Category: Richmond, VA

  • Expecting a Rodeo – if you know what I mean

    Seven swole studs braved the last cool bootcamp that always starts before anyone else, even if you are late. After some attempted Q disparaging that was handled quite well with appropriate levity, we got to work.

    Mosey to COP all IC, all 4 count; 20x SSH, 10x DQ, 10x IW, 10x Merkin, 10x HRM, 10x Sky Reach Merkin,  10x HRM + Sky Reach Merkin, 10x ww2, 51 LBC, 10x Hello Dolly, 10x Rosalita, 5x Bohemian Rhapsody, 10x Freddie Mercury, 20x Arm Circle, 20x reverso, Hands up, Hands down, 10x seal claps, 10x overhead claps, 10x arm circle, 10x APD, 10x Tuscaloosa Trailer Park Twister. So out of shape YHC needed to run to catch breath.

    5:20 Handshake arrives. First senior moment? No worries mate, there will be more.

    Mosey to the south ridge rabbit warren. Longest 11s ever: Bro code. Squats and WW2; movement accomplished by alternating bearcrawl, Lunge, Bernies. Some Polar bears to spice it up but not over flavor. Broad jump burpee for last set until called. Mosey BTTF.

    Handshake took us out. Prayers for LabRat and Try Hard.

    Coffeeteria afterward.

    NMS – Great to see the First Watch crew. Building up to YHC five year anniversary 4/22 and Earth Day. Sometimes not sure who really goes back and reads BB so YHCs normal method is to catch enough comments that PAX throughout the region build interest. “Guess you had to be there” is likely still the case, but what are you missing?  Are we really missing the toothbrush story?  YHC does not know.

    Oversharing of the week goes the PAX member who will remain anonymous at this point. In brief, expected guests arrived 30 minutes early but were made to wait in the lobby until the previously scheduled meeting concluded discussion, the minutes reviewed, the action items assigned with names and dates, and handshakes finished. In other words, no Rodeo required. Yes Rodeo is a thing.  YHC’s fraternity has a story about a similar event where the more confined space of a dorm room should have led to a proper rodeo, but Dr. Zog, our hero, simply waved howdy to the unexpected guest and the bronc continued to provide an epic ride. That’s how we got to know Tex and what is better is that she was cool with that appellation.

    For a gold mine of words that could mean something else in the context in which they are used (at this point, Upchuck observes that optimal diction is euphemism) please see Rodeo Terms: Cowboys, Events & More (carodeo.com) – if you know what I mean.

    Announcements:

    • Virtual FOB benefit 4/29 8p event.gives/fobf22, Gomer has a few extra tix, let him know if interested.
    • Blood drive June 4 at Epiphany Lutheran.
    • Sign up for Breaking Bread

    3 more Qs left.  Get some!

  • Something about Fried Chicken, I cant remember

    11 Dudes hit SOT for either a run or a bootcamp, fun was had.

    COP

    Helicopters, Dead Man hand, DQ, SShs, LBCs, Squats, Jazzercise, and lots of stretching.

    Mosey

    Tough a tree – 4 Rounds, Merkins, Squats, WWIIs, Burpees

    Mosey

    Quad check

    Runner, Flutters, Dying Cockroaches,WWIIs

    Mosey

    4 Corners

    Round 1 – 10 Squats, 20 Mountain Climbers, 30 Shoulder taps, 40 Arm Circles

    Round 2 – 10 Dry Docks, 20 Dry Docks, 30 Dry Docks, 40 Dry Docks

    Stretching and Sprints. BTF

    Numbers, Names, Doozy Took us out!

    Strong work Gents!

  • I picked the wrong group

    YHC posted for this beautiful morning with the men of Carterico. I pulled up to parking lot as the clock struck 5:30. The PAX split into 2 groups and I just followed the one closest to me. This was the running group. Logged 3.6 miles stopping to do various exercises every 5-10 minutes.

  • Prepping the Fields

    The regular quartet of Brogiis arrived early for some pre Doozy Beatdown Broga. Conditions were cooler then expected but the air was crisp and clean. Hips and Hamstrings were the focus of the day with a quick blend of shoulders. Some light maintenance was needed on the damp courts of No Toll, so YHC arrived early with blower in tow to ensure the conditions were primo and no slippage occurred. All good with muscles feeling good to start the day. Thank you all for joining me on the cooler than normal day.

    Off the Books Kettlebell scheduled for Sunday. See Chaplain for deets.

  • Saab’s weaving booties

    16 west end giants braved the last cool day of spring to get a run in.

    Saab said the Q can call this route anything he wants, so YHC presents “Saab’s weaving booties”. Why booties? We dont know. We do know Saab prefers weaving to knitting.

    This is the route:

    4s – Batcave, across parking lot to Westham Station, S Ridge Road, L on River, Right on Ralston, cut across the pool lot, Right on Holmes, cross Forest to Sunrise, across Westham to University and back to start.

    5s – From Ralston, turn left on University, bend to Ziontown, Right on Ridge, cross the parking lot to Lindsey, right on Westham, left on Lakewood and back to campus.

    6s – from Lindsey, Left on Westham Parkway, Right on Waveney, Right on Wood and back to campus

    3s – Run / Walk around campus perimeter and through Westhampton. 15 min warmup walk, 1 min run + 1 min walk x6, cooldown 14 min.

    YHC took us out. Prayers for Lab Rat, Try Hard, and Handshake.

    Announcements – Sign up for breaking bread. Gomer FOB virtual benefit 4/29 8p – extra tickets available. Blood drive 4 June Epiphany Lutheran Church – need donors.

    NMS – Fun to be back at Spider Run and walk by YHCs old residence halls. Campus has changed in many ways since way back when.

    Get some!

  • Don’t pack up those cold weather gloves just yet

    Seven HBR regulars were unsure when to start since we were missing our HS arrival +30 seconds timer to launch at 5:30. Luckily the Q had his watch so off we went:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, Reverse Crunches, Scorpion Kicks. Mosey over to covered side. Grab a pole and do Boxing Cockroaches, man on end does 5 squats then to the end. Repeato all the way to end of poles. Way back same premise but do Stripper Poles & man on end do 5 Merkins then move up. Mosey over to front of PES for Triple check: HRMs, Heels2Heaven, run loop.

    Head over to pull-up zone. 4 rounds of 8 Pull-ups & WWIIs. Then over to basketball court: Lunge between hoops & 6 Hand Release Merkins at each hoop. Finish with 4 rounds of 40 Benchkicks and 15 Squats then back to flag.

    Announcements: 6/4 Blood Drive – See Slack/Pigskin for more info.

    NMS: Quiet group this morning without Handshake to ask inapproriate questions to stir the mumblechatter pot. Stripper Poles were a hit and were definitely Offshore’s kind of thing. YHC should have veto’ed the pairings in the Triple check since the Pinto/Offshore/Lighthouse pairing against the Atilla/Bacon Bits/YHC/Pigskin made for some lopsided loops. YHC tried to keep the pax relatively dry and stay off the grass. Hopefully the sub 40 degree temps in the Gloom are behind us soon.

  • Runday

    Posted for a run day with men of Carterico. No warm up straight to run. Was doing my long pre 10K run so targeted 5 miles. Did not make it back for COT.

  • They have a Cooter, We have a Rosco

    YHC posted at Boonedocks with the men of Carterico. Normal warmarama. Workout was: Run .3 miles 9 Burpees, 20 Hand release merkins, 22 Flutter kicks repeato 4 times. Parking lot bear crawls with drydocks mixed in. Finished out with Mary.

  • The stars are always brighter after a good rain

    9 Star gazers made their way out of the rain soaked gloom to find what they thought would be wet soccer fields.

    Mosey to the tennis courts: COP (pay toll along the way 20 Dips, 20 Derkins)

    DQ’s run a lap, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers

    Mosey out to the main parking lot to find 12 frisbees with lights on them set up in a big circle and a bucket in the middle. Start in the middle at the bucket and run to one of the stars and do 25 of the exercise on the frisbee, run back to the bucket do 5 burpees and move on to the next star until you’ve done all the stars.

    Mosey to the first corner, hit all four corners with 10 of those exercises, chris cross do those exercises with burpees at the bucket. We missed 2 exercises, Ball Dippers and Hand Release Merkins and Last Call wanted to do Arm circles so as the PAX went back and forth for the last 2 stars we did Arm circles forward and backwards and last but not least 5 more burpees

    Mosey BTTF pay more tolls (Taxation without representation) this is a Dictatorship and YHC got to be the Dic today.

    At the flag get in your best Lazy Boy position and recline

    Numbers / Names Chaplain took us out

    NMS:

    Stars was really supposed to be Clocks and the 12 frisbees where supposed to be the numbers but the fields at No Toll really retain water and it was only 36 degrees this morning (or as we like to call it 70 and sunny) so clocks was moved to the parking lot and renamed stars. Snuff and Last Call where thinking about all the burpees we did and tried to add them all up afterwards, if my math is correct we should have done right around 75 burpees this morning.

  • Happy that they have found their fun – truly

    2 Warriors meet in the gloom for a Monday morning Daville to remind everyone else what respect can be all about.  According to the couple walking laps in the back parking lot with way too much seemingly lively and boisterous discussion to be married (to each other), here is how it went down:

    Mosey to COP all IC, all 4 count; 10x SSH, 10x DQ, 10x Merkin, 10x HRM, 10x Merkin + sky Reach,  10x Merkin, 10x Arm Circle, 10x reverso, 10x seal claps, 10x overhead claps, 10x arm circle, 10x ww2, 51 LBC, 10x Hello Dolly, 10x Rosalita, 10x Bohemian Rhapsody, 10x Freddie Mercury, 10x APD, 10x Tuscaloosa Trailer Park Twister.

    Mosey to pull up bars.  10x pullup to start.  50x tuckup (half pullup, elbows at 90deg+ lift knees to elbows) + 50 squats.

    Mosey to tires.  Pair up. flip tractor tire. 20x each out and back.

    Mosey to benches.  50x dips + 50 squats.

    BTTF.  Heel raises and Romanian DL.

    YHC took us out.  Prayers for LabRat, Handshakes’ family, TryHards sister.

    NMS –  Fun to be in Daville today and talking about leadership and training men for combat with Corned Beef.  YHC abs still tight from Sat – will be a fun week. Its amazing how sound carries 150m in the morning gloom and the kinds of things discerning adults will share.  You probably had to be there.

    Missed seeing the rest of the  davilians!  Did the GridIron BB scare off the PAX?  They might want to get some more than others what to get some. 😉  Til next time when we will flip the truck tires.

    Get some!