Tag: 45 Minutes of Mary

19 strong (4 Attorneys/15 Non-Attorneys) posted in the gloom this fine Maundy Thursday morning for a Kubota beatdown. This is what went down:

Mosey over to the NW corner of school yard for:

COP:

10 x Don Quixotes

15 x Helicopters

15 x Russian Soldiers

15 x Cherry Pickers

15 x Hand-Release Merkins

20 x LBC’s

Mosey to bus loop for:

Curb Crawls:

Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear curb to curb. 1 Merkin/2 Merkins/3 Merkins/4 Merkins/5 Merkins/5 Merkins/4/3/2/1 Al Gore for the 6 six.

Mosey over to field for:

Suicide 11’s:

Using the 10 trees on Cary Street, perform 11’s suicide style. 10 WWII’s at first tree/1 Jump Squat at baseline. Repeato until all trees have been covered and finish with 1 WWII/10 Jump Squats. Plank for the six.

Stay on field and partner up for:

Touch-A-Tree(fence) Dora:

In rotating fashion, Partner 1 runs across field and touches new fence.

Partner 2 completes: 100 x merkins, 200 x LBC’s, 300 x SSH’s

Stay with your partner for:

2 x 25 Partner Leg Tosses each

Circle up for:

Burpee Shuffle:

PAX member calls out 1, 2 or 3 Burpees. Cannot repeat number before you. Shuffle feet while waiting. About 40 Burpees completed.

Time Up! Back to the flag!

COT, Numberama, Namearama, Announcements and YHC took us out!

Announcements:

Bodo’s VQ is May 8th at WDOG.

Don Draper had his VQ this morning at The Forge.

Gomer Pyle week continues at RAMM tomorrow.

Upchuck has Breaking Bread next Sunday the 28th. Please see if you can help him. Need someone to sign up for May and the rest of the year.

Today was “Swirly has his Annual Physical Day” I’m sure he and the doctor banged out some PLT’s or Wilson’s Dying Cockroaches together.

NMS:

It was nice to get back in the saddle this morning with you men. YHC has had a rough couple of weeks with the Flu, kid’s being sick and work functions. This was the longest that YHC has gone in between posts since YHC started. YHC didn’t know if he would be fresh and ready to roll or feeling out of shape this morning. Let’s just say it was both. The rest of the PAX looked like they were in great shape and killed the workout. Well done!

When YHC returned home this morning, he looked at his Garmin App and checked out the map of what had been accomplished this morning. Let’s just say that YHC was amazed at what he saw. Unintentionally, we mapped out a perfect CROSS on the field with the Suicide 11’s and the DORA. With today being Maundy Thursday and tomorrow Good Friday, let’s reflect on the pain and suffering that our Savior Jesus Christ went through to save us from our sins. Also, there always seems to be a certain peace that we can enjoy during this Holy Week, so let’s try to soak that peace in.

Welcome to FNG – Time Out (Eric). Time Out is a Litigator at Hunton and Williams and works with Gumbo. Being from Michigan and a Michigan Wolverine’s fan, Chris Webber’s mishap in the NCAA Final against UNC was a fitting name. Plus, he ran to and from the workout and killed it! Great job and come on back!

Enjoyed it fellas and have a great rest of the day!

Kubota

Three foursomes hit the links at Mary Munford in a quest for the elusive F3 Mudgear brand Green Jacket in perfect 70ish and sunny weather.  EF planted the flagstick.  Here’s how it went down.

Mosey down Magnolia Lane to the driving range in front of the school.

COP (IC)

• Merkins x 18
• Flutter Kicks x 18
• Copperhead Squats x 18
• SSH x 18

Mosey to the 11th

Amen 4 Corners (4 rounds)

• American Hammers x 18 (2c)
• Mountain Climbers x 18 (2c)
• Merkins x 18
• Dips x 18

Plankorama

Mosey to Rae’s Creek

Rory 1-2-3

• Player and Caddie – 18 Ball Marker (Booyah) Merkins
• Player Exercises, Caddie Runs to the 9th Azalea (Tree) – 72 Jimmy (Imperial Squat) Walkers/ 288 Hello Friends (Dollys)

Gore-orama

Drive, Chip, Putt

• From tee box hit the box around the shovel flag – 5 burpees per stroke, repeato 3 holes

Mary on the 18^th green

• Caddie Leg Toss (2 sets of 18)
• Freddie Couples (Mercurys) x 18
• Tee Box Cutters x 18
• Alphabet – spell PIMENTO CHEESE SANDWICH or LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN (PAX Choice)

Mosey along cart path back to Clubhouse

19^TH GREEN

Hello Friends.

As they mark 85 years of a tradition unlike any other down in Augusta (Quadruple Respect Aye!), we the PAX of Mary Munford Country Club have a little tradition of our own, some might say ours is even richer with history.  With a few PAX members off on the European and South American Tour down in Bon Air and BFE, a slimmer field of 12 strong was ready to step up to the box, grip it and rip it, for an 0530 shotgun start.  Singer took off to survey the course before joining the PAX on the back nine.  Groundskeeper Spackler was out extra early lining the fairways by moonlight.  No problem, we’ll just play through.  YHC warms up in the clubhouse, so straight to the Driver on box # 1 with Merkins.  Practice?  Nah.  As the PAX took off from Amen Corner a slight groan was heard as YHC called for 4 rounds.  This ain’t the Senior’s Tour, though several PAX could stand to play the Seniors’ or Ladies’ tees given their distance out of the box.  Apologies to Bleeder, YHC was anticipating a solo round with the odd PAX prior to Singer’s arrival on #10, would have been happy to partner up.  After a couple of 3 putts and one shank off the box, YHC had the PAX at +3 thru 3, but let’s take a few Mulligans and call it PAR on the ol’ scorecard.  Where’s our club pro Lab Rat when you need him? YHC distracted by what he thought was Paulina in the gallery nearly took a TYA spike to the chin during the Caddie Leg Toss.  As always, YHC thoroughly enjoyed the round even without cart girls and a cooler full of col’ beer.  TYA encourages everyone to root for his fellow Minutemen.  Not sure either, but seems fitting.  May our days be filled with Eagles and Birdies.  Until next year…

Numberama

Nameorama

COT

ANNOUNCEMENTS Prayers to Toto for positive work review and family health.

A Lucky 11 descended upon Mary to see what Saab would offer after a long hiatus from the Q sheet. This is what transpired more or less…

COP: Helicopters, DQ’s, Scorpion Kicks, Merking…all Abe Vigoda Style

Catch me if you can: Partner runs backwards across field, other partner drops and does 3 merkins, catch and swap.

Court Crawls: Bear crawl, crawl bear, crab walks, polar bears. Throw in 10 burpees and a series of Abs and Merkins along the way…

J-Squat Suicides: Intent was to get up to 21 but called an audible at about 12 to move to another exercise

11’s: WWII’s and Derkins off the perimeter trees…running across field in between

Donkey Kicks (10), bear crawl, merkins (10) then run out and back(wards). Repeato.

Finish with some Mary

NMS:

Been quite some time since YHC Q’d since experiencing an injury. Felt good to be back. We welcomed an FNG – Toto…Named after the lousy 70s band, the dog, or the toilet…take your pick.

Announcements: Breaking Bread is in need. Early launch Friday run. Vinny also mentioned something but I wasn’t paying attention at the time.

Saab abides

21 F3RVA regulars shook off the fartsack to enter the gloom for a beatdown that went something like this:

Mosey to corner of MM for COP. Exercises included SSH (56), DQs, LBCs.

Mosey to bus loop for Curb Crawls. Bear crawl across, perform 1 merkins and crawl bear back for 1 merkin. Repeato until 20 merkins.

Mosey around school to blacktop for Triple Check. Exercises included run across balcktop twice, wall sits, and squats. Repeato x 3.

Another Triple check. Exercises included, run backwards across blacktop twice, merkins, upright merkins. Repeato x 3.

Mosey back to near the parking lot for 3 MOM. Exercises included LBCs, Rosalitas, Flutterkicks.

Mosey back to flag. Numberama, namearama and TYA took us out.

Announcements – Hardywood is going on a trip. Keep in and family in thoughts.

NMS: Happy BDAY TYA.

Circle K (written on behalf of TYA) (obviously TYA did not come up with the BB Title)

24 dancers assembled in the rainy gloom for an experience as close to one shining moment as they will get. This was the 4th iteration of this novelty, AKA The Gheorghe Murisan Classic. Here is how it went down, give or take a few “you get the ideas…”

Mosey single-file over the the illuminated hoops court for layup drill. 4 left handed then 2 right handed before lining up military style on the court. Instructions were followed and off we went.

COP
Invisible Jump Ropes x20 (nice Fletch touch Gumbo)
Don Quixote’s x10
High Knees x20
Butt Kickers x15
Defensive slide with floor slap x10

Mosey to the end line for a quick line drill followed by a tribute to 3 of the 5 Virginia schools playing in the tournament. Mix in a few line drills in-between specials.

Kyle Guy Special
Pair up and complete 106 merkins, 1 for every three he has hit (so far) this year.

The Justin… wait for it… Robinson
1347 total points in his career. 13 burpees followed by 47 single count lunges. We stopped b/c I said so.

The Marcus Santos-Silva Rebound Special
338 total rebounds in his career so 33 two-count mountain climbers followed by 8 Lt. Dans.

Tip Drill. It worked this time, except no one can follow directions. Anyway, that was kind of fun. Saab would have loved it.

Form 2 teams for some risk/reward. Choose one person from your team to shoot, if they make it your team does said amount of merkins and other team does burpees. If you miss it your team does burpees and the other team does merkins. 5 merkins / 3 burpees for layup. 10 merkins / 6 burpees for free throw. 15 merkins / 9 burpees for 3 pointer. My team won, mostly because of Vinny’s banked in 3 pointer.

Try the 1-1 challenge again. 4 attempts this time around? BT made the front-end one round and was the only free throw made. Lots of burpees, merkins, and squats.

Form 6 teams of 4. See, math works! Two full court basketball games with two teams sitting out doing WWIIs. If your team wins you stay. Losers bump out. I think we made it through 4 games of about 3 minutes a piece. One game was called after YHC hit the game winner. What, you didn’t see the clock?

Mosey back to the VSF where YHC took us out.

Moleskin
YHC was a little nervous that no one would show today as the weather was brutal for outdoor basketball. Nonetheless, we all adjusted and hopefully had a good time. Kudos to Vinny and Gumbo for sporting themed jerseys, Gheorghe Murisan and Fletch respectively. Wasn’t Murisan a Bullet?

We always manage to have just the right number of people for a great series of games. One of these days we will play in the daylight.

Announcements

• Big weekend this weekend. HH Friday at TCB on Douchee (sic Viral).
• Bracketology is up. Get your bracket in by noon and pay me your $10. Bragging rights up for grabs!

Big Data is always watching!

13 Gentlemen arrived to 45MOM this morning in hopes that a workout would start their day in the most positive of directions….0529 50 secs….time to mosey.

The PAX took off with the Q right in the middle…..um, maybe they can read minds. Within 200 yds, Q kept running down the sidewalk with PAX looking for direction. 3/4 mosey around the block of Mary and to the blacktop for COP= x 10 Don Quixote’s, x 20 SSH, x 15 Seal Jacks, x 15 Copperhead Squats, x 15 Box Cutters, x 15 Flutter Kicks, x 10 Merkins, x 10 Booyah Merkins. Done…and mosey to the field.

Red Barchetta= PAX lined up for instructions. Run 100 yds and perform 100 SSH, back to the line. Run 75 yrds, perform 75 Mountain Climbers, back to the line. 50 yd run, 50 LBC’s, back. 25 yd run, 25 Merkins, back. 10 yd run, 10 Burpees.

Partner up and each partner performs 100 Wilson’s Dying Cockroach. Any increment you want but gotta finish 100.

Super 21……Q favorite. 1 WWII situp, 1 Merkin. 2 WWII situps, 2 Merkins…..and so all the way to 21. IC too. Due to time constraints. audible called for situps at 20 and 21 to LBC’s AYO but Merkins were IC. Had to finish. Mosey back to the flag.

Number-ama, Name-r-ama, Announcements: Honeydo needs assistance with logistics for Growruck next weekend (driving the supply wagon) in one of the later shifts. Next Friday night is Happy Hour somewhere in RVA. Watch for preblast. Dogpile is 0700 on Saturday, 3/23 with Dredd leading. Breakfast Club will leave ET’s at 0630. ALL F3 MEN INVITED TO BREAKFAST CLUB!

YHC took us out!

NMS: Light crowd today but it is Spring Break for some. Great work today men and beach season is right around the corner. Q really likes Super 21!! TYA has a way newer watch than the Q so he helped keep time this am. YHC illumination no longer works. Thank you TYA.

Upchuck, sometimes I overestimate and sometimes I underestimate and fractions were a long time ago. Sugar Sock great to see you out this morning and hopefully, the funk has left your crib.

Thank you for following this morning men! Every day I thank the Lord for the ability to breathe and experience my life. And those days that start at the Gloom, my day is just a little bit sweeter! And we are all blessed!

Only those who post understand.

Loud and Proud,

Flatline

17 Strong posted on a sunny and 70 Thursday morning. Weather was perfect for a good beatdown.

The Thang:

10 Burpees OYO, Mosey to side of school for COP 10x Don Quixotes, 10x Windmills, 20x LBC, 30x SSH. Mosey to the track for 1k, 5k. Exercises are 100 merkins, 200, squats, 300 WWII setups, 400 SSH. Mosey to triple check area. Triple check for 15 minutes: balls to the wall, wwII setups, and run to fence and back. Lunge to the street, run back to the shovel flag. 10 x wwII setups, and superman to end.

Saab is hilarious during the warmups. Not because he is saying stuff, but because his warmup exercises are hilarious. His approach to Don Quixotes and SSH is unique to say the least. If you are the Q, do not look in his direction, it might screw up your cadence.

Kubota might be the most environmentally unconcerned citizen I have met. He leaves his truck running for a half hour before the workouts even though he is in Swirlys truck so that he can put his hat and gloves on in the warmth of his truck (and also to waste fossil fuel and clean air)

Objective today was to keep us moving the whole time. No breaks. We did a lot of running, but it was a good day for that.

Announcements

Bootleg is running a 50k this weekend. Fantastic to see a guy set his mind to something and attack it with all he has got. Truly inspiring.

April 3rd Roller Coaster will be at a different location, followed by a humpday happy hour. Pre blast to come from Kubota.

Earth day 5K coming up in April. The race truly sucks and you are lucky if you even get a t-shirt. See Wedding Singer for details.

Ruck tomorrow morning at Ramm.

TYA out

Twenty-two Richard Marx fans lined up at 45MOM for pre-sale tickets to his June 1st show at the Beacon Theater in Hopewell. Here’s what we did while we waited for the box office to open up:

COP:  SSHs x 25. Forward Arm Circles x 10. Russian Soldiers x 10. Copperhead Squats x 10.

Field Trip to the Greek Church:  Partner up. Boxing Cockroaches. 20 each x 5 sets. Tower 11s.  Each PAX member grabs two parking spaces side-by-side. Merkins and Carolina Dry Docks are the exercises. Start at the parking space header in the left spot. Perform exercises. Bear crawl to top of the parking space, over to your right, and crawl bear back down to the header in that space. Rinse and repeat. Arm Circles. Backwards x 10. DORA.  100 Rosalitas. 200 Squats. 300 SSHs. PLTs  25 each PAX member.

Get on the Bus – Head Back to/for Mary: Merkins x 10. Flutter Kicks x 100. Burpees x 10. 60 seconds of high knees. 06:15 box office doors open.

YHC took us out.

Announcements: Grow Ruck is headed our way. See the pre-blast and do your best to participate in some if not all.

NMS:  05:25 and the PAX was ready to go. YHC was scrolling through the Beacon Theater box office list yesterday and noticed that the one and only Richard Marx is headed our way. The perfect F3 field trip if you ask me. Viral in particular is excited. Noting, isn’t he the guy who sang about being accused of kidnapping someone? Why yes; yes he is.

Awkward Transition: Today is an important day for me. It is my last day at The Gee Law Firm. I joined them six years ago, and was friends and colleagues with most of them years prior. They are family. It is not without sadness that I leave them. As we go forward today, let’s remember those who did right by us, who lifted us up, who took us in from the rain. Move forward, but look back. Tomorrow I start a new job that I am very excited about. But that’s tomorrow. Today, I soak it all in. I encourage each of you to do the same. To lift up the positivity in our lives, and to thank those who play(ed) a part in it.

Enjoyed the morning men. It was great sharing it with each of you.

Intro: Despite a foreboding forecast, 16 frost-hardened gloom warriors posted to 45MOM, only to find YHC’s shovel flag standing proud, Old Glory snapping her welcome in a balmy 70 degree breeze. 

The THANG:

Mosey to COP #1: (Black Top)

• Sweat Party: Hands up with continuous high knees, drop for a 5-count merkin set on hearing “Drop”, jump back up to continue high knees, repeato – Merkins included Chuck Norris, Werkin, FingerTip, Diamond, & Dive Bombers
• Dancing Bears x15 IC (Bear crawl position, Raise Rt Arm + Lt Leg, then opposite, 4 count)
• Copperhead Squats x15 IC
• High-speed Freddie M’s x15 IC …to redirect the abundant Mumble Chatter
• 21’s:  SSH #1-5 IC, then silent for #6-21, x5 Burpees were awarded for multiple PAX losing count and going over…especially SAAB

Mosey around track to COP #2: (Pull-Up Bars)

• Morning Call:  First man completes 5 pull-ups calling cadence to the pushing PAX who complete 5 matching Merkins or Carolina DryDocks – after 5 pull-ups completed, brother-on-bar calls out his F3Name – echoed by the pushing PAX. Repeato for each member = x80 Drydocks or Merkins total.

Mosey to COP #3: (Tennis Court – short side)

• BlackJack: x20 WWII, BC or CW across court then x1 Ball Dippers (Iron Mikes), then BC or CW back…descending WWII’s, ascending BD’s, always add’s up to 21 (but because this routine turned out to be super boring, YHC called AUDIBLE having only attained 14WWII and 7 BD’s)

On the Fly COP #4: (Tennis Court – long ways)

• Triple Check: P1 & P2 complete Squerkins while P3 carioca’s across full length of courts …LBC’s for the Six

Mosey Back to Flag for Mary & COT:

• Hold 6” for the SIX
• LBC’s
• Protractor (varying degrees of pain)
• Heels to Heaven x10 OYO
• Flutter Kicks x50 IC (ouch)
• Plankercizes until times up
• Counterama
• Namerama
• Announcements (included below in Comments)
• GREENBOW took us out with some high quality prayer

NMS: 

YHC is again honored and blessed to stand among real men, beating the ever cozy fartsack despite risks of low crawls in brown water. YHC ended up adjusting the workout lineup quite a bit in order to reduce mumble chatter and/or keep things interesting…so please forgive any errors detailed above.  Today, YHC remembers proposing to the M 15 years ago – thank GOD she said yes! YHC is who he is today because of her. #TryHardorDieHard

With the temperatures topping a balmy 31F, 23 of RVA’s finest gloom warriors showed up for a 45MOM beatdown.  According to legend it went something like this (more or less):

COP:  11 Imperial Walkers IC, 9 Don Quixote IC, 10 Russian Soldiers IC, 10 Burpees OYO

4 Corners.  Using the block around the school and field run to corner 1 and do 10 Burpees.  Run to corner 2 and do 10 Burpees + 20 Merkins.  Run to corner 3 and do 10 Burpees + 20 Merkins + 30 Squats.  Run to corner 4 and do 10 Burpees + 20 Merkins + 30 Squats + 40 LBC’s.  Plank until done.

4 x 50.  Run to the other side of the field, do 50 Plank Jacks.  Run back, do 50 2-count American Hammers.  Run across, do 50 2-count Mountain Climbers.  Run back, do 50 Monkey Humpers.  Plank until done.

Dora. Mosey to the tennis courts for a Dora: 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 LBC’s, 400 2-count Flutterkicks. Plank until done.

Name-a-rama.  Number-rama.  Greenbow took us out in prayer with some great words to ensure we are nourishing our wives with our love, service, and words of affirmation.

NMS.  What a great time this was!  We did some big numbers today and everyone stayed warm.  Great seeing Twocan back after a long break.  We welcomed FNG Semi-Charmed, although I’m a believer that no name is final on the first day and is subject to change after some more group input at ET’s on Saturday.

Happy Valentine’s day, stay warm, love your wives and kids, and see ya in the gloom!

Ollivander