Category: Richmond, VA

  • DTH #38

    Twas a dark drenched gloom that welcomed 8 redwood veterans for the Dr Tryhard Birthday Hoedown. But with mild temps and the bright cheer of brotherhood, those gathered barely grumbled as YHC directed the PAX to collect their PARTY FAVORS (2 bricks each) from YHC’s vehicle…

    The THANG:

    COP #1:

    • Mosey over to parking lot
    • Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
    • Bricks in each hand for the following:
    • Don Brickotes x10 IC
    • Russian Brick Soldiers x10 IC
    • Brick 8-count Burpees x10 IC

    COP #2:

    • Mosey up to the Blacktop Court and Partner Up:
    • P1 starts Polar Bearing with Bricks in hand across Court while P2 runs to length & back carrying their coupons
    • Upon reaching partner, switch, and continue alternating until Polar Bears have crossed the Court
    • Switch to alternating Lunges for return across court

    COP #3:

    • Mosey up to the Field for a QUARTER POUNDER WITH CHEESE:  
    • With coupons in hand, sprint to each quarter to complete exercise, then Bernie back to start
    • 25 yard line – x25 WWII
    • 50 yard line – x50 Squats + Overhead Presses
    • 75 yard line – x75 AmHammers (single count)
    • 100 yard line – x100 Calf Raises while Coupons held out at shoulder height
    • Await the SIX after each round doing variable Mary

    COP #4:

    • Mosey down to lit cement walkway for the TWIN TOWER OF TRUST:
    • Two lines of facing PAX holding bricks out at eye level between
    • Last man bear crawls under the brick archway to the front, with each man at the back following suit
    • PAX move ~30 yards in this fashion

    COP#5:

    • Partner up under awning for x3 sets of x20 BRICKY-CAKES each – like Dying Boxing Cockroaches, but patty-caking bricks 

    COP #6:

    • Mosey down to the school wall and partner up for OPP’s:
    • P1 sits in Peoples Chair overhead pressing bricks & counting cadence for plank-jacking P2
    • x3 Sets of x20 each

    COP #7:

    • Mosey over to the lit parking lot for some MARY:
    • Dying Brickotes x10 IC
    • Brick-Gripping Arm Circles IC, x5 Small Ea Way, x5 Large Ea Way 
    • Brick Ranger Merkins x5 IC 
    • Brick Werkins x5 IC 

    COP #8:

    • Follow the Arrows, alternating Bear Crawl and Lunges between arrows around lot

    GRAND FINALE:

    • Flutters + Hallelujah Bricks x38 IC

    COT:

    • Counterama # 8
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Now THAT was a fine brick bonanza celebration of COP’s. The PAX moved so quickly through the planned routines, YHC had to tag on THREE more COP’s just fill the time. Credit to Bodos for the Bricky-Cakes terminology. Thx to GP suggesting the Arrows at the end. And thx to Handshake serving as Timekeeper this morning. Enjoyed partnering up with GarbagePlate and BaconBits. Anyway, ya’ll rock. Loved to start my birthday enduring the elements and overcoming the hand-grip pain with you. SYITG! ~YHC, DTH

  • A loopy Friday

    22 Strong turned up to put in some laps on beautiful friday morning. Cameos from Mr. Roper, Lab Rat, and one other biker(?).

    The Thang: Run and bike loops available, terrain was trails or road. All modes were used.

    NMM: One loop, 6 loops, it doesn’t matter. Getting out there and challenging yourself is what matters. YHC loves (and hates) watching the end of marathons. Each finisher has a story and a journey that they went on. Each is unique, each has some struggle or obstacle to overcome, and each is rewarded with the ultimate prize of stepping over the finish line. The older I get, the more I cry watching the back of the packers finishing the race. So, it is with that in mind that I look at each loop completed as a victory of some sort. Everyone that came out yesterday stepped up to the plate and took a swing. Each participant accomplished a goal. Each one had a story and I am glad I was able to watch and participate in some of those journeys. For posterity sake here are the counts that I have.

    1 loop: Swirly, M Swirly, Water Wings, M Circle K, K2 T, KSwiss, M TYA, Bodos, M Bodos

    2 Loops: Bone Thugs, Faceplant, FNG Wes, Circle K and 7-11

    2+ Loops: Pucker and The Southern Belle

    3+ Loops Flipper and Crikey

    4 Loops: Saab and Shakedown

    5 Loops: Rosie

    6 Loops: TYA

    TYA OUT

  • What’s a Merkin?

    2 warriors descended the mean streets of Carytown. Pre and post a most excellent Upchuck beat down. Topics of conversation included the etymology of F3 exercise names and the joys of the home owner experience. Great fellowship today! Also YHC must be doing breakfast club wrong as fellow PAX keep saying slow down.

  • Cooper Doesn’t Snarl Like That

    15 studs pushed aside the trip the tryptophan-laden Fart Sack and accepted the challenge of today’s version of the Dogpile. Temps were, once again, sunny and 70.

    COP – Mosey to the Carillon

    SSHs
    Russian Soldiers
    Dead Man Hang
    Don Quixotes
    HRMs
    LBCs
    Freddie Mercurys

    Mosey to the Ha’ Penny Stage and Grab a Block for Touch-a-Tree

    Partner Up. Rounds of 4, 6, and 8. Non-runner does thrusters, block presses, and curls.

    Bonus Round of 10 with block burpees.

    Mosey to the Carillon Picnic Table for a Lindsey.

    Start at the picnic table and run to the Valley of Despair (bottom). Exercises were monkey humpers and flutter kicks (4-count). Total 40 exercises on each side (35-5, 30-10, 25-15, etc.). Bonus hook: on each trip down the hill, do 5 derkins and on each trip up the hill, do 5 incline merkins.

    Mosey to the Amphitheater

    Going up, 5 V-ups on each step. Coming down, 5 jump squats.

    Mosey to the Circle for a Curb Crawl

    Bear crawl from outer to inner curb, 1 merkin, crawl bear back to outer curb, 2 merkins, repeato up to 6 merkins.

    Mosey 10 Feet to the Circle for Mary

    Fire hydrants
    WWIIs
    Snow Angels
    Reverse Crunches
    Oblique crunches (x5 each side)

    BTTF

    Announcements/Prayer Requests:

    Keep a family friend of Bubble’s in your prayers – they lost their 21 year old to an aneurysm. That’s way too young. Hold your loved ones a bit tighter and spend some quality time with them.

    Gomer Pyle reminded us how fortunate we are. The people of Honduras and Nicaragua may feel far away, but they are people like us, and they are suffering from multiple hurricanes / floods to go along with the challenges of COVID. Let’s keep them in our prayers and be ready to help when the opportunities arise.

    YHC asks that we keep my friend Al in our prayers. Went Home at the ripe young age of 90 on Thanksgiving. Spent a lifetime building opportunities for those willing to work hard.

    NMS:

    Nice to partner with BoBerry today.

    Good chatter today, mostly about thorough disdain for the Qs directions and counting, so generally par for the course. 4-count flutter kicks are clearly a Pax Favorite. When done in cadence, a flutter kick has 4-counts, and the PAX accept this. Yet, when included as an individual part of an evolution, calling a 4-count flutter kick causes the PAX to wonder what language “4-count” is. This fascinates YHC.

    “The six is in.” YHC finds Oyster to be funny.

    YHC does worry about the future of breakfast-time capitalism in Richmond. All worms crawled freely today as the self-proclaimed “Early Bird Biscuit Company” employees chose to nestle with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. Panera in Carytown apparently opens on the same schedule as Lally Construction’s Complaint Department (every other Thursday from 09:00 to 09:01 a.m.). ETs, of course, may declare themselves to be “Woke,” but certainly cannot manage to woke themselves up and start serving until the day is 1/3rd done. No bueno. Hard work produces winners. Can you imagine where the world would be if the Greatest Generation started at 8 a.m.? The invasion of Normandy started at midnight and was in full swing by 6 a.m. For that matter, Washington crossed the Delaware at midnight, surprised the Hessians, and was back in Pennsylvania before ETs let anyone buy cold bacon.

    On the other hand, McDonald’s has cheerful employees, hot coffee, and a 4 car line at 07:30 a.m. I’m lovin’ it.

    Good chatter in the ETs parking lot. Nice to see the newer guys setting goals and hitting them. It’s you-against-you, so keep pushing. Way to go.

    YHC thanks Gomer for his advice on warm feet.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Attention Black Friday PAX… 5th Annual Beast Special At The Creek

    4 Davillians decided to burn some of that Thanksgiving fat for the annual Beast Special.

    This is how it went down

    Short mosey to the blacktop

    COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Deadman’s Hang, LBC’s, Scorpion Kicks, Arm Circles

    THANG

    Mosey to main parking lot

    The Black Friday Beast – For those new to the workout. The Q (YHC) surfs the Black Friday ads for some of the best deals. The PAX will then complete reps for the $ amount of the item. This year we have three virtual stops to make:

    First Stop – Walmart

    Samsung 58′ 4k 2160P LED Smart TV – Sale $398.00 – 66 LBC’s each
    Shark Professional Liftaway Vacuum – Sale $149.00 – 25 Merkins each

    Second Stop – Target

    Ninja Foodi – Sale $169.99 – 28 (2ct) Fuller Kicks each
    Beats Over Ear Noise Canceling Headphones – Sale $174.99 – 29 Jump Squats each

    Third Stop – Best Buy

    Hover Electric Self Balancing Scooter – Sale $119.99 – 20 American Hammers each
    Amazon 4k Steaming Fire Stick – Sale $29.99 – 5 Burpees each

    Mosey back to the SF for Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

    MOLESKIN

    Another Black Friday in the books! This year had a heavy focus on arms and abs something good to work on to burn that turkey fat.

    Lots of good mumble chatter before, during, and after the workout at The Local Cup

    Till next year… SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Thanksgiving feast was extended…..a bit!

    Three men cracked the covers and posted at Satan’s Hill for what was sure to rival the Forest Hill loops for amount of running (yeah right! Wilson Q)!

    COP, Cul De Sack tour (backwards) some block/rock work and finish with Mary. Thats how it went down. YHC got the appoval from one of NM resident marathoners that the distance covered was acceptable.

    All three men decided to share what the had during their festivities in Thanksgiving. Oddly no words were spoken……..hmmmmm.

    Finished up with a quick conversation and an abrupt – “I gotta poop!” Hope everything came out like it should!

    YHC took us out.on the run!

  • First Thankgiving: Turkey on an engine block!

    22 dedicated warriors posted on a gloomy Thanksgiving morning.

    The Thang: Mosey to side of MM for COP of Don Quixotes, WWII, Merkins, SSH. Mosey to basketball court for double triple check. Peoples chair, WWII, and run forward and backwards 2x. Mosey to field for The Beast (SSH, Merkins, LBC, jump squats, WWII). Mosey to end of field for suicide 11’s of SSH and merkins. Mosey back to the flag and COT.

    NMM

    Thanksgiving talk abounded. Lots of discussion about where the first Thanksgiving was. Lots are on the Virginia bandwagon, a few of the history buffs guessed Massachusetts and there was a vote for Florida and Detroit Michigan. A few facts about Berkely VA. They did have a Thanksgiving in 1619. It was to celebrate the arrival and safe travel across the seas. It consisted of a prayer (no meal). It was so successful, that according to the sign on the capital trail wasn’t immortalized until 1958 – 339 years later. Oh, and it was in December. Massachusetts facts. November date. Feast to celebrate the harvest. Included family and friends including many native americans. Details of Detroit and Florida are unknot, except that in Detroit the turkey was cooked on the engine block of the car. So…take the facts and you decide what event our current Thanksgiving was modeled after.

    We have a lot to be thankful of. The bounty that we have in our lives is unbelievable. I hope everyone enjoys the day and their families.

    TYA OUT

  • Tomato Turkeys

    7 Davillians decided to stay local this Thanksgiving and may have started a new traditional with a Turkey Trot.

    This is how it went down.

    Routes varied in length from 3.3 to 6.2 miles

    3.3 (or per Mudface 3.7) milers – Leave Clubhouse parking parking and head to Atlee Rd take a right up the bridge. Loop around the schools and head back the same way

    4+ milers – Same route but add the Bojangles loop

    10k – Head the same way but then turn into Honey Meadows, turn right on cool hive pl for a loop around the townhomes, back to the around about up through the Estates into King Charter, head to Atlee Station and cross to the sidewalk on the right side. Head back to the bridge, add the Bojangles Loop, the sprint for the final .20 miles.

    Warm weather and rain made for a challenge and good run.

    Happy Thanksgiving F3 RVA!!

  • NM Turkey Day Walk

    While NM is truly bummed we did not attend this years TYA education series at 45 minutes of Mary, we chose to stay close to home in low numbers and still get some exercise before eating the abundance of goodness the early New England settlers brought!

    4.85 miles were tracked! And of course some great conversations!

  • Stretch Armstrong

    Five pre-turkey day warriors showed this morning for a hot potato, or should YHC say hot mashed potatoes – pun intended.

    Swirly took the first hot potato and lead us over to the carillon for some stretching. We started with the deadman hang – always a crowd favorite. Then we went into some more stretching, and some merkins. Swirly then moseyed us on over to love hill. Partner up, one partner is at the bottom making their way up alternating between polar bears, lunges, and broad jump burpees.

    Oyster then took the hot potato and we headed over to the amphitheater. Box jumps up the amphitheater with ascending merkins at each level. With each level added one more merkin. Then once we all got to the top we went over to the poles for 10 leg lifts each while the others waited at 6 inches.

    Hot Potato was handed off to YHC, went over to the circle for what YHC does not have a name for but hands on the curb and feet on the pavement and sideways walked around the circle.

    YHC then took the group back to the flag with a native american run, but stopped at the Carillon for 10 burpees. Back at the flag we ended how we started with some stretching, deadman hang to start then the ‘have a nice day stretch’ to finish it out.

    Names, numbers, and good conversation to end off the morning.

    Slipping Jimmy took us out with some thoughtful and thankful words.