Category: Richmond, VA

  • runners and walkers and biker oh my. and your little dog too.

    6 runners, 2 walk/ruckers and 1 biker made up this morning’s cast of characters. great time had by all. good to see Gilligan for a second day in a row.

  • Daville Takeover brings a new Faceplant

    7 of West Ends best came out to see what this Davillian had in store for a takeover day

    This how it went down

    Mosey around the parking to the side

    COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Scorpion Kicks, Merkins, Arm Circles

    THANG

    Mosey to the pull up bars

    Triple Check – Pull Ups, Dips, Bear crawl to the first tree and crawl bear back

    Mosey to the track

    4 Corners – 20 WWII’s, 20 Squats, 20 (2ct) Flutter Kicks, 20 Merkins. Rinse and Repeat

    Mosey to the hill behind the concessionaire

    Jacob’s Ladder – Run up and down the hill start with one Burpee finish with 7

    Mosey back to the SF

    Captain Thor – 1:4 ratio with 1 WWII and 4 single ct American Hammer, Rinse, Increase, and Repeat till at 10:40 ratio

    1 MOM – Ring of Fire (5ct Merkins)

    Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

    MOLESKIN

    It was great to be back to a bootcamp in the Tuckahoe Nano Region. YHC hasnt been out here for almost 1 1/2 years. Some were even surprised someone beside Honey Do uses Scorpion Kicks in a COP.

    Great day to show up with adding of a new transfer PAX from SC named Faceplant. Any idea on how the two faceplant compete for the name, haha

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Prayers for Seymour in his upcoming travelers

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Off Campus

    Five of Punisher’s finest briefly sought shade from the sun before heading off campus to explore the streets around the AO. Lot’s of fun exercises pushed us and made us stronger.

    Chum closed us out with stretching and Weapon X took us out.

    Happy Birthday to Cheetah!

  • D Day at Daville

    YHC showed up to welcome a new recruit thanks to Opus. Knowing others may be coming in hot, plant the flag, and mosey to parking lot and start with parking space tracers. Bulkhead comes rolling in and we have 4 for this morning’s fun. With the group formed we mosey to the bus loop and form up for some COP

    COP

    We start with 20 SSH, 10 DQ’s, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Ukrainian Soldiers, 10 helicopters, 15 arm circles, 10 small and 5 big, reverso, 20 LBC’s, 10 reverse scorpions, 10 4ct American Hammers, 10 scorpions, 20 merkins.

    THANG

    With for YHC decides a Triple check is in order using the bus loop, with an FNG, this is good to allow some mumble chatter with the FNG and also keep a nice sweat steady workout. This routine consisted of P1- Running a Lap as the timer, P2 – Squats, P3 – LBC’s, P4 – Step ups on the bench. We rotate with P4 – running the Lap, P1 – Squats, P2 – LBC’s, P3 – Step ups on the Bench. We rotate 2 more times so everyone has a turn at each exercise. This completes one Set. We do two more sets for a triple check.

    Next we mosey to the Tennis court and form up on the side line we brocode the following:

    Bear crawl to mid line, Crawl bear back to side line, we Lunge to the opposite side line and bernie saunders back. We do this two more times for a triple check and mosey back to the flag. We have one minute left for some merkins, Jazzercise stretch 10 reps (shout out to Nancy Lopez!).

    Numberama, Namerama, we met a FNG today his name is Chris Fulcrod – who owns and manages Air Park Auto Service and lives in the area. He likes to go on little adventures so we collectively thought Gilligan was appropriate. Welcome Gilligan! YHC took us out in Prayer.

    Announcements – Daville is looking into a Happy Hour coming up soon at Final Gravity in Lakeside, we are thinking a dart board competition between the F3 guys! Stay tuned for the details.

    Finally – Today is D Day, Saving Private Ryan is likely the most recent and accurate depiction of the D-Day Assault and subsequent battles in the following days. Most reading this backblast have likely seen this movie and would probably agree how moving this movie was in bringing the war to life where the audience may (even for this brief time) experience the loss, anguish, grit and determination to survive and return home to the US. If you have not seen this movie, I highly recommend you do so and learn of some patriots that gave it all for freedom and peace.

    Have a great day gents, as it was an honor to lead this morning. Cheers….CB!

  • Herme, those shoes don’t owe you anything

    after coming in hot on a Q YHC picked up less than 12 hours before we got rolling

    COT

    SSHs, merkins, Mary, and some active stretching. Wouldn’t be a hermes without a Kung Fu Hustle so we did some

    THANG

    Bullseye was presented with choice A or B, and went with B. The build a beast was back in full effect.

    all building upon one another in a beast format SSHs, merkins, monkey humpers, WWIIs, hello Dolly, dry docks. Beast slain – mini square of fire, good post-op stretching.

    numberama, namearama, taken out by bullseye. side note Bullseye thought YHC should retire his shoes with the comment “Herme those shoes don’t owe you anything.” A few holes symbolize hard work….and a true cheapskate.

    Thanks for indulging me. Honor and privilege to lead.

  • fri-yay!

    ABC’s with legs

    COP — DQ, IJR, copperhead squats, smurf jacks, one legged merkins, dirty dogs, crunchy frogs, john travoltas, mountain climbers

    to the bench
    skull crushers, dips with a clutch, squats with a clutch, one legged and one handed merkins
    run the loop
    repeato with more repetitions, and then yet again.

    to the track
    choppy feet for 5 seconds, sprint 1/4 lap
    repeat all the way around the track.
    choppy feet for 10 seconds, sprint 1/2 lap
    do twice

    one person at a time does 5 pull ups, the rest run to the trees and back, switch out till everyone is done.

    ascending tempo merkins
    1 regular merkins
    1 2count merkin
    1 3 count merkin
    all the way to 10

    back to the flag for some stretching


  • Sunday Funday Iron Man edition

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    Typical Sunday Funday – What time does this 7:00 run start anyway? Head out across the bridge, Buttermilk to T-Pot to Northbank with various side quests for adventurous pax along the way. Great to have Speakeasy visiting from Daville and YHC was able to convince a fellow BMX racing dad to dust off his trail shoes and join us – he used to be an inflight rocket repairman but decided to use his genius for the power of good and now helps disabled veterans by developing prosthetic devices for special purposes. Welcome Brian Burkhardt aka Stark!

  • It was 70 and sunny

    Hard to believe, but it was 70 and sunny. 5 enjoyed the perfect weather by running cul-de-sacs and doing 10 hand-release Merkins, 20 WWII, and 30 SSH at each cul-de-sacs.

  • Comin’ in Hot!

    Nine wistful gentlemen emerged from the mist and assembled as early rays brightened the Tuckahoe shire. Polite conversation explored social norms of abrupt Q leadership transitions. Topics probed included timing of communication, channels, appropriate excuse disclosure, and how the situation presents an opportunity for the group to step up. The group settled on a hot potato approach with Handshake taking the first rotation promptly at 5:30am.

    As the group – perfectly proportioned for triple checks – moseyed toward Lindsay they sensed a disturbance. Suddenly, out of the gloom emerged a raging machine guided seemingly by a man possessed. The nine kindly gentlemen scattered to and fro, somehow avoiding the devil’s chariot. Like a bat out of hell, the craft skimmed the earth as the driver ejected, smoothly tucking and rolling before the beast came to a full stop. Welcome Bodos, #10.

    Handshake, nonplussed but still in command, doubled back to sound the all clear, collected the men, and willed peace back to the shire. While recalculating triple check numbers, he guided the group to the Brigadoon-like pocket park on West Drive Circle to begin the quest. According to the Tuckahoan dog walker, the following may have happened:

    COP in the circle: SSH; DonQ’s; Imperial Walkers; Ukrainian Soldiers; Hand-release Merkins

    Triple Check: P1: Squats; P2: WWII’s; P3: Run around Brigadoon. Switch.

    Mosey back to the Tuckahoe blacktop

    Handoff to Whitesnake who led a round of 7’s: Merkins; Bearcrawl; Burpees

    Handoff to YHC for Ab-solution:
    50 flutters
    10 Share-The-Love incline sit-ups
    Ab Recovery: 40-yard dash of Bearcrawls & Crabwalks
    Dirty dozen: Flutters & LBC’s

    Mosey to the wooden tree for 60-second sprint-in-place cooldown

    Numerama, Namerama, Faceplant took us out.

    Let’s keep our brothers in our thoughts and prayers, particularly Lab Rat and Saab+family.

  • Seriously, it’s just a walk?

    2 grumpy old men and 1 know it all 13 year old took to the mean streets of North Chesterfield to pound the pavement on an OG Rollercoaster Ruck route.

    Leave BWES turn right on Robious turn left on River Downs, left on Queens Grant, Right on Royal Crest, back onto River Downs and BTTF

    Numbers / Names YHC took us out

    NMS:

    Posey is not used to being woke up at such an hour and while still an early riser for a teenager this was a shock to the system. He will get more used to it as the summer rolls on. Always good to get out with Doublemint and solve the worlds problems or at least point them out.