4 regulars posted for a slightly wet Sunday morning. Saab opted for the roads, the rest of the crew hit the access road and did and out and back to Belle Isle. A couple of hours at Elwood post workout.
No swim today. 300,000 gallons of raw sewage seemed to impact the desirability or a dip in the river. Question is how long will it take for the river to be safe again. Only time will tell.
Eat lots of Calamari.
TYA OUT
A handful of RVA’s finest gloom warriors posted this AM to Dogpile for a fleshly beatdown. According to Wilson, the master of fleshly beatdowns, here’s what ensued:
The THANG:
COP #1 at the Circle in usual DTH Warmerama style in cadence
COP #2 as fine pearls on a bee line, the PAX stopped at least 4-5x for variable IC and OYO exercises en route to the far field/playground area
COP #3 was 11’s with extra sauce. The PAX did Burpees 11–>1 on one side and Swing Pumps 1–>11 on the playground side, and moved in a diamond pattern to complete some other reps between sides – x5 Jump Squats on the road side, and x10 dips on the other side. All in all: x66 Burpees, x66 Swing Pumps, x50 Squat Jumps, & x100 Dips.
COP #4 was an beautiful string of priceless COP pearls on our way back to the Carillon Field
COP #5 was a Quarter Pounder Finale, x25 WWII, x50 Merkins, x75 Single-Ct Mtn Climbers, and x100 SSH …KUDOS goes to SIPPY CUP as the only one who finished before YHC called BTTF
Mosey BTTF for COT:
NMS:
When 5 pax show up for a pre-run of an AO, I guess it counts as post.
This morning and hour before GridIron, 5 HIMs showed up to answer the call for a 10 mile prerun.
Don Draper created a 2021 Marathon Slack Channel and for some silly reason added YHC to the channel.. I’m not running a Marathon that’s just crazy!!! I tried it once and broke both feet 4 days before the race… the great Sky Q told me right then and there that YHC is not supposed to run that far and he SMACKED me back down to reality. but i’m happy to have some buddies to run 10 to 14 miles with.
Today BoBerry, Rosetta, Homer, BlueMoon and I set out at 6am to get a few miles at an 8:30 pace… welp… we accomplished setting out on time… but once BlueMoon got warmed up, I warned the pax keeping up with him meant a sub 8min pace… Homer took me up on it and headed out with him where the last 5 miles were sub 7:44. At some point we lost them as they went out on their own route.. (i found them later at the boot camp). Roseatta, BoBerry and YHC stayed to the plan and knocked out 10 miles at an 8:22 pace.
BoBerry PRed his 10 miler!!! looking strong brother.
Next weekend we are going 11 to 12 miles.. hit us up ion Slack if you want to know the launch location.
Thats all for now… i need to go eat something… running makes me hungry..
SYITG!!
V/R
Gypsy
WAKE UP!! PEOPLE ARE RUNNING HERE!!
Last Friday of the month at Currahee always means one thing… Bro-Code.
That means anybody but Gomer Pyle is allowed to take the Q. cuz we all know that Gitty Up on a 4 mile run means you are getting lost in some back neighborhood as we turn 4 miles into 5.5 or 6. trying to figure out if he went left or right at that dead end road. Ha!!! jokes on you.. he also knows all the off road paths to connect roads and he went straight. 🙂 Just Kidding with you GP.. although you do know all the hidden paths around the Short Pump area for some reason???
Bro-Code has become a regular 4 mile route that all pax can run and get anywhere between 4 and 6+ miles in 45 mins. It is basically a big square so at the turns you circle back to the 6 then continue on to the next turn. (you can do a 11:15 min mile pace to a 7:30 pace or more and all still be roughly together) once we hit the 4th corner we all return to the AO together at a Bro-Code pace.
The route.
Right out of Godwin HS.
Left onto Ridgefield
Right onto Copperas
Right onto Church
Right onto Pump
one last turn back at the corner of Pump and Ridgefield for the 6.
Great work by all … mileage ranged from 4.1 to 5.3 miles .. not bad for 145 on the wet bulb scale.
Free to Lead men. Be a disrupter of the status quo..
SYITG
Gypsy
One mighty dude did the thing before the thing. Route was roughly a marathon give or take a quarter mile. Mumblechatter was minimal.
Today had the markings of a higher mileage, high rep beat-down. No humidity, plenty of clouds and an extra 1 ½ hours of sleep. The Gridiron awaited 12 noble and mostly healthy warriors. Here is how it went down:
A little over 2 ½ miles with plenty of ground and pound reps. For those looking in the normal spots for us (e.g. Gypsy and maybe Probation?), we ventured a different path today, so more running for you. We were not on the turf fields! YHC had to take advantage of the cool weather and well-conditioned PAX in an effort to see some different parts of the AO. The PAX learned that there is a crap load of cricket being played at the Gridiron on Saturday. Our AO is infiltrated with pickle ball and cricket. Time to reclaim the Gridiron’s masculinity and put some chest hair on it.
Great work by the PAX. Great start to the weekend. Prayers up for our injured PAX members. As always, iron sharpens iron, but it is great to laugh while we do it. Great work men!
God is good all of the time!
Attila
Mosey to Basketball courts and perform 10 SSH, 10 DQ, 10 Russian Soldiers, 10 Imperial Walkers, 20 Hillbillies(it is a DaVille workout after all), 10 American Hammers, 10 LBC, 10 Alabama prom dates, 20 Merkins.
We mosey to the gravel track and P1 – Runs lap as the timer, P2 Jumps rope, the goal is to perform 20 successful jumps in a row and do a burpee if you trip on rope before 20. We had weighted speed rope and a normal rope to choose from. We alternated back and fourth 3 times for a triple check (with 2 people).
We then perform lunges around the track for 1 lap. Then perform Bench Dips for a total of 60 (3 sets of 20). We then mosey tot he Pull up bars in playground. We needed to complete 50 total pull ups and this can be in any fashion. Bullseye performed Jerkins (and did more reps) due to shoulder concern. We wrap this up and then Mosey back to the parking lot for stretching and Numberama, Namerama. YHC took us out.
YHC and Bullseye had a great time catching up, we usually meet up at this AO or No Toll (and an occasional Convergence). My first meeting with Bullseye was River Run with Doner Kabob and we ran the hills…brutal. This AO is far for YHC (about 30 minutes) and on top of all that left the Shovel Flag in the Parking Lot….OUCH. Hopefully I can get this back.
Have a great weekend and I will SYITG….Cheers, CB!
Three beastly davilians braved the morning humidity to try to do something good this AM. Here’s how it went down:
Mosey to warm-up: helicopters, body builders, american hammers, scorpions
-mosey to baseball diamond
“7 of Diamonds” : 4 rounds of 4 exercises at each base- Round 1 – 7 hand-release merkins, Round 2 – 14 crabcakes, Round 3 -21 Bobby Hurley’s, Round 4 – 28 monkey humpers
-mosey to car to grab coupons-then mosey to basketball court
rotating exercises round 1 and 2- cinderblock sit-up to press, cinderblock chest press, kettlebell swings, run with medicine ball, rounds 3 and 4: cinderblock chest press, kettlebell rows, run w/ medicine ball- hallelujah one way
-mosey to bus loop
curb walk the island -right and left
50 toe touches
DONE.
YHC woke up at 5am and looked at the phone and it said 81 degrees… this was incredibly motivating. got to the lot early and fell asleep in the car – woke up confused. good chatter this morning. always an honor to lead..
5 Satan Hill regulars and 1 traveler from far away land decided to test their captivity for humidity this morning. According to the frogs here is what happened.
warmarama- the usual
the thang- mosey to top of hill for 4 corners. 20 dry docks, 40 LBC’s, 60 merkins, 80 squats.
mosey back to bottom of hill. Triple check. Runner on trail and with coupons curls and triceps. Enough time left for 1 more triple after various 20 yd runs. Runner to top for 10 incline merkins with rock copters and rock squats at bottom. A few more various speed runs to round out the clock.
prayers to Gypsy’s mom. Prayers to Offshore on safe passage home. YHC took us out in prayer.
nice work this morning gentleman! Always an honor to lead. Good to break out of the vacation slump and get the blood flowing. SYITG.
While it was reported to be an extra muggy morning, it was actually 70 and sunny as always.
A smaller group launched at the standard time and ran 4 or 5+ miles. Group ran across Commonwealth, down Monument and turned at the appropriate point and returned up Grove.
A larger group continued their prep for the BRR with an earlier start and knocking out 8+ mile runs. Good work!
RAMM Gears posted as well – if I missed anyone please let me know.