Category: Richmond, VA

  • The devil made me by this dress!

    8 Minions made their way out of the gloom to see what the devil or Doozy had conjured up for this mornings beatdown.

    According to Honeymoon this is what he saw

    Mosey just past the top of the hill for COP

    DQs – 5 burpees, Helicopters – 4 burpees, Imperial Squat Walkers – 3 burpees, Ukrainian soldiers – 2 burpees, ? – 10 burpees OYO

    Mosey back to the top of the hill for a beast

    6 exercises, 6 times each at each stop, 6 stops

    American Hammers, Merkins, Scrunchy Frogs, Ball Dippers, SSH, Oyster called for Burpees

    Mosey half down the hill

    Bear crawl back up 1/4 of the way, mosey back down 3/4 of the way Broad Jump Burpee up to the half way point Mosey BTTF 1 minute left in the small parking lot 4 corners 1 Burpee in corner 1, 2 in corner 2, 3 in corner 3 and 4 in 4

    Numbers / Names Marmaduke took us out

    NMS:

    I doubt anyone under 50 knows the title of this BB, its a reference to an older comedian named Flip Wilson. Flip Wilson and Bill Cosby where two of the comedians that YHC grew up on because my parents had a record player that I would listen to when my friends were not around. They where the last of the somewhat clean comedians of their day.

  • Nothing on Starlite, Switching to Thermal

    11 pipe hitters showed up armed and ready, full of Tiger blood for a good ole fashioned circus of Seal PT and war games at The Forge to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the movie Navy Seals.  Fresh off the success of Platoon and before we knew that he was banging seven gram rocks, Charlie Sheen starred in this ’90s classic. YHC should have done his back blast sooner, because details are getting sketchy like the morning after a party at Charlie Sheen’s house.  (Are these jokes from 2011 doing anything for you?)

    Playing by our own set of rules like Lt. Hawkins, we went in hard and fast with the deflated boat (ran out of time to blow it up), heading straight for the logs; we ran around the nearest parking lot with them and then put the logs on the ground.  Everyone picked a parking space for some:

    Side straddle hops

    Smurfjacks

    Rocking Superman’s (assume the Superman pose and use your core to rock you back and forth)

    Seal Burpees (Burpees mixed with extra Merkins and mountain climbers.)

    Crossing the Line’s

    Log play:

    We broke out into teams and picked up the logs again for a four corners. 

    Curls for the girls

    Overhead presses

    Squats

    Run around the parking lot

    War Games:

    We split into two teams with a cooler full of ammo at the top and bottom of the hill. Team one defended the high ground, and Team two was on offense.   

    If you were hit with water, you had to do three merkins and return to your ammo supply to get back in the fight. We had three team matches and then the fourth was an all-out free-for-all.  

    Back to the flag for announcements and prayer requests.

    Thank you all for indulging me in my nod to pop culture. However, when you get the chance, read up on the history of naval special warfare!  You won’t regret it.  If you’re interested in a brief summary, copy the link: https://www.navysealmuseum.org/about-navy-seals/seal-history-the-naval-special-warfare-storyseal-history-the-naval-special-warfare-story/seal-history-origins-of-naval-special-warfare-wwii

    I was a radioman in the Navy, met a few Navy Seals, but never was one. I also didn’t realize until recently, there is a cottage industry of people who fraudulently pretend to be Navy Seals for monetary benefit.  Check out Retired Navy Seal Don Shipley as he busts these frauds and exposes them on YouTube.

    Lastly, we train at these AO’s not only to just prepare our bodies but also the mind. We are all in this fight together.  Even if you get knocked down, get back in the fight.  The only easy day was yesterday!  I am Bone Thugs, and I’ll see you at the crossroads. 

  • Breaking Bread COVID Edition : Somebody order Chinese?

    What was originally planned as a nice family affair including the M and 2.0s to prepare a meal as a team and drop it off together was instead turned into Chinese delivery. Thanks COVID….Nevertheless, here’s what happened :

    Warmarama : Text Barbara on Saturday to let her know the M has COVID and offer to have a meal delivered to Southside Health Center instead. Ask Barbara if she wants Pizza, Chinese or something else. She quickly picks Chinese as a nice change of pace. Get the PAX count : 7

    THE THANG :

    Call Lucky Chinese on Sunday at 3:30 pm. 

    Hot Potato : Tried to pass the potato to first person who answered which sounded like this :

    YHC : Can I put in a delivery order?

    Lady 1 : What kind of delivery?

    YHC : food delivery

    Lady 1 : What kind of food delivery?

    YHC : Uh…I need food delivered to Southside Health Center

    Lady 1 : Passes potato to Lady 2

    Lady 2 : (Much kinder and easier to understand) takes the following order with an ETA delivery time of 5:30 pm –

    2 large orders of vegetable fried rice 

    2 large orders of vegetable lomein

    1 large order of sesame chicken

    1 large order of beef with broccoli

    1 large order of sweet and sour  chicken 

    10 pork egg rolls

    Make sure Lady 2 has Barbara’s phone number and the address for drop off 

    DONE

    NMMS : Not what YHC envisioned for this week’s Breaking Bread when signing up but the show must go on. Barbara actually seemed elated to have Chinese food. Not sure if that’s a reflection on YHC’s previous cooking attempts?

    “Life is like a box ah chocolates…ya never know what ya gonna get.” – Forrest Gump

  • Gypsy doesn’t share

    3 dudes gathered for this weeks episode of Breakfast Club. Traditional route down Robinson and around the lakes to Dogpile. Direct route back with the addition of Sippy Cup. Gypsy brought the Shovel Flag but refused to pass it the others. It was hot and YHC was really struggling on the return trip.

  • The Q lived up to his name

    9 men including 1 FNG showed up to a cool(er) Saturday morning to kickstart the weekend.

    YHC hadn’t Q’d DaPile before, and in his excitement skipped COP entirely, sorry about that guys.

    Started off in the field across from the Kings Charter Clubhouse with 4 corners. Run or lunge between corners, 15 reps each exercise, they were merkins, Helix squats, LBC’s and SSH. Mosey to the tennis courts for a Dora but with 3 people per team (triple check Dora?), timer does suicides across the 3 tennis courts, others work on 100 LBC’s, 200 invisible jump ropes, and 300 shoulder taps.

    Mosey to the playground area for a double dose of triple checks. First dose, timer runs to touch 3 trees, can’t touch the same tree twice, other 2 do either skull crushers or hold plank. Second dose, timer bear crawls up the hill and across parking lot to the lamp post, other 2 do either jerkins or dips.

    Mosey back to the field for 11’s, double count toe taps and boxcutters, then 5 minutes of stretching, numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.

    NMS

    Halfway through 4 corners YHC realized he had skipped COP–oh well, too late, just keep moving. Kudos to Mongoose (FNG) for pushing through the workout, as Helix reminded us near the end, Hardywood is fond of saying “there’s always something left in the tank fellas!” YHC realized he had not planned enough when the PAX cruised through half of the planned workout in 20 minutes, hence the second dose of triple check. Great to lead as always, and welcome to Mongoose (Rob Bedford)! Hope to see you again very soon. It was great for YHC to see Wild Thing and Rounders again, and to meet Macho, as well as catching up with Corn Beef and Hash afterwards at The Local Cup.

    As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing…

  • Washington Generals Tryouts…

    When I first started posting for workouts I thought guys didn’t like it unless they were beat down to the point they could barely walk but now I realize that’s not what it’s about. It’s about getting up in the Gloom with your brothers, just being active, and having fun. It’s just as much about the fellowship as it is the fitness so I thought I would try to do something a little different from my VQ, which took me a few days to recover from. How about some basketball and baseball! Here’s how things went down.

    Mosey to the Basketball courts

    Warmarama

    SSH, Helicopters, Don Quixotes, Cherry pickers Ukrainian soldiers, Merkins, WW2’s. 10 of each exercise in cadence.

    Basketball

    The runner had to score 10 points, alternating baskets after each bucket. While he is running up and down the court, the rest of the Pax is doing an exercise of the runners choosing. Exercises included squats, hand release merkins, burpees, side straddle hops, WW2, Ukrainian soldiers, arm circles, and everybody’s favorite, SCORPION KICKS. Hardywood got creative with the 2 part exercise. American hammers and a merkin each time he scored a point.

    Mosey to the Baseball field

    Baseball

    One Pax gets up to bat while the rest is in the outfield. The hitter chooses the exercise for the rest of the Pax to do and hits the ball off a tee. While the hitter is running the bases, the rest of the pax is in the outfield exercising. Exercises included burpees, heels to heaven, Suzanne Somers, mountain climbers, squat jumps, ball dippers, and others

    Triple Check

    In groups of 3, the runner runs up a hill and around the parking lot while other pax are performing dip and squats. Pax alternated until 3 rounds were completed.

    Mosey BTTF for a couple minutes of Mary with 30 WW2s and 30 LBCs OYO

    • Counterama # 
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    While playing basketball, I believe it was Hardywood who said we look like we should play for the Washington Generals, the team that is winless and that always gets obliterated by the Harlem Globetrotters! Husky and Half Pipe did better at making baskets than any of the other Pax. Snuff and Rosie showed off their center field skills during baseball by bare handing a couple of fly balls. The mumble chatter was great today, lots of fun had. Thanks for letting me lead.

    House Party

  • Bash Bros Before H***

    Eight PAX to see what the Bash Bros had in store.  No steroids this day, only sweat necessary to get the desired amount of swole.

    Here’s what went down:

    Handshake McGwire Q

    Mosey over to the Amphitheater Circle

    COP

    • SSHs
    • Don Quixotes
    • Ukranian Soldiers
    • Helicopters
    • Calf Stretches
    • Hand Release Merkins
    • LBCs

    Mosey to quietly retrieve coupons

    • Coupon Squat x 10
    • Coupon Curl x 10
    • Coupon Press x 10
    • Run to tree and back
    • Repeato x 4

    Mosey to the Rusty Cage

    • Pullups x 5
    • Squats x 10
    • Repeato

    Mosey down the Pipe

    Triple Check with groups of 4 (Gypsy can explain)

    • P1 – Run Pipe Loop
    • P2 – HRMs
    • P3 – Heels to Heaven

    EF Canseco Q

    Mosey to Love Hill

    Catch Me If You Can – Animal Style

    • P1 – Burpees x 3 and chase
    • P2 – Duck Walk, Bear Crawl, Bunny Hop
    • Repeato each Animal

    Mosey to Amphitheater

    Calves for the Better Halves

    • Step up R, Step L, Box Jump at each step

    Return to the Circle

    • Boxing Cockroaches 3×20

    Mosey back to Flag

    Mary

    • Hello Dollys
    • Flutter Kicks
    • Copperhead Reverse Crunches

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    A couple of prolific home run hitters grabbed the Q, not wanting to risk Bacon Bits dropping some awful block routine again.  The heat and humidity made life plenty awful, nonetheless.  Big Macshake was a little extra with the time, but no worries Jose Hutton was happy to hit the walk-off and steal the glory.  Heart rates were going crazy coming up the hill.  YHC won’t attest to the cleanliness of his fellow Bash Bro’s sample, but no PEDs or bacne for this guy.  Until next time, swing a big stick and swing it hard. 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Prayers for Gypsy’s Uncle who passed and family

    Prayers for Flatline’s friend diagnosed and quickly passed of Cancer

    Prayers for Flatline as he awaits the next phase of his Army orders

    Prayers for Lab Rat to get good test results

  • Early Bird Special

    What a great day for a run! The 530 crew were few in numbers, but mighty in spirit with most Pax choosing the 500 option. Plenty of two wheeled Pax out today as well.

    The Route

    West on Grove and a right on Bunting. As one progresses North, dogleg to the right and the road transitions to Chantilly and Maywill. Take a right on Westmoreland and return to the AO. For extra mileage add the left on Jacque, right on Dabney/Malvern to Grove.

    Moleskin

    One of the best parts of running from this AO is the conversation one has with members of one’s pace group. Its always genuine and appreciated. We had a nice tour of the new luxury condos off of Maywill and a stroll down memory lane around the original Costco and Circuit City locations.

    TYA took us out.

    Announcements

    See TYA for opportunities to road trip west and be a part of the Bridge experience. Its a monthly opportunity to keep on your calendar. Also, the Wednesday hill run will be resurrected 7/27. Interested? Meet at the top of Hillcrest be 5-530 pm and bring your lowest gear to grind out those hills.

    Be great today!

  • Omar Says No to a Nickname

    One overweight dude ran 5. One definitely not overweight dude did curls using large power tools in the parking lot. Temps were 70 and sunny. According to the PAX who appointed himself as the hotel security guard, the following may have happened:

    Running route: Peters, left on 36th, north to mall, past the pop-up, pay-to-work-out place. Turn around at Broward Blvd. Return via same route.

    Workout: curls. At least 65 minutes of equipment curls. YHC saw Omar doing this at 4:55 a.m. and can verify he was still doing it at 6:00.

    Number, name, Omar took us out with the following: “What is there to complain about? I’m above ground. That’s ok for me. Complaining doesn’t fix anything.”

    NMS: Omar was doing equipment curls this morning when YHC hit the parking lot to stretch just prior to 5 a.m. Blower in the right hand, and some type of mechanical digging tool in the left while walking the parking lot. YHC checked the blower. ~20 pounds. Apparently, there have been car break ins, so Omar has appointed himself as the overnight security guard once his normal work was done. YHC did about 10 minutes of stretching, then the run. When YHC came back about 50 minutes later, Omar was still doing curls walking in the parking lot.

    He said no thanks to a nickname, so we’re going with Omar as his nickname. First, if you know the reference to Omar from The Wire, this a perfect. Omar is an upstanding dude from Jamaica. I doubt he’s ever broken a rule in his life. And, I don’t believe he has seen even one episode of The Wire.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Dazed and Confused

    solid group of 5 Davillians braved another incredibly muggy Friday morning…

    -mosey

    -parking lot- high knees, butt kickers, shuffle, broad jump, bear crawl

    -Don Qs, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Mountain Climbers, Crab Taps, Alternating Leg Lifts, Helicopters

    -mosey to playground

    burpee- run to first corner- 5 merkins-back to start

    burpee- 1st corner – 5 merkins- 2nd corner- 10 american hammers(2 count)- 1st corner- 5 merkins- back to start

    burpee- 1st corner, 2nd corner, 3rd corner-15 copperhead squats, 2nd corner, 1st corner- back to start

    burpee- 1st corner, 2nd corner, 3rd corner, 4th corner-20 monkey humpers, 3rd corner, 2nd corner, 1st corner

    mosey to picnic tables

    10 skull crushers-each leg, 10 dips w/ pump, 10 incline merkins—- run loop w/ lunges on short side

    10 skull crushers-each leg, 10 dips w/ pump, 10 decline merkins—-run loop w/ lunges on short side

    10 skull crushers-each leg, 10 dips w/ pump, 10 push ups(one leg and one arm on bench/ other arm and leg on ground)

    mosey to front of school

    partners- #1 plank, #2 50 toe taps, #1 six inches, #2 50 toe taps, #1 balls to the wall, #2 50 toe taps

    mosey to bball court

    partners- #1 25 WW2s, #2 suicide

    MARY: 20 flutter kicks, 10 heels to heaven

    46 Side Straddle Hops to close

    Numberama, Namerama–OUT

    –QIC got a bit confused early on but PAX went with it…. GREAT to see Rounders and welcome to Jinxy.. Blessed to lead as always…