Category: Richmond, VA

  • Selfies by the Sea

    One PAX pulled off the covers of The Fartsack and hit the surf for the latest edition of The Clinic (on tour). Air temperatures were 70 and sunny. Water temperatures were 59 and high tide. According to the walker taking selfies in the dark, the following might have happened:

    Mosey on Niguel Road to Ritz Carlton Drive to Beach Access Road.

    COP:

    SSHs x 50 (in honor of The Carpenter starting a new AO)
    WWIIs x 20
    FKs x 20
    LBCs x20
    Merkins x10
    HRMs x10

    Mosey to the Surf (noting the walker on his way across the sand)

    Down the hill, left (south) at the sand towards the jetty. 1/4 mile run on the soft sand.

    Derkins x20 on the rocks. Squats x20.

    Run north on the beach. Highest tide. Soft sand and dry or hard sand and wet. YHC choose a mix, then gave up on the soft sand and took the wetness.

    At the 1 mile point, surprise the dude taking selfies at the water’s edge with a solid “Good morning.” Reminder: Taking selfies in the dark on the edge of the ocean is not a risk-free venture. No iPhones were injured in the making of this Beatdown.

    Continue north, alternative merkins, squats, and ab exercises. Turn at the cliffs. Run back, mixing running in ocean and hard sand. Conditions were cold, wet, and eventually sandy (in the shoes).

    At the jetty, revers-o, then north to access road, up the monster hill (short, but ~15% grade?), and back up the stairs to RC Drive, Niguel Drive, and BTTVSF.

    Announcements:

    YHC reminded himself of the Sad Clowns running alone in Charlotte, the blood drive, PAX members families in need, and the awesome guys (Hutton, Bootleg) who conducted Breaking Bread this weekend.

    June 4th, let’s head to Buckingham.

    NMS: The Clinic is on the road this week, doing a little West Coast / East Coast comparison.

  • Can You Feel It? Yup I can

    Four stiff men came in this morning looking to become loose as a goose before TryHard’s beatdown at NoToll. At this point, we are all broga experts, so a hot potato was called…

    Oyster led us off with some upper body stretches then passed it on to YHC for some lower back and hips. Last Call took it and continued with the lower body and ended with Chaplain bringing it home with some good ole pigeons.

    In the end we were all made whole.

  • Introducing…

    F3RVAs newest AO. The Sugar. One posted after numerous EH attempts failed. According to the gentleman with the top hat and bow tie who greeted YHC at 0530, this may or may not have happened.

    The Route
    Head south on 3rd, under the overpass (or was it over the underpass?), to continue south on Little Sugar Creek Greenway. Meander around for three miles, briefly passing a few locals doing plank merkins and bear crawls. YHC joined for a few merkins then continued on to Freedom Park. Reverso then BTTVSF.

    Number, name, YHC took YHC out with a few passerbys wondering what I was doing.

    Moleskin
    This is a recurring running route that YHC has done for the last 10 years or so, every time I visit the Queen City. No meth labs, but I did try to get on the local news as the route took us right by the courthouse where there is apparently a big trial today.

    I will not be here every week, but every week I am here anyone and everyone is welcome to join. Heads up to the PAX that a portion of the greenway appears to be under construction from Spring 2022 – Spring 2024. That’s right. Two years. We will have to modify the route for the next few years.

    Satire lives on!

  • Over the River and Through the Woods

    Fifteen red riding hoods left the bat cave, crossed the river and headed upstream to Huguenot Flatwater. Everyone picked up the new trail in the woods admiring how civilized and proper this path is compared to the old one.

    Upon returning to Riverside, 4s turned right and headed home. 5s and 6s turned left to head downstream a little further. 5s turned around Rockfalls and 6s were supposed to turn around at the quarry. Whether they were lost in conversation, didn’t see the quarry, or pursued by a wolf, we will never know. They got bonus miles in by going to Pony Pasture.

    Florence took us out.

    –> Thoughts and prayers for Pucker’s friend who was in an accident.

    –> Memorial Day convergence downtown.

    –> June 4 – Give blood or head to the Bridge in C-ville. Both are good causes and causes to do good.

  • Digital Clock

    11 at Hoedown today for a new set of exercises from YHC. Riddle: How to you explain ‘clockwise’ to people who are used to digital clocks?

     

    Mosey to the Corner Parking Lot

    20 SSHs

    10 Arm Slap Merkins

    20 Deep Mountain Climbers

    20 IWs

    10 Diamond Merkins

    15 Gorilla Jacks

    Stretch

    20 Squats

    10 Stagger Arm Merkins

    20 Heels to Heaven

    15 Star Jax

    10 Stagger Arm Merkins

    Stretching

    To the upper Parking Lot

    Burpee Bear Crawl from mid court to edge

    Crab Walk back

    To the grassy area in back

    Divide into three groups; Circuit with 20 Hanging Knee-ups at pull-up bars, at the benches for 20 Dips, 20 Ukrainian Hammers close to the swings; 3X Cycle clockwise. To be fair, I didn’t announce the direction of rotation until EF Hutton asked.

    To the wall for Angry Donkeys (11s with People’s Chair air press and Donkey Kix)

    To the rails for 10 Bulgarian Split squats each leg, 10 derkins, 9 and 9, 8 and 8 etc.

    To the lower parking lot for

    3X 20 WWII, mosey, bernie up the hill and return

    To the petting zoo (there was a tent up for a petting zoo at the school this past weekend.) for

    Heels to heaven and a 60 count 6-inch leg lift.

    I don’t know about the rest of you but I was tired.

    Announcements:

    June 4: We have 2 events

    Convergence with Charlottesville and with men who are serving time or on probation. We would like RVA to do this once a month, 3rd Saturday to help lead with Vinny(?) from Charlotteville. It’s 1 hour from Midlo, followed with BBQ. Sorry I’m a little weak on the details but see Flatline for questions or additional details. F3 did something similar in Charlotte with a group of men in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. The group was in-town so travel was real easy. This was rewarding. I went several times and lead exercises. I was always impressed with both the people there and the men from F3 who supported this. It’s a great opportunity to not only get in some exercise but to support men in the community who need a little support.

    AND, if that doesn’t work out for you, you have another opportunity! Blood drive from 10 to 3 at Epiphany Lutheran (west end of Monument where it intersects with Horsepen.

     

  • Money in the Bank at DaVille

    YHC rolled into the parking lot to see an FNG already parked about 7 minutes early. Flag was planted and 5 additional brothers arrived for a 7 man bootcamp. Nice cool morning and here is what went down:

    COP

    We mosey to the basketball courts behind Chickahominy Middles School and circle up for 20 SSH, 10, DQ’s, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Helicopters (4ct), 15 arm circles 10 small and 5 big, reverso, 20 4ct American Hammers, 10 4ct LBC’s, 10 scorpions and 20 merkins.

    THANG

    We mosey to the corner of the basketball courts and we perform the 7 of diamonds, Corner 1(C1) – 7 merkins, C2 – 14 squats, C3 21 LBC’s and C4 28 2ct flutter kicks. We did this Brocode style keeping the PAX together. Repeated this 2 more times.

    Mosey to Tennis courts and form a line on the sideline we bear crawl to mid court crawl bear back to sideline, lunge to opposite sideline and Bernie Saunders back for one set. We repeat 2 more sets.

    Mosey to rear parking lot behind Atlee High school and everyone forms up on a Parkin space number. We perform 11’s starting with 10 Squats, lunge to opposite parking space number 1 merkin, lung back to start 9 squats lunge back to opposite number for 2 merkins and continue until 1 squat and 10 merkins.

    Mosey to the Gym wall and break up into groups of 3 and 4. FNG and Spit hang together for this triple check. P1 – Touches 4 trees as the timer, P2 wall sit and P3 donkey kicks. P1 – goes to chair, P2 – DK’s and P3 touches 4 trees and finally P3 – goes to wall sit, P1 – DK’s and P2 touches 4 trees. We repeat this 3 more times for a triple check.

    Mosey back to the flag for 1 minute of stretching.

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out in prayer.

    Moleskin

    We welcome Brian Roundtree who is a friend through church with Spit and finally decided to post today. He was in the army and posted in Ft. Lee, Ft. Lenard Wood and Germany and now works in the banking industry. We tossed around some suggestions and Piggy Bank won the popular vote. Welcome Piggy Bank and we look forward to seeing you in the gloom again soon.

    Announcements – We are continuing our combination workouts on Saturday (DaPile) with all of us in DaVille posting at Dogpile on the first Saturday of each month.

    We will be having a Hump Day Happy hour on May 5, 2022. Stay tuned for the location.

    It was an honor to lead this morning and I will see you in the gloom….Cheers, CB!

  • Pelvic Thrust Demo Team

    4 kettlebell wielding studs and a couple of 2.0’s took over the WEAG complex on Sunday evening. Onlookers had to step aside as we rounded the church with manly exercises and a killer soundtrack. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure.

    Warm up: Short mosey around the upper parking lot following by Arm Circles, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Dead Man Hang and arm stretches.

    Exercise One: Circuit around the church. At various locations, stop and do 2 minutes of called exercises. The following were completed:
    American Hammers, Step ups, Tricep extensions, Bench Press, Squats with lift, Flutter Kicks, Upright Row, WWII’s with lift, Lawnmower pulls, calf raises, Pass Arounds (??), Pole Smokers, Kettle Swings.

    Back to the flag for a couple leg stretches.

    Final Thoughts: Great job by all of the PAX this evening. OTB kettlebells is a laid back atmosphere with a lot of curious walkers, runners, and spectators around. It was great seeing Tryhard’s 2.0’s show up with their own weights and headbands. Lots of hair metal mumblechatter, amongst other topics. Come on out next week!

  • Monday Manholes and We got a runner!

    11 Beast were ready to work at 530 on this beautiful Monday.

    COP – SShs, Squats, DQs, Helicopters, Imperial walkers, Arm Circles, LBC, Stretches

    Mosey to hill

    Ascending Manhole Covers – Stop at every cover and do called exercise in ascending order

    1 Burpee

    10 Merkins

    20 Squats

    30 Dying Cockroaches

    40 SSHs

    50 Dry Docks

    REVERSO

    Back to Coupons

    Dealers Choice, Runner calls exercise andruns lot and does 10 Jerkins and back

    Curls, Bench Press, Rows, ROCK Copters, LBCs, Overhead Press, etc….

    Back to flag, More Stretching, 3 Burpees to finish

    Numbers, Names, Abignale took us out.

    Prayers for Parker’s M as she is due in the next 3 weeks!

    NMS

    Nancy now identifies as a runner! Enough said!

    Duke

  • Heads Ruck, Tails Run

    2 Crusty old curmudgeons made their way to River Run for a coin flip on whether to do a Ruck or a Run this AM. A Ruck was determined but with one vest and two HIM a run was had. Terrington with all its rolling hills was the route with an extra run up Twin Team at the end just to get a value add for the cost of doing business. 101 combined years worth of the do’s and don’ts to talk about from life

  • Breaking In to Breaking Bread

    The COP

    Mosey to Medical Respite on Belt Blvd, 2 air presses per traffic light.

    The Thang

    Pulled pork sandwiches with cole slaw, pasta salad, sweet tea and lemonade.

    The COT

    Ooey Gooey Butter Cake Bars

    Moleskin

    YHC arrived to find the the side door slightly ajar, so instead of troubling the staff for help, hauled the goods up to the 2nd floor and surprised the unsuspecting staff. All’s well that ends well, but apparently no one enters the building without being accompanied by staff. Oops, but YHC bets dessert made up for it. Tightly kept secret, when EF Hutton bakes, people listen.