Category: Richmond, VA

  • Betting on the Rain

    Thirteen gambling men tried their luck at some hills this morning, some lost and some won. YHC bet on the weather cooperating, but a freak storm surprised YHC and washed away all the hard work done the night before in preparing the hill routes and marking them out with chalk. YHC adapted, improvised and overcame and the PAX willingly followed along.

    It went down like this, PAX met at the typical spot, YHC then asked everyone to pair up with someone of similar running abilities. Sabb lost a bet and got stuck with YHC. YHC had Q energy and couldn’t sleep the night before and was ready to run – sorry Sabbskie. After everyone paired up, YHC handed each team their very own dice. Moseyed on over to the bottom of Ridgeway Rd. each team rolls the dice and depending on the number it corresponded to a pre-determined (and washed away) number somewhere on the hill.

    Roll a 2 – short run to the big puddle that YHC pointed out (shortest hill)

    Roll a 1 – run to the top of Ridgeway with the Y intersection (medium hill)

    Roll a 3 or 4 – run almost all the way up Ridgeway to the dogleg left (worst and steepest hill)

    Roll a 5 or 6 – take the right fork off Ridgeway on up to Fairway View Rd T-intersection. (long hill, but less steep)

    Everyone runs back down then roll the dice again to find out the next hill to run. Repeat-o until time is up. The audience poll had everyone doing around 3-4 miles.

    Numbers and Names, then YHC took it out. Thank you to everyone for your kind words and prayers. YHC’s Mom successfully made it to the other side of surgery this afternoon and is happily eating hospital food and watching HGTV.

    See you in the gloom!

  • Moist Broga

    3 SOJ Yogis rose early to the damp courts of No Toll for some preDoozyQ Broga. Legs, Arms and Chest were all utilized along with the always popular Savasana at the end.

    Great work this morning.

  • But we already did this last week

    An enlightened 11 came out to HBR to see what damage the storm a few hours earlier did. No rain and cooler temps were what we found.

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks (per pax request)

    Mosey over to PES for Dora 123: 100 Burpees, 200 Jump Squats, 300 LBCs. This took a while. Then over to MS basketball courts for: 10 HRMs at each hoop with bear crawl between baskets. 60 HRMs in total. Then wheelbarrow length of blacktop. Down to the Jerkin Gym, for Nomad’s sake. 4 sets of 8 Jerkins followed by 60 Benchkicks then back to the flag and 2 min of Mary. YHC took us out.

    Announcements: HDHH next Wednesday at Hardywood West Creek. 3rd F next Tuesday night.

    NMS: Good to have Nomad from Raleigh up to post with us. YHC had planned on some blockwork on the field but the 3 am monsoon caused an audible to the Dora start, much to Atilla’s displeasure. YHC was lucky to partner with Homer as he is a Burpee machine.

    Jerkin Gym sets was probably not the best idea but the PAX knocked them out. Lots of real estate mumblechatter today as Nomad’s work fits this along with our resident slumlord Pinto.

  • Wet and Burpees

    Warm Up – Started this thing off with some SSH, arm circles, donquixotes, LBCs, merkins, scorpions and reverse scorpions

    Tennis Triple Check – Partner up and while one does the ab exercise the other does forward jump squats to the first corner, bernie sanders to the next, lunge to the next, then run back. Repeat till each group gets through 3 rounds. The Ab rounds were 1: Mountain climbers in plank position 2: V-ups 3: spider man

    Native American Base Run – Bear crawl native american run around the bases of the baseball field. Last person does 5 hand release merkins to get nice and wet before running to the front. Once back at home plate start another lap doing crabwalk

    Burpee Pyramid – Run to a lightpost and do 1 burpee then run to the next one and do 2 burpees, etc. Build up to 7 then go back down. 49 Burpees in all.

    Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements

  • Use the parking lot

    11 Gloom warriors found their ways out of the fart sack to see what Doozy would have on tap for today.

    COP

    DQ’s, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers – Run a lap around the parking lot

    Imperial Squat walkers (apparently at a faster than usual pace), Russian soldiers – Man Killers

    Line up on the end line of the parking lot

    Parking lot crawls – Bear crawl to each line do a merkin at the first line and add a merkin at each line after until you reach line 10. Crab walk back with LBC’s at each line increasing by 2 at each line. Peter Parker to each line with a merkin increasing by 1 for 5 lines. finish out to the tenth line with lunges and squats increasing by 1 at each line. Backwards lung with Burpees increasing by 2 at each line ending at the 5th line. Finish out to the tenth line with backward lunges and something???? -run a lap for DTH

    Line up at the side of the parking lot for elevens

    Opposite side (middle line of next parking space) start with 1 No Cheat Merkin run back for 10 Shoulder taps (2 count) so on and so forth

    Mosey to the basketball courts 1 set of suicides

    BTTF – Burpee ring of fire – jog in place and do a burpee every time YHC calls for one

    Numbers/Names DTH took us out

    NMS:

    YHC had full intention of keeping the run portion of this workout to a low roar by just staying on the blacktop, however as a Doozy Q usually goes there was a fair amount of run to be had. YHC had a couple other fun things planned but the elevens took up way more time than anticipated so they will have to remain on the back burner until the next open Q.

  • Snapped at Anvil

    Yardsale sent out a group text to see if anyone is coming to Anvil last night, YHC checked the Q sheet and signed on to try out a new additional bands for a Tabata Circuit routine. We had 5 brothers at this Monday morning event and here is what went down:

    COP

    20 SSH, 10 DQ we are ready to roll.

    THANG

    So YHC was having difficulty getting timer and Tabata to work, we also had to distribute bands, and lay out the work out cards with Exercises. Here is the list and we split this up as some lighter bands were needed for certain exercises.

    This Tabata workout consisted of 8 different exercises and we did 8 reps of 20 seconds exercises and 10 seconds rest. or 4 minutes for each exercise. Below is the list of the exercises: So YHC was demonstrating the Bent over lateral raise with a combination of bands and was snapped in the face by the shorter band. After a laugh from the Pax we got down to business:

    Upright Row (crossed bands), Standing Twist band wrapped around pole and alternated right side and left side, Pull ups, Front Raise with Bands, Squat Press with Bands, Lunges, Bicep Curl with bands and bent over row with bands.

    We put away the gear and mosey to the parking lot.

    Numberama, Namerama and Trout took us out.

    Great workout this morning and was an honor to lead. SYITG…Cheers…CB

  • Made in the Shade

    A mighty five, undeterred by the heat, started the week off right. Based on a sequence of events described by the bikers, dog walkers, and teens enjoying a cool drink, the workout went something like this.

    Mosey to the shade for COP, working in EF’s foot slow and steady. Don Quixotes, Helicopters, SSH, Russian Soldiers, and Freddy Mercuries.

    Plank position for a quick ring of fire in which the merkin exercise was called and everyone does 10 and then passing it around the ring. Such favorites such as diamond, wide, normal, hand release and something else kicked us off with a solid 50 reps.

    To the front of the school to find a little shade. Beast was called and off we went. Right obliques, reverse crunches, heels to heaven, left obliques, copperhead squats, and carolina dry docks.

    BTTW for a round of chicken peckers.

    Slow mosey to the bus loop for 11s. Jump squats and then cross the bus path and perform 4-count American Hammers. Exercises crossing the path included bear crawl, crawl bear, lunges, reverse lunges, and broad jump.

    Around to the back of the school for a Triple Check. BTTW, elbow plank, and run to the fence around the old building and back.

    Off to the garden shelter for Lindsays. Exercises include 2-count flutter kicks and dips.

    Making our way to the side we found a small patch of shade for some Mary. YHC called an exercise that we all performed and passed it around. Exercises included Box Cutters, APDs, Rosalitas, WWII, and Freddy Mercuries.

    EF Hutton took us out.

    Moleskin:

    The Punisher group is always up for any workout that comes their way. Today, the weather was as equal a challenge with the heat.

    It was great to see EF Hutton back out there and picking up where he left off.

    Thank you for letting me lead!

    Lockjaw

  • Ground is wet – must be Saturday

    Fifteen gathered for Saturday’s GridIron. Short mosey up the driveway and oval up on the pavement for warmup with SSHs, IWs, DQs, Squats, and Arm Circles. Clear the driveway for a few late arriving PAX members early in the sequence.

    Move off the pavement and into the park to the nearby bars. Break into three groups of five and take a position on the perimeter of the bar box. One guy from each group finds a bar, completes one Pull Up, then holds the pull while PAX, from Plank position, counts down from 12. Switch guys and do the same until all have gone. Two more rounds, holding for 11 and ten seconds, each.

    Mosey back to the parking lot and YHC grabs a Disc Golf disc from the vehicle. YHC picks targets across the AO while the PAX takes turns throwing to the target. Three Burpees per miss and three Squats for a hit. Rules adjusted as we progressed, including adding a Burpee to the count after each miss, but with a reset after a hit. If the disc was lost on a roof or in a drop inlet, we would have followed with 75 Burpees – but avoided this.

    Made it to the bus shelter behind the nearby school and completed three rounds of 25 Pole Smokers, 20 Plie Squats, 25 Box Cutters, and 30 count People’s Chair.

    Disc throws, again, along the school to a traffic island in the front. Circle up for Jack Webb variant with Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks, and Arm Circles completed in a ratio of 1:4:8. We made it to 8:32:64 before moving on.

    Disc tosses back across the football field to the main parking lot. Oval up for a few minutes of stretching. COT and Attila took us out.

  • Squat and curls

    Most recent Punisher started and finished at Strangeways on Dabney Road. Nice afternoon for a social.

  • Oh Craps!

    6 gloom warriors braved the humidity of Satan’s Hill this morning to start the week the right way. YHC was inspired by POG’s Deck of Death at SOT last week and decided to keep the gambling theme going.

    COP: 20 each: SSH, LBC’s. 10 each: DQ’s, Helicopters, Dead man hang, Imperial walkers, Russian soldiers, Merkins.

    The Thang: Craps. Roller craps out we run 2 equals top of Satan’s hill, 12 horseshoe. Roll for point doing # of roll x called exercise until roller craps out or get point. Any of the hards includes a run across the lot. Exercises were: Dollies, Merkins, Drydocks, Burpees, donkey kicks, squats, SSH, toe taps and much much more. Wilson and POG were the hot rollers (bring them to Vegas with you)!!

    YHC took us out in prayer.

    Always an honor to lead. Enjoy the week.