Tag: Dogpile

A band of 14 showed up to dominate for this weeks episode of Dogpile. Co-Q’s EF Hutton and Handshake split the duties. Hutton led off.

EF Hutton – starting with a COP in the circle. Next up mosey to the Amphitheater and start at the top with (3) Derkins, (3) Merkins, (3) Incline Merkins on each step x 18 steps (Hutton isn’t good at math). Next mosey to the Rusty Cage and partner up. P1 runs to the Hydrant and does (5) WWII’s while P2 starts the 50 Burp-Ups. Luckily Hutton audibled to 30 after his partner was only at 6 after the first run. Round 2 was 150 Dips and round 3 was 250 Monkey Humpers.

Flip the Q to Handshake. Mosey out of the back of the Rusty Cage and down to the Pipe Loop. Partner up to groups of 3 or 4. P1 runs the loops, P2 HRM’s, P3 WWII’s. Mosey to the bottom of Love Hill for an Indigenous Peoples Run up the hill. Stop at the grass clearing just up from the Dog Park and do an “all you got” sprint back to the flag. 1 minute of Mary to finish.

Announcements – Worby has his VQ at The Alamo on Monday.

Prayer requests – pray for the Moms this Mother’s Day. Also, Fergie’s brother had surgery for Cancer this week. Surgery went well and prayers for recovery and other continuing medical needs.

NMS – Bootleg had signed up for the Q but he let YHC and Hutton take it. Great day to be with the guys and welcome to FNG Altar Boy, who is Faceplants close friend/sons Godfather who lives in Annapolis.

Eight emerged from the gloom to see how work is progressing on the Carillon. According to the dogs staging a sit-in at tables in the Amphitheater this is what transpired.

After the customary disclaimer QIC opened the back of his standard size SUV and handed each member of the PAX at least one shiny new cinder block. Some were fortunate enough to receive two! The group moseyed to the Ha’ Penny Stage to begin replenishment of the coupon supply.

At the Stage – COP: SSH, Helicopters, IW, DQ, C Squats, Merkins, LBC, APD all in cadence

Coupon Count: 10

Group into groups of about 4 for a Triple Check with the new coupons – Curls, Chest raises, runner touches 5 trees. There was some confusion about groups and actual head count. After a couple rounds QIC decided to move to the next activity with hopes of keeping things a bit more organized. Deposit coupons under the stage. One coupon did not survive it’s initial action encounter. RIP

Coupon Count: 9

Mosey to the street at the opposite end of the big field: Increment merkins at lightposts to intersection /Increment burpees on the return

Mosey to the Amphitheater – 5 box cutters on each step going down, 5 merkins on each step coming back up

Mosey to the Field – The Beast (6 sets of 6 exercises repeated at 6 intervals down the field and back). Exercises were LBC, Squats, Carolina Dry Docks, American Hammers — called for time

Mosey back to the start by way of the Ha’ Penny Stage to collect the remains of the broken cinder block. Limbs and torso were disposed of.

Three minutes of Mary: Freddie Mercury’s IC, APD’s IC, Flutter kicks OYO

Numberama / Namerama. YHC took us out. 2nd F at Libbie Market as per custom where we had a Flatline sighting in a snazzy Army sweatshirt.

Announcements:

• CSAUP May 6 at Currahee – see the pre-Blast and Gomer Pyle for info – Ruck 6am, Bootcamp 7am, Relay Run 8am

• There is a volunteer opportunity at Dogwood Dell on Sunday 5/7 at 8:30a – Come help build a children’s play area in the garden area that has been developing along Love Hill behind Barker Field. Posh has info which was shared in the 3rd F channel on Slack

Prayers: Fergie’s brother was diagnosed with cancer this week. It’s been an unexpected blow to his family but they are ready to fight! Up Chuck’s nephew is dealing with the loss of a Marine buddy in a training accident.

Thanks to everybody who posted today and helped shuttle the new coupons into place. I didn’t expect to break one out of the gate but thank you also for helping to clean up the fragments. Thinking about the coupons being removed/cleaned up lead me to reflect on how fortunate we are to have access to the public spaces for our AO’s and how important is we continue to respect them and respect other users of them. I’m proud of how well we do this! Our opportunity to use these spaces the way we do is a privilege we never want to take for granted.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead and be part of something bigger than myself. SYITG

Work on the Carillon appears to be happening. That’s about all I can say.

10 Terrible Thoroughbreds emerged from the gloom for a special Earth Day workout. According to the slow driveby looking for a some other daily hookup here is what went down more or less.

5 burpee start. Mosey to COP. Mission. Disclaimer. 15x SSH, 10x Don Quixote, 10x IW, 10x Ukrainian Soldiers, 10x Copperhead Squats, 15x Arm Circles, 15x reverso Arm circles, 10x Merkin, 10x WA merkins, 10x diamond merkin, 10x Hulk Hogan merkin, 10x SHAZZAMs, 2 +1 OMC merkins. Flip it over. 20x OyO WW2, 10x Hello Dolly, 10x Rosalita, 10x HtH, 10x flutter kick, 10x Freddie Mercuries, 10x Grass Angel, 10x Prom Dates, 10x Tusacaloosa Trailerpark Twister. Mosey to Rusty Cage.

Pullup challenge. Partner up. Each pax find your max. Do it again jumping up and lowering to your max. 8×3 Jerkins. Mosey to stage, Oops no blocks, mosey to pipe loop instead  

Triple check. Abs + squats Run the loop. Mosey to amphitheater.

Ladder dips, 5 minimum. Called at 6:58.  BTTF

YHC took us out. Coffeeteria at Libbie Market.

Announcements.

• CSAUP of fun 5/6.  Come on out! signup on the Q sheet. Nothing to worry about, we will have trained CPR pax on hand. 
• May FNG drive. Special awards at Memorial day convergence. 
• Best of luck to all 10k runners. Run Happy!

NMS. Recruit and don’t give up. Sad clowns don’t know they are.

We found the missing blocks at the garden / axe? training site on love hill.  Need more blocks. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9 Unsuspecting Dogpilers assembled at the Dell for YHC’s first Q at this lovely venue.

The Thang:

Warmerama: Mosey to large tree at the far end of the parking lot. 20 SSH, 10 Punters (more of a swing than a Ukranian Soldier), 10 Ukranian Soldiers, 20 Merkins.

#1 Squat ladder up ampitheater box jump to tier add a squat per tier – 18 total.

#2 Triple check: here’s where the Jerkins came in, Dips and timer did a promenade on the stage.

#3 Time burner challenge 11s at the valley of ill repute (aptly named) Burpees, and Lt. Dans.

#4 circle in front of the site of perpetual construction. looks like a hurricane to YHC. Eye of the abb hurricane: American Hammers, Flutters, Heals to Heaven, LBC 25 count each.

#5 Eye of the Mericane CDD, Merkins, Hand Release Merkins, Inverted Merkins 12 count each.

#6 Absolution (YHC got this wrong and added a Merkin in what should have been a knees to chest hop, what’s that called? Like a Mountain Climber but with both legs). 8 count down to Elbow plank, Plank Jack, up to plank, then Merkin instead of aforementioned. Bleeder had an excellent suggestion of passing the count around the circle. YHC struggled to keep composure.

Arm raises back to the flag, numbers, names.

YHC saw the Q open last night and took it. Love this AO and the fine fella’s there, would love make it to Libbie Market one morning to follow. Slipping Jimmie had me rolling. Love hanging with a crowd I’m not used to rolling with. Since they changed the traffic pattern at Rock N’ Roll YHC may make this a regular slip across the river. Leave the Q open and you never know what rif raff might drop in.

13 eager beavers mustered in the early morning gloom at Dogpile to see what Fudd had in store for Easter’s eve. Fudd and Flatline planted shovel flags, and Fergie joined on foot at the last possible moment before we were off to…….

COP in the random grassy area just north of the shovel flags for SSH x 50, then DQ’s, Merkins, WW2’s, Hillbillies, Helicopters, and maybe something else…..

Mosey to Shirley lane where it meets Spottswood Rd for ladders. There are 20 houses on Spottswood where it faces the VITA track park area. We moseyed down Spottswood doing a burpee and then merkin ladder up to 5 and back down, stopping to do burpees or merkins in front of every house. So 1 burpee in front of the first house, 2 in front of the second, and so on doing Merkins for the ladder in front of houses 11-20.

Mosey to the Northern most point of the VITA track. Run the track West and south to the big elbow closest to the Carillon, stopping at every VITA exercise sign to alternate between 5 squats and 5 merkins. Stop at the monkey bars and everyone takes a turn on those….the variations in technique were remarkable.

Mosey to the stage behind the Carillon for the easter egg hunt. Everyone grabs a coupon and heads to the grass in front of the stage. Split up into teams of 3. Each PAX on the team takes turns murder bunnying to the easter basket about 20 yards away, grabs an egg, puts it somewhere on their person, and then murder bunnys back to the team. Everyone on the team then does the indicated exercise written on the paper inside the egg. Continue in this fashion for about 23 minutes until its time to mosey back to the flag. Each team burned through 5-7 eggs. Exercises were:

• 15 curls
• 15 bench presses
• 15 squats with block
• 10 deadlifts + 10 overhead press
• 10 Gravediggers + 10 reverse lunges
• 10 Blockees + 10 Captain Thors

Mosey back to the flag and do a Flatline inspired plank for the last minute. Numberama, Namerama, and YHC took us out.

Announcements: April 25 and 25 – CPR training at Trinity UMC on Forest Ave. Donations are requested but not required to buy a gift card for the nurse that will be training us. Flatline promised to send a pic of what she looks like on Slack. Mouth to mouth may or may not be required as part of the training.

May 6th – Gomer’s CSAUP – ruck, workout, & run, in some combination…… to last all damn day.

I really enjoyed this workout fellas. It was cool to do some new things at Dogpile. Thanks for letting me lead. It was an honor and a pleasure.

Never stop chasing the wabbit!

– Fudd

1 Mile Run

Penny Stage: Cindy Check: Short count we only have 12 blocks now.
Cindy Circle: 10x Curls, 10 Presses, 10 Squats, 10x Block Burpees
Return Cindys

Rusty Cage: Partner up
Round 1: P1: Long run to the fence and back. P2: 5 Merkins, 1 Pull-up repeat until P1 returns. Switch
Round 2: P1: Long run to the fence and back. P2: 5 Squats, 2 Pull-ups repeat until P1 returns. Switch
Round 3: P1: long run to the fence and back. P2: 3 Merkins, 3 Pull-ups repeat until P1 returns. Switch

Amphitheater: Ascending/Descending
Ascending Merkins up
Descending Dips down

WARMARAMA:
SSH, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squats, Cherry Pickers, Monkey Humpers, Merkins, LBC, Alabama Prom Dates, Flutter Kicks

Slaughter Start: 10 Burpees

Numberama: Namerama:

Announcements: CSAUP/Convergence: May 6th. Ruck / BootCamp / Run see Slack from Gomer for more details.

NMS: The old April Fools on the Q sheet and reverse Q. What a great morning for that Q energy. A 1 mile start is always a crowd favorite you are just never sure if it’s going to be the full mile or not. Great to have Faceplant back out in the Gloom. Enjoy those little ones now. They grow up way too fast. Hope those boys that went to the Bridge had a great time and made some great connections. Can’t wait to hear about it.

8 men wondering if the Q sheet was a joke this morning. Wilson reminded everyone that it was April’s Fool. and with that YHC started the Q. Great morning fellas, thanks for letting me lead.

Oyster

10 Dad’s with their New Balance 857s (White Bruh!). Ready for the first cut of spring. Let’s take a tour of Dogpile first.

WARMARAMA:
Mosey to the far side of the field. SSH, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Hillbillies, DQ, Monkey Humpers, Merkins, Hand-Release Merkins, LBC, Alabama Prom Dates.

THE THANG:
Partner up on the Field. Field Check
1. Partner1: Run to the end of the field and back. Partner 2: Bear Crawl. Switch.
2. Partner1: Run to the end of the field and back. Partner 2: Lunges. Switch
3. Partner 1: Run to the end of the field and back. Partner 2: Broad Jump Burpee. Switch
Repeato until both partners reach the end of the field.

Mosey to the Amphitheater stage for a Triple Check:
1. Run the perimeter of the Amphitheater
2. Flutter Kicks
3. Heals to Heaven
(3rd round run the other way).

Mosey to the Rusty Cage. Partner up
Partner1: Run to the Fire Hydrant, 1 Burpee, Run back
Partner2: 5 Merkins, 1 Pull-up. Repeat until Partner returns, switch
3 Rounds

Mosey to the Triangle.
Corner1: Partner Leg Toss x20 (switch, 1 round)
Corner2: 20 Caroline Dry Docks, mosey to the next corner
Corner3: American Hammers, Dying Cock Roaches, WWI in Cadence.
Bernie Back

Mosey to the Fence Line for a Modified Dora. Partner up
100 Merkins, Tag 3 trees
100 Jump Squats, Tag 3 trees
Mosey back to the flag.

2 Minute: Plank. (According o Flatline, Army minimum for 40yr+ is 1m.25s)
Stretching, Deadman Hangs, Cherry Pickers. Time

NUMBERAMA:NAMERAMA

Announcements:
Next Friday at RAMM — Is Amateur Hour for RAMM GEARS. Bring a bike, any bike. Mountain bike, Beach Cruiser, Your kids Bike, your M’s bike. Neighbors Bike…. 5:30am at Mary Munford Friday.

Contact Flatline – if you are interested in joining his CPR Class coming in April.

Be on the look out for an upcoming CSAUP at Currahee: Ruck, Boot Camp, Run.

YHC took us out.

NMS: What a great morning, looks like we just beat the rain. Nice little tour of Dogpile, we hit the favorites this morning with the Field, Amphitheater, Rusty Cage and the Triangle. Great to see Swamp Donkey, glad you found us this morning. Senor Frogs going strong brother. Keep it up!

Oyster

11 redwoods met in the gloom looking to see a post St Pats Gomer Pyle trainwreck and found themselves sadly disappointed by a solid beatdown. According to the 3 barred owls presiding over Byrd Park, here is how it went down, more or less.

The Thang –

5 burpee start.

Mosey to VITA grassy field. Disclaimer. 15x SSH, 10x Don Quixote, 15x Arm Circles, 16x reverso Arm circles, 10x seal claps, 10x Merkin IC, 10x HRM IC, 10x Grass Angels, 10x Australian Grass Angels, 10x Hulk Hogan merkins, 10x + 1 SHAZZAMs. Flip it over. 10x Hello Dolly, 10x Rosalita, 10x HtH, 10x flutter kick, 10x Freddie Mercuries, 10x Bohemian Rhapsody, 10x Prom Dates, 10x Tusacaloosa Trailerpark Twister. Mosey to Rusty Cage.

Fudd shows up.

TC fire hydrant run. 5 pullups + jumpups til muscle failure, squats. Mosey to stage for a block.

TC touch a tree 3, 6, 9. Curls, presses. Mosey to amphitheater.

10 dips each step. Plank for 6. Some bonus planks. Short mosey to circle.

Abs circle – each pax calls out an exercise. Mosey to flag.

YHC took us out. Prayers for Woodstock, TryHard, all injured pax.

Announcements –

• Sign up for Breaking Bread
• New AO monday – the Alamo in the Rountree neighborhood
• Currahee CSAUP convergence. 6a ruck. 7a bootcamp. 8a open 4man team relay. 3, 4, 5 mile loops + a walker route. Special prize for pax that do it all.

NMS –

Glad Pigskin got half a workout in before heading to the airport and Mississippi. Glad Fudd found us eventually after his Flipper inspired run; admittedly we dont use VITA very often. Good to see Faceplant back out after the baby. Welcome back to Senor Frog – hope you got what you are looking for. We know Handshake got what he was looking for – but that was before the beatdown.

Great coffeeteria afterwards: we learned about cougars and sabertooth tigers and Rosie knows where the 60/40 bars are (maybe thats not surprising)

Today we have 3 owls supervising the beatdown and we all know thats a hootenanny. YHC doesn’t really know why, but owls are uber cool despite their hatred of Saab. Maybe because they live in the night / gloom like a Light Infantryman? Just like Grunts, they are up and moving before BMNT (0622 today, thanks to DST).

8 men of F3 ready to take on the day.

WARMARAMA: Mosey down to the toll parking lot for some warmarama.
SSH, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Monkey Humpers, Imperials Walkers, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, LBC, Heals to Heaven.

The Thang:
Over the James:
10 Merkins every light pole, wait for the six at the end.
Back Across the bridge, Alternate – 10 Squats Jumps, 10 Squats every light pole.

Mosey to Love Hill:
Lunges 30 yards
Native American Run to the Garden
Mosey to the Fish Bowl.

Jacobs Ladder (Splinter choose a hill)
Start at the bottom and run to the top of the hill 1 Burpee, back down the hill.
Back to the top 2 Burpees, back down the hill.
Back to the top 3 Burpees, back down the hill.
Repeat until you complete 7 Burpees.
Mosey to the field.

4 Corners
Corner 1: 10 Merkins
Corner 2: 20 Dying Cock Roaches
Corner 3: Partner up – 30 PLTs
Corner 4: Partner up – 40 Boxing cock roaches
Mosey to the amphitheater – detour to the circle

Quad Check – 2 rounds
Partner 1: Flutter Kicks
Partner 2: American Hammers
Partner 3,4: 2 laps around the circle:
Switch for 2 rounds

Mosey BTTF for 3 minutes of Mary
Deadman hang, Reach for the sky, DQ

NUMBERAMA: NAMERAMA

NMS: It’s a beautiful day and the sun is still shining over the James. With the sun coming up an audible was called and a mosey to the bridge was added to the playlist. Covered a little over 3 miles of ground today, well done boys. Jacob’s ladder was no joke.

Announcements:
Good Luck to all those running Bear Creek Tomorrow. Get after it!
Breaking Bread – See Q sheet for sign ups.
2nd F Lunch: 3/14 Firehouse Subs (Innsbrook)
2nd F lunch – 3/23 Wongs Tacos (Midlothian)

YHC took us out. Thank you for letting me lead today.

Oyster

A band of 14 gathered for a Handshake Anniversary Q and this is what transpired:

Mosey to far Roundabout over by the Devil’s Triangle for a COP of various exercises. We could see Fudd cruising in fashionably late.

Mosey to the Sunken Field and pick up Fudd along the way. Mini Beast while completing 5 reps for each iteration. Round 1 – 5 Hand Release Merkins, Round 2 – 5 (2) Count Flutter Kicks, Round 3 – Jump Squats

Mosey to the bottom of the Amphitheater – Round 1 (Bottom to top) – 5 Carolina Dry Docks, 5 WWII’s, Round 2 (Top to bottom) – 5 Jump Squats, 5 LBC’s

Mosey to the Rusty Cage with a partner – P1 5 Merkins, P2 5 Jerkins and switch, repeat 3 times

Mosey out the back of the Rusty Cage and down the hill. Mixed numbers for an off-balance Pipe Loop Triple Check (first Pipe Loop of the season). P1 – Runs the Pipe Loop, P2 – Squats, P3 – Flutter Kicks. Triple Check was cut short on the account of time.

Mosey back towards the flag doing an Indigenous Peoples Run. We passed Garbage Plate on the run. When we got back to the flag Upchuck was waiting there for us.

Announcements – Oyster mentioned Breaking Bread is now opening back up for serving food, not just a drop and go (this is a change since Covid changed the rules). RAAM Gears – last Friday of March there will be a Amateur Hour Costume Contest (March 31st).

Prayer Requests – Slipping Jimmy’s Great Aunt Teresa passed away, she was 101 years old. A former employee of Upchucks is going through a lot of things in her life. Please pray for her and others in the same situation.

NMS – it was a great morning. My 2.0 (Moss) said last night he wanted to come to the workout. He’s come a long way in the 4 years since he first came to a Puppy Pile and he was able to hang with the crew. It was nice to share this with him and for him to see the guys. I really appreciate what this group has given me, I don’t know where i’d be if I never came out. My M was so inspired by the First Watch “Season of Giving” that she surprised me (albeit a week early) with a Cooler full of PBR and M&M’s to give the guys after the workout. It was funny to see Bodo’s break the stereotypes by being the first one into the cooler and immediately cracked the beer at 0710. Gomer commented that you can’t drink all day if you don’t start early! Also Happy Birthday to Slipping Jimmy!