Category: Richmond, VA

  • 6 more weeks of winter

    A Sextet of Early Risers dressed in their Wednesday finest arrived on the manicured streets of Tuckahoe to see what YHC had in store for them. 5.30 hit and this is what was rumored to have occurred according to the plethora of security cameras in various yards.

    5.30 struck, slow mosey to the church patio. F3 disclaimer, introductions with a warm up that included DQ’s, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Reverso, Merkins, Rosalitas and LBC’s. Since we were already in position, why not kick things off with Mankillers, always a crowd favorite.

    With a Warm PAX we moseyed down to Country Squire for a triple check that included HRM, WWII’s with runner going to the sign and back. 3 rounds.

    Catch me if you can back up to the triangle. Bernie Sanders with partner doing 1 burpee and sprint. Switch until you reach the triangle.

    Another Triple Check at the triangle. Carolina Dry Docks, American Hammers, Run to the light and back.

    Mosey to the parking lot for laps. Runner runs the lot, partner performs exercises – Bearcrawl, Lunge, Broad Jump Burpees.

    Ab Ring of Fire complete the time. Crunchy Frogs, APD, Oblique Crunch and Hello Dollies

    Names, Numbers, Prayers for those at Bridgewater and Harrisonburg area. YHC took us out

    NMS: Good mumble chatter this morning. Ranging from frozen popsicles to movie recommendations. One Pax member decided to press his junk on the patio window based on his M’s reaction looks like we have 6 more weeks of winter. Great working out with you this morning in the cold. This AO is always a highlight of the week.

  • Can iPhones Spawn with Hotel Room Keys?

    One PAX threw off the lure of the Fart Sack to inaugurate, not for the first time, the AO now known as The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny (actually 64, but no complainers here). According to the people preparing to charge other people money for the privilege of working out in the Broward Mall parking lot, this is more or less what happened:

    Stretch and moan in the hotel parking lot. Short walk to get the blood flowing. Mosey 1/2 mile, then realize that office key has been left in the car.

    Footnote: YHC has a routine. Hotel room, elevator, car (drop hotel key, office key, iPhone, wallet, and mask in the car AND leave them under the driver’s seat). Handshake, remember that part. UNDER THE DRIVER’S SEAT. YHC has been meaning to carry his office key with him; to quote Splinter from years ago, “We have all been a little tied up at some point during a workout.”

    Route: Lake loop, cross Peters, office parking lot, past LaQuinta Hotel (no arrests in progress this morning), left on 78th/10th (north), left on Federated to Broward Blvd, and return the way YHC came…until…well, visions of Splinter telling YHC, “We have all been a little tied up at some point during a workout.” For 10 years, YHC has run around this area. Today was the first time YHC carried his office key fob. Building access, check. Clean facilities, check.

    Leave the office and BTTVSF.

    Number, name, YHC took himself out.

    NMS:
    After the workout, YHC goes for coffee. To get there, YHC unlocked and opened the car door, reached UNDER THE DRIVER’S SEAT (Handshake, pay attention) and found a hotel key, his iPhone, wallet, mask, and ANOTHER iPhone. YHC supposes someone put their phone under the seat of their rental vehicle and then forgot the phone. Or, perhaps YHC’s iPhone and hotel key had some weird transmorfication. Unclear. The Clinic is never boring. YHC will keep the PAX informed regarding any pictures which may appear on said additional phone.

    Schedule update: The Clinic gathers regularly. Like DaVille, the day of the week changes from time to time. Many weeks, The Clinic happens on Wednesday’s at 5:30, sometimes 5, and occasionally 4:30. Sometimes, Tuesdays. Rarely Monday, though on Valentine’s / Galentine’s Day, the schedule calls for Monday. Almost never Friday. Thursdays are less rare, albeit not frequent. It has never met on a Saturday, nor on a Sunday. The precise start time is always roughly 5:30, though the Q does have some leeway to schedule according to local times, traditions, conditions, and decisions. Nonetheless, The Clinic meticulously starts on time every day it happens.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Year of the Tiger

    4 Davillians came out to get their Chinese New Year started with a bang!

    Today was hill day. Headed into Giles and did hill repeats for the first 2.5 miles. Finished the run with a loop around the schools to get in just under 4.5 miles (Marco Polo ran during the COT to finish with 5 miles)

    Strong work put in by everyone today by pushing the pace on the hills.

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Apparently the SOP rulebook is 18 pages

    5 faithful HBR regulars came out to see if Pigskin would be back in the gloom and we found he arrived back in RVA safely to join us. Standing around at 5:29 YHC called an early start with nobody else expected to get us moving:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks.

    Mosey to the tennis courts: Bear crawl halfway, 10 HRMs, run to end. Repeato with Crab walk & burpees, Lunge and jump squats, Broad jump burpees and flutterkicks. Mosey over to DK wall: 25 Donkey kicks, run to end of blacktop, 5 burpees. Repeato with 15 HRMs, then jump squats. Head down to Jerkin Gym, grab a bench. 4 rounds of: 30 Benchkicks & 10 Derkins.

    Head over to field: Run to midfield, WWIIs, then other end. Repeato with Heels2Heaven, then Flutterkicks.

    Jerkin Gym time: 3 rounds of 8 Jerkins. Then over to Heartbreak Hill. Run up 10 HRMs, down then 1 Burpee. 2nd time up: WWIIs, then 3rd time up Pickle Pounders. Back to flag for 1 min of Mary. Atilla took us out.

    Announcements: SOJ HH tomorrow at new Triple Crossing soutside.

    NMS: Good to have Pigskin back in VA, sounds like he had a great time with Gomer on the mission trip. BB title comes from Handshake’s version of the SOP guidelines. YHC has been operating under the assumption that being SOP means just wear shorts in the gloom always. According to Handshake being SOP actually takes into consideration wind chill, number of top layers, hat size, and sexual orientation.

    YHC was prepared for sparks to fly with Atilla and Handshake next to each other on the HRMs to start but no takers. YHC tried to keep us moving as the PAX is ready for some above freezing temperatures. Still a good morning to be out with our F3 brothers.

  • Last day of silence

    18 strong posted for my last day of silence. YHC had a rough plan for the workout but that had to be adjusted due to size of PAX. Thank you all for posting. I really appreciate OC posting in the Browns gear .

    COP- 49 each SSH, 20 LBC; 10 Each DQ’s, Jazzercise, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, ,Russian soldiers, Coper head squat, Dead man hang, Merkins, Flutters, Dollies.  

    The thang:

    4 corners: Bumper style. 5 groups, 1 is always running bumping group to next. Exercises were hand release merkins, WWII, SSquats , Monkey humpers. Completed 2 rounds.

    Triple check: Runner, Drydocks and LBC’s

    Mini dora: Runner, 50 merkins, 100 LBS’s, 150 squats.

    Various runs across the parking lot.

    BTF- Someone took off for the flag like a Bat out of Hell.

    Announcements:

    Hump Day Happy hour Triple Crossing midlo, Glow Run March 6th see slack for sign up.

    Prayer Requests:

    YHC took us out in prayer.

    Make Today Awesome! 

  • York Peppermint Paddy

    Towards the Batcave and make a left on Ridgeway to Fairway to Robin/Iris. Cross Three Chopt and take York to Maple.

    4s take a left on Maple, a left on Dustin, and a left on Pepper to cross Patterson.

    5s/6s take a right on Maple and a left on Grove. 5s turn left on Lexington and 6s on Wisteria; with both turning left on Patterson. 5s take a left on Pepper while 6s take a right on Maple to pick up the Dustin/Pepper loop.

    With all distances heading south on Pepper, take Pepper to Three Chopt for a quick left and then right on Towana. Come back in on campus with 4s/6s taking the right wishbone and 5s taking the left.

    Marv took us out.

    Announcements: Punisher Happy Hour at Bingo Beer. 2/7 @6:15 (6pm if you want to run first).

  • Puzzles, Golden Girls, and Prom Dates

    Hmm, its getting colder than we realized as the sun went down. Over to the front of the school for COP. Don Quixotes, Potato Pickers, Helicopters, Ssh, Russian Soldiers.

    First Up: Triple Check – Partner 1 runs the perimeter of the front field, partner 2 flutter kicks, and partner 3 performs an elbow plank.

    Mosey over to the bus loop for a customized 11s. Exercises were merkins (10 different variety that the Pax cycled through), followed by some fork of locomotion across the loop, 4 count American Hammers, and same form of locomotion back.

    Over to the blacktop for incremental 4 corners with Karaoke in between sides.

    Corner 1 – 10 Jump Squats

    Corner 2 – 10 Jump Squats, 20 Box Cutters

    Corner 3 – 10 Jump Squats, 20 Box Cutters, 30 Carolina Dry-docks

    Corner 4 – 10 Jump Squats, 20 Box Cutters, 30 Carolina Dry-docks, 40 WWIIs

    Finish up with some yoga led by Chum and YHC took us out.

    Announcement: Next Monday (2/7) Punisher will be a happy hour at Bingo Beer. Show up at 6pm if you want a light jog. Show up at 615 if you want the beverages. I hear they have wings too.

  • Who Dey

    YHC was super pumped that the Bengals won and are going to the Superbowl…so excited, saw that the Q sheet was open and signed up to Q DaVille. It was a nice sunny and 70 day, so the fartsack seemed the better option for the North of the wall gang. No matter, Bengal Tigers can hunt on their own, in fact they are able to drag a bison to where they will feed. While warming up with 25 SSH, 10 DQ’s, 15 Arm Circles, 10 small and 5 big it occurred to YHC that we have not had a Murph workout in awhile and it is a great solo workout routine. So back to the car, grab the phone with the countdown timer then to the pull up bars by the bus loop.

    With a mile in mosey so far, set up the countdown timer for 20 minutes and for every minute, performed 5 pull ups, 10 merkins and 15 squats. After 20 rotations that is 100 pull ups, 200 merkins and 300 squats. Once this was wrapped up ran 4 bus loop laps and back to the car to wrap up this murph work out.

    Moleskin – Who Dey is the name of the Bengals mascot the Bengal Tiger, it started in the 70’s as a rallying cry to bring the city together around the football team. The icing on the cake for this win was exacting some revenge for the Bills as they lost a heartbreaker in Arrowhead Stadium a week ago.

    Have a great week everyone…I look forward to seeing you in the gloom! Cheers…CB!

  • Playing with Friends’ Toys

    Nine PAX joined YHC for the last January 2022 Hoedown that will ever exist and left with flashbacks of Merkin month.

    Here’s what transpired:

    Mosey to front of school

    COP

    • Don Quixotes
    • Helicopters
    • Dead Man Hang
    • Grab the Sky
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Imperial Walkers
    • Merkins
    • LBCs

    Mosey to parking lot hill

    Bernies and Burpees

    • P1 – Bernie x 3
    • P2 – Burpees (combine for 75)

    Mosey to the recess field

    Triple Check 1

    • P1 – Pullups
    • P2 – WWIIs in the snow
    • P3 – Run over and back, stopping for 5 Dips

    Mosey to other side of field

    Merkin Ladder

    • 1 Merkin, run across field, 2 Merkins, run back, 3….17 + 1 bonus round

    Mosey to the Horseshoe

    Triple Check 2

    • P1 – People’s Chair
    • P2 – Freddie Mercurys
    • P2 – Run the loop

    Mosey 3 feet across the sidewalk

    PLTs 3×20

    Plankorama into a Ring of Fire

    Mosey back to the Flag

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    Pre-beatdown mumblechatter had to do with Faceplant and Hitch’s playdate.  Faceplant says Hitch has better toys at his house.  YHC remembered thinking his friend’s parents had the world’s coolest van because it had a 4×4 inch black and white television mounted in the ceiling in 1985.  UpChuck had terrible toys as a kid and still does as a grown up.  Jacks tournament at his house next Thursday.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Happy Hour – Wednesday new southside Triple Crossing

  • Frozen Ciabatta BLIMPS

    Four of the faithful braved the ice, snow, cold, and wind for a 7AM workout on the west end Saturday. Johnsonville was the volunteer Q, and this is what went down (more or less):

    COT for fairly brief warmup (50 ssh, hillbillies, suzanne sommers).

    Mosey to atrium in back of school, mostly to try to get some shelter from the harsh wind. YHC set up his phone for the following six (6) sets of Ciabatta:

    • Burpees (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
    • Lunges (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
    • Imperial Walkers (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
    • Merkins (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
    • Plank Jacks (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)
    • Sit-Ups (LBCs because we were on pavement) (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)

    Interlude of stretching

    1 more Ciabatta set for good measure– Donkey Kicks (8 cycles 20 sec. on 10 sec.)

    Mosey to south side of school for Four Play — wall sit -> close grip pushup -> hold 6 in. leg raise -> Pigskin parkour.

    Mosey back to VSF.

    COF with YHC taking us out.