“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary Three PAX from F3RVA, NTB, Pad Thai, and L Woods, traveled to Cary, North Carolina for GTE 59, led by Cadres PowerClean and Uncle Rico. For NTB and Pad Thai, this was their second GrowRuck after Richmond’s event last year. For L Woods, it was a first—completely new territory. After Friday night’s rally, the group started off with the KingBuilder at Carpex AO Shaken Not Stirred in Bond Park. At 6:00 PM, the adventure began. L Woods was immediately thrown into the fire as Platoon Leader, learning…
YHC put out the call to the Sunday OTB crew to see if anyone was up for a field trip. 3 takers, so a different Starbucks was chosen for the launch and we met at River Road Shopping Center at 0600 for 8+ miles through UR, Westham, Huguenot Bridge and Riverside Drive. Hills, trails, fog, river and Rosie hitting the boosters up Hill Drive. Along the way, great mumblechatter as always and Don Draper may or may not have dropped a bid on a house with a view… Just another Sunday. A great end (or beginning) to the week. No…
3 weeks till Spartan, this is now a new phase. I have not done an OCR with less weight wasI probably 240-250 at all the other races before. I am at a much lighter weight so this will be the first time I can truly see how the changes feel. Yet today, 11 willing souls came out for a morning workout(the air turned fall real quick, I am not used to that quick change). A good warm up to start(SSH, DMH, Ukrainian Soldiers, Copperhead Squats) then added full court runner’s lunge with a twist, waking lunges, side shuffles). After that…
YHC pulled into a dark parking lot at Atlee High School on this perfect Saturday morning to find himself all alone. A minute late, Trail Mix joined him and off they went. This is what possibly occurred in this hot potato Q. Phonics’s Q Parking Lot Tracers COP – SSH, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Don Quixotes, One legged lunges, other leg, Merkins, Angled Knee Jumps, LBCs, Freddie Mercuries, Flutter Kicks Partner Up for 3 rounds in Tennis Courts Round 1 – One partner runs to end of each court and back and does 5 Merkins at end for total of 15…
Despite their better judgement, 10 SOJers met at the cool and moist fields of Timberwolf for the final installment of IronPAX 2025, the Bert WOD. After some explanation to those who didn’t know the plan, and as Captain Kirk and Nancy Lopez joined us, we hit the ground running with: Background: The Bert WOD is dedicated to U.S. Marine Cpl. Albert Gettings, 27, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, who died on Jan. 5, 2006, while conducting counter-sniper operations in Fallujah, Iraq. Cpl. Gettings was serving as a team leader with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary…
Date: 10/04/2025 AO (Area of Operations): Bon Air Elementary School QIC : Machismo PAX (Persons Attending): Last Call, Scram, Dookie, Snip, Sable, Punkie Brewster, Machismo (Q) Total PAX: 7 Conditions: A perfect, crisp Saturday morning in the gloom, ideal for putting in work. Intro: Record Numbers for Bon Iron: Seven HIMs (High Impact Men) including the Baron of Bon Air bypassed the fartsack to get stronger together. The morning began with a mosey to the bus loop, where the PAX discovered a freshly painted, intricate children’s bike course. The gears started turning for a future Q’s diabolical plan, but for…
The feeling was bittersweet as 4 of us came to close out the Iron PAX Challenge of 2025 with the Week 4 Bert WOD this gloom. YHC had to redeem himself for the poor DJ mix from Week 0 and hope yalll were happy with this mornings mix, as Possum Kingdom by Toadies was very fitting once we were in the 2nd half of the WOD. The Thang START THE CLOCK 50 burpees 5-yard murder bunny, mosey 95 yards and back 95 yards to your block, reverse murder bunny for 5 yards back to start 100 merkins 10-yard murder bunny,…
9 of us gathered at Grid Iron to celebrate a cool morning and the transitioning from summer to fall. But it was more about Roger Roger transitioning. No, no…he’s transitioning back to becoming an active pilot. Good luck brother. Meanwhile we had a boot camp this morning including: SMITH 5 Corners (Because 4 wasn’t enough)- 25 Squats, 25 Merkins, 25 Incline Merkins, 25 Taps (Shoulder), 25 Heals to Heaven. And add 5 Burpees at mid field between each corner exercise. 7’s (Because 11’s would be just too much Abs)- Get Up’s and Irish Hammers Colonnade and the Poles- Slow march…
On a perfect fall morning, 7 HIMs showed up to Satan’s Hill thankful the IPC has come to an end. Kudos to all that participated and made themselves that much stronger and better. The PAX was welcomed today with a wooden block dice that would control our destiny, and man was there a lot of luck on our side; unlike the luck of Nancy Lopez’s Guardians and YHC’s Red Sox whose dreams of a World Series came to an end. Here is how it went down: Warm up: Mosey to the end of the parking lot and back to the…
At least that’s what it felt like… until we arrived back at the flag with fewer miles than expected. Next time we’ll be faster.