Two gloom warriors shed the fartsack this morning to run by (sort of) the river – here’s how it went:
4 mile Reverse Tarrington: up Twin Team, along Old Powderham, across Robious to Tarrington entrance, along Ashwell and the Ashwell Loop, right on Sherford and BTTF for some Old Man Stretches.
Numbers, names, YHC took us out.
NMMS: many thanks to Boberry for the company and wise counsel during our run. It’s always a privilege to start the day with you HIMs.
Make it a great one!
4 guys took on a Daville beat down this morning. Here is what happened!
Short Parking lot tracer
COP — Cherry Pickers, arm circles, ankle circles, copperhead squats, jack squats, plank jack merkins
The ass kickin beast
Each iteration of the beast starts with an ascending multiple of 6. Start with 6 and eventually we ended up with 36 before the last beast run
Exercises were:
Jump Squats
Merkins
WW2
Hillbillies
AST’s
Burpees
Partner exercises
Jump overs (20)
PLT’s (20)
Derkins off partners back (20)
repeat the PLT’s and derkins
Some stretching
Fun times had this morning by all! Thanks to the PAX for keeping YHC moving!
No tricks, no games, no creative gimmicks this morning. Just ten studs with their yellow walkmans for a classic Hoedown beat down.
COP: Mosey to church lot for 10x SSH, 10xCP, 10x DQ, 10x deconstructed burpees, 20x LBC, 10x Rosalitas
Parking lot 11’s – 4ct AH’s & 4ct Superman
Mosey to back church parking lot for 4 corners cumulative with 10x WWII, 20x jump squats, 30x MH, 40x merkins, jog/Bernie long section, crab walk short sections. People’s chair for the six.
Move to the auxiliary lot to snag coupons and partner up for a Dora around the corner church building. 50x overhead press, 100x block squat, 150x block press. Al Gore for the six.
A slight shift up to the wooded lot for a good old triple check: run the loop, coupon curls, alternating coupon merkins.
Mosey back towards the flag with a quick pit stop for 2×10 jerkins and 30x dips.
Numberama, Namerama, Announcements (thx for Breaking Bread service, prayers for GP and Pigskin in Honduras) and YHC took us out.
Moleskine: First ever Hoedown for Flatline today, hopefully not the last although some questions were raised as to the validity of Upchuck’s American Hammers. Good to have Steamer back for week #2 and a pleasure to start a Monday right with such a fine group! SYITG – GP
4 runners took off wary of black ice and poor road conditions. All we found was bitter cold wind instead.
Gomer did his Walking thing while other 3 did:
pump to falconbridge all the way to Ridgefield. Ridgefield to Pump then loop around school.
Handshake took us out.
1 Runner , 5 plus miles
4 Ruckers – 3.5 Miles
Strong work men!
3 or F3 RVA’s baddest, toughest, coldest, crew met for Breakfast Club. It was so cold we did the COT while on the run back. Early Bird Biscuits was our reward.
9 frosty harriers braved the sunny and 70 degree weather to take on the tundra. YHC memorized all the routes, despite not ever remembering a route that is told to YHC. It went down like this
There was a crew of long distance folks that got out early
3 milers, well there were no 3 milers but YHC had a route planned just in case.
4 milers- west on Grove, right on Granite, Right on Patterson, then right on Westview, then left back on Grove, take a left on to the Lexington/Albemarle loop and do one loop, then get back on Grove to the start.
5 milers- East on Grove, run to Hamilton, then turn around and head back west on Grove, right on Granite, Right on Patterson, then right on Westview, then left back on Grove, take a left on to the Lexington/Albemarle loop and do one loop, then get back on Grove to the start.
There were no 6 milers, but YHC had a route planned just in case.
It was good to see everyone this morning and everyone persevered despite the frosty temperatures. For those of you keeping track this was YHCs VQ for RAMM. It only took a few years to finally remember a route.
YHC took us out with a quick prayer to go into the day and warm someones heart.
7 well chiseled middle-aged folks descended on the frozen tundra of Short Pump Middle School and Pouncey Tract Park to endure a beatdown. While we were missing a few of our regulars due to mission trips and fart sacking, we had a good ole time.
COP: Invisible jump rope, DQs, CPs, FMs and arm circles.
My daughters purchased a ten-sided foam dice that had different exercises on each side. We would mosey a couple hundred feet throw the dice and see what we had to do. Anything from Bonnie Blairs to mountain climbers to burpees to merkins to Supermans (or Supermen). On our long mosey we fit in the following:
Curb crawl up to 5 down to 1
Triple check with pole smokers, SSHs and a run around the bus loop triangle.
Dora with 100 wide grip merkins, 200 WWIIs and 300 2 count flutters.
Coupon press wall sits and 2 sets of donkey kicks (15 and 25).
Finished with an odd-looking stretch led by Tater.
Closed in prayer. Pray for Pigskin’s cousin’s daughter who has COVID, is 22 weeks pregnant and is in the hospital. I mistakenly said 22 months pregnant; my bad. As we started our workout, Tater was talking to J’ville about playoff fantasy football and J’ville said “Rodgers, he is a player right?” Perhaps he is watching too much soccer.
Prayers for Pigskin and Gomer doing mission work and for anyone suffering from COVID. We noticed the coffeeteria was more crowded than usual. Perhaps they were hoping to get a glance at us studs. I imagine the ladies (and perhaps a couple of dudes) were disappointed in not seeing Pigskin.
Have a great weekend and I will root for Upstate New York’s team the Bills.
Fireman Ed
9 Davillians show up for a crisp Sunny and 70 run or Ruck workout this morning. Circle K showed up with his dog for a Ruck walk workout, the remaining group ran 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 miles. We did the Farmhouse route that takes you through King’s Charter on the East side and some runners wanted to get 6 miles in and ran and extended route through Honey Meadows catching a trail to the condos on Honey Meadow’s road and back through the Teachers lot bus loop back to the flag. To get some hill work in this run we also took the Charter Gate Drive rout to the end and back to Kings Charter Drive. This route had many options for the runners and some finished in 45 minutes along with Circle K returning so we did 2 4 minute Tabata routines (American Hammers and Squats) while waiting on the remaining runners to return and wrapped up at 7:30.
Numberama / Namerama and Circle K took us out in Prayer today.
Great mumblechatter this workout as people started to pair off with Hash and Marco Polo taking a longer route for their faster paced run and YHC and Helix had a sub 9 minute pace for a 5 mile run, while Spit and Bulkhead logged in 6 miles and Opus and Mr Holland logged in 5 miles also. We then went to the Local Cup for 2nd F fund and conversations. It was great catching up with Circle K, great stories and we all had some good laughs!
See you in the Gloom soon Gents….Cheers….CB!
3 crazy dudes posted to find more snow than they were expecting. So the grass was our best friend today to avoid falling on ice. According to the guy walking his dog in the snow, this is what happened :
warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 10 Russian Soldiers IC, 10 Don Q’s IC, 10 Cherry pickers IC, 10 Imperial Walkers IC
THE THANG : fartlek with 9 stops for BLIMPS (5 burpees , 10 Lunges double count, 15 Imperial Walkers double count, 20 merkins, 25 plank Jax double count, 30 squats)
Mary on basketball court : Not So Lazy Boys (20 seconds to the middle, right, middle, left, middle) ; 50 WWII’s IC ; 50 LBC’s IC
2 laps of runs on the grass
DONE
numbers, names, coffeeteria in parking lot
COT : prayers for Durden’s family as they mourn the loss of two family members and as they wait for heat to be restored in their house
Dunkin near Rock N Roll now offers indoor seating so we’ll switch coffeeteria to the warmth indoors for future posts.
NMMS : great fellowship after the Q discussing tough topics our society and children are dealing with