Tag: DaVille

Atlee

  • Loading the Ark at DaVille

    8 waterproof souls assembled at Atlee HS for a beatdown during SOJ takeover week. YHC traveled all night to arrive on time. Things went something like this:

    THANG

    SOJ Slaughter Start – 10 Burpees OYO

    Mosey to some wet grass next to Atlee HS for COP: SSH, DQs, Bob & Weaves, Merkins, LBCs, Crab Cakes, Imperial Walkers

    Mosey towards fields. Audible to head towards the side of the school to make use of the table benches.
    Partner Chiabattas: Dips + Monkey Humpers

    Mosey to field behind Atlee HS for Ark Loader (animal-like exercise across 25-40 yds, then run to the other end)

    • Bear Crawl
    • Duck Walk
    • Backward Crab Walk
    • Bunny Hop
    • Crawl Bear
    • Forward Crab Walk
    • Imperial Monkey Humpers (that’s right, 5 monkey humpers then imperial walk 2 steps)
    • Polar Bear
    • Sloth Walk (lunges through the sprinklers)

    Mosey to corner, partner up for Love Field: both partners need to get to diagonal corner of field, 1 runs back and forth to/from target corner, 1 alternates Russian Soldiers + Imperial Squat Walkers

    Mosey to VSF for 90s of Mary: American Hammers and X’s & O’s

    COT: Opus took us out

    NM:

    YHC had an interesting trip to DaVille this morning after clearing a downed tree out of the road leading out of his neighborhood.  No other neighbors in site before 5am…weird.

    What better to celebrate a massive, soaking rain than an Ark Loader?!?  There was some initial mumblechatter regarding the COP in the wet grass…YHC could only respond by saying “we’re going to get wet today”.  And we did.  It actively rained on us, but it felt great. When the sprinklers kicked on, it was definitely time to slow things down and get even more soaked.

    Phonics pointed out that the Atlee field felt like NoToll this morning…and YHC cannot disagree…it was like a blanket.

    Thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning.  Everyone did really well…there was more crawling on wet ground than most anticipated, probably, but solid effort made by all.  TClaps to FNG Toto for posting on a soppy, wet morning.

    Announcements:

    Reese Strong 5K on Sept. 16 – See Phonics for running details, and see Circle K’s Pre-Blast for shellfish consumption details.

    F3RVA Convergence on Sept. 30 – @ GridIron – 6am & 7am workouts – come for one or stay for both!

     

  • A Little Shared Suffering

    13 strong PAX came out to Atlee to begin the wonderful day we were given.

    After a quick explanation of how the morning was going to go and a bit of solo stretching PAX moseyed on over to the track by Cool Spring. Upon reaching the track and forming a quick circle the fun began.

    The fun started with some follow the leader merkins. One at a time each PAX did a merkin while everybody else imitated their merkin. In between reps the plank was held. For example, if Bucketmouth did a diamond merkin everybody else did a diamond merkin and then if Spit did a normal merkin everyone else did a normal merkin until everyone got to choose a merkin twice.

    A quick one minute break and an explanation for the next event followed. Each PAX planked up in a line shoulder to shoulder. The PAX on the end then low crawled under the line of planking people and returned to the planking position when they reached the end of the line. This continued until the line had gone from the track, across the field (shortest way of course), to the track.

    Next on the list of upper-body activities for the day was a pull-up challenge. After moseying to the pull-up bars and realizing there was only three, PAX moseyed over to the playground, partnered up, and found a spot to do pull-ups. After two minutes of pull-ups partners switched and did two minutes of pull-ups while the other partner rested.

    Now that everyone was well rested PAX moseyed back over to the field and partnered up. One partner picked up the other partner and commenced their two minutes of partner squats. After the two minutes partners switched. This was clearly the favorite workout of all the PAX.

    After the four minutes ended PAX conducted a Native American style run back to the starting area where they conducted a part of the six minutes of joy. It consisted of forty-five seconds of six inches, thirty seconds of forty-five degree, thirty seconds of heals to heaven, thirty seconds of toe touches, thirty seconds or forty-five degree, and thirty seconds of six inches.

    Announcements:

    • First Thursdays in DaVille this Thursday at 6pm. Ultimate Frisbee then head over to Marty’s (9357 Atlee Rd, Mechanicsville, VA 23116)  for drinks. M’s and 2.0’s welcome to join
    • Reesestrong registration is now open and Phonics has created the F3RVA team: https://runsignup.com/RaceGroups/4045/Groups/386047
    • Sunday August 5th is the dry run of the Bootcamp on Sunday’s – To Be Named on the 5th.  It will be at 7am and end at 8am at Atlee HS. Invite, EH, attend, make it happen. We all know a few who say – “It’s too early” or “I can’t do anything during the week.” Time to go back to them and EH them some more.

    Thanks again Spit for letting me Q I can’t wait until next time.

    Boom Boom

  • American Donkey

    9 brave and fearless dudes conquered the temptation to take it easy and landed at Atlee for a beatdown.

    Mosey to Wall for Merkin Donkeys
    2x each (merkins then donkey kicks), progressing by 2’s up to 10 each, then
    AMRAP for about 45 seconds each exercise

    Progressive COP — mosey and circle up 4 different times on the way to the hill at the back of Atlee
    1st stop — Heels to Heaven
    2nd — Rollups
    3rd —  Ankle Reaches
    4th — Flutter kicks

    Finish moseying to the hill.
    11’s — striders up the hill, run down, WW2 situps at top, burpees at bottom (modified to merkins half way through)

    Mosey back to suicide courts, on the way circle up and complete several exercises waiting for the 6.

    Suicide relay —
    1) regular with the rest of the team planking
    2) reverse with the rest of the team doing SSH while waiting

    Mosey back to flag

    Time for jump squats and Freddie Mercuries before the
    Numberama and Name-o-rama

    NMS:
    It was actually not too bad of a morning to try out the American Donkey exercise, loosely based on the Guess Who song from 1970 “American Woman”.  Said song was later covered by Lenny Kravitz, but that version sucked, IMHO.
    There was a Carpenter showing this morning.  It was the first showing since he and his family cruised across the US in their mini-van.  Carpenter and 5 females in the same van for 5 weeks.  Holy (fill in the blank with whatever word comes to mind)!  He really needed some F3 time this morning!  YHC was glad to see him back and that he was keeping up with everyone pretty well despite his long absence.
    Sad to hear that Abacus will be leaving us soon, geographically at least.  He was the one who came up with my name and has been an inspiration to me to keep on keepin on!   Friday is his last Q at the Creek — would be awesome to have a record amount of people there Friday!!

    Peace out,
    Opus

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Sleepless Nights

    25 posted (including 2 FNG’s) on a beautiful DaVille morning. Had to detour around some construction equipment but had an excellent workout!

    The Thang.

    Mosey to COP in front of Bus Loop.

    SSH x29 (for the 2900 miles that I will be driving to Oregon next week)                                                                       Arm Circles, LBC’s, Copper Head Squats, Flutter kicks

    Mosey to side of Bus Loop for a little Dora action. Partner up with one partner exercising while the other ran 1 Bus Loop lap. 100 Merkins, 150 WWII Situps, 200 Squats.

    Mosey to the soccer field for some modified 4 corners. Run as a group to each corner and complete the exercises until the Q says stop. Burpees, LBC’s, Mountain Climbers and Merkins. Completed 2 laps and finished it off with a bear crawl to the center of the field and plank.

    Indian run back to the flag with a little Mary to finish it off. Lab Rat led some American Hammers while the Q went to his car to grab his phone. Finished it off with 20 Merkins on your own.

    COT, Lab Rat took us out.

    Had some technical difficulties trying to post a back blast but Lab Rat came to the rescue and got me setup! I prepared last night and then couldn’t fall asleep! Thank you all for coming out to my first Q, it was an awesome turnout. I have truly enjoyed the last year of F3 and wish that I had joined up with you guys earlier. I am excited about my new opportunity in Oregon and will put the shovel flag presented to me in good use out there. There are currently no F3 groups at all in Oregon and I look forward to changing that. Peace out brothers!

  • Cosmo Drops a Bombshell

    A pax of eight this morning for DaVille were greeted with a (debatably) full moon.  Sunny and 70’ish weather made for perfect conditions to hit the track:

    -Parking lot tracers

    -COP including SSH, IW, hand release merkins, DQ, arm circles, LBC, maybe something else.

    THANG-  track work the hard way:  Pax was given instructions to continue around the track at their own pace.  Every 5 minutes, Q will yell out or sing something, which all pax would then bust out 25 merkins and 25 squats, then continue the journey around track.  Optional stations of dips, derkins, and pullups were also pointed out.  Continue until told to stop (we got 5 rounds in).

    Circle run back to flag- Man in front peels off and runs back to six.  Repeato.

    Mary- American Hammers, hold 6 inches, and Rosalitas

    BOM- Cosmo took us out.

    NMM

    There was a lot of time this morning to pack up and get some mumblechatter in.  Opus was stepping up and giving some much needed criticism to Lab Rat on how unkempt his COP was.  My response was along the lines of “what does it matter, as long as I get you doing the exercise”.  His comeback was that I constantly critique him on the order of things, it would just seem fair to give that critique back.  Fifteen-love, Opus….touche’

    There was much discussion of the “ghost flag” this morning as well, especially from our resident #mumblechatter expert Phonics.  Yeah, you read that right!  He surely talks more than Lab Rat, he just does it at a lower, more pleasant volume.  Discussion was heavily slanted towards which zones get to claim which pax members.  There are surely some irons to wrinkle out here, but I think the idea is solid.  DaVillians are also still looking for some written records that Swirly has actually been to DaVille  rumor has it he has, but nobody here remembers…..

    So getting around to the elephant in the room, Cosmo told me about half way thru the workout that he has news to share afterwards, so I invited him to take us out.  He held out until announcements, when he took the floor and let us know that he will be leaving us in the next couple weeks and moving out to Oregon.  This is a move that he and his wife have been looking forward to for some time, and he snagged a job at HP recently.  Cosmo, I personally am very happy for you, but bummed that you will be leaving us at the same time.  We wish you all the best of luck.

    On that note, we twisted his arm into Q’ing next week at DaVille.  Seems like a great reason to road trip it up here for a little send off, what say you, gentlemen?  Can we get some numbers out here next week?  Lab Rat is a hard commit.

    Apology of the week goes to the dude on the track that I tried to EH while running with Phonics and Cosmo.  With all the best intentions, in my out of breath state I’m pretty sure I just yelled at the guy.

    Lab Rat apologizes.

     

  • Bringing a Little Gumbo to DaVille…GEAUX TIGERS

    18 strong (including 1 FNG) posted at DaVille to welcome a new Q from the South.  YHC was so excited that sleep was just not happening last night, so at 0430 I gathered provisions for the trek and saddled up and hit the road.  Arriving the Ville of Mechanics with plenty of time to spare, YHC planted the flag and surveyed the land to make final plans for his DaVille VQ.  It went a little something like this:

    Mosey to open parking lot area and circle up for disclaimer and COP, that included:

    • SSHs x30 (for every minute it took YHC to get to the AO this morning)
    • Don Quixote x10 – Swirly Slowsky
    • Hillbillies x15 – another present from the South, though they just aren’t the same without Jville
    • Copperhead Squats x10
    • Hand Release Merkins x10
    • LBCs x20
    • Flutter Kicks x20

    Mosey (YHC narrowly avoided being snipered by a GOLDBERG) to the bus loop and grab a curb for curb crawls.  Bear crawl across for 1 incline merkin; Crawl Bear back for 2 derkins…repeat up to 6 and back down to 1.  Al Gore for the six.

    Mosey over to the side wall of CMS for a round of 18s (yes, Circle K, that is not 11s or Blackjack – today, we are doing 18s) as follows – start at the wall with 17 Donkey Kicks, then run across grass to sidewalk and do 1 jump-squat, then run back to the wall. Continue increasing/decreasing by 1 until 1DK and 17 jump squats.  Plank-o-Rama for the six.

    Mosey to the end of the bus loop by Atlee Station Road and team up for a Triple Check – Merkins, Box Cutters and run around the bus loop.

    Form two lines for an Indigenous People Run back to the Flag.

    5 Burpees OYO and 1 minute of Superman.

    COT, Number-rama, Name-a-rama and YHC took us out.

    NMS –

    Welcome to FNG – Ryan – now Uno.  Way to work young man!

    As I mentioned above, even though I have Q’d now many times, the excitement of Q’ing at a new AO made sleep difficult, but on the positive side, it wasn’t hard to get to the AO in time.  YHC had several different potential game-plans for today – one included playing some F3 Baseball, but unfortunately the Mechanics keep their well-manicured baseball fields under lock and key and the fences are formidable.

    Next plan — bring the pain while celebrating the awesome baseball history of the great LSU TIGERS.  This year marks the Tigers’ 18th trip to the College World Series and their 7th trip to the CWS Final.  The Tigers have 6 CWS Titles to their name.  Watch the youtube video for the greatest clutch HR in NCAA CWS History.  I remember watching this game after my Senior year of high school and going CRAZY when Morris hit it…ENJOY.

    As a bonus fact, 18 was YHC’s baseball number, so perfect harmony with the theme and with the size of the PAX today….I love it when a plan comes together.

    The Tigers were defeated last night by the FLA Gators, but hopefully the Tigers can rally tonight to force a decisive game 3 tomorrow night.  GEAUX TIGERS!

    The PAX, including Uno and Slash crushed the workout today.  The 18s proved as difficult as I thought and took up some serious time, so a few other surprises had to get the AX.  I’ll save them for next time!

    Way to work today men.  It was great to join you guys and meet some new folks.  I love seeing the youngsters out there bringing the energy.  You guys have a strong PAX in DaVille.  Keep up the great work and I look forward to getting back up North soon.

    Announcements:

    • July 4th convergence at Dogpile – 0600.  See Circle K’s pre-Blast for details
    • September 16 – ReeseStrong 5K see Phonics for details
    • Next Thursday – First Thursday at DaVille 1800 hours for Ultimate Frisbee and COLbeers, followed by a trip to COTU for more COLbeers.  Ms and 2.0s welcome
    • AO change for NoToll on Tuesday, July 11 — Post at Huguenot Little League (behind Robious Elementary School) for the second annual HR Derby workout.

    For today…no more Gumbo for you!

  • Hot and Heavy in DaVille

    15 stout, including one FNG, gathered in the Daville humidity to sweat it out. We planted a virtual flag, and Hat Trick took charge.
    COP
    All exercises IC X 15:
    Don Quixotes
    LBCs
    Merkins
    Flutter kicks

    Mosey to dirt track for Four Corners. Exercises were burpees X 10, pull-ups X 15, WW II sit-ups X 20, Merkins X 25. Rinse and repeat.

    Mosey to playground for triple-check. First man holds plank with feet in a swing. Second man hangs from monkey bars. Third man runs to the next playground, does five burpees, and runs back. Hat Trick modified triple-check to two rounds in light of the time.

    Mosey to parking lot for five minutes of Merkins and/or squats OYO.

    Back to the flag for hot potato MOM. Exercises were American hammers (Helix), Freddy Mercurys (Cosmo), and heels-to-heaven (Spike).

    Numberama, Nameorama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

    Announcements

    * ReeseStrong 5K September 16th. Online registration should be open next week.
    * VQ week is next week.

    NMS

    Hat Trick will be on a mission trip next week, so he stepped up to take on his VQ today. We trotted in to a full parking lot. Questions were asked about who was QIC. Several of us turned a bit pale – even those of us in the know – when a 5-minute miler said, “Let’s mosey”. Hat Trick knocked off a flawless COP, although this may have been the first time Don Quixotes made YHC short of breath. On the way to the track No Idea confided he tweaked his ankle, but that didn’t hold him back from gutting out Four Corners. Phonics took the lead and came back to pick up the six.

    YHC was impressed that Hat Trick was mindful of the time to call an audible and cut the triple-check short. YHC was going to collapse off the monkey bars at that point anyway. YHC brought up the six heading to the next exercise and missed the gist of Abacus’s and Phonics’s story-time-while-holding-Al-Gore, but Hat Trick regained control, and led us to five minutes of pain.

    Boom Boom congratulated Hat Trick for his well-designed work out by splashing Merlot in nearby shrubbery during COT. Boom Boom told me he attributed this display to “too much standing around”, so we should probably push him a bit harder next time. As we reflected on Boom Boom during our jog back, Hat Trick’s only comment was, “That guy is ripped!” Indeed.

    Welcome to Slimer! Way to work through a particularly humid beat down.

    Humbly submitted by Helix

  • Good to be Back

    13 men and 1 fine young man, all F3 regulars, said no to the fartsack to attack the day and this is how it went down:

    Mosey in front of high school to bus loop.  YHC said NO to the COP and we went right after it performing 10 burpees, 20 merkins, 30 Monkey Humpers, 40 LBCs, and 50 squats with a run around the outer bus loop.

    Mosey to tennis courts for Doracides (your welcome THE Carpenter).  1 partner perform exercises while the other partner runs suicides on tennis court.  As a team, complete the following 100 LBCs, 150 squats and 200 WWII situps.

    Form line at other end of tennis courts for bear crawl.  Bear crawls the length of the four tennis courts stopping in between each court to perform 5 merkins.  Lunge back to starting point.

    Mosey to soccer field.  Run to 25 yard line for 25 merkins and return to starting point.  Run to 50 yard line and perform 50 merkins, on return stop at 25 yd line for 25 merkins.  Run to 75 yard line for 25 merkins, on return stop at 50 yd line for 50 merkins and stop at 25 yd line for 25 merkins. Run to 100 yd line for 1 merkins, on return stop at 75 yd line for 5 merkins, stop at 50 yd line for 10 merkins and stop at 25 yd line for 15 merkins.

    Mosey back to shovel flag for 2 MOM.  Exercises included LBCs, American Hammer and Freddie Mercuries.

    Numberama, Namearama, and YHC took us out with a prayer of thanks, encouraging each PAX member to reflect on something they are thankful for and giving it away to someone else.

    NMS: YHC has been dealing with some health issues with YHCs father the past two weeks and unable to attend F3 due to some very late nights.  YHC would like to take this opportunity to thank my F3 brethren for their thoughts, prayers and assistance transporting kids. It was good to work up a sweat and take some frustration out with a good beatdown this mroning.   Mumblechatter started quickly this am when YHC nixed the COP and went straight to work with the Escalator.  LabRat (imagine that, LabRat starting the mumblechatter) made mention that we usually warmed up a bit with YHC responding it was the Qs discretion as to whether the PAX would have a COP.  LP (age 8) quickly responded that “we USED to stretch a little before the workout.”  YHC taken down by an 8 year old before 6am.  Good work LP, smack talking is always encouraged during any F3 beatdown.  As we began, THE Carpenter was wondering when the PAX would be doing YHC favorite running exercies, Suicides.  YHC assured THE Carpenter they were on the way.  The Doracides quickly diminished the mumble chatter, as the entire PAX focused on the task at hand.  The merkin ladder on the soccer field brought the mumble chatter back, but the PAX crushed the portion of the workout as well.  Great work by all this morning.  Thanks for allowing the opportunity to lead.

    Circle K

  • Reconstruction / restoration

    The Thang:

    Built on isaish 45:18 “For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in its place.  He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos.  “I am the Lord,”  he says, “and there is no other.”

    And Ephesians 1:10 “And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ – everything in heaven and on earth.”

    Ten strong men woke up early and came to challenge complacency and obliterate mediocrity.  C’MON is our battle cry:

    Confronting Evil,
    Making spiritual Leaders,
    Obliterating Mediocrity and
    Nurturing Christ like behavior

     

    We dug into the excerpts from the book Renovate by Leonce Crump and discussed how as Christian men we can participate in helping God make restoration happen today, in our neighborhoods and families.  Since we all long to flourish and we long for that for our friends and family, what are we going to do about it?  Great discussion and insights into ways to do this as a group, as a church and as a man.

    YHC challenged the men to invite others into our quest – C’MON F3 Nation – especially F3 RVA.  Join us or start your own Third F bible study.

    Elmer brought us home.  Peace.

    Wild Thing

  • Holy Crap — that took a long time!

    15 Native PAX members showed up for a fun and frolicking good time at Daville!

    Here is what went down:

    COP
    Hillbillies
    Arm Circles
    Flutter Kicks
    dollys
    Rock Em Sock Em Robots
    Jump Squat
    Plank Jack
    Roll Ups

    Longish Mosey to Hill near the Gate
    Doras — One partner does Broad Jump Burpees up hill, run down hill.  100 ww2 situps, 200 merkins (modified to 175), 300 SSH (1 count)

    Say good-bye to the hill by running up and down three times as fast as possible.  Wheelie did not fall down the hill for the first time ever.  Props and T-Claps.

    Indian Run back to wall for donkey kick fun

    2 donkeys, touch 1 tree
    4 donkeys, touch 2 trees
    6 donkeys, touch 3 trees
    Some of the PAX made it up to 8 before YHC realized what time it was and had to scurry the group back to the flag.

    Numberama, Nameorama, Announcements, Chowdah took us out this morning.

    YHC has not quite gotten the hang of how long something will take for a certain PAX.  Sometimes, there is not enough stuff and some scrambling occurs.  This morning, there was way too much stuff and massive cutting and splicing took place.  The original title of this Backblast was supposed to be “What the Hill?” — YHC had two more adventures with the hill planned, but realized that time was not on our side because the daggone DORA’s took much longer than I thought they would.  No worries, I will be Q’ing again at Daville soon enough!! 🙂

    Yardsale mentioned that the PAX should have a Shovel Flag making/ tasty brew drinking night at someone’s house.  YHC concurs.  Who is up for having some guys over to make that happen?

    Announcements:
    Fudd’s house this Saturday.  Not sure the time or how to get there.  Check the Pre-Blast for more info.

    Have a blessed takeover week!
    Opus