Category: Richmond, VA

  • FNG Bees to the Ultimate Honey

    Heartbreak hosted the last Ultimate Frisbee for the season, landing two awesome FNG’s into our brotherhood. 

    The morning started with Chaplain joining YHC for the ride up from SOJ, rolling up to QMS in time to witness some tension between Pinto and the new workout crew’s boss lady telling him to move his car out of “their” planned workout area. YHC was also asked to move…and YHC suggested they put their cones out earlier to avoid this little misunderstanding in future… 

    With a mash-up of vets and FNG’s from all over, YHC led the PAX in a little moseyrama around the field and a brief COP for warming up and stretching the necessities. 

    Rules were explained, teams divided into uneven numbers (6v7) based on dark(er) and light(er) shirts, and PULL! the game started. It was initially gloomy enough to make visualizing teammates challenging, but the neon frisbee at least stuck out. 

    The Light 6-man Team kept the lead initially, but then the Dark 7-man team finally pulled past at the 4-4 mark, ultimately winning 7-4.  Everyone did a great job avoiding injuries, and YHC was definitely soaked with sweat by the end in spite of cooler temps this AM. 

    With 2 minutes to spare, game was called, cones gathered, and the PAX circled up for a quick fire Ring of Fire and a little stretching.

    COT:

    • Counterama # 13
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS: A big welcome to TERMITE (VMI class of ’95, Engineer, recruited by Shakedown) and to COUPON (friend of Carfax, originally from the Congo, working at Beth Bath & Beyond…hence the “Coupon”). Look forward to seeing these gentlemen around the West End! SYITG, YHC, DTH

  • For the Records

    A much delayed account of a RAMM run and bike ride for big data.

  • Back in the saddle again

    6 SOJ regulars for a sunny 70 degree start at 5:30 in the Gloom. YHC enjoyed a trip to Indiana but is glad to be back home to pick up the Q at No Toll

    COP in the far parking lot

    DQ’s, Helicopters, Weed Pickers, Arm Pretzels, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Merkins

    Mosey to the end of lot for parking lot Crawls

    Bear crawl from line to line increasing merkins at each line by 1 until 10. Reverse and crab walk back to the start with LBC’s at each line increasing by 2

    Mosey to the far corner for a regular 4 corners abs (10) American Hammers, (20) Scrunchy Frogs, (30) Sugar Sticks, (40) Knee Slides

    Mosey to the Pavilion for a triple check

    Partner 1 does Dips, partner 2 does Decline Merkins, partner 3 runs a lap around the field (after first lap we modified the run to just across and back)

    Mosey back to the parking lot for another 4 corners but this one was a prostitute

    (10) Squats, (20) Lunges, (30) Jump Squats, (40) Calf raises

    Time was called BTTF

    Numbers / Names YHC took us out

    NMS:

    YHC highly recommends that if you are not already on the National Slack channel, get connected. There is a lot of Mumblechatter but its a great way to hear how things are going in other states and YHC was able to find out some great intel on the AO’s that we where visiting before we made the 40 minute drive at 4:15 in the morning.

  • Cool Chamber

    YHC was notified that a clown car was coming up with Tryhard and Chaplain this morning, so seeing the Q slot was open jumped on this to make sure they had a proper ANVIL experience. So here is what went down for 5 F3RVA brothers:

    COP

    We mosey to the basketball lot and circle up for 20 SSH,10 DQ, 10 Russian Soldiers, 10 Imperial Walkers, 20 4ct American Hammers, 20 LBC’s, 15 scorpions, 20 merkins. We are ready to go!

    THANG

    So we mosey to the Chamber, this is the interior quad of the main school building. Also where the A/C units exhaust, has plenty of sidewalks for various exercises and usually brutally hot this time of year. With the cool temps @ 66 degrees, the units were not running and the chamber was actually pleasant for a Dora of 100 bench dips, 200 alternating lunges and 30 LBC’s. We had a group of 2 and 3. P1-ran a lap around the quad as the timer, P2 performed the exercise and we switched for every lap.

    We then mosey to hill on West side of building for 11’s. At the bottom of the hill started with 1 Donkey Kick, then Bernie Saunders to the top of the hill for 10 WW2 sit ups. Back to the bottom for 2 DK’s then Bernie Saunders to the top for 9 WW2 SU. We continued until we got to 10 DK and 1 WW2 SU.

    We then moesy to the side parking lot for Suicide where we lunge to the first line run back, then run the remaining lines to the opposite side. We then continue back down to the fist line and lunge back to wrap up this routine.

    We then Mosey to the drain bed near the school sign and pick up a rock for an Anvil Favorite (shout out to Yardsale and Chewy) the Boat – Canoe. So in a Ring of Fire fashion and Counter clockwise each member calls out either Boat or canoe to change the position holding the boulder the entire time. This proved to be challenging the second round.

    Finally we mosey to the cars for a small ring of fire with YHC calling cadence for holding the push up (6″ from ground) for many seconds multiple times until time ran out.

    Numberama, Namerama, Chaplain took us out in prayer

    Glad to have some visitors for the RVA summer tour and hoped you enjoyed some of the fine attributes at ANVIL that we have to offer! So Long! SYITG…Cheers….CB!

  • Recipes from the internet

    Six posted for the most recent Punisher. Mosey to the side yard for COP – SSH 21s (count 5 and no counting for the remaining 16, else Burpees – there were a few Burpees), IWs, DQs, Russian Soldiers, Merkins, APDs, and Arm Circles.

    Lunge across the grass to the outdoor classroom and spread out among the picnic tables. Ten rounds of 15 Dips with short pauses between sets.

    Mosey to playground for a Triple Check – one guy holds Elbow Plank and another completes LBCs while the third finishes 10 Jerkins on the swing set.

    Bataan Death Crawl (F3 Exicon) up next. Line up and begin slow Bear Crawl around the perimeter of the soccer field. Last guy in line completes five Burpees then runs to the front of the line, tagging the last guy in line on the way. Next guy does the same. Everyone gets one turn.

    Found a soccer ball and everyone took a turn at a penalty kick. All were successful with varying degrees of kick velocity. No punitive Burpees needed.

    Jog around the side of the school to the tree-covered front yard for Lindsays – alternating between Reverse Crunches and Box Cutters.

    Find the nearby wall for a brief People’s Chair. Hit the ground for a few minutes of stretching. YHC took us out.

  • Monday Explorer

    8 Men posted at Satan’s Hill to get the week started off right!

    SSHs, DQs, Stretches, Jazzercise, LBCs, More Stretches

    Mosey to top of the Hill

    Dora #1 – Runner, 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 LBCs

    Dora #2 – Runner to bottom of hill, 100 WWIIs

    Dora #3 – Runner, 100 Monkey Humpers, 200 Dry Docks, 300 Flutters

    Dora #4 – Runner, 100 SSHs, 200 Jump Squats, 300 APDs

    Back to the Flag – Stretches

    Numberama, Namerama, Hermes Took us out!

    Duke

  • Hill Repeats

    Two BRR trainees met for hill repeats up Twin Team. Five repeats, 4.62 miles and 652 feet of elevation gain.

  • Triple Potato

    Nine of this region’s finest gathered under the waning crescent for an impromptu hot potato. Very little mumblechatter pre-launch, so we just stared at each other. EF Hutton had enough and said, “time to go”. Mosey to the newly sectioned off black top for a Hutton led COP.

    COP (EF Hutton)
    12x Copperhead Squats
    10x Imperial Walkers
    10x Helicopters
    10x HRMs
    20x Suzanne Somers
    10x Something or others
    20x Suzanne Somers
    10x Mountain Climbers

    Prostitute (EF Hutton)
    5x Burpees, 20x Merkins, 20x Jump Squats, 20x WWIIs, 20x Mountain Climbers. Work around the 4 corners repeating said exercises a number of times.

    Triple Check (Handshake)
    Mosey up to the field for people’s chair, WWIIs, run across the field for 5 pull ups.

    Triple Check (Splinter)
    Mosey to the parking lot for jump squats, plank, bernie sanders across the parking lot and up the hill to the fence for 10 derkins then run back.

    Mary
    Ring of Fire (Duck-duck-goose style) with 10x dealer’s choice followed by a lap around the ring. Thanks for the audible Pigskin! Finish off with a minute and a half of american hammers.

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

    Moleskin
    Quiet bunch for Hoedown today. Maybe it was all the counting, or just recovery from the weekend. YHC detected 3 or 4 different language counts by Pigskin today. Regardless, great to get out with the gang and to push each other this AM. Sorry to hear Upchuck is battling his knee. Get well soon brother!

    Announcements
    HDHH next Wednesday at Honeydo’s
    Field Day 9/18
    Retreat 9/25

    ¡Adiós muchachos!

  • DirtyMacDeuce’s Death Star landed on Everest

    3 SOJ HIM’s posted at Rock N Roll to sharpen one another. The senior citizens walking the park said this is how it went down (The senior citizens are some shady characters according to Wilson) :

    Warmarama on Basketball Court :

    20 SSH IC

    10 Don Q’s IC

    10 Russian Soldiers IC

    10 Imperial Walkers IC

    10 Cherry Pickers IC

    THE THANG :

    Modified Death Star on Basketball Court (use each corner and the basketball hoop at the top as the 5 points of the star) : Bear Crawl to each point of the star and do 30 merkins (make sure you bear crawl back to center court before proceeding to the next point). Total 150 merkins completed. This is the modified version. The real version has 10 cones lined up in the shape of the star and yields 300 merkins total.

    DirtyMacDeuce : 4 sets of 3 exercises done with 12 reps In Cadence. The exercises are Merkins, Freddie Mercuries and Imperial Squat Walkers. After each set of three exercises, run a lap around parking lot.

    Mosey to stairs between baseball fields

    Everest : On the stairs, lunge up the steps and do a squat at the end of each lunge. Alternate legs. Repeato to the top of the stairs. (We did 10 sets of this)

    Mosey lap around entire paved loop of park and sprint up the stairs on the way back to Ole Glory.

    DONE

    Numberama

    Namerama

    COT :

    Prayer Request for YHC’s M and YHC operating on little sleep with the newest 2.0. It’s been an erratic sleep schedule and diaper rash has exacerbated that.

    NMMS : Thankful to have Oyster and Doozy post this morning. All were fairly silent with little mumble chatter due to the Death Star beatdown.

  • Doozy and Posey took a little trip and found Big Data

    It was an epic trip to F3 Indianapolis where YHC and Posey found nothing but true F3 hospitality from the downrange AO’s that we were able to get to. YHC made it to 3 local AO’s and Posey made it to 2. Our tour guides where Kindergarten Cop on Tuesday, Wrigley on Wednesday and Motor Boat on Thursday. We saw this car near Pittsburgh but where unable to find out the true identity of the driver as he went right when we went left.