100 LBC’s, 200 Hello Dollies, 300 Squats partner runs the long way down and back

    Mosey to the side halfway down for a game of touch a tree. Run across the grassy pit and touch 5 trees but they can not be the first set of trees before the opposite sidewalk. Once you return do 20 WWII’s and go back out to touch 4 trees but they can’t be the same trees, return and do 20 WWII’s. Repeto until you get to 1 tree

    Mosey to the corner, Bro Code 4 corners 10 – Jump Squats, 20 – Ball dippers (2 count), 30 – Squats, 40 – calf raises

    Mosey BTTF for an ab ring of fire, hold Lazy Boy while each HIM around the circle does 20 of their favorite ab exercise

    Numbers / Names Swirly took us out

    NMS:

    BT was a little disappointed when I announced that due to YHC’s shoulder injury we would not be doing Merkins, Burpees or anything in the plank position. YHC says a little disappointed because he needed the Merkins for the Merkin challenge but he was happy to not have to do Burpees. He did get some Merkins in by substituting them during the ring of fire and sprinkling them into the workout when possible.

  • An OG start to Stache Month

    8 strong this morning at NoToll, 1 LIFO and 1 rucker. 7 total for this quarter’s installment of Old Glory.

    Strong effort as always by Rosie – darn near completed 4 full laps. Also strong performances by Snuff and Heist. Heist and Belichick were OG virgins, so welcome to the party.

    Log your laps here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L8e9W24ygnU0suaGyKxzi1PgPqY1CBd57hLrKTZI-g/edit#gid=1717732871

    Come out and get some OG in February at NoToll

    Ended with COT, numbers, names and prayers

    Announcements:

    • Prayers for Bullseye’s mom as she recovers from a femur break (and surgery?)
    • Prayers for Snuff’s brother-in-law as he deals with some life obstacles.
    • Prayers for Doozy as he hoped to get a no-surgery report from Ortho today – fingers crossed
    • Grow your staches this month gents and spread the word for The Bridges.
    • Magnum PI day at Dogpile 12/3 – staches and Hawaiian shirts mandatory

    Great morning gents.

    No More Gumbo For You

  • The Mount Was Sweaty

    Fifteen engaged citizens, most of them concerned about the safety of our headgear, came out to sweat off all the simple sugars consumed last night. Two words were spoken and off we went.

    The Route

    • Mount Henrico

    Announcements

    • Loops on Black Friday
    • Turkey Trot on Tuesday 11/22
    • Reminders on where the Q signup sheet is located

    Moleskin

    Everyone was concerned for the health and safety of our fellow PAX members. The wilderness is scary.

  • Emoji Brings the Crowds

    Six runners and two ruckers recovered from their Halloweens the F3 way. The assigned challenge was a controlled out and back, going out for 22 minutes to and along Kings Charter Drive, ensuring that the returning run took less than 22 minutes. Spit, Opus, Mr. Holland, and Corned Beek did it the hard way, stopping for 25 pushups each mile. YHC and Hash covered just over 5 miles. Emoji and No Idea rucked for 4.2 miles in some locations and presumably engaged in intellectual discourse at a level only reachable in the gloom.

    The details are light in the above because the COT was so focused on catching up with Emoji that there was no time for discussions of distances or routes. It was nice to meet Emoji and see an unusually strong turnout for the Anvil Run. It’s always nice to push myself to keep up with Hash.

    The rescheduled happy hour at PBR has been rescheduled again, I think, for Wednesday (tomorrow), a bit later in the evening. Check messenger for details. Opus took us out.

  • Snake Bite

    Kicking off November for my first Q at Heartbreak. The rain stayed away but a nice group of 9 did not. We moseyed to the football field and did some warmups of SSH, Rockette Hillbillies (hillbillies with a kick), Freddie Mercury’s, Mercury Freddie’s, Suzanne Somers, Helicopters & Candy Corns (shoulder workout). Then the fun started.

    Hit Heartbreak Ridge with a partner. One ran up and down the hill while the other did Burpees at the bottom. Did 51 total per team. Ran back up the hill together and hit the baseball field.

    Pax ran the bases while the runner at the end went to the mound to do 5 merkins then went to the front of the line. Did this until all 9 did their merkins. Repeat with the run replaced with a bear crawl–everyone loved that one. Finished with lunges and replaced the 5 merkins with burpees.

    Ran back down the hill to the football field and did a quarter pounder (my favorite). 25 merkins at the 25, bernie back to goal line, 51 squats at the 51, bernie back, 75 one count mountain climbers, bernie back and then 100 SSH, bernie back. Repeato (double quarter pounder) with 25 Hand release, 51 WWIIs (groans), 75 lunges. Nixed the 100 smurf jacks for times sake.

    Did a lap of a Whitesnake run. Man in the back runs to the front weaving in and out of the pax. A few elbows were thrown but no one got hurt. And somehow 45 minutes were over. Hope I got everyone’s heart rate up to kick start the day.

    Great turnout despite the weather warnings the night before. Thanks for letting me host.