Tag: DaVille

7 warriors found the DaVille parking lot, the SF was planted and fun fest went something like this…

Mosey to a basketball court beyond the middle school

COP All IC – 50 SSHs, 10 merkins, 50 LBCs, 10 merkins, 20 copper head squats, 10 merkins, 10 don quixotes, 10 merkins, arm circles, 10 merkins

Monkeying Around

Start together in one corner of the basketball court. Partner up – one partner heads in one direction, the other partner goes in the other direction. Lunge to the each corner, 20 Monkey Humpers at each corner. 10 booyah merkins when you meet up with your partner.

Mosey to the bus loop

Merkin Mayhem

Stay with the same partner. One partner runs the bus loop while the other works on accumulating exercises.

50 merkins, 100 WWII sit-ups, 50 merkins, 200 squats, 50 merkins, 300 invisible jump ropes, 50 merkins

Mosey to the flag

All IC – 20 flutter kicks, 20 LBCs, 20 american hammers, 20 freddy mercuries, hold 6 inches for 10 seconds

1 merkin OYO

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Spit took us out.

NMS

YHC arrived by 5:20 am to see Spit already in the parking lot. Others joined quickly, including Spike who had been out for a few weeks with a hamstring injury. Circle K rolled in at 5:29 am and the PAX took off as soon as he jumped out of his car. Well played, Circle K!

Grunts and groans were heard throughout the COP. YHC enjoys putting the PAX through 50 merkins IC total during the COP as a way to slam down 100 merkins total before barely getting started. The PAX stepped up to the challenge and fought through the “warm up.”

Monkey Humpers always surprise the PAX and this morning was no different. YHC remembered a workout at 45MOM that included a ton of Monkey Humpers and it messed up his legs for days. That was goal of this morning. Only time will tell if that occurred…

The PAX attacked the exercises at the bus loop and took no prisoners! Spike did not seem to be inhibited by his injury at all as he flew around the bus loop at a Spike-like pace. Emoji held a brisk pace despite his admitted ambivalence about running. He always brings the positive energy to the game. Throughout it all, Helix showed impeccable form and demonstrated how to take ZERO shortcuts to the PAX.

The morning ended with a recognition of Emoji’s 52nd birthday. The man is garnering more respect every second and he showed, once again, that he has the energy for 2.0 while inhabiting a body that is over half a century old. His appropriately named for all of the faces and enthusiasm that he brings to the PAX every time he is out there in the gloom.

It was another throw-down morning at DaVille! Well done, PAX!!

The Carpenter

7 F3 Olympians arrived in DaVille to take part in a Olympic recap beatdown

This is how it went down:

Short mosey to the end of the parking lot

COP

In honor of the 23rd Winter Olympia (All IC – 23 reps each)

• SSH, Invisible Jump Rope, Crab Cakes, Dying Cockroach, Merkins OYO, Arm Circle (all small;11 1/2 forward, 11 1/2 backwards)

THANG

Mosey to the front of the school and access road

Road to the Olympic – It was estimate these games cost $10 billion dollars.

• 10 2ct “Korean” Hammers at each light post (total of 10 light post)

Mosey to the bus loop

Got Medals? – A total of 30 countries received medals in these game (A Olympic record)

• 4 Corners – 30 Decline Merkins, 30 Donkey Kicks, 30 Dips, 30 WWII Sit-ups

Who Had the Most? Norway had a total of 39 medals (A Olympic record)

• 39 PLT each

Mosey to the tennis Court

USA!! USA!! – USA had 23 medals (4th overall) and 9 Gold medals (4th overall)

• 9 minutes of Old Glory – 23 Merkins, 23 Squats, 23 American Hammers, 23 WWII Sit-ups

Mosey back to the SF

1 MOM – Red bull American Hammers

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, Opus took us out.

MOLESKIN

YHC has been a big of the Olympics dating back to his earliest memory of the 1996 summer games in Atlanta when the Olympic torch came through Richmond.

The PAX really crushed it today. They were able to push through the exercises while still heckling YHC. During the Road to the Olympics there was some questions about what “light poles” to stop at and it seemed that YHC may after a mutiny on his hands. He was sure to rain them in by adding 10 Burpees at the end. Your welcome!

Glad to have Wheelie and Pick 2 back out as regulars.

Phonics was killing it today nearly lapping the PAX during the mini Old Glory

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

• Breaking Bread for March needs a Q. Please sign up so we don’t have to hear from LabRat.

 

SPIT ON THAT!!

10 Surly gentlemen made it out this morning for a little non-alcoholic refreshment.   Since some of you have given up alcohol for lent, this was the way to make it happen without having to break the lenten vows.

Parking Lot tracers — in honor of Labrat, even though  he was there this morning.

15 burpees OYO
1 minute of butt kickers
1 minute of high knees (just because I like saying it)
Helicopters
DQ
Smurf Jacks
Arm Circles
Helix Squat arm circles while doing chinooks
LBC’s
Figure 4 crunches
Dying Cockroach — ikk
Freddie Mercuries
More Dying Cockroach — still not dead yet

Hold low position of merkin for 10, then 15, then 20, then about 28 — in between plank for the same number of seconds

Situp, Jump up, Push ups 5 sets — Do 5 WW2 situps, jump up, then go down and do 5 merkins, jump up repeat until 5 sets are done.

Make it a double — PLT’s 20, then 25
Partner jumpovers — 2 count, do 20

Make it a triple check —
1)Bear crawl to light, stump merkins, american hammers
2)run to light, donkey kicks, flutter kicks

Back to flag for a little mary
Merkins, Crab Cakes, Boat Canoes

Numbers, Names, Announcements

Highlights of the morning —
Hearing PAX members groan during the holding of the downward merkin position. You’re welcome.
Labrat soldiering on despite his feeble state.
Trying to figure out which car belonged to YHC and which belonged to Wheelie.
Seeing Liono and Pitbull back out there.  Guess it was warm enough this morning.  Welcome back!
Leading Parking Lot Tracers for the First time.
Dying cockroach sucks for me, that is why YHC chose to do them twice this morning.

See you in the gloom,
Opus

 

 

8 pax in the parking lot this morning at go-time with 1 ghost car….Circle K was already out presumably running.  The rest of us got going with the parking lot tracers and we picked up Mr. Rogers along the way (KOTTERS!!!!)

Parking Lot Tracers

COP

• SSH
• Helicopters
• DQ
• Arm Circles

THANG

• Track work the hard way AND Touch a Circle K-  Pax makes their way around the track at whatever speed they like, stopping at the top of every 5 minutes for 20 merkins, 20 squats.  Bonus stations at pullup bars and bleachers for those feeling inclined.  Repeato X5.  ALSO, if anybody spots Circle K:  announce to pax and all pax run up and “touch a Circle K”.  Thanks to Pick2 for being the timer.
• Touch a bus:  Partner up, first partner runs and touches 2 buses while second partner does 20 squats then holds People’s Chair, then swaparoo.  Next round is 4 buses and 20 merkins, hold plank.  Final round is 20 squats/people’s chair.  Everybody touches every bus!
• Indian run to flag, Mary of LBC’s

NMS

So, as Spit pointed out this morning, it has been about 3 weeks or so since a Lab Rat Q.  I have been battling thru some back stuff and I am still trying to figure out what I can get away with doing.  Looking at the Q sheet yesterday and there was a big open hole at DaVille, but highlighted with Spit’s name around it….SNAG!  Track work the hard way was the perfect call, since it would allow everybody to pace themselves, and me a chance to figure out what wasnt going to rip a hole thru my back….which worked out (mostly) pain free.

I figured Circle K would be around eventually so he could get that data point, so I figured we may as well have fun with it.  “Touch a Circle K” happened pretty quickly, as he came up on the track just as we started going.  It was a grand time as THE Circle K was trying to figure out why everybody kept touching him.  Good stuff.  Comment of the day was courtesy of Emoji, when I explained what we were doing with “touch a Circle K” and he responded with “what’s a Circle K?”  Thanks for being blonde, Emoji!

Lots of merkins and squats, because Lab Rat’s back allowed them.  NO burpees, bear crawls, or American Hammers, ’cause no.

Awesome to have our numbers back in the double digits this morning, even if we had several combinations of LIFO today….but I am in a good mood, so we will let them all slide.  Solid work by all, and thanks to Mr. Rogers for taking us out like a BOSS.

Apology of the week goes out to Circle K for getting touched, but we do appreciate you being a prop in our reindeer games.

 

Lab Rat apologizes…

10 fighters stormed the Atlee High School parking lot to launch into some wackiness that went something like this…

Mosey to parking lot on the other side of the school.

COP – All IC – 50 SSHs, 50 LBCs, 20 merkins, 20 imperial walkers, 20 copperhead squats, 10 helicopters, 10 don quixotes, arm circles

Mosey to the wall of the school.

• 5 donkey kicks, bear crawl to the side walk, 5 merkins, run back to the wall
• 10 donkey kicks, bear crawl to the side walk, 10 merkins, run back to the wall
• 15 donkey kicks, bear crawl to the side walk, 15 merkins, run back to the wall
• 20 donkey kicks, bear crawl to the side walk, 20 merkins, run back to the wall

Mosey to the field

Quarter Pounders with LBCs (modified)

• Run 25 yards, 25 merkins, run backward to the start, 25 LBCs
• Run 50 yards, 50 squats, run backward to the start, 25 LBCs
• Run 75 yards, 75 two count mountain climbers, run backward to the start, 25 LBCs
• Run 100 yards, 100 LBCs, run backward to the start, 25 LBCs

4x4x4x4’s (almost)

• Run to the first corner, do four 4×4’s, run back to the start
• Run to the first corner, do four 4×4’s, run to the second corner, do four 4×4’s, run back to the start
• Run to the first corner, do four 4×4’s, run to the second corner, do four 4×4’s, run to the third corner, do four 4×4’s, run back to the start
• Ran out of time… do LBCs until everyone returned to the start

Mosey to the flag, 1 SSH IC…

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Breaking Bread – c’mon, someone step up and lead it this month
• EH guys as the weather begins to warm up

NMS

YHC wasn’t sure what to expect since the last time he Q’d this workout nobody showed up. The PAX did not disappoint as the cars piled into the parking lot. Emoji and Kit Kat barely made it. Emoji’s car almost slammed into Lab Rat’s truck which brought out all kinds of commentary from Lab Rat like, “if he hit my truck then estrogen would have poured out his…”

YHC let Opus know that he inspired the first section of the workout. Opus likes to follow in the footsteps of HoneyDo and hand out Donkey Kicks for fun. The PAX lit those up with the bear crawls and merkins with minimal mumble chatter.

The Quarter Pounders were not pure ones in the sense that we did not repeat the exercise at each 25, 50, 75 yard lines. Lab Rat brought this to YHC’s attention when he said something like, “Wait, aren’t we supposed to be repeating the exercises.” This has been noted and will be modified the next time the Quarter Pounders are called upon to dish out some pain…

The 4x4x4x4’s seemed to do the trick and push the PAX on multiple levels. The ground was slippery and required some creativity to avoid digging a massive hole during each 4×4. YHC did not account for the full length of time that was required but that will go into the lessons learned for the future.

It was great to see Pincher back with the PAX after many months away. It is always a family reunion when someone rejoins the PAX after some time away.

It was another glorious morning in the gloom!

The Carpenter

5 men greeted the day by kicking it into high gear as they converged in the gloom and did something like this:

SPIT Q : COP included SSH, Invisible Jumpropes, LBCs and Merkins all IC

Mosey to playground for 10 jerkins, 10 pullups, and 10 Burp Ups each.

Opus Q : Mosey to bus loop for Catch me if you Can.  Pax runs backwards around bus loop while one PAX member chases them while running forward.  Once caught, PAX performs 10 burpees and another PAX members circles the bus loop until catching the PAX.  Repeat until all PAX members have run forward.

Phonics Q : Mosey to AHS parking lot.  Touch a Tree LBC escalator.  Run to first tree and complete 5 LBCs.  run to second tree and complete 10 LBCs.  Repeat until you get to 50 LBCs.  Then come back down the ladder to 0 LBCs.

Circle K Q : Mosey to AHS bball courts for suicides.  Regular suicide, Reverse Suicide and Burpee Suicide.

The Carpenter Q : Mosey back to flag taken the long route.  Every time Q calls out the word Spread out the PAX performs called number of 4x4s.

Numberama, Namearama, The Carpenter took us out with a word of prayer.

NMS: Nobody had signed up on the Q sheet for Daville so YHC decided to fill in the blank at 0500 just to make the spreadsheet look cleaner.  The entire PAX had the same idea regarding the Hot Potato Q.  All the Qs mixed in many different exercises that worked the entire body.  Great job by all this morning.

Circle K

1 guy rolled into the parking lot at 5:15 am ready for a beatdown. Another guy rolled in a few minutes after 5:30 am and went in a different direction. The rainy fun fest went something like this…

Mosey to the back of the high school to a parking lot.

COP all IC – 100 SSHs, 50 LBCs, 20 copperhead squats, 15 don quixotes, arm circles, 50 LBCs

Mosey to the wall

Donkey Crawl

• 10 Donkey kicks, bear crawl to the sidewalk, 10 merkins
• 15 Donkey kicks, bear crawl to the sidewalk, 15 merkins
• 20 Donkey kicks, bear crawl to the sidewalk, 20 merkins

Mosey to the field

Quarter Pounder (thanks to Circle K!) with some LBCs

• Run 25 yards, 25 merkins, run backwards to the start, 25 LBCs
• Run 50 yards, 50 squats, run backwards to the start, 25 LBCs
• Run 75 yards, 75 two count mountain climbers, run backwards to the start 25 LBCs
• Run 100 yards, 100 LBCs, run backwards to the start, 25 LBCs

4 x 4 x 4 x 4’s

• 20 LBCs
• Run to the first corner, four 4×4’s, run back to the start, 20 LBCs
• Run to the first corner, four 4×4’s, run to the second corner, four 4×4’s, run back to the start, 20 LBCs
• Run to the first corner, four 4×4’s, run to the second corner, four 4×4’s, run to the third corner, four 4x4s, run back to the start, 20 LBCs
• Run to the first corner, four 4×4’s, run to the second corner, four 4×4’s, run to the third corner, four 4x4s, run to the fourth corner, four 4×4’s, run back to the start, 20 LBCs

Mosey to the basketball court – 1 suicide (for Circle K)

Mosey back to the flag… found Lab Rat and heard a report on his workout, YHC took us out.

NMS

YHC woke up early without an alarm and was fired up to lead the PAX in a beatdown that would focus on many of YHC’s weakest exercises. YHC arrived in the parking lot at 5:15 am and nobody was there as expected. 5:20 came… 5:25 came… 5:29 came… No one. 5:31 came… and YHC faced a decision… Pack it in and return to the fart sack or ENGAGE in the beatdown. The thrill of attacking this workout solo fueled the fire and off YHC went across the parking lot.

Lab Rat showed up a few minutes after YHC launched out and went a different direction. He completed a whole different workout on his own and he can report on that in the comments.

Leading a COP by myself was an odd but comical experience. YHC enjoys SSHs so he opted to go for the full 100 for the first time in many months. Nobody could complain because nobody was there. Calling out the cadence to myself is borderline insane but somehow was fulfilling at the same time.

Donkey kicks followed by bear crawls destroy YHC. So… YHC decided to do them. YHC is grateful to HoneyDo for pushing him to the edge of splash merlot with this combination over the last few years.

The most fun came during the 4x4x4x4’s. Cranking four 4×4’s out at four corners of a field produces a ton of pain. The running in between is no joke. This set of exercises truly tested the “You vs. You” mentality. YHC learned more about integrity this morning since nobody was there to see if there was any cheating going on. That actually made for greater accountability for knocking out the exercises without shortcuts.

The reunion with Lab Rat was a strong ending to the morning. He shared about his run to the track and his pull-ups. He shared about a similar experience about pushing through the exercises fully.

60+ degrees and rain feels great after the 4 degree mornings of a few weeks ago. We are getting closer to sunny and 70 every day!

I will break out this carnival of a workout again in the near future at DaVille and I am looking forward to seeing how it goes with a bigger crowd.

The Carpenter

11 Warriors who all travled down didn’t road, were lead through the freezing fog to the road of DaVille.. Some traveled from SOJ, some from Tuckhoe, one even came back from Israel, but all were ready for some Tuesday morning fun.

This is how it went down:

Short mosey to the front of the HS

COP (ALL IC)

• SSH
• LBC’s
• Merkins
• DQ
• Invisible Jump Rope
• Arm Circles

Mosey to front of service road

THANG

DaVille Road of Fun

Stopping at everything light pole complete one 4×4. Rinse and Repeat till reaching the last pole near the football field

11’s

Using hill behind the baseball field. Complete 10 derkins on the curb then Bernie Sanders up the hill, complete 1 LBC’s, then run back down. Rinse and Repeat till completing 1 Derkin and 10 LBC’s

4 Corners

Using the football parking lot complete the following:

• 1st Corner – 10 Burpees (Bear Crawl to next corner)
• 2nd Corner – 20 (2ct) Mtn Climbers (run to next corner)
• 3rd Corner – 30 SSH’s (Crab walk to corner)
• 4 Corner – 40 LBC’s (run back to the start)

Indian Run back to the SF. Last person in line drops and does 10 LBC’s before running to the front. Each PAX members went twice

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out. 

MOLESKIN

It was great to get in the first Q at DaVille in the new year. YHC arrived at 5:20 to an empty parking lot. While planting the SF, Emoji pulled in. Viral decided to make the trip up for SOJ to join us this morning, missed the turn into Atlee since he was following the address listed on the website which shows the MS as the AO. Hey Corporate can we get this fixed?

During 11’s it was asked why it was called Bernie Sanders. After the 2 set there were no more questions. The PAX was “feeling the burn” by the end.

The Carpenter henceforth will be know as Crab Man. Like a flash he came out of nowhere to front of the PAX while crab walking nearly taking out Hutton on his way.

Glad to have some visitors from other nano regions this morning. Viral making his first trip to DaVille and E. F. Hutton making his return. Happy to have you guys this morning.

Glad to have Pick 2 back from his trip and Helix back from illness!!

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

• CSAUP – AO to AO run April 13-14.  Get your team nano region or otherwise together.  More details to come.
• Honey Do is looking for some fellas to help train some men for the Monument 10k starting next month. See him for details

SPIT ON THAT!!   

 

A PAX of three slid (literally) into the gloom and this is what we did:

20 LBCs OYO to wait for Phonics.  Mosey to Chickahominy MS parking lot for Invisible Jumpropes, merkins, LBCs, and DQs all IC.

Mosey to Cool Spring ES bus loop for Dora 1,2,3.  100 merkins, 200 squats and 300 LBCs as a team.

Mosey to middle school track area for Jacobs Ladder.  Run to other side and perform 7 LBCs and run back to perform 1 WWII situp.  Repeato until 1 LBCs and 7 WWII situps.

Repeat Jacobs Ladder with the exercies Squats and Lt Dans.

Mosey back to flag.  Numberama, Namearama, YHC took us out with a quick prayer.

NMS: YHC was sitting in the parking lot at 0525 by himself this morning.  This is a rare occurence as YHC is usually one of the last PAX to arrive.  At 0528, Opus slides into the parking lot, so YHC does not have to count IC to himself.  With the black ice and last night’s college national championship game, many PAX chose to stay off the roads and nestle in the fartsack.  Phonics arrived right on time (for Phonics) and we tried our best to mosey on the icy sidewalks.  YHC anticipated the fields were going to be a sloppy mess and the original plan was to stay on the sidewalks and parking lots.  Running on the fields provided much more traction than the pavement.  Glad everybody stayed safe and avoided any injuries.

Enjoyed the company of Opus and Phonics.

Circle K

A fiesty five posted to DaVille, greeted by a moon that would make you think it was Sunny and 70, but the temps let you know different.  Phonics was even on time this morning, so we let him park in the front row of cars.  Speaking of Phonics, since he had arrived, we knew it was time to get moving.

Slaughter starter:  10 burpees, nice and slow.

Parking lot tracers.

COP:  SSH, Hillbillies (by request), some wild combination of arm circles, Don Quixote’s.

THANG:

Burpee Boulevard:  Starting at Atlee Station, run to the gate (3/4 miles, but who’s counting?  Right, Opus?).  3 burpees at each light pole.  PLANK AT THE GATE!  Finish up with a couple minutes of plank.

MARY Sanders:  Each pax picks a Mary exercise for the other pax to do while he runs backwards up the hill to the fence, then forwards back.  Each man runs three times.

Chinese fire drill:  Form of:  a single line.  Start running back to the flag, the six breaks off and runs a lap around the pax and then takes the lead.  Run back to New Ashcake.

BAS (Big Ass Suicide)- Suicide across the length of the parking lot.

1 minute of happy feet.

NMS

Yep, it’s cold!  But that doesnt stop this pax.  The idea for the slaughter starter came from a little primer I read on tips for riding in the cold….you should start uphill to get your body making some heat.  Burpees seem like going uphill.

Since there were only 5 of us, we had some fun in the COP, and cadence got a touch out of hand.  Spit started doing some weird jumping jacks, which I took as a request for Hillbillies.

Directions were ignored during the burpee boulevard by Phonics, who finished first (surprise) then turned to gather the six.  Not a big deal, but then I need to make fun of somebody.  Opus was less than impressed with my singing, and neither of us could think of the rest of the song that is the title of this BB.  Or, maybe he knows all the words, but didnt want to encourage me to sing anymore.

Speaking of making fun of somebody, The Carpenter had to play Mary Sanders by himself due to having an allergic reaction to lasagna?  Holy noodles, Batman!

The fire drill was a ton of fun, once we figured out how to do it.  Plenty of practice with only 5 pax, and the mumblechatter really got flowing.  The rest of the workout was trying to avoid any more Mary, which we did plenty of during Mary Sanders.  I’m very proud of that name, btw.

Announcement:  Get on the phone and the email to get those pax members back out!

Apology of the week goes out to Spit.  I know you are at work waiting on the backblast to get posted, and MARV beat me to the punch.  I’m sorry, but I went back to bed when I got home and slept until after nine, then I had to make more coffee.  Because I’m off work.

Lab Rat apologizes…