Tag: 45 Minutes of Mary

21 of Richmond’s finest posted in the hot and sticky gloom to what will be YHC’s last 45MOM Q for quite a while. For those of you that didn’t know, YHC is moving to Colorado this weekend for good. Dubbed by TYA as “the longest goodbye in the history of mankind”, YHC wanted to end things where he started……at 45MOM. YHC’s first every F3 workout was at 45 MOM on a Thursdy in October 2014. The exact date escapes me……do Big Data’s records go back that long? Orville was the Q that day and it was quite a beat down. YHC’s goal was to duplicate that workout to the best of his memory (with some slight modifications), and here’s how it went down:

Start of the Merkin timer: Slurpee set his watch on timer mode to go off every 5 minutes. Throughout the workout, the PAX stopped whatever they were doing every 5 minutes to do merkins in cadence, the number of which would depend on the Q. We did 15 reps the first three sets, which really equals 30 merkins if they were OYO, and then 10 reps the rest of the sets until the last one, during which we did 15. Total count for the workout was 120 (240 if they were OYO).

Indigenous people’s run south to Cary St., turning right and then right again to go around the field, then circle up in the grass for COP. Everything was in cadence:

• Tron Squats x 15
• SSH x 30
• Merkins x 15 (2nd set of timer)
• Circle Planks x 15
• Scissor/Flutter kicks x 15
• Don Quixote x 10

Line up along the baseline on the west side of the field for Leapfrog: partner up with someone of similar size. The first man gets down on the ground in a ball on his knees and the 2nd man leapfrog’s over his back. Do this across the field to the East side.

Tunnel of Love back across the field to the West side.

11’s across the field from West to East and back. Exercises were Burpees and Tron Squats. Shortened the width of the field to halfway around 6:08 and called an audible when the clock got to 6:13 to mosey back to the flag. One final set of merkins at 6:15 and then numberama, namerama, and YHC took us out.

NMS:

YHC had more planned for today’s beatdown but was not able to accomplish it all. Everything seemed to take longer today than YHC anticipated and I’m not sure why? The field seemed wider than I remembered, and that allowed the PAX to get in an extra long portion of the the Tunnel of Love. Perhaps the merkin timer was to blame? Regardless of the reason, the PAX gave it all they had out there, and YHC was proud to lead this fine group of men one last time. When the Tunnel of Love was announced, YHC reminded the PAX that he was the first to bring that exercise to RVA, and Rosie mentioned how much he enjoyed it and how he hoped YHC would be taking that to Colorado with me to share with the PAX in Denver. Don’t worry Rosie……the PAX of F3Denver will be enjoying the Tunnel of Love very soon. 😉

Kudos and TCLAPS to the entire PAX for leaving it all on the field today. The merkin timer was a smoker, especially when it went off while doing burpees during 11’s. Big thanks to Slurpee for serving as official timer.

The PAX of F3RVA has meant more to YHC than I can express, either in the spoken or written word. I will certainly miss you guys, but hopefully you’ll see me again as we still have family in town and will be visiting periodically. Until then, Fudd bids you all Vaya con Dios.

Announcements:

• HDHH at Independence Golf Course tonight for drinks, food and a band. See Gumbo’s recent backblasts for details.
• YHC will be Q again tomorrow for RAMM and we will be playing Ultimate Frisbee. There will be running routes for those that would rather run on the roads.

Fourteen NBA hopefuls – one North of the Border but in spirit – posted for what turned into a Hitchhiker floor check exhibition. TYA still has wood.

Mosey to the scene of the crimes (basketball court) for warm-ups.

COP: Arm Circles. 6 forward. 3 backwards in honor of Cy Young / Tom Brady. Merkins x 10. LBCs x 20. Scorpion Kicks x 10. Smurf Jacks x 10

Skills Competition (Quadruple Check): Teams of 4 x 4 rounds, duh. PAX performs REAL partner leg tosses (throw the legs down hard; let the legs drop to six inches without hitting the ground), while third PAX member performs jump squats. Timer dribbles the basketball the length of the black top with one hand, uses the opposite hand on the way back.

Wojos: A staple of any bball warm-up.

First Game: Games of 4 on 4 and 2 on 3 ensued for 10 minutes. Winner of 4 on 4 played all five members from court one during the second round, while losing 4 on 4 team split and played 2 on 2 – all for 10 more minutes.

Combine (Ring of Fire): HR Merkins x 10. Hitchhikes x 5.

BTTF

YHC took us out.

Announcements/Prayers: Puppy Pile next Sat. at 7:05. Also next Sat. is a no excuses workout in DaVille. Next Tuesday is Gumbo’s HR Derby at Huguenot Little League – replacing No Toll. Early Risers this Sat. at 4:00. Meet at DP. July 4th Convergence 7:00. Thoughts and prayers for Hitchhiker’s daughter who has been running a high fever for 4 days.

Moleskin: Back in March, YHC asked Splinter if he ever thought about a mid-summer bball workout when sight lines would be better. He was one step ahead, and already on the Q sheet. A few weeks ago he learned he had to go to Toronto, so I stepped in. All 5’9 and 1/2 of me – the perfect Splinter replacement.

Five minutes to tip this morning and the Swirly pace started to quietly increase. Two minutes to go, and he was in full on eyes glazed over, veins popping out ready to lead his men in to battle mode. For his own safety, and the safety of others, I let him know that I was the Q.

Highlights, via 1990s Sports Center Cast were plentiful: Slippin Jimmy is as cool as the other side of the pillow. Opus, from way down town, bang! Hitchhiker/ Mean Gene Okerlund – well, that’s a different sport. Hitchhiker is a banger, baby! He floor checked TYA so hard, that TYA thought he was back in Baaawstan getting trucked next to a burning tire on a frozen slurry pond. That, and he branded Slippin with a nice left eye shiner. Saab, you can’t stop him, you can only hope to contain him. Kubota, PTPer.

Highlights were too many to recall, but today was a true blast. On the way out, I thanked Splinter and pointed to the sky. Flipper: Jesus, don’t do him like that. Me: Dude, he’s in Toronto, which is up North.

Swirly: I like playing in the dark better, it’s easier to foul and deny.

Flipper: I’m better in the dark. Aren’t we all Flipper, aren’t we all.

Last night at HDHH. Swirly: Splinter Q tomorrow. Saab: As long as we don’t have to play basketball, I’ll be there.

Have a great day men!

16 stalwarts posted on a drizzly Thursday morning…oops sorry, it was 70 and sunny.

The Thang.

Mosey to bus circle. COP with SSH, Don Quixote, Freddy Mercury, and Imperial Walkers, Curb calls with incline and decline merkins, up to 7, repeat 7 and back down. Partner up for 1k5k, 100 merkins, 200 jump squats, 300 WWII setups, 400 flutter kicks. Partner runs the bus loop, when you hit WWII 2 loops and for the flutter kicks, run backwards. Triple check, dips, SSH and third partner runs loop. A few mary exercises, culminating in Superman led by Swirly and then back to the flag.

NMM

Had tentatively planned a hockey themed workout, but things didn’t go Boston’s way last night, so bagged that idea. Many thoughts from the pax at the beginning that led me to doing the new Sarah workout. Got some comments about going off campus, some about not wanting to run and one Pax member noting he did not have any gloves this morning. So, given all that feedback, I improvised and decided that we would not venture more than 100 yards away from our cars and have a beatdown in a limited area.

Many comments about the Bruins and the game last night. Yes, I know they lost. One of the great things about hockey is that you never know who is going to prevail. St. Louis had the worst record in the league on Jan 2 and turned things around and won the cup. Congrats to the Blues on their first Stanley Cup. Would have liked to see Boston win, but with 12 championships in the past 18 years, I think we are good.

Marv posted for a bootcamp this morning. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, but I don’t think I have seen him at a bootcamp in some time. What next Marv? Are you going to post a backlist for a workout that you Q? Say it aint so.

Vinny and Swirly were talking about seer sucker suits last night on the run. Honestly, I don’t know (nor do I want to know) what a seer sucker is, but any men’s fashion that has rules on what time of year you can wear them is completely BS. Whats next? are we going to have to go to the bathroom in pairs now. Please.

The only explanation that I have for the seer sucker suit is that the first salesman that sold one turned to his buddy and said “SEE theRe, I just sold that SUCKER the ugliest suit for a premium price, he must be from the south”

TYA Out. Thanks for letting me lead today.

On a nice humid low 70s morning, 14 beasts showed up for a good beatdown from the Fireman.  

COP (Warm Up) – 6 Don Quixotes (Saab kept going – I think he did 9), 6 OYO burpees, 19 Freddie Mercuries and 44 Side straddle hops.  So the PAX are wondering why the odd #s.  The reason is that on 6/6/1944 the Allies landed on Normandy for what we call D-Day.  After an “appropriate” recovery period we headed down for our first exercise.

First Exercise: In honor of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we split up 75 burpees into 19 sets by doing a set of 4 burpees at each tree (1 extra since we are tough).

Second Exercise: At the next corner we bear crawled and at the first tree did 1 WWII, bear crawled to the next tree, did 2 WWIIs and so on. We stopped at the next corner.

Third Exercise: We did lunges from the road to half way across the tennis court. I was initially thinking of going all the way across the tennis court but after someone asked when we should stop I stopped halfway.

Fourth Exercise: We did modified Doras with a partner and did 75 Hand release Merkins, 150 2 count mountain climbers and 300 2 count flutter kicks.

5th Exercise: We gathered around the monkey bars and we had 2 rings of fire with 2 participants doing 5 chin ups while the others were in plank position, doing derkins or tricep dips. I thought this was going to go around once but the group was so fast we ended with 2 times around and Swirly and Goldberg going 3 times. I guess they love some chin ups.

Last exercise was 35 American hammers.

Announcements: Summer Tour still going on, sign up if you haven’t already. Early risers club (or last call for you youngens) is on 6/22 at Dog Pile/Byrd Park. See HoneyDo for details.

Musings: It was fun Qing Mary for the first time. The group tends to partake in more mumble chatter than at Hoedown or Heartbreak. And yes I am not a “personalized” trainer.

Welcome Pistorious (FNG). He did a great job keeping up with the burpees, bear crawls and hand release merkins. He works with prosthetics hence the name.

Lastly, let’s take time to remember those who lost their lives on D-day. Do Great things men!

YHC’s Garmin struck 5:30 and off we went, despite Swirly heading in the opposite direction calling Q. The Pax corrected and followed YHC to the soccer fields.

Moving to the side to avoid the official laying lines on the soccer field, we established our COP. SSH, Don Quixote, Copperhead Squats, HRM, and finish it off with Scorpion Kicks.

Mosey to the corner and cross Cary for Lindsays. The exercises were Box Cutters and Carolina Drydocks with a 6 inch hold for the six. Then progress a block for the next evolution. Berkshire, Cambridge, Tonbridge, Windsor Way, and Oxford were our exercise way points.

Ah, a beautiful field that cannot be resisted, especially by Dora. Dora 1,2,3s it is. Partner 1 runs across the field while partner 2 performs 100 Monkey Humpers, 200 LBC, and 300 2-count Flutter Kicks. The sight of the early morning commute filing past our Monkey Humpers most likely prompted calls to respective real estate agents and HOA throughout the morning.

It was during these exercises that two deer were spotted jogging through people’s yards. In retrospect, I am not sure if they were the wild dogs or we were. Probably a little bit of both.

Back down Windsor Way and cross Cary to Reveille UMC where we lined the turn around circle for Bear-O-Clock. Bear Crawl quarter round and perform 3 merkins, half way around for 6 merkins, three quarters around for 9 merkins, and a full revolution for 12 merkins.

Mosey around and back behind the church to the picnic shelter for Triple Check. Abyss Merkins, American Hammers, and run across the parking lot/backwards run back. Triple check was abbreviated due to time.

Mosey back to the VSF where YHC took us out.

Time to Taper,

Lockjaw

16 Men of The Gloom arrived on another glorious morning to enjoy some cinder block fun.

5:30 came, YHC called “let mosey”, then headed to the car and open the trunk. Everyone grabbed a block and off we went.

This how it went down

Short mosey to the grassy area next to the parking lot

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, Tempo LBC’s, Merkins (On Cinder Block), Arm Circles

THANG

Mosey to the tennis court

Dora – 100 Workins (on the cinder blocks), 200 Goblet Squats, 300 sit up + press. Partner completes suicides using the tennis court lines

Mosey to the blacktop

Merkin Row – Line up the cinder block in a straight line with plank length between each block. Moving down the line completing Right Arm on Block Merkin, Regular Merkin, and Left Arm on Block Merkin. Rinse and Repeat touching each block

Triple Check – Balls to the Wall, Good Mornings, and Run to fence and back

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

MOLESKIN

Another Q, another cinder block workout. Some of the PAX had a feeling it was coming but lucky YHC was able to surprise most. Apologizes go out to Handshake and Loose Goose for getting a double dose of cinder block this week. Hopefully changing the exercises made it better (probability not)

Despite the large amount of sit up reps, the PAX pushed through in great time

Mumble Chatter seemed to be focused around teams completing the Dora but also Lab Rat sharing his bathroom “needed”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Memorial Day Convergence – Monday 0700 – meet in Tredegar parking lot
• Opus has the Q at Dogpile – Come Support
• New AO launch next Thursday – See Pre-Blast
• Summer Tour start Saturday – See Pre-Blast
• Shakedown is shaving his head for cancer and is fundraising. See him to donate

SPIT ON THAT!!

14 strong posted on a Thursday morning for a beatdown at Mary Mumford.

The Thang

Mosey about 50 yards to side of school. 5x Don Quixote, 10x merkins, Mosey a little more to corner of Commonwealth and Cary, another COP with random exercises. Run across the street to the sidewalk on cary and Mosey to windsor way. Team up, first person runs to next intersection and back, other person does Lunges, crab dippers, and polar bears until both reach the intersection. Mosey to Grove Baptist Church field. 4 corners. First round mosey to first corner for 10 merkins, second corner, 20 copperhead squats, third corner 40 WWII setups, corners 4 40 side straddle hops. While waiting for the 6 continue to do SSH. Reverse direction and run backwards between the stations, add 5 to each exercise ending at the merkin station. Mosey to Windsor way, make your way to the next intersection doing lunges, crab dips, and polar bears in team. Mosey to intersection of Windsor way and Cary. Cross street and enter Reveille church. Short COP at side of school. Go through back entrance of school and mosey back to shovel flag, stopping several times for more merkins, mary exercises and other COP activities.

NMM

I was kicking my own ass this morning. The reason we has so many COP and stops along the way was because I couldn’t get into a running rhythm. Even with the stops, I didn’t want to give the us a break, so I kept the exercises flowing.

Field at Grove Baptist was awesome today. They had cut the grass so it wasn’t its normal knee high grass. Only negative on the field was that on the south side of the field there were a bunch of divers/holes in the field. Ankle breakers if you were not careful.

Splinter brought us out and into the day we went.

14 gloom veterans posted to see if the Rivah Crossing Guard would allow this week’s SOJ-Q to cross enemy lines and lead a workout. Thankfully, the crossing guard was kind and YHC made it this morning. This is what ensued:

Mosey toward the courts and around the gravel track one lap to loosen up, then COP, including the following (all IC):

• DQs (Saab-approved speed)
• Helicopters (oh-baby, Saab was in heaven so far)
• SSHs
• No-Cheat Merkins (a DTH favorite) – 8-count exercise consisting of HRMs with Alternating Shoulder Taps at the top. No cheating on these bad boys. AND – despite the PAX’s reluctance, YHC thinks the 8-count worked out just fine.
• Mountain Climbers
• LBCs
• Arm Circles

THE THANG

Nobody Puts Dora in a Box

Partner 1 makes his way around the box drawn on the blacktop alternating between bear crawls and running each length. Partner 2 begins exercises. Flapjack and repeato until all exercises are complete. Exercises included: 100 merkins, 200 box cutters and 300 squats.

Where did the Q go? Did duty call?

Flatline lead the PAX in some plank-o-rama while YHC disappeared for a minute and returned with a football in hand…to the field!

Swirly Ball

Partners from Dora are on opposite teams. The Q’s team is skins and the rules are – play like Ultimate Frisbee only 2 (or 3?) steps allowed with the ball then you have to throw it. Any drop = turnover (except on kickoffs). When the ball hits the ground EVERYONE has to do a burpee. When a team scores a touchdown, that team chooses an exercise and a rep # – defense has to do double. Game On!

Whistle blows…back to the Flag.

COT, Number-Rama, Name-A-Rama and YHC took us out.

Announcements/Prayer Requests:

• Field Day – Saturday — see your region captain (Gumbo, Vinny, Kubota, Spit) for uniforms. Show up at least 5 minutes early and be prepared to go a few minutes past 7.
• Orange Crush VQ at Twin Team tomorrow — bouncy house was promised. Hope he confirmed the weight limit!
• Prayers up for a friend/co-worker of Flatline whose son in the Navy was found dead in barracks. Awful news. Treasure each day and each encounter with loved ones.

NMS:

YHC had several things planned for today, including some other field work like Red Barchetta or Gunners (look it up — a few rounds of that with the right number of reps and it sounded like some pain), but half-way through the Dora, YHC had enough of the bear crawl and the reps and remembered the football in the back of his car. 14 PAX, 7v7, Get in the competition spirit before field day…PERFECT.

Note to self…get off the tracks when the Bodos Train is coming…Choo Choo! Yikes. Unfortunately, YHC’s back hair got got up in some of the tall grass and brought YHC to an abrupt halt on a go route (beautiful throw Swirly). Well, trains don’t stop on a dime, especially with a full head of steam. Ouch.

Some great flashbacks to glory days out there. Great throws, great catches. Some good old fashioned fun and competition. It was a blast fellas. Thanks for playing along!

No More Gumbo For You!

16, scratch that, 15 junk yard dogs posted at Mary for what was to be a Marmaduke lead kennel run, instead, we broke our leashes and a free for all ensued.

Swirly Dog: SSHs / DQs / Helicopters / Imperial Walkers / Merkins / LBCs

Wedding Singer Dog: Partner up. Split the track in half. Run to your partner for 10 Boo Yah Merkins. Run back from whence you came. Repeat 4 times.

Big Tennessee Dog: Mosey to the tennis courts for some Tennessee Leg Hound. Mark your territory with line tracers out and back. Find a square between service line and net. Tennessee bar crawl – don’t touch the lava – around the lines x 2. Parting gift. BT peed on our carpets. 10 Burpees in cadence.

ABBA Dog: Mosey to the center ring for the international division – Dora style. Treats were pulled. 100 Merkins. 200 LBCs. 300 Squats. Time for the judges to check all the kibbles and bits. Partner wheel barrows to the center of the ring and back x 2. Mosey to the dip pit for more partner fun. 30 dips while your partner holds your feet. Mosey to Sarah’s yard. ABBA peed on our carpets. 10 Burpees OYO.

ABBA tog os ut. Bra sagt.

Announcements: See Marmaduke

Happy birthday Wedding Singer. Final lap of hate.

NMS: Great day for a kennel run. We hope our fellow pooch Marmaduke is ok. You owe us some organic dog treats.

20 of the finest draft picks arrived on a sunny and 70 morning to prep for tonight’s NFL Draft.

This is how it went down:

DRAFT PICK COP
(each exercises was completed for the first 10 team picking and at random spots on the soccer field)

The Cardinal Select – 10 Burpees OYO
The 49ers Select – 15 SSH IC
The Jets Select – 10 DQ IC
The Raiders Select – 15 Heels to Heaven IC
The Buccaneers Select – 15 Crunchy Frogs IC
The Giants Select – 12 Merkins IC
The Jaguars Select – 25 LBC’s IC
The Lions Select – 15 Hands Over Head Flutter Kicks IC
The Bills Select – 15 Copperhead Squats IC
The Broncos Select – Arm Circles IC

THANG

The Michigan (Light) – While still on the soccer field, 5 100 yard dash, 4 80 yard dash, 3 60 yard dash, 2 40 yard dash, and 1 20 yard dash

Mosey to tennis courts

Tennis Court Suicides – Using the lines on the 4 different courts the following was completed

Court #1 – Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear Suicides and 5 Merkins at baseline
Court #2 – Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear Suicides and 5 HRM at baseline
Court #3 – Forward/Backwards Lunge Suicides and 3 Burpees at baseline
Court #4 – Forward/Backwards Crabwalk Suicides and 5 Dips

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

MOLESKIN

Always great to have the opportunity to Q at 45 MOM and to have a day that a theme can be used makes it even better. YHC enjoyed listening to the PAX comments on the teams regarding team in the Top 10 picks this year. TYA asked “When are we going to get to the good teams?”

The exercises were also selected today to keep the PAX together as much as possible. This was to make sure the SIX was never behind. One of the things that YHC took from completing the Grow Ruck last month is the fact that the PAX is only as good as the SIX. Some times we lose sight of this especially with our FNG’s.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Puppy Pile this Saturday at 7:05
• Field Day at Dogpile is May 11th

SPIT ON THAT!!