Category: Richmond, VA

  • Lining Up for the Ladies

    After a swarthy six paid homage to the Morning Wood, a PAX of nine HIM’s embarked on the latest version of DTH’s Spontaneous Pain Train – ie, do whatever crazy stuff Tryhard randomly calls next. Here’s how the ladies saw it happen:

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA:

    • Mosey the loop around to the big parking lot, and circle up 
    • Welcome, Disclaimer
    • IC Reps for a ton of great exercises

    COP #1:

    • Mosey over to the bottom of the stairs
    • TRIPLE CHECK:
    • P1 – Dips
    • P2 – Merkins
    • P3 (Timer) – Box jump steps, run down

    COP #2:

    • Mosey back up to the Lot
    • 4 CORNERS (Escalator+DeEscalator)
    • Corner 1 – x10 Merkins
    • Corner 2 – Add x20 Am.Ham’s (2-ct)
    • Corner 3 – Add x30 Squats
    • Corner 4 – Add x40 Groiners
    • Reverso going back around removing an exercise each corner

    COP #3:

    • Mosey over to the Wall
    • People’s Chair x30sec
    • BTTW for Hip Slappers IC
    • Dirty Hook-ups IC, both sides
    • Hoedowns IC

    COP #4:

    • Mosey around to a roadside grassy area (farewell to LIFO Boberry)
    • Partner up for DYING BOXING COCKROACHES
    • x20 Single Count each
    • x3 Sets

    COP #4:

    • BLIMPS CIRCUIT
    • Mosey back into woods along trail stopping periodically to complete components of BLIMPS (x5 Burpees, x10 Lunges (2-ct), x15 Imp.Walkers, x20 Merkins, x25 Plank Jacks, x30 Squats)
    • Once first BLIMPS set completed, turn around and complete second set en route back to Basketball Court

    COP #5:

    • Circle up on the BBall court
    • 8 MINUTES OF MARY – High Flutters, LBC’s, Low Flutters, WWII, Rosalita Dips, Freddie.M’s (missing some)
    • Wilson’s Wife stretching it out

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 9
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • FLORENCE took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  We’ll start with a praise report. After working with a great PT, and with wearing an ankle brace, YHC ran the 2.5 mile Morning Wood pre-run without the IT Band pain that’s been keeping YHC from long distance running for the last 15+ years! Lord willing, running groups and BRR can be in my future. Was great to have such a solid group at R&R this morning. Bone Thugs’ arrival was a surprise since he’d planned on Dogpile, but his presence was as fine and humorous as always. The PAX was about to kick-off at 0700 and we were passed by a geriatric group of walkers heckling us to try and keep up – hilarious – YHC thought about calling monkey humpers after we passed them, but thought better of it. With no specific plan in place apart from “trying hard”, a fairly challenging routine followed, and the mumble chatter was fairly limited. Doing 3 sets of dying boxing cockroaches reminded YHC we should implement these more often. On the BLIMPS circuit the PAX was passed twice by a group of ladies, and the PAX planked in neat formation along the side of the trail to perform excellent merkins IC, by which the ladies were duly impressed. Overall a very successful morning, and YHC was reminded of a quote which I’ve shared below. May we all be mindful of the power we give away to lesser things. For HIM, DTH

    “We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.” R.W.Emerson

  • Stragglers are Welcome

    6 strong got up early for some Morning Wood action. Started with a couple laps around the parking lot as DTH was coming in hot. Picked up Bone Thugs on the normal forest trail loop. Shout out to Doozy who ran to Rock N Roll from his house. Great weather this morning, and a good time was had by all.

  • Hit Them All

    2/3rds of the Petersburg Half Team showed up at the Atlee parking at various times to get in the long run of the week.

    Route included the Honey Meadows trail, Kings Charter, totpotomoy, Castlewood, Atlee Ridge, and Taylor Farms.

    Mr Holland and YHC started at 6 and got in 10 miles

    Opus showed at 6:15 got in 8+

    Bulkhead arrived normal time got in 7

    Great 2ndF at the Local Cup with Helix joining us as well.

    Spit On That!!

  • Triangle of Death

    9 F3 RVAers plus a well knowns out of towner joined to burn off winter fat.

    Mosey to the Toll Both Parking lot for COP. Upchuck quickly warned YHC that Toll Booth Willy might come out and yell at us, so we moved to the grass

    Mosey to the Nickel Bridge for a romantic moonlit lightpole jaunt. on the way out 5 WWII’s on the way back 5 HRMs

    Brief Mary to catch our breathe

    Mosey back down hill near pump house. Various exercises going up to hill

    Mosey to the Triangle of Death and partner up. Round 1 P1 run the Triangle P2 WWII’s Round 2 P1 run P2 half HRM’s half Squats and repeat the same for R3

    Mosey the long way over to the field for an Animal walk. Starting with YHC pick an animal and do that walk for two trees and switch. we made it through everyone.

    Mosey back to the flag for a free minute without exercise

    Bacon Bits said we covered 3 miles today

    No Annoucements

    Prayer requests – Roger Roger, Lighthouse/Lighthouses family in the Ukraine, Ukraine itself. Also we pray for everyone surround Two Cans recent situation and for all those involved, including Two Can himself.

    NMS – lots of running today, YHC thinks a lot of the Pax (including himself) will be wishing for a nap today

  • Breakfast Club

    Three/fourths of the Breakfast Club regulars met. The run over was great. The run back was less than great because were exhausted. it was nice to have Sippy Cup join us for part of the run.

  • it was the best of times, it was the worst of times

    3 guys came out to enjoy a little lucky (or was it monkey) horseshoe?

    COP — copperhead squats, SSH, merkins, smurf jacks, diamonds, arm circles, hillbillies, side lunge with a knee raise, dirty dogs

    Lucky Horseshoe
    Run 1 lap
    20 merkins
    Run 1 lap
    20 merkins, 20 sumo squats
    Run 1 lap
    20 merkins, 20 sumo squats, 20 dips
    Run 1 lap
    20 merkins, 20 sumo squats, 20 dips, 20 WW2
    Run 1 lap
    20 sumo squats, 20 dips, 20 WW2
    run 1 lap
    20 dips, 20 ww2
    run 1 lap
    20 ww2
    run 1 lap

    pike burpees — do 1 at first lamp post, add 1 for every new lamp post up to 5

    Come back and stretch a little

    Great work this morning… fun stuff! SYITG!!

  • Just YHC and OC, talkin life

    2 posted with wet ground but no rain coming down

    Mosey to the dry area in front of BWES

    DQ’s, Helicopters, Russian Soldiers, Merkins, on your six for some stretches and LBC’s

    Mosey to the front of JRHS lung to each post 2 squats increasing by 2 at each post

    Stay at the benches one partner runs out and around the light while partner 2 does exercise (Dip, Wall Sits, Balls to the Wall)

    Mosey to the JRHS track

    Run to the round corners and do 10 Merkins at each, Bernie to the corners and do 20 total Ball Dippers, Butt kickers and High knees to the corners 20 Squats, Run to the corners ????

    Mosey back up to BWES under the cover, some big leg stretches, WWII’s

    BTTF

    Numbers, Names YHC took us out

    NMS:

    Its good to get a beatdown in when its just two people. The conversation can go a little deeper than the normal surface stuff. Thanks OC for just keeping it real.

  • It’s Madness

    11 blue-chippers had it all on day two of March Madness at Satan’s Hill . There was fog, a full-moon, busted brackets, and VQ by Dracula. The moon thing was not planned and there were some basketball treats. Good job spiders and adios wildcats! Now for the show… 

    It started with a COP:SSH, jazzercise, arm-circles, DQ, side lunges, merkins, flutter kicks, and Dollys. 

    Mosey up Satan’s Hill for some work. Pit stop #1  DORA of merkins, LBC, and squats. Mosey some more. Pit stop #2 DORA of dive bombers, box cutters, and lunges. Mosey back to the flag.

    Back at the campground 11s with a partner – merkin, squat, and parking lot pacer. Last exercise was plank walk island. 

    Numbers/ Names/ Prayer

    James 1:12

  • All aboard the Soul Train

    7 regulars, an FNG, and four legged friend joined for some cool-ish weather at Currahee. We had runners and walkers alike. Runners went Pump to John Rolfe to Gaskins to Gayton to Raintree to Falconbridge to Pump and back to the school. 4.6 miles. Walkers went on their own route.

    Announcements/Prayer Request – Roger Roger and his family. Lighthouse and his family and the country of Ukraine. Two Can. Husky (Kubota’s 2.0) has surgery on his arm today.

    NMS – Today was great. We had an extremely motivating FNG, Soul Train. Soul Train lives near Huguenot Park and he saw the men of No Toll on Tuesday and wasn’t sure who they were or what he was seeing so he put a message out on Facebook or Nextdoor and discovered it was F3. He searched the web and found F3 and F3RVA and has been reading backblasts and seeing the schedule. He decided to try Currahee since he had seen there were walkers and he felt it was the best opportunity for his first post. I can’t say enough good things about him coming. He didn’t know anyone and he didn’t know exactly what to expect but he woke up really early and drove across town without any expectations. Good for you Soul Train. We are better people to have you in the group. Its a testament to the rest of us that the community sees us, and the community is paying attention.

  • Reminiscence

    A gaggle of runners and a resurgence of bikers convened at RAMM for some running and cycling. No one had signed up so YHC quickly plotted a simple route. Only 3 turns, yet Hitchhiker somehow asked more questions than there were turns. Classic Fan route today.

    The Route

    • East on Grove
    • 4s left on Boulevard
    • 5s left on Shields
    • 6s left on Plum
    • Left on Monument
    • Left on Westmoreland

    Numbers, names, swarming by cyclists before YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    Today, post run/cycle, we reminisced with stories of a former PAX member. While not a regular and not recent, he always had a way of bringing some excitement to the group. Prayers for all of our PAX that are going through difficulty, current or former, that they find the necessary peace to carry them forward.

    Prayers also go out to TYA, Shakedown, and the rest of the crew heading to the Grand Canyon for their race next week. Go get it!

    My thanks for the day go to Faceplant and Marv for the thought provoking social discussion this morning.

    Spiders (and Rams) still playing! Cheer for your local teams!

    Splinter out.