Category: Richmond, VA

  • Wilt, Corned Beef and The Youngest Guy

    Warmup: Cherry Pickers, Arm Circles, Hand Release Merkins and Heels to Heaven

    The Workout:

    1 – WILT – 100 each of LBC’s, Heels to Heaven, Monkey Humpers and Calf Raises. Between these we ran to various parts of the school grounds.

    2 – Corned Beef – 55 each of Merkins, Alabama Prom Dates, Dips and Mountain Climbers. For these we stayed in front of the school but ran to various spots.

    3 – Who’s the Youngest Guy? – Not present but we knew there were some in their 20’s so we did 28 each of Burpees, Invisible Jump Ropes (rest after burpees), Freddie Mercuries and Rosa Lita’s

    4 – 11’s with Calf Raises and Merkins across the bus loop

    That was it. Numberama, Namarama and Prayer by YardSale. We have much to be thankful for.

    Question for the day – Cherry’s grow in trees. Why do we call Cherry Pickers the exercise where we’re stretching to touch the ground?

    Have a great weekend guys!

  • What to do, what to do?

    4 cars in the parking lot this morning but only one willing to bootcamp, the other three went to ring Gumbos door bell before running away to hide. What was done at that solo bootcamp remains a mystery. YHC can tell you that there where lots of merkins a few LBC’s some dolly’s and Rosallita’s just to name a few but if you want to know what it all totaled up to you’ll have to come to Twin Team to find out.

  • You Choose!

    0500-A group showed up and got in some extra miles and training.

    0530-Wedding Singer decided on Serpentine Route. Faceplant, Marv, and FICO headed out on Carilion Route for 6ish miles. Upchuck, YHC, and Bodos, Carilion Route too.

    Numberama, Namerama.

    Announcements: Doublemint was presented a wedding gift and donated the proceeds to Virginia Home. Gypsy is looking for some help on Feb 26 to unload a trailer of goods for Virginia Home for Boys and Girls. 2/26, Vinny has the Q at the Bridge. YHC is a clown car will travel. IF you have not been, it is a must attend.

    YHC took us out!

    NMS: Upchuck and Bodos, thank you as always for the fellowship mid run! Yes, movies and music offer great verbage for life. “Only a penitent man will pass.” Sean Connery, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. And, “…faith, hope, and love…” Alan Jackson. Credit where credit is due! For my Friday is off to a great start and I am blessed to run and workout with you men!

    Loud and Proud,

    Flatline

  • Bo Derek at Tomato Run

    We had 10 brothers show up this morning for a Ruck walk or Run this morning. The Ruck walk folks (Yardsale, Biebs, Mudface and No Idea) were 4 total and they started at 5 am and logged in 4 miles. YHC had a routes scoped out for a little over 4 miles that Bulkhead, Opus, Handshake and YHC ran. Spit and Marco Polo ran 5 miles taking the Bojangles loop to get there.

    YHC was able to run with Handshake on a faster pace for 4.16 miles at 8’49″/ mile and was a nice cool morning for this run route.

    Numberama (2 times) and Namerama, Marco Polo took us out in prayer.

    Moleskin

    It was great to run as a group and missed Mr Holland who has been posting regularly for our run workouts. Have the perfect 10 people show up for Tomato Run and Ruck shows that the word is getting out. We would love to have others show up from SOJ, Westside and downtown. Great to see you Handshake and look forward to seeing you again soon! Great convo and we may start having coffee on a tailgate(stealing this idea from Tryhard) too for those that can hang for a bit…stay tuned and we look forward to seeing you in the gloom.

    It is always an honor to lead, have a great day gents…Cheers…CB

  • Hey, Siri Pulled Up a Colonoscopy. Anybody Want to See It?

    According to Siri on White Deer’s watch, there was a discussion of the ins and outs and what-have-yous of colonoscopy prep and a beatdown that went something like this:

    COP IC: 20 SSHs, 20 IWs, 10 DQs, 10 Merkins, 20 Freddie Mercurys, 20 APDs

    Ascending Four Corners of an Irregular Trapezoid:

    10 Curls

    10 Curls, 20 Lawnmower Pulls each arm. Yeah, each arm.

    10 Curls, 20 Lawnmower Pulls, 30 Tricep Extension

    10 Curls, 20 Lawnmower Pulls, 30 Tricep Extension, 40 Overhead Pulls

    Mosey to the picnic tables for a Lindsay with Step Ups and Sit and Press:

    30 Step Ups each leg with weight. Yeah, each leg. 10 Sit and Press.

    25 Step Ups, 15 Sit and Press

    20 Step Ups, 20 Sit and Press

    15 Step Ups, 25 Sit and Press

    Take a lap, then, 10 Step Ups, 30 Sit and Press

    Mosey to the bus loop for Paula Abdul Reverse Jack Webb:

    Lunge two posts, 4 Chest Presses, walk back one post, 1 Overhead Press

    Lunge two posts, 8 Chest Presses, walk back one post, 2 Overhead Presses

    Lunge two posts, 12 Chest Presses, walk back one post, 3 Overhead Presses

    Lunge two posts, 16 Chest Presses, walk back one post, 4 Overhead Presses

    Lunge two posts, 20 Chest Presses, 5 Overhead Presses.

    Back to the flag for COT.

    The PAX noted that colonoscopies are recommended for those 45 to 75. Copying Pigskin’s “adequate prep” form to your medical files doesn’t count.

  • Lots O’ Corners

    YHC dragged himself sleep deprived from crying baby 2.0 to welcome 4 of his Brothers to the Gloom. Here’s how YHC woke up :

    Warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 10 Don Q’s IC, 10 Cherry Pickers IC, 10 Russian Soldiers IC, 10 Imperial Walkers IC, 10 Merkins IC

    THE THANG :

    Mosey to basketball court for copious amounts of 4 Corners variations. Each variation had a different movement between the corners :

    Bear Crawl 4 Corners : exercises were 10 HRM, 20 merkins, 30 plank jax, 40 mountain climbers single count

    Lunge 4 Corners : exercises were 10 ball dippers double count, 20 lunges double count, 30 squat jumps, 40 squats 

    Front facing crab walk 4 corners : exercises were 10 crab cakes double count, 20 WWII’s, 30 flutters double count, 40 LBC’s

    Kangaroo hop 4 corners : 10 burpees, 20 groiners, 30 Peter Parker’s single count, 40 Monkey Humpers (THANKS MCGRUFF FOR THE MONKEY HUMPERS IDEA)

    Sprint 4 corners : 10 Heismans, 20 russian soldiers double count, 30 imperial walkers double count, 40 SSH

    Mosey around school and parking lots on a big loop back to Ole Glory

    7MOM : 60 LBCs IC, 60 WWII’s IC, 30 Flutters IC

    DONE

    Numbers

    Names

    COT : Prayers for the Johnson family as they mourn the loss of Brandon Johnson (best friend of Vagabond)

    Prayers for YHC’s friend Kristi Sanders. Her son named Lyric is in ICU after a really bad crash. As of now, the 2 prospects from the Docs are death or needing 24/7 care if he survives. Please pray for a miracle healing and for this young man to be able to walk and talk again. He’s only 20 years old.

    NMMS : YHC has to constantly remind himself and be intentional about being grateful for every day – family, health, A/C, food, clean water, medicine, clothing, shelter, job, transportation and the list goes on and on. Many people don’t have these gifts. Love you all and appreciate the push this morning. WILSON, SORRY YOU MISSED ALL THE ANIMAL MOVEMENTS

  • Why didn’t we Name this AO, Goose Poo?

    9 non Goose type beings made their way to the Forge on a warm and welcoming day. According to the birds that live in the trees this is what happened.

    Mosey to the bottom of the hill COP

    DQ’s, Helicopters, SSH, Imperial Squat Walkers (with some Cadence issues), Russian Soldiers, Dead Man Hangs

    Mosey to the light poles 10 Merkins at each light to the top (X15)

    Mosey to the hill half way down the parking lots

    Elevens, start at the bottom with 1 squat, Bernie to the top 10 Ball dippers per leg run back down

    Various AB exercises at the bottom of the hill, some explanation for Flatty on the difference between Hello Dollies and Rosallita’s but it is a you vs you workout, we also did some Sugar Sticks (AKA Flutter Kicks)

    Mosey to the light poles again (we still have 50 more Merkins to do today) 10 per light pole to the first from the last pole which is 5

    Mosey to the last pole 5 Burpees OYO

    Mosey BTTF

    On your 6

    Not So Lazy, Lazy Boys, American Hammers and Scrunchy Frogs

    Numbers / Names DTH took us out

    Prayers for Flatty’s friend dealing with a tumor

    NMS:

    There was once a large Goose population (Problem) at this AO but it has been noticed that they are not as prevalent as they once where. YHC has to assume that the county finally hired a company to run the Geese off or the Geese just got tired of the fact that the school nor F3 where actually willing to make them their Mascot. There is also a theory that DTH may or may not be secretly walking over to the AO at night with crossbow in hand. If DTH invites you to his house for smoked chicken, well at least it taste like chicken, consider yourself forewarned.

    SYITG

  • Interplanetary Bleaching

    10 juveniles and 1 geriatric descended upon Mary to see what she had to offer. This is what transpired, more or less…

    COT: Ball Lickers and other fan favorites, with an intermittent celestial anal-bleaching observation.

    Four Corners (bro code), Descending Doras, Alternating Derkins/Dips, Tennis Court Crawls, D-Kicks/B-Crawls/Out and Back. All of the aforementioned involved copious running mixed with various Merkins and Ab-work.

    Announcements: Ramp building continues.

    Saab abides

  • First Q in 2022

    Lucky seven PAXs came to WDog for a beatdown and here is how it went:

    Moseyed to the small circle area on Blaton Ave and Police Memorial Way for COP as follows:

    • COP: Dead man hang x10, helicopter x10, Imperial walkers x10, SSH x10, Merkins x10, LBC x10, American Hammers x10.

    Moseyed to the lake for the first exercise as follows:

    • 5 Merkins, 10 WWII, 20 Squat rotating with each only lit light post.

    Moseyed to the corner on Westover Rd and Brandon Ln and then lunged to the next light post for the second exercise as follows:

    • Dora – Partner 1 run to the second light post and come back while partner 2 will do a series of exercises: 100 merkins, 200 squat, and 300 SSHs.

    Due to the interest of time, YHC pulled an audible and moseyed back to the virtual (or meta) flag.

    Announcements:

    • Shiplap FINALLY beat the bidding war and got a house. Yay!

    YHC took us out!

    Peace!

  • Kings Charter Run

    Six men showed up for a cool morning run from Atlee High School lot. We had 3 different distances today and here were the routes. Hash and Fannie Mae took off to run to the Kings Charter Clubhouse and back for 6 miles. Marco Polo was on their heels for about a mile then ran and alternate route to log in 5 miles. Mr Holland, Bulkhead and Corned Beef ran the simple 4.32 mile farm house loop route.

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    So YHC wanted to assure Mr Holland of a simple 4 mile loop that was easy to navigate…and a good balanced route with some hills, etc. So while in the lead YHC missed the turn back to the access road to Honey Meadows from Kings Charter, quickly realized the mistake and we turned around to get back on track. While crossing over on the access road, YHC tripped and took a spill so a tough run for CB.

    It was an honor to lead the run for the 4 milers and we will see you in the gloom. Cheers…CB!