The Kubota family had the honor of providing a hot meal to the wonderful people of the Breaking Bread program.
Tonight’s Menu:
Pork BBQ, Buns, Mac and Cheese, Coleslaw, Macaroni Salad, Pasta Salad, Brownies and Water
F3RVA has some great Community Service programs that we lead or help out with: Breaking Bread, The Crucible and The Bridge. These are the most important things that we do as a PAX. Take advantage and lead or participate in one of these soon!
SYITG!
Kubota
13 flannel clad faithful came out to celebrate the 31st anniversary of Pearl Jam’s first album and recreate the themed beatdown from 6 years ago. Ma Bell joined us from Carpex and we provided him with the chance to join in on the fun:
COP: 10 Burpees, Invisible Jumprope, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion kicks. Mosey over to penny stage and grab a coupon. Triple check: Block the Plank, Block Thrusters, and run to tree and back. Next partner up and flapjack Murder Bunny length of field alternating 5 burpees and catch up. Way back lunge with block instead.
Mosey down to the Rusty Cage: 4 sets of 8 Pullups & 10 Dips. Head down to bottom for a triple check: Heels2Heaven, Carolina, Dry docks, and run the loop. Mosey over to Love Hill – Per upchucks request fro an encore: Alternate bear crawl and 10 squats up the hill. Call audible for time and mosey back to the flag.
Announcements: Convergence on Labor Day: 7:00 am. F3RVAs 8th anniversary at Gridiron on 9/24.
NMS: Solid PAX with majority taking to the theme with Flannel shirts. Handshake complained the theme exercises were light with more trivia needed. YHC admits this was light on the trivia, instead focused on a good beatdown. Maybe standards for theme Qs are lacking and we need a section of Q school to cover this to ensure compliance.
There were difference levels of flannel with Fudd committing by thrifting one yesterday. Upchuck emerged with a flannel bathrobe then changing to a button down Oxford. Gomer Pyle wore flannel but rumor has it he had a Fugazi T-shirt on underneath. Handshake was out of place, showing up saying he listened to Grunge in elementary school and his favorite Grunge band was Silverchair. EF Hutton brought a nice flannel shirt out and had a spare to boot. Mr Rogers went Eddie Vedder style with his wrapped around his waist. T-claps to the Site Q for prompting YHC to take the Q and throw this out there. A lot of PAX have a soft-spot for Dogpile as it is the crown jewel of RVA AOs, YHC included. Seeing the success of the Crucible and Rock & Roll are great to see as well. MDPFA!!
12 men tolerated a B- grade first Q. Turns out I can count to 3, sort of…
5 point with Bricks: Lots of burpees, mericans, jumping Jacks, merican hammers, Flutter Kicks, WW II’s. Fudd won the purple brick strictly on good looks.
Trash run with Burpees: Run to the trash, pick it up, do a burpee, in the park and school grounds.
Triple check with squats and LBC’s
Live with Gratitude! Cheers!
3 runners and 2 ruckers assembled to greet the day the only way you should greet the day.
That’s pretty much it. 4.25 miles or thereabouts for most of us. Speakeasy got more.
See you all in the gloom!
Fifteen pounders and peddlers congregated before and after today’s main event. Singer interrupted the instructions to tell a story about what today means to him before allowing YHC to continue. Instructions were simple, and unless mother nature made you detour, the routes were followed.
Routes
Numbers, names, and YHC took us out
Announcements
Moleskin
Mary is dark these days. I put the over/under at 311.5 days until the light in the parking lot gets fixed. Regardless, we know each other well enough to identify each other by our shadows.
Route itself was flat today, exactly what YHC needed to feel good about a run. Thanks for the 6s for sticking with me, most of the time.
Apparently post Mary has turned into somewhat of a Broga session. I’m not sure who led the charge, but 6 or 7 finished the run up with some stretching. Conversation was light and jovial until Saab started stretching Swirly out. That thinned the crowd out real quick. PSA: You can likely find some new athletic shorts on back to school sale this weekend.
Enjoy the day fellas.
Splinter
3 humble and upright brethren attacked the day with the monthly Murph to pursue righteousness. 1 mile run from Bettie Weaver down James River Rd to JRHS. Do a lap around parking lot and continue to Bettie Weaver playground. 10 sets of : 10 Pull Ups, 10 Merkins IC, 15 Squats IC. 1 mile run back using the same route.
Mary with time remaining : YHC led 30 Standard Sit Ups IC, Tobit led 20 American Hammers IC, Rosie led 10 Marching Alabama Prom Dates IC (ask Rosie for demonstration next time you see him)
DONE
Numbers, Names, YHC took us out after COT
Prayer Requests : Tobit has a friend whose mother is in bad shape with a brain bleed. ; YHC’s baby girl Rose has Lyme Disease from a tick (It sounds worse than it is. We got her on a prescription antibiotic quick)
Announcements : Flannel attire for DogPile tomorrow for Honeydo’s grunge Q. YHC is heading to Crucible after DogPile for Anthrax’s Q there. Fireman Ed has the Q at Grid Iron tomorrow and Snuff has the Q at Rock N Roll.
NMMS :
Proverbs 11:2-4 NIV : “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.”
5 Satan’s Hill faithful shrugged off the warm confines of the fartsack to see what trouble they could stir up at SH. After a boisterous chat the night prior the numbers looked at bit hire. A bad day at work and someone leaving the chat resulted in a party of 5.
COP 20 each: SSH, LBC. 10 each: DQ’s, helicopters, imperial walkers, Ukrainian soldiers, CHS, Merkins, Hello Dollie, Flutters.
The Thang: Mosey to top of hill. The 3/4 mile four corners. With progressive exercises. First round 25 merkins, 50 LBC’s, 75 Squats, 100 SSH. Also did a wildcard down one of the cul-de-sac’s of 10 burpees. 2nd round (Round was not going to be progressive but PAX begged for it be) PAX choice. 25 Drydocks, 50 Jump squats, 75 Mountain climbers, 100 WWII. Also did a wild card on a sac with broad jump burpees.
Announcements: Convergence Labor day 7am dogpile.
YHC took us out in prayer.
Make today awesome!
11 titans and one woefully unprepared Gerry experienced a workout commensurate with its title…
Saab abides…when able
8 young men from South of the river met up this morning and according to the wildlife around the AO this is what went down in the gloom of Timberwolf. A little car advice from Kelly to start the morning before the seconds ticked down to 0530. Mosey into the parking lot but circle back for the LIFO – McRib. I heard that he made it out to SOT and extended an invite to a Rosie Q at Timberwolf that he didn’t want to miss. A standard warmup fare today, no Chumbawumba or slaughter starter.
Mosey to the bus loop for DORA – 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 2-ct Freddie Mercuries. The owl in the woods called us out as we started a new version of lightpole alley. Doozy tried to answer but was ignored. Each PAX calls an exercise at a lightpole. Various ways of travel between poles, mostly lunges. At this point we headed to the tennis courts for what seemed to be a 4 corners but Wilson complimented the Q on the non-running lightpole alley. The Q does not respond well to compliments so we went to the track instead.
No time for the full Lucky Horseshoe today but an intro to the exercises with a warning that it could come back. 20 Merkins, 20 Squat Walkers, 20 Scorpion Dry Docks, 20 WWII, 20 Lunges (each leg) – run a lap. Bats dive bombing Nancy Lopez or maybe he was just seeing things. Another lap with a Lucky Horseshoe exercise at each corner and lunges to finish the lap. Mary to fill the last few minutes.
Great to see McRib back in action and a strong group at Timberwolf. Lots of lunges today, I know I will feel that tomorrow. Lots of counting in the Lucky Horseshoe so minimal mumble chatter, or just wait for other people to finish and move on to the next one.
Tough to say how many precisely posted for the latest edition of The Roller Coaster. Temperatures were definitely sunny and 70. According to the good-looking, married, 50-somethings who stare just a little bit too long, the following might have happened.
Routes: Hillcrest. Variations: Small, Medium, and Large (No XLs today).
YHC did 2 small, 1 medium, and 1 large with a mix of accompanying PAX members.
NMS: Always great to catch up with the guys at this AO. With the exception of the top of Chairman and Pocohauntas, it’s all hills. YHC was happy to have HoneyDo join for a Large loop. HoneyDo was less happy at the route, but persevered. Well done.
Way to push, fellas.
Announcements: BRR 2 weeks away.
Let YHC know if I missed anyone.