Tag: #CSAUP

Completely Stupid and Udderly Pointless

  • Inaugural Daville 35

    12 Davillians (11 + 1 honorary member) verged on the grounds of the Rutland clubhouse parking lot for a great alternative to the Colonial 70.

    This how it when down

    Setup: 4 teams arrived at the parking lot at 4:30am, setup camp, warmed up, and got instructions from YHC on the 35 mile race.

    THANG

    There were 4 teams of 3 runners. Each runner would completed two loops (6.2 miles & 5.5 miles) in a relay style race.

    Routes

    Loop #1 – 6.2 miles (10K) took the runners over the fly over to service road around and behind Atlee HS. Then into Honey Meadows and around the trail. Finally back the same way then around the Bojangles loop

    Loop #2 – 5.5 miles took the runners around the Rutland Neighborhood into Knollwood for a loop and a hill. Out of Knollwood into Cool Spring West for a loop around that trail. Out and back to Rutland passing the parking lot to the Bojangles loop

    MOLESKIN

    What a great CSAUP!! The PAX crushed their projected times with every team finishing in less than 5 hours. Team Trailblazers lead the way after time penalty was add to another team (more that later). Here were the results

    • Team Trailblazers (Marco Polo, Pavarotti, Helix) – 4:45:10
    • Team The Rat Pack (Faceplant, Corned Beef, Trout) – 4:46:20
    • Team United Nations (The Carpenter, Spit, Bulkhead) – 4:46:35
    • Team Alpha Omega (Sludge, Opus, Glide) – 4:57:20

    The Rat Pack had to take a unfortunate time penalty since Corned Beef didn’t take the correct turn on his 2nd run.

    A few highlights:

    • Faceplant to the title for the fastest 10k with a 44:25
    • Several PAX set PR’s on their 10k including YHC (47:34)
    • Thanks to Luggie who was our runner support on bike
    • “The Returners” (last year’s Colonial team) show what they learned from last year by prepping wiser.
    • The whole race felt like a competition with all team at one point within 5 minutes of each other and three time finishing within a minute and half.

    Final Thoughts – This was fun, challenging, and up lifting. The PAX is already looking forward to do it again soon!

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • HBR Iron Pax Challenge Week 3

    3rd F: (Faith)
    Join us this evening at 8pm for the bi-weekly fellowship faith discussion. Zoom link is located in the 3RD F Slack Channel

    On going TAP for the Education staff, Students, and families in this new Virtual learning world.

    2nd F (Fellowship)
    Still time to signup for the Cornhole tournament at the Men’s Retreat on October 3rd.

    Runners: The Diamond is back open for the weekly Wednesday Run club. It starts at 6:15 PM and has both a 4 and 6 mile route. Food and beverages afterwards. Get place to EH future pax.

    Meet-up at Wilson’s house on Saturday night at midnight. He wants his house painted in Miami Dolphin logos and colors. Wants it to be a surprise for his M. 🙂 DM Wilson for details.

    1st F (Fitness) AKA: The Thang
    K.I.S.S.

    • Start
      • Run 400m
        • 100 merkins
      • Run 400m
        • 90 squats
      • Run 400m
        • 80 merkins
      • Run 400m
        • 70 squats
      • Run 400m
        • 60 merkins
      • Run 400m
        • 50 squats
      • Run 400m
        • 40 merkins
      • Run 400m
        • 30 squats
      • Run 400m
        • 20 merkins
      • Run 400m
        • 10 squats
      • Run 800m
    • End (Total work is 3 miles of running, 300 merkins, and 250 squats.)

    NMS:
    The IPC doesn’t leave much room for mubblechatter so the moleskin is typically hard to put out there… typically random ramblings of strange thoughts that happen when its 530 in the morning and you are oxygen deprived from doing something your body will hate you for later. I will spare you all from the wonderings i had this morning while trying to catch Probation on the track as to why i have the channels i do with the free to air antenna… but i can tell you that for some random reason.. i like Grizzly Adams again. 🙂 Another thing… does any one have any idea why the 1st Merkin is the hardest when doing a ladder. The set of 40; i had to talk myself into that 1st one like a drunk sailor trying to coach his 1st step after getting up off the bar stool… I would imagine after the 90 Squats we all looked like drunk sailors trying to run that track…. oh yeah… who thought it was a good idea to make a track out of tiny sand sized rocks.. that crap is like sandpaper if you get a piece in your sock. Glad i didnt get a piece in my sock, but sure thought of it while i was pacing Light House on the 1st lap. Wait a minute?!?!?! where is Handshake? he was on the text tread yesterday.. didnt see him at HoeDown either… Bet he was watching football to late. Dang… Is that Bodos and GomerPyle already on the other side of the track.. we just started??!?!?!? i wonder if they got rocks in their socks. Are spots normal when you are doing 80 merkins after sprinting a 400? I think they are.. it must be the oxygen i’m not getting and yet still think it is a good idea to keep going when the body is screaming stop.. ok.. maybe a little break… stop it self.. no breaks until you are done.
    OOOPs.. sorry about the random thoughts..

    Until next time.

    v/r
    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Girls Just Want to Have Fun

    17(!) PAX chose the hard thing. They posted to NoToll knowing it was week 2 of the IronPAX challenge. According to the confused police officers this is how it went down.

    Early meet at 5:15am, collect coupons from YHC’s low riding vehicle and mosey to the pre-measured and marked field. 15 minutes of general warm up and explanation. Included lots of arm circles to try and loosen up.

    Started the timer and the 80s work out mix on the speaker and we were off for

    The THANG

    Place coupon at Shovel Flag.  Start timer.  Complete a 400m run that starts and ends at Shovel Flag (do not carry block)

    Pick up block and complete 10 Thrusters at the Shovel Flag

    Rifle carry coupon to cone A (please completely move beyond/around cone)

    Complete 25 Decline Merkins at cone A

    Rifle carry coupon back to Shovel Flag (please completely move beyond/around Shovel Flag)

    Complete 10 Thrusters at the Shovel Flag

    Rifle carry coupon to cone B

    Complete 25 Blockees at cone B

    Rifle carry coupon back to Shovel Flag

    Complete 10 Thrusters at the Shovel Flag

    Rifle carry coupon to cone C

    Complete 25 Weighted Squats at cone C

    Rifle carry coupon back to Shovel Flag

    Complete 10  Thrusters at the Shovel Flag

    Rifle carry coupon to cone D

    Complete 25 Kettle Bell Swings at cone D

    Rifle carry coupon back to Shovel Flag

    Complete 10 Thrusters at the Shovel Flag

    Rifle carry coupon to cone E

    Complete 25 Vertical Block Presses at cone E

    Rifle carry coupon back to Shovel Flag

    Complete 10 Thrusters at the Shovel Flag

    Rifle carry coupon to cone F

    Complete 25 Alpos at cone F

    Rifle carry coupon back to Shovel Flag

    Complete 10 Thrusters at the Shovel Flag

    **This completes one full round** 

    Rinse and repeat for 43 minutes. 

    Recover, then collect coupons and assorted accessories and head BTTF.

    Numbers, names, announcements, YHC took us out.

    NMM

    This was easily the hardest workout YHC has completed since joining F3. Every PAX who posted pushed themselves and got better. This was truly a You Against Your workout where each man should be proud of what he accomplished. TCLAPS to Speedo for posting after a 4 year break! The humor of the PAX is unparalleled. Orange Crush was disappointed there was no Cyndi Lauper on the mix. The music took Mr. Roper back to his heyday on the roller skating rink in his canadian tuxedo.

  • SOJ Conquers IPC Wk1

    A pumped up gang of mighty men converged at NoToll this morning to take on Week 1 of the Iron Pax Challenge. Along with the famed clipboard, DTH upped the gadget game with a whiteboard detailing the routine and Bluetooth speaker sounding off the EMOM timer. Here’s how SOJ set the pace for F3RVA:

    The THANG:

    WarmUp:

    • Mosey to the lush field and circle up
    • Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
    • DQ’s x10 IC
    • YHC demonstrated and led a few reps of each exercise in the planned routine

    IronPax Challenge Week 1:

    • EMOM (every minute on the minute), complete x3 Burpees, and meanwhile complete the following:
    • x50 HRRM’s (both hands off ground at bottom then one hand off ground at top of each merkin – we did a shoulder tap)
    • x100 Leg Raises
    • x150 Jungle Boi Squats (deep squats with touching both hands to ground between feet, then raised overhead with jumping feet off ground)
    • x200 WWII’s
    • x250 Lunges (single count)
    • Scored for individual Elapsed Time

    Cool Down:

    • Variable Mary and stretches

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 15
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Impressive performance again from the SOJ pax with times ranging 21:36 to 36min. Tclaps to Fresh Prince, Don Draper, and Rosie setting the pace at something akin to a blur. The burpees every minute were annoying, but ultimately became a respite from the relentless pain of the gazillion routine reps. Don’t know about the rest of you but YHC has been wobbling around on spaghetti legs this morning! Also Tclaps to a few guy who did not let their form waver despite the high rep count (among others, YHC noted Snuff and Florence really honoring the form) – you may have come up with slower times, but you guys are winners at an entirely higher level!!! The IPC is really a powerful exercise of the F3 You-versus-You model — it really doesn’t matter what your ultimate finish time is, if you pushed yourself hard to do your best, then you are reaping what you sow. YHC really appreciates how many of you guys are stepping up to do the IPC this year – CSAUP sucks, but sure as hell is a lot more fun with you guys alongside! All my respect, YHC, DTH
  • F3 Iron PAX (RVA Style)

    F3 Iron PAX (RVA Style)

    It’s that time of year again. Not only a time where the leaves change and the smell of pumpkins and their related spices are omnipresent. No, YHC is referring to the F3 Iron PAX challenge. This a challenge is amongst F3 nation. A chance to push and better yourself while talking some smack along the way.

    Dr. Try Hard and YHC will attempt to lead the challenge in RVA this year. It will take place the first 4 weeks of September. We will hold it at NO TOLL each week, same as usual, Tuesdays at 5:30am! If there is a requirement for weights, a track, or pull up bars we will hold it at a different AO as needed. No need to change what you do! Just post at normal days/locations. Changes and any new info will be posted on Slack.

    The pre-blast from F3 Greenwood is below which explains it a little more. Use this to sign up and rep F3RVA. (RVA is an option for region when you sign up).

    https://f3greenwood.com/2020/08/06/2020-ironpax-challenge-preblast/

    Also, if this still seems Greek to you search the youtube for “f3 ironpax challenge” and it shows the explanation videos for previous years challenges.

  • SOJ Inaugural PuppyPile

    An extraordinary THIRTY gloom warriors posted this morning to our SOJ inaugural PuppyPile at NoToll, with a few brave men outnumbered at least 3-1 by a veritable herd of adventure-energized 2.0’s! An entirely intimidated DTH noted perfect conditions – sunny, 70 degrees, 0700 – and off we went!

    The THANG:

    Basketball Court Warmerama COT:

    • F3 Welcome & Disclaimer
    • SSH x10 IC
    • DQ’s x10 IC
    • Copperhead Squats x10 IC
    • Merkins x10 IC
    • LBC’s x10 IC

    Playground DORA:

    • Partner/Team Up
    • Running partner runs to top of playground ramps, slides down, and returns to teammate(s)
    • Stationary Partner(s) complete:
    • x50 Merkins
    • x100 WWII’s
    • x150 Monkey Humpers

    GUTBUSTERS:

    • Mosey to pavilion (carry smaller kids)
    • En route transfer bricks from the DTH-mobile to the Field
    • Circle up at the Pavilion
    • Play the Ghostbusters theme song – SSH to the beat, then drop for a Merkin whenever “Ghostbusters” repeated

    Bears & Bricks:

    • Mosey back to the Field
    • Split into 2 teams
    • As a team move your brick pile from the side of the field to half way out, then back again
    • Dad’s Bearcrawl with Bricks in hand and a 2.0 riding on their back wherever possible

    FRISBEE FIVES:

    • Frisbee is thrown by a 2.0, first kid to get it calls an exercise for the PAX to complete x5 reps, then that 2.0 get to throw the frisbee
    • Lots of merkins, squats, burpees, and sit-ups called

    Slip-n-Slide:

    • Hardywood rounded up the gang and had everyone doing Merkins, Squats, or Sit-ups while everyone took at least one turn getting their best move on the slide

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 30
    • Namerama
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS:

    • Holy moly, and I thought regular F3 workouts were fun! This was AMAZING!!! Such great energy this morning with all the 2.0’s absolutely tearing through the exercises. Many thanks to Seadoo for bringing a speaker (which YHC had forgotten) so we could do the Gutbusters musical number, and of course hats off the Hardywood for bringing that awesome Slip-n-Slide back out for our grand finale today. Also big shout out to the Honeydew Crew who policed up the bricks after COT. Not surprisingly, the watermelon was a huge hit, and YHC is thinking we’ll be seeing more of the watermelonorama for YHC’s summer Q’s to come. And keep tuned – we will be doing this again in August! SYITG!
  • WINTER TOUR – 2020

    WINTER TOUR – 2020

    It’s no surprise that some of us tend to fart sack a little more during the winter months.   Let’s change that for 2020, with a challenge  to kick off the new year with a visit to all F3 RVA AO’s.

    The 2019 RVA summer tour had 14 finishers can the Winter Tour beat that?  Can you?

    Once you complete the 2020 tour, you will have done the following:

    • 16 bootcamps
    • 7 runs including a trail run and evening run
    • 2 Kettle Bell workouts
    • 1 bike ride

    The Challenge starts on Wednesday, January 1, 2020 and ends Saturday April 4th.

    Summer Tour:   101 days
    Winter Tour: 94 days

    To Sign up, Click here.

  • Bear Creek 2019

    8 PAX made their way out to Cumberland county to take on the Bear Creek 10 miler. Between bonus miles, first trail race, and gender inclusive shirt logos a good time was had by all.

    THE THANG: Arrive at Bear Creek State Park in 22 degree weather. All PAX meet up and freeze up until start. All PAX complete 10 mile route, 2 PAX opted for extra loop of additional mile.

    NMS – Overall success with no runners injured or lost during the race. The several fast runners took a wrong turn in mile 2 and ended up with a mile loop. Saab and Ollie were in that group. Saab took a branch to the forehead and was sporting a nice scrape post race. Tobit stayed on the course and ran a solid race for his first time out at Bear Creek. Mouse Trap chose to pop his race cherry (he’s never even run a 5k) with a difficult 10 mile trail race. TYA was his steady self and Bootleg ran a solid race. Once the sun got up things warmed up and conditions were perfect.

    Cookout after was great as we scored the back porch of the main building. Burgers, brews, and Brunswick stew perked this PAX up. No Lab Rat Bog this year. Drive back topics included diverse topics of self-driving cars, alternative lower half CPR, and low set vaginas.

    Good time as always and great practice for spring trail races coming up.

  • Running in Circles

    26 PAX and several other M’s and family members posted for a circular run around Forest Hill park.

    Weather was perfect at the start and through out the day with lows around 38 and highs around 50. At the start, there were 18 who launched for the first loop, 8 others joined in along the way and did at least one loop. At the start of loop 3 we were down to 9 starters, at 4, 7 starters, at 5 4 starters, at 6 3 starters at 8 two starters.

    It was a great event with lots of personal bests along the way. A few notables. Crikey who had never done more than 9 miles in a day put in four strong loops and wanted to do a fifth but was vetoed by Mom. He was strong all day and did awesome. Kevin (FNG) was pumping in 40 minute laps all morning long. Since he was a new guy, I was curious about his running history. I asked what the furthest he had ever run was. His response, today. His previous furthest was a half marathon in Richmond two weeks ago. Saab spent sometime later counseling on leveraging his running skills in ultras in the future.

    We had a lot of guests for loop four. Honeydo’s 2.0s posted for the fourth loop. EF Hutton and his 2.0’s arrived and my 2.0, Herbie, joined in. All the young ones performed well finishing there loops. Carabeener, Honeydo’s daughter noted that the 4 mile loop on the trails was far harder than the UofR 10k the previous day. Only person to have difficulty navigating the trails was Herbie, she got lost on the loop twice and put in a little over 5 miles for the four mile loop.

    Final talley of laps

    1. Offshore, Sally, Honeymoon, Carabeener, Pit Stop, Wicked, Herbie, EF Hutton, BB-8, Llama, and Flipper.
    2. Bogey (chapel Hill), Hardywood, Sippy Cup, Ezer, and Lugnut
    3. Ben and Dan
    4. Honeydo, Crikey, Jeff
    5. Saab
    6. None
    7. Kevin
    8. TYA and Shakedown

    Until next year.

  • The Most Merkin Conquest

    The studliest and craziest eight gloom warriors in all the land posted to The Forge this morning to win back the Most Merkin Banner. With a minimum of 860 to beat the Mary boys, and the pressure of Mudface and his Anvil men competing this AM for the same honor, DTH felt compelled to pull out all stops… as follows:

    The THANG:

    Light Pole Warmerama

    • Mosey toward school, completing x10 merkins at each light pole
    • Running total = 80

    Seven of Diamonds

    • Stop in bus loop to complete merkins at each corner of the Diamond
    • 1 Round completed (7/14/21/28/21/14/7)
    • Running total = 192

    21’s Top Half

    • Mosey to the soccer field
    • Complete descending reps on either side of field from 21 down to 10
    • x21 Werkins, x20 Carolina Dry Docks, x19 Werkins, x18 CDD’s (etc)
    • Running total = 378

    Amphitheater Ascent #1

    • Mosey to Amphitheater 
    • Complete x5 Incline Merkins on each of x7 steps, run around side to bottom
    • Complete x5 laps
    • Running total = 553

    Merkin Beast

    • Mosey back to soccer field
    • Complete x6 reps at each of 6 Beast points crossing field and back
    • Round 1 – Standard Merkins
    • Round 2 – Chuck Norris M’s
    • Round 3 – CDD’s
    • Round 4 – Werkins
    • Round 5 – CDD’s
    • Round 6 – Standard Merkins
    • Running Total = 769

    Amphitheater Ascent #2

    • Mosey back to Amphitheater 
    • Complete x5 Incline Merkins on each of x7 steps, run around side to bottom
    • Complete x5 laps
    • Running total = 944

    The Grand Finale

    • Mosey around the back loop dropping for x10 Merkins at each of 20 light poles BTTF
    • Final Total = 1144
    • Total Distance = 2 miles

    COT:

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

    NMS: 

    • Whew! Over a thousand!? In my best Hardywood exclamation – Are you kidding me?!? That was AWESOME!!! So proud of these guys’ effort this morning. And special thanks to Don Draper for joining us for over a thousand squats, as a recent injury is keeping him from the merkins. Whatta stud! (granted he wont walk straight for a week) #CSAUP4LIFE