Category: Richmond, VA

  • Core 4

    With a last minute, who’s coming to WTH at 9pm? 6 warriors rolled into the parking lot hot ready to find out what’s in store for them from a RR Q. After 4 weeks of absence from sick family to vacation and pushing the reset button YHC was ready to roll minus the hey your “cadence” is rusty as usual it went something like this:

    Warm-A-Rama

    Mosey to the concrete pad about half mile away to engage in a light duty Warm-a-Rama in which the PAX engaged in:

    Dead Man Hang

    25x SSH

    15xArm Circles 

    15xReverso

    15x Suzanne summers (both legs)

    The Thang:

    Core 4- four massive long distance corners to incorporate core exercises throughout. From the concrete pad we mosied to the corner near the beauty parlor of ULTA for our first corner which incorporated 25 WWIIs. The second corner was to get a sammie at JJs freaky fast where we did another 25 WWIIs. A quick glance at Dave and Busters for a failed attempt at a game of ski ball as we mosey to corner 3 at the end of the Village for 25 more WWIIs. The last stop on this large core 4 was the corner of John Rolfe with a scenic view of the retention pond.

    Mosey to the pad for 25 OYO Plank Jacks and off for round 2.

    Same corners= 25 2 count Flutters

    Back to the concrete pad for 25 2 count Mountain climbers OYO and on to RD 3.

    RD 3 we complete 50 LBCs on our 4 corners then a mosey back to the bus loop for 2 laps to complete the tour at WTH.

    The mumble chatter was high with 4 different GPS calculations on the table. Since YHC was Q and Iwatch  was counting we will throw out the 3 other mileage counts and say we did 4 miles on this massive Core 4. In all reality Pigskin held the correct distance at 3.4 miles. 

    YHC will fix cadence and stop the distance counter on exercises! 

    Thanks for the Q gents! SYITG


    Lots of prayer requests/takeaways-

    prayers for Jennifer

    BRR they launch tomorrow

    illness and those grieving

    school starts today (pray for our teachers and students)

  • No Running Games Today

    YHC welcomed 20 harriers to Spider Run today to share in some pre BRR tapering. Unlike past YHC run routes, there were no games to be played, no dice to roll, and no chalk markings. Everyone was sad. But do not worry, the games will be back soon.

    YHC has a propensity for not remembering directions, so YHC had to keep it super simple this morning. The route went like this for 1 milers, 2 milers, 3 milers, 4 milers, 5 milers, and 6 milers, and everything in between.

    Head out the bat cave, run past the future site of the drive through Starbucks, cross the James river on the bridge, head east down Riverside Drive until you hit 22 minutes, turn around and do 23 minutes back. That’s it.

    Everyone made it back safe and sound.

    Numbers, names, and announcements.

    YHC took us out.

    Two and a wake up to BRR!

  • Diamond, Square, or whatever Nancy says

    5 SOJ regulars were graced by the presence of an FNG and 3 New Marketeers that found their way to the lush fields of No Toll this morning to see what YHC had planned to work off the festivities of the long holiday weekend. Iron Pax was threatened but this is what occurred to the best of my knowledge.

    F3 Disclaimer and Warmarama in typical No Toll location that included SSH, Dead Man Hang, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers and Copperhead Squats.

    Mosey to far field for 7 of Diamonds. 4 sets of exercises with 1/2 field mosey between sets. Exercises included 7 Hand Release Merkins, 14 World War II’s, 21 Imperial Squat Walkers, 28 Carolina Dry Docks, 21 Jump Squats, 14 Scrunchy Frogs, 7 Burpees.

    Remain under the Pavilion for Triple Check: Timer runs across the field, Elevated Merkins & Dips on the bench.

    Mosey back to the restrooms for another Triple Check: Timer runs to end of the parking lot, Pole Smokers, Peoples Chair. Time for only 1 round and back to the flag.

    Numbers, Names – Welcome Loogie.
    Announcements –

    – 9/11 Dog Pile & Puppy Pile this Saturday 6 & 7 am.

    -BRR starts this week. Good luck boys.

    -Doozy planning 9/11 road trip to D.C. on Saturday to climb the Lincoln Memorial. Reach out if you want ride with.

    -Blood Drive looks to be popping up on Slack led by Pigskin.

    – Field Day coming up 9/18. Let the trash talking commence.

    YHC took us out.

    NMS: Great to see the New Market folks arrive early this morning. It has been a while since YHC has seen them after the growth at Satans Hill. Open discussion between Nancy and the PAX during the 7 of Diamonds on the location of the set of exercises in a literal diamond or square. You vs. You. Good work today gentlemen. Hope to see Loogie out again soon and YHC is thankful Doozy was not around during his naming ceremony.

  • And I thought regular Murder Bunnies sucked

    Eight strong took on the Week 1 IronPax challenge on a beautiful morning. Some PAX were fully aware of the awfulness to ensue, several HBR regulars hid in their Fartsack, others jumped right in. No real COP, brief instructions, and review then start.

    Round 1: 800 m, 25m Murder Bunny, 10 Shoulder Tap merkins, Reverse MB back, 20 block burpee thrusters, MB back for 10 STM, then Reverse MB back.

    Round 2: 800 m, 25m Murder Bunny, 10 Shoulder Tap merkins, Reverse MB back, 20 Burpee horizontal jumps, MB back for 10 STM, then Reverse MB back.

    Round 3: 800 m, 25m Murder Bunny, 10 Shoulder Tap merkins, Reverse MB back, 20 Burpee Vertical jumps , MB back for 10 STM, then Reverse MB back. Done

    5 PAX finished under 40. 3 more got through 2+ rounds as we called for time. All put in solid work.

    NMS: Don’t know whether it is better to post and have no idea what we are in for or know this is coming. Pax are familiar with Murder Bunnies which are tough but somehow the Reverse Murder Bunnies are far worse.

    Gypsy & Roger Roger set the pace with Offshore right behind. YHC would like to see anyone do the Vertical burpee jumps correctly as everyone’s quads were done by the 3rd round. Respect to the Greenwood PAX for a strong start with this Week 1.

  • Just Grab Hold

    Twenty five well dressed gentlemen met in the parking lot of Hoedown for this year’s Labor Day Convergence. There was ample poking and prodding at PAX members pre-launch; one can only assume it was due to the extra hour and a half of sleep. Or it was the anticipation of free coffee and croissants. Regardless, 0700 clicked and off we went. Short mosey around the drop off loop then up to the blacktop sea for:

    The Thang
    SSH x20
    Burpee x1 (Pattern detected by TYA, incorrectly)
    Russian Soldiers x10
    Burpee x2
    WWII x10
    Burpee x3
    Merkin x10
    Burpee x4
    Arm Circles x15
    Burpee x5
    Copperhead Squats x10
    Burpee x6
    LBC x20
    Burpee x7
    Monkey Humpers x10
    Burpee x8
    This or That x10
    Burpee x9
    That or This x10
    Burpee x10

    Mosey up to the field for Dora. Partner up for 100 HRMs, 200 squats, 300 LBCs.

    Saunter over to Bodo’s parking lot for traveling 4 corners. Corners were CDDs, Jump Squats, WWIIs, American Hammers.

    Slither back to the drop off loop for triple check. People’s Chair, Plank, run around the loop.

    Huddle up for a few minutes of Mary including the prescribed APD, box cutters, american hammers.

    YHC called enough is enough and back to the parking lot for Numbers, names, FNG naming, coffee, and socializing.

    Thanks to Marmaduke for taking us out.

    Moleskin
    Thanks to those that traveled far and to convene on relatively short notice. Great to see men from all over attend. Special thanks to Wilson for giving his sage wisdom for how to avoid human trafficking at 2am in the mountains of NC.

    Welcome to FNGs Whitesnake and Fire Elf. YHC took the liberty of modifying Fire Elf’s name per suggestion post workout. Hope to see you guys out there soon.

    Thanks to all and hope everyone had a great ending to summer.

    Splinter

  • Reindeer Games

    4 warriors, 3 of whom are related, braved the rain for a labor day workout. Hermes and yhc shared the Q. Hermes started with warmup of the usual ash, murcans, DQ, helicopters, cherry pickers etc. To the top for 4 corners, descending 50 squats, 40 monkey humpers, 30 ssh, 20 murcans,

    Q switch to YHC, down the hill to the rick pike for military press, curls for the girls, skullcrushers, squats, run to the bottom and back rinse and repeat with a bear crawl thrown in, plus mountain climbers, murcans, lbcs, flutter kicks, fire hydrants and mahktar jai. No specific numbers just work each to exhaustion and switch to the next. Some of the Pax was ready to rebel but they stuck it out.

    numberama, namearma, prayer and finish. Welcome to Yukon Cornelius ‘ younger brother Blitzen. The boys held up in spite of YHC’s efforts.

  • Over the River (Twice) and Through the Woods…

    Some posted at 6:30 and ran 10, some posted at 7:00 and ran 7ish +/- Some ran on two legs, some ran on four. Some ran in silence, some ran with YHC. All were better off for having done it.

    Make it a great week!

  • Hide and Seek

    2 arrived early and 1 warm up and appeared at exactly 05:30, only to have trouble finding the PAX. Temps were 70 and sunny. The PAX were hiding. It was childish. It was kinda fun. YHC apologizes.

    1.5 out. 1.2 back. Short and sweet prior to the BRR.

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

  • Prodigal Son

    Fourteen performers joined today’s orchestral act for the latest edition of The Dogpile. Temperatures were (actually) 70 and sunny. According to the rogue film crew preparing for the actual orchestra, the following may be somewhat close to what happened:

    Quick Start: a Gentlemen’s 5 burpees

    Mosey to the Amphitheater’s side entrance and to the orchestra area for the COP:

    SSHs
    Dead Man Hang
    IWs
    Flutter kicks x 17
    Box cutters x14 (yeah, 17-14 Hokies)
    HRMs x10

    Quick mosey to bottom step (for those not already on the bottom step) for an escalating ascension up the Amphitheater: dips, 1-18

    At the top, quick stretch.

    Round and Round: Pick a trash can. There are 20. Do 5 WWIIs at any orange trash can. 5 burpees at any other color trash can (YHC asked for suggestions, then pick his own exercise). Then, run around the loop. Go to the next trash can. Repeato. Continue through all 20 trash cans.

    (Some PAX griped about 20 rounds. Each round is about 50 yards, or half of the Great Lawn. A beast is 6 x 4 = 24 fifty yard stretches. This is shorter. YHC apologizes for cheating the PAX out of 200 yards of running.).

    Stretch, including some for the cameras. Deals for NIL were signed by some PAX.

    Mosey to the side of the Amphitheater for a Dora. Each man does 50 HRMs, and then combines to do 200 American Hammers and 300 SSHs. Bear crawl up the hill to the stone wall. Avoid the van doing…well, nothing, eventually.

    Mosey to the stage for a Triple Check, Touch-a-Tree Style. Touch 1 tree for the first person, 2 for the second person, 3 for the third, 4 for round 2, man 1, etc…up to 9 trees. Dieing cockroaches and hello dolly (YHC thinks).

    Mosey to the bottom of the Amphitheater again…18 V-ups, then 17, then mosey BTTVSF for the COT.

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out with a message about finding a prodigal son and bringing him/her back into your life.

    Announcements and Requests:

    Welcome, Hokie. Come back, hopefully under better conditions. That’s 2 times YHC has spoken favorably of the Hokies today. Some kind of record.

    BRR, Field Day, and Retreat.

    Let’s keep the Hokie, his family, and all of the people of New Orleans in mind. Let’s also keep Bacon Bits and his family in mind. Same goes for the wild fire victims, the flood victims in NY/|NJ, and the people inside Afghanistan as well as those creating new lives and helping the refugees. Lots of need out there.

    Welcome back, Hardywood. Good to have you in the Orchestra today.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Covered in Grass

    Beautiful morning to start the long holiday weekend.  Time to get beach and pool ready for one last hurrah.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopter
      • Arm Circles
    • Mosey to the football field for a cumulative beast:
      • 216 HRM
      • 180 reverse crunches
      • 144 monkey humpers
      • 108 2x crab cakes
      • 72 2x flutter kicks
      • 36 burpees
    • Cool down with 30 APD
    • Mosey over to the pull-up bars for an escalator with pull-ups and storm squats (starting at 8 each and working down)
    • Mosey back to the parking lot for a ring of fire
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Solid work from the PAX today.  YHC slept on his head, so sported the faux hawk until sweat took over.  For those who did the Iron Pax earlier this week, t-claps.  Homer was only happy doing his burpees.  Pigskin is a warrior.  Chum Bucket excelled, and Gypsy just did his thing.  Great day to be with these men.  Prayers for Greenbow’s and Bacon Bits’ families and healing for the their fathers/fathers-in-law.  Stay safe and see everyone at the convergence on Monday at Hoedown (7 am).

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila