Category: Richmond, VA

  • Eleven

    No, not the one married to Bon Jovi’s kid. We had eleven at WTH to celebrate the end of 2025. According to the people waiting at the closed Dunkin Donuts and the one guy by himself at the Lauderdale Starbucks, this is what we accomplished:

    Nine went for the traditional WTH and two did some kettlebell. The two lifted them up and down a lot. They also had about 5 kettlebells per person. I did not see the kettlebell juggling exercise.

    The nine runners went to the upside down and did one of my normal routines backwards. We started with a warm up run to the Roger Roger pad. There we did some DQs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Flutters and Hammers. We then looked back on 2025 by going to the Nissan dealership first for some white car burpees (5) and red car jump squats (25). We stopped at the flag after 35 burpees and 75 jump squats. For the second half of the lot we did red car 25 jump squats (4 times) and blue car 25 LBCs (3 times).

    We then continued on our reverse path and went to the SPES drop off/pick up loop for a triple check. Timer ran the loop, partners did prisoner get ups and Irish hammers. No one got chased by a demogorgon.

    We then headed to Wally’s park. The cold and maybe the holidays helped keep the piss and shit smell down–thanks Wally! We went to the water park and circled up for some Copperhead Squats in cadence and then some plank stretching via right hand to right foot and then right hand to the sky, flapjack and then repeat.

    A route around the path (construction work is done!) took us to the pavilion for 20 step ups (each leg) and then WW2 in cadence (26 total). From there, we headed back to Hawkins.

    I only had 2.3 miles on my watch but you can’t trust GPS in a wormhole. Also cannot trust which Starbucks the group goes to since one is 1.3 miles away and another is 4.2 miles away. You take a guess which one everyone but me went to…

    Convergence tomorrow at 7. Also Circus will be open at 5:30 for a double dip or double fart sack.

    Happy New Year!

  • The Oyster – Not F3RVA’s Oyster

    Posted down range in Surfside Beach, SC at the AO – The Oyster, with 3 of the F3 South Strand PAX. Temperatures were much cooler than these beach boys are used to as they gave me crazy looks rolling up in shorts.

    Peaches had the Q and ran us through a chatGPT created workout with various exercises to spell out New Year in quantities of 26. Ended with a little jog and plank to close it out.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayers- Asked the PAX to pray for Wildcat.

  • The Beautiful Bridge

    What a wonderful morning for F3RVA, F3 The Bridge and F3 Charlottesville to converge on top of the hills of Buckingham County, VA! At precisely 7:30am, after meetings and greetings, and tummy rubs and ear scratches for the pups, the following is what most likely happened:

    COP on the basketball court after a lap jog around the lot:

    Dead Man Hang, Reach for the Stars, Helicopters, DQ’s, Ukrainian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squats, LBC’s, WW2 Sit-ups, Flutter Kicks and 1 Arm Circle led by Hardywood

    Mosey over to the large blacktop area for:

    Four Corners – Prostitute Style

    10 Merkins, 20 Jump Squats, 30 Monkey Humpers, 40 SSH’s

    Mosey back to basketball court for:

    2 x 20 Partner Leg Tosses, each pax

    Plank-a-rama

    Mosey over to driveway for:

    Touch-a-Tree

    Round 1: 5 trees or protrusions from the ground/Merkins

    Round 2: 5 different trees or protrusions/Squats

    Round 3: 5 different trees or protrusions/Burpees

    Partner up for 20 count Boo-Yah Merkins

    Al Gore

    Back to the blacktop for:

    Tug-O-War! (refereed by Mr. Davis)

    Round 1: Mix-n-match Team A beats Mix-n-match Team B

    Round 2: Mix-n-match Team B beats Mix-n-match team A

    Round 3: F3 The Bridge beats F3RVA really badly!

    Back to the basketball court for:

    5MOM

    Each pax picked an exercise that we did 10 of in cadence.

    Time up!

    Numbers, Names, Prayer Requests and Praises

    YHC took us out!

    NMS:

    We could not have asked for anything more than what we received this morning! Great weather, awesome fellowship, and, most importantly, helping our F3 The Bridge brothers see the light of a new day (and the light at the end of the tunnel.) These five men brought their A game right out of the fartsack this morning! They also brought joy and humility to us, which was much needed for YHC.

    If you haven’t been, you need to go! It’s as simple as that. A lot of us advertise The Bridge at the end of most of our backblasts, but then it ends there. Follow through and go!

    Also, I have two words for you: Cumberland Diner!

    We need someone who has been at least one time to sign up to Q for January. See Upchuck.

    F3RVA – this thing that we share is not about you, it’s about everyone and everything else.

    Kubota

  • Running! plus Accountabilty Dora

    13 of Westhoes finest gathered to see how far Gomer was going to run today. Acording to our Krav Maga friend and the friendly dog walker, this is what went down, more or less.

    Welcome. 8 Burpee start. Disclaimer. Move to COP.

    All exercises in cadence. 50 Mountain climbers. 50 LBC. 10 Don Quixote. 10 Turn n bounce. Arm circles 10 small, 10 big, reverso, overhead claps, seal claps. 10 Mercans. 10 Shoulder taps. 10 waist taps. 10 ankle taps. 10 foot taps. 10 kick throughs. 10 tony hawks. Run around lot.

    15 LBC, 15 right leg straight, 15 left leg straight, 15 both legs straight, 15 45 degree legs, 15 90 degree legs. 15 flutters, 15 Hello Dolly, 15 Rosalita. 10 APD. Tuscaloosa stretch. 15 sumo squats. 10 split squats each leg. Run around lot.

    Accountability Dora, 2 pairs of 2 pax- add the smallest number from partners on each iteration. 100 decline mercans with feet on concrete barriers, 200 dips, 300 LBC with feet on wall. Sumo squats for the six and for time.

    YHC took us out. Prayers for healing, travelers, and those looking for work. Coffeeteria at Starbucks with about half the crew.

     NMS – tclaps to Fudd for showing up early AND doing a few laps to get some extra cardio in. Great to see Wojo back out.

    Thanks for letting me lead.

    GET SOME!

  • Last RR for 2025

    YHC showed up to 3 brothers ready to run or ruck for the last workout for 2025 for Raider Run Ruck.

    Bam ran the farmhouse loop in Kings Charter logging in 4.5 miles.

    Yardsale, Bulkhead and YHC rucked 2.5 miles going through Honey Meadows loop.

    Numberama/namerama – Yardsale took us out in prayer.

    Great workout this morning gents! See you in the gloom soon! Cheers…CB!

  • 2 Kettlebells Will Do!

    2 Mammoth Men emerged from the frigid gloom to warm things up to a 70 and sunny kettlebell beatdown! Here’s what the owls witnessed during this Q Potato!

    Warmarama OYO in the parking lot and get in some mumble chatter,

    Take up our KBs and head for the hill- Carry your KB any way you choose while walking down and Bernie back up 20x – hit the deck for 25 merkins to warm up the upper body.

    Center Field KB Swap – 1st Round – 4 Sets – PAX travels to goal line with KB – Perform 20 Monkey Humpers – Travel back to center field w/KB and perform 30 SSH’s

    2nd Round – 2 Sets – MoT / I Am The 3rd – 20 Curls

    3rd Round – 2 Sets – MoT – Single arm OH carry – 20 Pull Through Merkins.

    Tricep extensions back to the lot.

    CoT – Announcements – Convergence this Thursday 0700 at Dogwood Dell

    Frozen Triangle is on the horizon! Forgot to mention this from yesterday, I dont think YHC will be getting a returning Q request this year. 😂

    Prayer Requests – prayers for my sister in law Callie – my wife has planted the seed of her story with Jesus into conversation, praying that blossoms into a relationship with God.

    Prayers for Commandos daughter for safe travels as she makes her way back down to GA and Florida. Also Commandos son starts his career today, praying for big things to happen for him.

    Commando closed us out in prayer.

  • Where Are the Spiders?

    No Q, Small PAX, No Problem.

    Over the Bridge to the Z Dam, Reverse Split Back

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKINE

    What YHC thought might be a brisk mosey/ walk, turned into 5 plus miles and a 5k PR (at least for 2025) thanks to Chippendale’s arrival.  No rest for the weary afterall.  Happy New Year.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Breaking Bread – see Oyster for January

    Convergence – 0700 New Years Day at DogPile

  • Blackbeard’s Revenge in Murrells Inlet

    Posted down range with 14 of F3 Grandstrand PAX members for a cooler than usual for this area beatdown. Jeter was on the Q and brought a Four Corners prostitute style workout with 2 burpees, 4 squats, 8 LBCs. Double the quantity at each corner. Moved to bear crawls, merkins and WW2s on the basketball court. Numbers, names, announcements and prayers. Looking forward to posting a few more times this week down here!

  • ?what does the oreo say in German? NINE!

    A grand 11 HIM’s RSVP’d “Hell Yeah!” to Oreo’s 9th Birthday Bash, which coincidentally also celebrates NTB’s 9th wedding anniversary. By the minimalist attire of ROSIE temps were 70 and Sunny (as always), but LWOODS’ impersonation of Randy from the Christmas Story movie (stuck in puffy snowsuit) suggested true temps may have been in the 20’s. Here’s how we celebrated YHC’s firstborn:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey onto the BBall Court lot and circle up
    • Slaughter Start with x9 Burpees to thaw the extremities
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variety of Warm-up Reps, each x9 IC

    KILO-OREO:

    • Mosey to the bleachers
    • Partner up, alternating cumulative reps with the other running across the field and back
    • O – x100 Big O’s rotating legs above and below plane of bleacher seat
    • R – x200 Ranger Merkins
    • E – x300 Each Leg Bleacher StepUps
    • O – x400 Oblique LBC’s
    • (No matter what SNUFF says – this DOES add up to 1000 reps!)

    BURPEE LADDER:

    • Mosey to the pavilion
    • PAX complete descending reps of merkins per burpee, from 9 down to 1, woth a run around the Pavilion between sets.
    • Flutters to the Beat for the SIX

    PAY THE TOLL:

    • x9 Derkins IC (painfully slow)

    BTTF:

    • 2.5min of Variable Mary

    COT:

    • Counterama # 11
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer – theme of Gratitude
    • COFFEE! (Thx to SNUFF)

    NMS:  Brothers, thank you for posting in 20-something weather, for your enthusiasm to take on whatever YHC had in store, and for your fantastic mumble chatter. What a great PAX! This tradition of celebrating Penniella’s birthday is now complemented beautifully with knowing we also celebrate NTB’s nuptials. Blanchard’s Coffeerama was spectacular- thank you again Snuff. YHC is deeply grateful to have such an amazing PAX of brothers to be in the gloom with. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 01/01 – 7am Convergence at Dogpile
    • 01/08 – 7pm SOJ Hang at Heists

  • Slow Roller Coaster

    With just Singer and YHC on the (still in town list) of runners that frequent RR, YHC pre-fired a text with a route that is loved by all. River Downs South up the big hill, loop around the back towards Gumbos old house but turn right early and BTTF. 4.40 by the Garman, Singer turned BTTF at 2 miles which probably gave him 4 +/-

    Numbers / Names YHC took us out

    NMS: There was a day not too long ago that YHC might have been able to catch Singer coming BTTF near JRHS but not having run in a while has taken its toll.