Uno Amego out for a run at BWES this morning. YHC decided to run the Tarrington route today but took the wrong right turn after the first round about and ended up cutting off about a mile and two hills. by the time YHC realized his mistake it was too late to back track. Run must have been right around 4 miles and the pace might have been around the 8 min mark. YHC no longer has a fancy GPS watch so distance and pace are difficult to keep track of.
Category: Richmond, VA
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Who needs rain
6 pax showed up Friday morning after the weather guesser said 100% chance of heavy rain.
No rain but 100% humidity.
Easy routes today.. a 4, 4.75, and 5.5 allowing for us all to start and finish at the same time. We broke up into 3 pairs.
- Roger Roger and Greenbow took on the 4 miler
- Garbage plate and HandShake took on the 5.5
- Probation and YHC took on the 5.5 with a few extra.
Route:
- right out of school on Pump
- Left on pump
- Right on Broad (or three chop for 4 miler)
- Right on John Rolfe
- Left i to the school.
Great running with you guys.
COT in a F3 run is just that.. gotta show to know.
SYITG!!
V/r
John (Gypsy) Boles
As always.. call a pax you haven’t heard from it may be exactly what he needed today.
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Muddy Waters had Four Legs
9 studs and a couple of pooches ran off in groups of 2 or 3 (and maybe 1 or 4) for today’s rendition of Sunday Funday. Conditions were 70 and sunny with some exceptionally attractive mud puddles. According to the mountain biker unfamiliar with the trail rules, here’s more or less what happened:
North Bank (everyone) to a bridge. Some T-Pot, some Belle Isle. Once some were on Belle Isle, some did the loop, some did not. For the T-Pot bunch, some did Forest Hill, perhaps the full loop or perhaps the lake loop, and everyone made it back to the flag. Distances ranged from 6+ to 10+. All in all, the perfect way for each man to spend a Sunday morning running to the beat of his own drummer.
Virtual names, numbers, etc. That’s how we roll on Sunday Funday.
NMS:
Close to the busiest that YHC has ever seen the trails (excluding race days). Tons of runners, lots of friendly k-9s, and a few bikers. Faceplant’s dog rocked it today. Trotted along safely behind the runners, and then found his own bliss in the mud and water. Happier than a pig in slop at the end. Pictures of Faceplant’s vehicle interior are forthcoming.
Welcome FNG Wes, whose name is subject to some pondering. Considerations are Compass, Rock Doc, Flipper (taken), and Tear Down.
Olivander is raising a Friends and Family round of funding for a start-up rural ambulance service. ROIs look promising.
ETs was excellent. Thank you all for joining me.
UpChuck spits the bit.
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Death by Flower Pose
4 vets brought their 2.0’s for a Puppypile PAX total of 12 hard chargers. Once the Dogpile COT was done, the minions were mustered and scampered gleefully into the misty morn.
The THANG:
COP #1:
- Mosey to the grass circle
- Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
- Variable DTH Warmerama, including a rolling around in the wet grass
- Hokey Pokey Warm-up (music and speaker provided by the beloved M)
COP #2:
- Mosey to Carillon Field
- Quarter Pounder
- As a group, run to each quarter, complete the reps and Bernie back
- x5 Burpees
- x10 WWII
- x15 Squats
- x20 Merkins
COP #3:
- Mosey back to the Bamboo Hut (adjacent to grass circle)
- Musical Burn Out – reps continued or position held until music stops
- Squats
- Hold BTTW
- Flutter Kicks
- Lunges
- Hold Elbow Plank
- LBC’s
- Monkey Humpers
- Burpees
- Flower Pose (thanks Oreo!)
COP #4:
- Mosey down to the Bowl
- Partner up for x3 Rounds of:
- P1 – LBC’s
- P2 – Rolls down hill, does x3 Merkins, runs back up to switch with partner (only a few of the bravest souls actually rolled down the hillside, most either crab walked or skidded on feet/bums)
COP #5:
- Mosey back up to the Grass Circle
- Merkin Merkin Burpee
- Like Duck Duck Goose… with some fun background music …you get it
Mosey BTTF for COT:
- Counterama # 12
- Namerama
- Announcerama (see Comments)
- YHC took the PAX out in Prayer
NMS:
- Puppypile 2021 has officially kicked off with a bang! What a great PAX today, working extra hard to crush the COP’s. Hammerhead gets the award for speed today, while Oreo got first place in creativity with her Flower Pose burner. The Draper and Chaplin kids crushed the Merkin Merkin Burpee challenge. Extra credit goes to the few baller kids who actually rolled down the grassy hill! The PAX welcomed FNG “Jagger” today, Roger Roger’s firstborn, nicknamed because he named himself some nonsense that sounded like “MitJagr“, and he has the moves like Jagger, so there you go! YHC had a blast leading you guys today – way to work! SYITG, DTH
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Tickets to the Gun Show
15 redwoods posted to Dogpile for another edition of Try Hard or Die Trying! Here’s how we inscribed Emoji’s going away card:
The THANG:
COP #1:
- Mosey to the Circle
- Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
- Usual DTH warmerama following a few warm up laps around the circle
COP #2:
- Amphitheater Lindsey
- WWII’s in the Grass Circle, 30/25/20/15/10
- Flutters (2-ct) at the bottom of the Amphitheater 10/15/20/25/30
- Running between top/bottom between sets
COP #3:
- Mosey to collect our Gun Show Tickets, AKA – the Coupons
- Mosey over to the Bowl and partner up
- Gun Show Dora
- x100 Block Alt-hand Merkins (2-ct)
- x200 Block Bench Press
- x300 Block Curls for the Girls
- Moving partner carries coupon to other side & back
COP #4:
- Mosey Coupons back to the Penny Stage
- Partner up for a Coupon Finale
- P1 – Coupon Swings
- P2 – Murder Bunny across width of the field, run back
- Two rounds each completed
- Circle up to complete x10 BBJO’s (Burpee Block Jump-Overs) OYO
Mosey BTTF for COT:
- Counterama # 15
- Namerama
- Announcerama (see Comments)
- YHC took the PAX out in Prayer
NMS:
- YHC arrived early enough to watch the dynamic Breakfast Club duo, Gomer Pile and Hitchhiker, make their honorable entrance. YHC took a few minutes to review the plan before Q’ing two workouts back to back – but the sage advice of GP was well appreciate, “Fight the Enemy, Not the Plan” …in other words, have a plan in place, but be ready to adjust in order to win. Well, 0600 arrived, and the PAX took off, complemented by the down range powerhouse Linked In – welcome! Some highlights of the morning were a few rolled eyes with the 8-count No Cheat Merkins, nobody slipping to their death going up and down the wet amphitheater steps, the heroic effort and enthusiasm the entire PAX put into CRUSHING the Gun Show Dora, two separate “Bodos” salutes (blocks broken to smithereens), Gomer Pile hazing Bodos on his block curls quality, and the groans and mumble chatter accompanying the Murder Bunnies and BBJO’s to end the morning. YHC is honored as always to be a part of this group. Thx for letting me lead today brothers. SYITG, DTH
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High School Reunion
2 Boot Campers and 3 runners made their way through the drizzle to grace the Gloom at Twin Team
Mosey with the runners but break off at the JRHS
COP
DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squats and some other stuff
Parking lot crawls
10 up Bear crawl increasing merkins at each line
10 down crab walk increasing 2 LBC’s at each line
5 up Peter Parker style (6″) increasing merkins at each line
5 down lunges increasing 2 squats at each line
Mosey to next student lot
Four Corners using light posts as a guide 10 LBC’s, 20 Carolina dry docks, 30 American hammers, 40 ???
Mosey to next student lot
Four corners around the outer perimeter 10 calf raises, 20 ball dippers, 30 monkey humpers, 40 plank jacks
Mosey to BWES playground
quick elevens – pull ups and merkins no run between
Mosey to bus loop and find bases set up for a kickball infield on the black top with a pitchers mound
Partner 1 on the mound partner 2 on home plate, partner 1 does 20 Carolina dry dock partner 2 does 20 2 count shoulder taps. Partner 2 goes to first partner 1 goes to home. Swap exercises, alternate exercises at each base
BTTF get in 5 Man Killers before time is up
Wojo and YHC talk while waiting for the runners to return
Numbers / Names YHC took us out
NMS
Great day for a beat down but extremely muggy. While talking after the COT YHC was reminded the he and Wojo graduated from the same High School in Charlotte, NC though a couple years apart. It’s always interesting to see how lives and paths have crossed over the years and how we may really never know it until later in life.
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If its not a cartoon frog does it still sing…
4 Davillians got in their canoes and paddled over to Pearson Corner this morning.
This how it when down
Warm Up – Emoji and YHC were only two at 5:30 so we started with a warm up lap around the parking lot. Mr Holland and Bulkhead showed up shortly after and we did some parking lot tracers before heading to the COP
COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, LBC’s, Heels to Heaven, Scorpion Kicks, Merkins, Arm Circles
THANG
Mosey to the courtyard
Chaos Four Corners – Typically this would be done with 5 PAX so we had to modify a little. First PAX start with completing 40 SSH’s while the other PAX run to the first corner and drop of the next PAX member who start the next exercises and continue to the next corner and so on. Once the first PAX is done they run the P2 and complete 10 (2ct) Mtn Climber, both PAX run to P3 and complete 20 Squats, then run to P4 and complete 30 SSH. The whole PAX runs back to the first corner and completes 5 Burpees. The switch, rinse and repeat till each PAX starts as P1 and completes the 40 SSH’s.
Mosey to the playground
Touch a Tree – Partner up. First partner dues Pull ups (modified with some Dip and Jerkins as well) while second partner goes and touches one tree then switch. Rinse and Repeat increase to 2 trees then keep going up to 10 trees.
Mosey back to the SF
2 MOM – Freddy Mercury’s and Gas Pump
2 MOS – Bulkhead lead us in a range of stretching exercises
Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, Emoji took us out
MOLESKIN
Wet and muggy morning but was good to get back in the gloom. It was so muggy we had the frogs singing for us the whole time
SPIT ON THAT!!
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Ladder Chase
Time to get stronger. Five noble warriors assembled at the Circus Maximus for our weekly beat-down. Here is how it went:
- COP
- SSH
- Russian soldiers
- DQ
- Helicopters
- Arm circles
- APD
- Merkins
- LBC
- KB ladder – series of four exercises, starting at 10 reps and moving down to 1 (which really turned into 10), followed by a chaser of 10 lawnmower pulls (each arm)
- Sumo squat to a high pull
- Curls
- Sit ‘n press
- Shoulder press
- Run a lap of the bus loop
- Catch me if you can – one man does 10 burpees and then catches his partner doing a double barrel KB carry; rinse and repeat
- Ciabatta with overhead pulls
- COT with YHC taking us out
Great work from the PAX today. Big data requirement fulfilled. YHC is going to bed.
God is good all of the time!
Attila
- COP
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On the Slopes of Mount Trifling
At 5:30am an eclectic mix of SOJers and river crossing studs assembled at Huguenot High for another round of the Forge. The humidity was strong, but so was our desire to slay this workout. A brief summary for your viewing pleasure:
Mosey down to the lower circle, completing 10 side straddle hops at each light pole (aka traffic lights).
No cadence needed warm up consisting of: Walking Russian Soldiers, Walking Arm Circles, Walking Helicopters, Walking Drunken Hillbillies, Carioka, Incline Merkins. May have missed a few.
Mosey to the base of Mt. Chaplain for the duration.
Round 1 – Ascent – At first parking lot do 2 burpees, 10 Mountain Climbers, 2nd parking lot – 3 burpees plus 10 Mountain Climbers, 4 burpees plus 10 Mountain Climbers, 5 burpees plus 10 Mountain Climbers. Fresh Prince blessed us with a bonus of 6 burpees, 10 Mountain Climbers at the summit. On the way down – start at 2 burpees and repeat the pattern.
Round 2 – On ascent, completed the following stages: 25 WWII sit-ups, 50 flutter kicks, 75 Alabama Prom Dates, 100 LBC’s. Meet at the summit,
Round 3 – On descent: 25 2 ct. Ball Dippers, 50 lunges, 75 Jump Squats, 100 Gorilla Humpers (twerking). Run back to the top.
Round 4: Crab Walk Down the hills, Bernie Sanders across parking lot areas. Run back to the top.
Speed shuffle back to the flag for Names, Numbers, and Announcements.
Greenbow took us out in prayer.
Great work by the PAX today! Everyone was looking strong. We were treated to some beautiful skies, great conversations, and lactic acid build up in our legs.Appreciate Flatline with the drive by shout out.
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Moist Potato
Six, wait seven… no eight, hold it, nine boot campers plus two circumnavigators gathered for a Q-less Mary. Upchuck stole the potato and off we went for:
COP (Upchuck)
SSH, ROF, DQ, IW, APD, LBC, ROFUpchuck
Mosey to the collection of high quality plastic picnic tables for partner exercises. Run, dips, deline merkins. Run, dips, incline merkins. Run, dips, squats. Upchuck offered the potato and Faceplant took it before it being passed to him.Faceplant
Back to the parking lot for escalator exercises. WWII escalator on one side of parking lot and single count flutter kicks on the other side. 1-21 with bear crawls between each line. Passed to Oyster.Oyster
Triple check. Running, jump squats, peoples chair. Pass to Malpractice.Malpractice
Stay in teams (for no good reason) and run the bases. 10 at each base of an exercise. 5 burpees at each. 15 something at each. Pass to Splinter.Splinter
Tennis court line drill. 1,2,3,4 burpees at each mid-court. 2,4,6,8 squats at each court. 3,6,9,12 HTH at each court. Line of fire before back to the flag.Announcements
– Puppy pile this saturday after dog pile
– HDHH 6/23
– Clear the attic at upchucks some day soonNumbers, names, YHC took us out.
Moleskin
Soupy day but great mumblechatter this morning. Also great fellowship post COT. Enjoy the day gentlemen.