Category: Richmond, VA

  • This is Spring!

    OTB produced 7 this nice spring morning!

    4 walkers @ 3.7Miles

    3 Runners @ 7 plus Miles.

  • 2 Groups, 1 Purpose

    5 Davillians stayed north of the wall today to keep up with their half marathon training.

    YHC started a little early then met Marco Polo at the Atlee HS stadium since he had 10k training team afterwards. We headed back to Atlee road completeing the Bojangles, Rutland, and Knollwood loops before heading back to get in 8.

    Bulkhead, Mr Holland, and Opus started at the normal parking then headed the opposite way down the school service road for a loop in Honey Meadows/Kings Charter to get in 6 to 7

    Since Local Cup was closed, Mr Holland traded us to some starbucks thanks to the generosity of middle school students (he had wrecked up some Starbucks gift cards).

    Solid run day and great 2ndF afterwards

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Grid Iron is never easy

    10 posted for a beautiful morning. Handshake and Probation joined us to bring down the average age about a decade. Somebody made a great observation…for the old guys AO, Grid Iron is never easy. 🙂

    Warm up, followed by a jaunt to Burpee Hill for only 20 burpees (Q was tempted to start with 10 mins of burpees). Mosey to field where a new exercise was introduced (Bear Crawl 1-2-3) with 100 Merkins, 200 WW IIs and 300 Squats…with Bear Crawls in between. Gave the arms and legs a break with a modified Ab-Beast of WW IIs, Heels to Heaven, Crunchy Frog, Side Crunches, and American (renamed Ukrainian) Hammers. 10 count and off to jogging the 100 yard field, with 10 yard steps of burpees (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1). End of the field we did 3 sets of 10 Big Boy Sit-up-Ups, jog to the top of the hill for 10 Merkins. Another 10 count and time to jog back, but pause for 10 burpees at midfield. Wrapped up play time on the field with 25 two count Ukrainian (F-Putin) Hammers. Stretched, mosey back, and ended with 20 Merkins.

  • Tryhard Appetizer Run

    YHC signed up for the Breakfast Club Run this morning to ensure a post to a Dogpile beatdown from Tryhard. So Hash, Doublemint and Shiplap came to this breakfast and we started to go on our route. About at the bridge Doublemint barked I will catch up and we kept running for a bit, then turned around to pick up Doublemint. We arrive at the Dogpile AO a little early so we kept running until we logged in 2 miles.

    We had the Dogpile workout and then returned back to the start. Thank you to Sippy Cup who ran with us to his house as we were so delirious from the bootcamp we were going to take a wrong turn and make this a longer run than the simple 1 mile return route!

    Numberama, Namerama and Shiplap took us out in Prayer.

    Great seeing you guys this morning as it is an honor to lead. I will see you in the gloom…cheers CB!

  • Easy Tomato Run

    We had a couple of brothers show up early for a Ruck walk and 4 of us posted for a run. Marco Polo logged in 5 miles. This one was a mostly down hill route with 2 good sharp hills to climb for a nice run workout. This route was a little over 4 miles for Mr Holland, Spit and Corned Beef. Yard sale and No Idea did a ruck walk and logged in about 3.5 miles.

    Numberama, Namerama Marco Polo took us out in prayer.

    Great run gents and I will see you in the gloom, cheers…CB!

  • In your eye!

    A remnant of 18 faithful brothers posted to Dogpile knowing full well what a Tryhard Q would entail. With a chorus of birdsong regaling the forecast of sunny and 70, the PAX dug deep to hammer out this beatdown:

    The THANG:

    COP #1:

    • Mosey to Amphitheater
    • Variable IC warmerama reps, broken up with x3 mixed amphitheater ascents (box jumps, bear crawl, crab walk) and reps at the top (x5 Dips + x5 Derkins) before returning to the bottom for more IC fun

    COP #2:

    • Mosey out to Carillon Field for a LINDSEY:
    • 30 down to 10: Variable Merkins (different merkin form for each set)
    • 10 up to 30: Smokers (Leg Lifts)
    • SIPPY CUP led a smoker Mary set for the front runners

    COP #3:

    • Mosey to the Rusty Cage
    • TRIPLE CHECK:
    • PAX 1: Pullups
    • PAX 2: Jerkins
    • PAX TIMER: x20 LT Dan’s (audible called to make it x15 Lt Dan’s)

    COP #4:

    • Mosey back to the Field for 50’s:
    • Q calls an exercise, 1st to reach x50 reps calls out and entire PAX sprints to other end. 
    • Exercises were 2-ct AmH’s, Groiners, Hello Dolly’s, and Hydraulic Squats
    • Sprints were 50%, then 75%, then 25%, then 100%. 

    Mosey BTTF & 2MOM

    COT:

    • Counterama # 18
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • GOMER PYLE took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  Gorgeous Spring morning at Dogpile with a great big beautiful PAX hungry for a challenge. YHC has been attending the new SOJ Sat workout “Rock-N-Roll” which is a GREAT AO, but there’s something special about Dogpile – was great to be back! The Rusty Cage Triple Check proved more of a challenge than most of us could handle, but the PAX put out hard this morning and did a great job with the COP’s. BB title stemmed from Mumble Chatter about “floaters in the eye”, and Gomer Pyle’s question of whether ejaculate in the eye is harmful – to which the Doctor replied no, and in fact it may well be a healthy form of lubricant. The chatter digressed from there… Always a pleasure to lead gentlemen, THANK YOU for the honor! SYITG, DTH

  • Big Data Update

    11 PAX came out to SH. After an initial warm-up with SSH, and partner assisted stretches we ventured into the heart of New Market stopping at every intersection to do 10 ‘muricans, 10 LBCs and 10 squats followed by partner assisted stretches. The emphasis was on proper form. We ran all the way back to the dark cul de sac and even tried running in cadence in the unoccupied stretch. the results were modest as some of the PAX didn’t understand the left meant, well left. Then Hermie started to channel Gunnery Sgt. Hartman and that was when YHC had to call it a day.

    Return to the (non-existent) Flag. COT

  • The Thrilla at James Riv-a

    Runners ran, bootcampers bootcamped. A good time was had by all. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure.

    Mosey to the back of BWES for Warm Up:
    Helicopters, Arm Circles, Apple Bottom Poppers, Don Quixote’s, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Carioka, lunge walks.

    Exercise One:

    Across the grass field:
    Round one: Thrilla Gorillas (name credit goes to Offshore).
    Bear Crawl about 5 steps, Murder Gorilla 5 steps to one side, Bear crawl, Murder Gorilla to the other side. repeat

    Round two: Same pattern with Lunge Walk and Side Frog Jumps.

    Mosey to The Swamp for Exercise Two:
    Stadium Abs: Run to the top of the stadium, 25 squats, run down and do called ab exercise. Rounds included 100 LBC’s, 75 Alabama Prom Dates, 50 Flutter kicks, 25 Heels to Heaven.

    Exercise Three
    Track Drills: 1 x 300 meters – run the straightaway, increase speed by 50% on Turn, Striders down the stretch.

    100 meter Hurdle Drills.

    Mosey back towards BWES.

    On the hill, complete Clockwork Merkins. YHC had to redeem himself after botching this exercise yesterday.

    Worlds Fastest Triple Check with runner going downhill to the pole and back, Other exercises were Hand Release Merkins and Donkey Kicks.

    Lunge Walk and Walking Arm Circles back to the flag.

    Numbers/Names/Announcements

    YHC lead us out.

    Final Thoughts:
    Terrible backblast title, but a great workout by all! I was informed that the runners did 9 miles – we never saw them after 5:30. It was great to have Offshore roll in to complete my dream of doing a Triple Check. Thrilla Gorilla’s proved to very challenging and quite the leg buster. I don’t think any of us will be selected for the hurdling team. Safe travels for Doozy and his family!

  • Three being the number…

    A trio showed up to take on the morning the right way. Here is what transpired.

    COP — start with ABC’s with legs (capitals only), cherry pickers, denice austins (nobody remembers her. sniff sniff), tempo merkins, helicopters, don quixotes, hillbillies, dirty dogs, Nancy Kerrigans

    2 triple checks
    1) 20 kb swings, mountain climbers, jump squats
    2) 10 burpees, lunges, american hammers

    Triple 4 corners
    teeny tiny corners — bear crawl between corners
    10 dirty dogs, 10 plank jacks, 10 AST’s, 10 merkins

    slightly larger corners — lunge between corners
    20 split jacks, 20 squats, 20 monkey Humpers, 20 SSH

    even larger corners, — run between corners
    30 crabcakes (Bulkhead’s fave), 30 dips, 30 one legged alabama prom dates, 30 scissor kicks

    BAck to the flag for some increasing merkin action. Rotate around the circle — first person does one, next person ,etc. then up it to 2, then 3, etc. — we got to 8 today.

    Mild stretching at the end.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements

    YHC was excited to get back out today after a week of recovering from a back issue. Felt good to exercise and hang out with the guys this morning. Mumblechatter was light, but spirits were high. Great times had by all. We laughed, we cried, it was better than Cats.

    SYITG
    Opus

  • Rosco is a Focker

    10 Strong posted to Satan’s hill on this brisk spring morning. There was 1 FNG in the house Ready learn the ways of F3. At the bottom of the hour here is what went down.

    COP- 20 each SSH, LBC’s, 10 each: Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, Jazzercise, Merkins, LBC’s, Flutters,

    The thang: Mosey to bottom of hill and partner up. Run 1/3 way up hill while partner broad jumps trade off. Runner next 3rd while Lt Dans, Next 3rd broad jump with a merkin and runner.

    Triple check to the stop sign with hand release merkins and squats. Mosey back to stop sign and another triple to bottom of hill with drydocks and ??. Mosey down trail grab a log for some log presses. Back to flag for a dealers choice . 25 of whatever Pax calls.

    YHC took us out in prayer.

    Welcome to Rosco’s could be SIL, 24 year old Bryce aka Jinxy. And yes Rosco is a Focker.