Tag: DaVille

6 Davillians and 2 summer tour participates arrived at Atlee High School for some partner up fun

This is how it went down:

Mosey around the parking, pick up Hardywood, then head to the blacktop behind Atlee 

COP (ALL IC)

• Invisible Jump Rope
• Helicopters
• DQ
• Merkins
• LBC’s
• Heels to Heaven
• Arm Circles

THANG

Mosey to the “WALL”

Donkey Partners – Partner Up, First partner does Donkey Kicks while second partner touches a tree. Switch, Rinse and Repeat touching 2 different trees then 3 different trees. The Peoples’ Chair for the six

Mosey to the tennis courts

Four Corners (Partner Style) – Partner Up, Each partner completed 10 Merkins, 20 (2ct) Mtn Climbers, 30 LBC’s, and 40 SSH. Partner carriers between the corners

Mosey to the field

Partner Beast – Partner Up, One partner is completing an exercise while the other holds Al Gore or plank then switch. Exercises were: Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks, Mtn Climbers, LBC’s, Heels to Heaven, and Burpees

Mosey to the exercise station

Pull Ups and Jerkins – Partner Up, complete 10 Pull Ups  and 10 Jerkins each

Indian Run (with optional Burpees) back to the SF

PLT Medley – Partner Up, Each partner completes sets of 20, 10, and 5 PLT’s

Merkin Ring of Fire then Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

MOLESKIN

As YHC’s M would say “I hate odd numbers!” so at 5:30 when the 7 member PAX started to mosey, YHC wasn’t sure if the “plan” for a partner day would be able to happen. Thankfully Hardywood pulled in at 5:30 and 30 second so audible didn’t need to be called.

YHC witness today that completing exercises as partners brings out the best each of use. There was more encouragement then normal, during the Beast the partners not “schedule” to do Burpees still did them, and the PAX seemed to move just a little quicker. This was just a great reminder that F3 is nothing without our fellow brothers by our side everything step of the way.

Thanks to E.F. Hutton and Hardywood for the making the trip to “The North” today!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• T-Claps to Hardywood who should be done with his summer tour by Monday
• DaVille will be Q a Labor Day Convergence – Detials coming soon

SPIT ON THAT!! 

8 Davillians and a visitor for the summer challenge rolled into the Atlee high school parking lot for a humid party that went something like this…

Mosey to the basketball court on the other side of the school

COP All IC – 25 SSHs, 10 merkins, 25 freddy mercuries, 10 merkins, 25 LBCs, 10 merkins, 10 don quixotes, 10 helicopters, 5 merkins, arm circles, 5 merkins

Mosey to the bus loop

11s

1 merkin, run halfway around the bus loop, 10 two count mountain climbers, continue until finished.

Mosey to the side of the bus loop

Bear-ly Make It

Partner up. One partner bear crawls up and around the bushes while the other partner does flutter kicks. Switch. Continue for three rounds.

Native American run back to the start.

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Convergence tomorrow morning at Tredegar Iron Works at 7 am
• Summer challenge continues
• Pick 2 is getting married on Saturday! Special “family” workout at The Creek on Friday where he will have some groomsmen and bridesmaids in attendance. Bring all ages to the party!

NMS:

Some workouts are better than others. YHC knew that he would struggle this morning after helping at a swim meet last night and feeling already dehydrated. The PAX provided the fuel for the fire and we had a solid morning at DaVille.

The COP merkin party always brings groans and this morning did not disappoint. There is something great about working in a ton of merkins right out of the gate that kicks things off well. The mumble chatter was prevalent until we fired up the 11s. Spit and Spike took off and crushed it. They enjoyed some mumble chatter along the way. Most of the rest of the PAX pushed through with limited chatter. Emoji was once again full of energy and he seemed to enjoy showing off his yellow gloves and matching shoes. Pick 2 showed a burst of energy midway through the workout. Perhaps some pre-wedding enthusiasm lit him up for that moment. Helix, the silent assassin, plowed through the workout with ruthless consistency. He is a beast.

The PAX enjoyed having Lockjaw join us as part of the summer challenge. He was a strong addition to the team and helped keep us moving along. All in all, the humid morning was well spent and no man failed to benefit from the right decision of leaving the fart sack behind for the fight.

The Carpenter

 

A lucky-seven took over Daville this morning to challenge our bodies and even work-in a little community service. Here is what happened.

 

Variety mosey (regular, karaoke, bear crawl) to football field for COP.

 

COP

SSH IC x 20

Merkins IC x 10

Flutterkicks (Mark Spitz style) IC x 20

Dirty dogs IC x 10

Ball dippers IC x 10

 

THANG

Mosey to playground for 11s.

 

Monkey bar 11s

Alternating leg lifts and pull-ups. Skip in between stations. Modifications, as needed, were knee raises and burpees.

 

Playground ball retrieval

Divide into two teams.

Hop over the fence and retrieve as many playground balls as possible until Q calls time.

Opposing team does as many burpees as the number of balls you collected. Team A collected 17, and Team B collected 33 (holy smoke!).

 

Variety mosey back to flag (regular, bear crawl, crab walk, backwards, side-shuffles and forward at various speeds); stop mid-way for some up-downs.

 

Minutes of Gumby (stretching)

 

Numberama, Namorama, COT/BOM

Spike took us out.

 

NMS

Mumblechatter seemed minimal this morning, and there was no chatter at all during the 11s; YHC chalks this up to extreme effort put out by all. By the end most were modifying except for Liono and Pitt Bull who are pull-up machines! Awesome effort by Pick Two to push through the last round.

 

YHC learned during a volunteer day at Cool Spring Elementary School that the kids are not allowed to retrieve kickballs that go over the fence. Thus, it is typically up to adult volunteers to retrieve them. What an opportunity for F3. Cannot believe the PAX grabbed up 50 balls in no time. Spike decided to experience some sympathy pain and joined YHC’s team finishing up burpees of shame.

 

Special thanks to Wedding Singer for making the trek out to Daville this morning. Summer tour is a great thing!

 

Also, kudos to Spit for taking a break from new-dad duties. Hope you get some sleep!

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

July 4th convergence at Tredegar, 0700.

 

July 6th – Pick Two and his M-to-be are leading the workout at the Creek. Should be a blast!

5 Davillians not on vacation or participating in the summer tour arrived on this sunny and 75 morning (yes it seems we have even gotten as warm as Hampton Roads in RVA) at DaVille.

Some short pleasantries were had and the PAX got to work.

This how it went down.

Mosey down the sidewalk past the HS and MS to the gravel track/field

COP (ALL IC)

• SSH
• DQ
• Helicopters
• Merkins
• LBC’s
• WWII Sit-ups
• Arm Circles

THANG

Mosey to the DaVille Rusty Cage

5 Man Triple Check – 10 Pull Ups or 20 Decline Merkins, 20 Dips, 3 Man Tire Flip Up and Down the track.

Mosey off campus to the Honey Meadow’s Roundabout 

Circle Crawls – Start at the curb, bear crawl to the center complete 5 Merkins, crawl bear back complete 4, rinse and repeat till down to 1.

Mosey  down Honey Meadow Rd to the Dam switching from regular mosey, to backwards mosey, to backwards lung, back to regular mosey on Q’s call

5x5x5 Hill – Complete 5 WWII Sit up, run down the hill complete 5 (2ct) Mtn Climbers, Bernie Sanders up the other hill, complete 5 merkins. Rinse and Repeat 5 times

Mosey back to the Rusty Cage and complete Dips (IC) for the six

Indian Run with optional Burpees back to the SF

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

MOLESKIN

During YHC’s run yesterday, he got inspiration to take the PAX today off campus today. This is always a tough call since not all PAX members would classify themselves as “runners”. Even with this being the case, YHC decided to still to put the plan in place.

Mumble Chatter was pretty low for the most part. Since most this PAX was either very new or hadn’t posted much together, the time was spent during the running getting to know each other and words of encouragement.

Couple more highlighters:

• Helix was at the head of the PAX the whole time. Way to crush it!
• Bulkhead is looking strong at every post
• Glad to have Glide out for his 2nd post
• Pick 2 wishes he had worn his Fitbit today since we traveled over 2.5 miles
• The PAX ran into Hurricane while on the track. Hope to have him back out again soon

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• PuppyPile this Saturday at 7:05pm. Sippy Cup will get things started
• July 4th Convergence at Tredegar – See Kubota’s Pre-Blast

• July 6th Special Workout at The Creek – Pick 2 has the Q, details to follow

SPIT ON THAT!!

 

The morning was 70 and partly sunny… 8 fighters stormed into the Atlee High School parking lot for a fun fest that went something like this…

Mosey around the parking lot and back out parking lot entrance to the neighboring building.

COP – ALL IC – 20 SSHs, 5 merkins, 20 imperial walkers, 5 merkins, 20 copperhead squats, 5 merkins, don quixotes, 5 merkins, 20 LBCs, 5 merkins, arm circles.

Mosey to the far end of the parking lot.

Curb Crawl – 11s 

Bear crawl across the parking lot, 1 hand-release merkin. Crab crawl back across the parking lot, 10 heels-to-heaven… continue for 11s…

Mosey to the front of the parking lot

Construction Zone Running & Exercises

Partner up. One partner exercises while the other runs up the construction area toward the yet-to-be-completed bridge (about 2/3 of the way up) and back. The other partner exercises. 50 merkins, 100 WWII sit-ups, 50 merkins. Each partner did the full set of exercises.

Mosey to the SF

30 flutter kicks IC

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

Announcements:

• Summer challenge
• 2018 Reese Strong 5K is a few months away
• 2019 Reese Strong 5K is a few more months away

NMS:

YHC’s older sister has reminded him that June 12th was one of the worst days of YHC’s life… It was on June 12th, 1993 that a girl smashed YHC’s heart after the junior prom. YHC was kinda dramatic back in the day and the memory has taken on a life of its own.

YHC’s goal for today’s workout was to dish out the same level of pain that he felt on that fateful day 25 years ago!

The PAX took off running toward the News 12 van (election day!) and made their presence known early. YHC led the PAX to some new territory “off campus” at the neighboring building. Mumble chatter was light at first and everyone noticed that Lab Rat wasn’t present or maybe only YHC noticed that…

The curb crawls provided all kinds of surprises. Spit and Spike noticed a frog at the end of the parking lot as they bear crawled toward it. The frog eventually leaped toward YHC’s spot and then was gone. The sound of more frogs in the background led some to believe that we might be under attack by a swarm of frogs soon but that never transpired.

A new section of road is being built on Atlee Rd and it involves a sizable elevation gain toward the bridge that will eventually go over the railroad tracks. YHC had in mind to make the PAX run up and down the road after seeing someone jog on it a few weeks ago. Mission accomplished. The PAX seemed to enjoy conquering new territory and getting a nice view of the surrounding area. Spike wondered if the police would arrest but then realized that he could blame the two pastors present for the decision to run on the new road. YHC let SLASH know that he could hide in the port-o-john if needed since it was halfway up the hill…

Emoji was full of crazy energy. Some things never change. Kit Kat was a silent assassin who went to work and killed the workout. Spit dominated the hill and left everyone in the dust.

YHC revealed the June 12th theme at the very end of the beat down. It may not have been as painful as having someone crush your high school heart but it was still painful. Maybe one day I’ll get over it but it may not be until June 12th, 2043 (the 50 year anniversary). I hope to still be attacking the F3 workouts at that point with my brothers in the gloom!

The Carpenter

 

22, yes I said 22 pax, showed up in the parking lot of Atlee to see what this Ultimate thing was all about.  Things started off with a bang with Vinny rolling out with a red Philly’s shirt on…WTF?!?  This coming from the guy that put out some coded tweet about buying tshirts from our elementary schools, or something like that.  After taking some ball busting, it turns out he did have the appropriate shirts for the workout.  It seems Spike did too, but left them in the truck…

We got things started with a quick warm up of parking lot tracers and the easiest COP ever done.  Then to make sure everybody knew we were down for a workout, we flew through a Lindsay  with merkins and WW2 situps.  Cones got set by the front runners, which you would think got done quickly…..nope!  I am herding cats while yelling across the field at Shakedown and Phonics to RUN!  Phonics is one of the fastest guys I know and there he is, meandering thru the field picking dandelions while the rest of the pax holds plank.  All in good fun, we got the field set up and went over some basic rules, like NO CONTACT (Swirly is here, mind you).  Then we got to playing…

While the white team tried to figure out how to change shirts once they were already soaked from the dew, the black team marched down field to throw the game in.  Whites took advantage of first possession by scrambling quickly in for the first score!  We didn’t get to celebrate for long though, as team black scored the next two points to take the lead.  Not to let the game get away from us, team white led by Spike and some awesome offensive plays by Wilt (Opus’ 2.0), scored a couple more of our own to take the lead back. The only major hiccup of the game came when Swirly threw a perfect throw 20 yards up the field to Wheelie….problem was he was on the wrong team, but wearing a gold long sleeve shirt (go Golden Knights?!?).  This prompted Wheelie to shed the shirt and become officially TEAM WHITE.  We reset that play as it was obvious the throw was a result of “wardrobe malfunction”.

Spike on team white and FNG Glide on team black showed the way as standouts for their squad, but glory was found throughout the pax.  Handshake caught 2 of the goals for team black that I know of.  Shakedown and The Carpenter were all over the field for team black.  Wilt as previously mentioned played up to rep the shorties very well indeed!  Also, ET (Phonics’ 2.0) showed me some of the Mudd family speed as he effortlessly dusted me when I tried to guard him for a minute.  It’s not fair.  Helix as always was all out, making sliding blocks and always in the right place at the right time, just like on the racquetball court.  Play of the day ALMOST went to Vinny, who made an epic sliding catch that nobody thought was possible….then promptly flubbed a 4 foot throw to me to kill the play.  On one hand, he could have just stood up and made the handoff….on the other hand, I hope the shoulder is ok.

When team white scored again to take the lead at 5-4, the bonehead move of the day was made by the Q (team white), who declared next score wins.  Team black marched right down our throats to make the score to tie the game for the win.

All in all, as long as Vinny’s shoulder is ok, this year’s DaVille Ultimate went awesome!  The teams were evenly matched and it was a battle to the end.  It’s great to finally get Swirly out to DaVille, even if we had to borrow one from Raleigh to get it done.  Welcome to our three FNG’s, Glide and Bulkhead, plus one that had to leave early.  Also, glad to have Swirly from Raleigh with us this morning.  Finally, thanks to all that traveled from around the RVA to see a portion of arguably the best weekday AO out there.

FNG names:

Glide:  Glide was wearing a Houston Astros hat…I threw out ASTROGlide, which after reconsideration got shortened to Glide.  He still doesnt like the name, which makes it perfect.  Plus, everybody now KNOWS it means ASTROGlide.  Also, on a parallel note, he has a wicked Ultimate game and can Glide a frisbee.  But it’s really more about the Astroglide theme.

Bulkhead:  Bulkhead is an inactive Marine (they dont like to be called “former”) and I am Navy, so I love love love to name Marines Navy stuff.  Shakedown had a collision with him during the game and mentioned it was like hitting a brick wall…walls in the Navy are Bulkheads, so slam dunk!  The alternative was “Booze Cruise” due to his Jimmy Buffet Tshirt, but he liked that name waaaayyyy to much.

Apology of the week goes out to Vinny for making fun of your red tshirt….actually screw that!  If you were going to wear red today, it should have at least been a CAPS shirt!  Ahhhh….just busting your chops.

 

Lab Rat apologizes…

4 Davillians said no to their holiday hang out and yes to a beatdown. The SF was planned and the PAX got to work.

This is it went down:

Mosey around the front of the HS, through the bus loop, to the back school and to the blacktop.

COP (ALL IC)

• SSH
• Helicopters
• DQ
• Merkins
• LBC’s
• Heels to Heaven
• American Hammers
• Arm Circles

THANG

Mosey to the soccer field

Partner Push – Partner up, with arm on each others shoulder facing each other, one partner starts pushing down the field while other partner give some resistance. Switch halfway through

Partner Pull – With same partner, grab partners left arm with right hand and right arm with left hand making an X. One partner starts pulling down the field while other partner give some resistance. Switch halfway through

Mosey to tennis court

4 Corners – 10 Merkins, 20 WWII, 30 (2ct) Flutter Kicks, 40 Squats. Rinse and Repeat for 3 rounds

Mosey back to the soccer field

4x4x4 – Using the corners of the field, start at 1st corner then run to 2nd and complete one 4×4. Run back to start then back to 2nd corner complete one 4×4, run to 3rd corner and complete two 4×4’s then back to the start. Rinse and repeat with 3 4×4’s at 4th corner and four 4×4’s at the start.

Mosey back to the SF

2 MOM – 20 Rosalita IC then 10 Burpees OYO

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

MOLESKIN

The Carpenter who original had the Q today is still recovering from run-in with a nail and his foot reach out to YHC to switch Q’s. Aye, get better soon Carpenter you are missed in the PAX.

YHC brought a little Phoenix back to RVA. While posting last Wednesday, YHC learned some new exceries to share with the PAX. The partner push and pull seemed to be a success so hopefully some more will work out in the future.

Although the mumble chatter was pretty low must of the workout the PAX did help example to Emoji while Deadpool wouldn’t be a great move for the kids.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• F3RVA Summer Tour has begun! Who will be the first to post at every AO this summer?
• Next PuppyPile 6/23 at 7:05. Sippy Cup will get things started

SPIT ON THAT!!

 

3 Gregarious guys galloped into the heart of Daville this morning and bravely fought the torrential downpours to make it through another F3 workout.  Oh wait, that was just my sweat.  Sorry for the hyperbole.

Here is what went down:
COP — SSH, Tempo Merkins, Arm Circles, DQ, Split Jacks
10 merkins for a break along the way…
Longish mosey to the jungle gym for the 1st triple check.

Partner 1 run to second fence, partner 2 flutterkicks, partner 3 does lean outs on the swing (hands on swing, move swing away from you, hold for 3-5 seconds, repeato)

2nd Triple Check  (not in the original plans) —
Partner 1 bear crawls to 1st fence and back, partner 2 does heels to heaven, partner 3 does merkins one hand on each swing

More running….

Introduce Pick 2 to the hill behind the stadium
Partner 1 runs up and down the hill while the other guys do squats.  Rotate through.
Partner 1 runs up and down hill while the rest of us do SSH.  Rotate through.

Try to hurry back to the flag — where does the time go?
Decision to stop and do the numberama, namearama, etc. before we make it back.
Helix takes off like a bat outta hell back to his car.  Pick Two and YHC saunter back…

Announcements
Ghost Flag at WDog…

NMS —
1) Summer humidity sucks.
2) Pick Two got his truck back after $1100 in repairs after hitting a bear way back in November.  Hitting a bear
3) Sorry for being so late.  I had so much planned we didn’t even get to do….
4) Thanks for letting YHC lead.  The swing set exercises will be coming back…

Peace out
Opus

6 Davillians did let some late night thunderstorms keep them from enjoying Day 2 of Spit DaVille takeover week. YHC and Opus arrived early, Emoji and Helix short there after, Pick 2 arrived in a bus (more on that later), and the one minute warning was given as always when Phonics pulled in.

This is how it went down:

Mosey to the back of the HS to the basketball court

COP

• SSH
• DQ
• Hillbillies
• Merkins
• LBC’s
• Dying Cockroach
• Arm Circles

THANG

Triple Check – Using the back wall of the school, first partner donkey kicks, second partner People’s chair, and third partner runs to touch 5 trees. Rinse and repeat three times while never touching the same tree twice

Mosey to the pull up bars

Arm Work – Partner Up, each partner completes 10 pull ups and 10 Jerkins. Rinse and Repeat for three sets.

Mosey to the MS tennis courts

Four Corners – Partner Up, complete 10 Burpees each – 1st corner, partner carrier, complete 20 WWII sit-ups second each – 2nd corner, partner carrier, complete 30 Merkins each – 3rd corner, partner carrier, complete 40 squats each 4th corner, partner carrier back to the start

Mosey to the bus loop

Burpee Indian Run – PAX starts moseying around the bus loop while the last person completes 5 Burpees then runs to the front. Rinse and repeat with 4 Burpees while heading back to the SF.

1 MOM – 3 Burpees, then 2 Burpees, then 1 Burpee

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, Opus took us out.

MOLESKIN

YHC had a long day at work yesterday and wasn’t completely sure the plan this morning. When the PAX ended up being even he knew today would be a partner day.

Opus, Emoji, and YHC all arrived before 5:25 and enjoy some pre workout mumble chatter. All of a sudden a large 15 passenger bus pulls into the parking lot. YHC first thoughts were “That has to be the largest clown car ever”! But then after reading the side of the business said Mechanicsville Church of Christ, YHC remembered that Pick 2 was without his truck for this week. Pick 2 give us knew meaning to driving your company car to the AO.

YHC enjoyed watching Opus and Helix giving their best Johnsonville impressions during the Hillbillies. Also Opus seem gave a great impression of what a Dying Cockroach should look like after completing that exercise.

Mumble chatter was pretty low the rest of the way through as the PAX was focus on the task at hand.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Spit’s takeover week in DaVille continues tomorrow at MANNDate
• PuppyPile 2.0 Workout is May 19th at Dogpile, starts at 7:05 a.m.
• Memorial Day Convergance at Tredegar/Belle Isle May 28th. 7 am
• HDHH, May 16th = Independence golf club.  Get there before 6:30 to hit balls, and after hang out for a beverage at Tavern 19…
• F3RVA Summer Tour begins the weekend of Memorial Day and ends on Labor Day. Who will be the first to post at every AO this summer?

SPIT ON THAT!!