Tag: Dogpile

Byrd Park

  • Prodigal Son

    Fourteen performers joined today’s orchestral act for the latest edition of The Dogpile. Temperatures were (actually) 70 and sunny. According to the rogue film crew preparing for the actual orchestra, the following may be somewhat close to what happened:

    Quick Start: a Gentlemen’s 5 burpees

    Mosey to the Amphitheater’s side entrance and to the orchestra area for the COP:

    SSHs
    Dead Man Hang
    IWs
    Flutter kicks x 17
    Box cutters x14 (yeah, 17-14 Hokies)
    HRMs x10

    Quick mosey to bottom step (for those not already on the bottom step) for an escalating ascension up the Amphitheater: dips, 1-18

    At the top, quick stretch.

    Round and Round: Pick a trash can. There are 20. Do 5 WWIIs at any orange trash can. 5 burpees at any other color trash can (YHC asked for suggestions, then pick his own exercise). Then, run around the loop. Go to the next trash can. Repeato. Continue through all 20 trash cans.

    (Some PAX griped about 20 rounds. Each round is about 50 yards, or half of the Great Lawn. A beast is 6 x 4 = 24 fifty yard stretches. This is shorter. YHC apologizes for cheating the PAX out of 200 yards of running.).

    Stretch, including some for the cameras. Deals for NIL were signed by some PAX.

    Mosey to the side of the Amphitheater for a Dora. Each man does 50 HRMs, and then combines to do 200 American Hammers and 300 SSHs. Bear crawl up the hill to the stone wall. Avoid the van doing…well, nothing, eventually.

    Mosey to the stage for a Triple Check, Touch-a-Tree Style. Touch 1 tree for the first person, 2 for the second person, 3 for the third, 4 for round 2, man 1, etc…up to 9 trees. Dieing cockroaches and hello dolly (YHC thinks).

    Mosey to the bottom of the Amphitheater again…18 V-ups, then 17, then mosey BTTVSF for the COT.

    Numbers, names, YHC took us out with a message about finding a prodigal son and bringing him/her back into your life.

    Announcements and Requests:

    Welcome, Hokie. Come back, hopefully under better conditions. That’s 2 times YHC has spoken favorably of the Hokies today. Some kind of record.

    BRR, Field Day, and Retreat.

    Let’s keep the Hokie, his family, and all of the people of New Orleans in mind. Let’s also keep Bacon Bits and his family in mind. Same goes for the wild fire victims, the flood victims in NY/|NJ, and the people inside Afghanistan as well as those creating new lives and helping the refugees. Lots of need out there.

    Welcome back, Hardywood. Good to have you in the Orchestra today.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Go Your Own Way

    Who has the Q.
    Anyone?
    Hot Potato?
    What’s a potato? 

    18 Mens said NO to the Fart Sack this morning. No regrets as it was 70 and Sunny as usual at Dogpile. Lets get after it:

    Gomer Pile with the warmorama.   Grab some of these bricks out of my car and take them to the Penny Stage.  PAX:  let’s split up and go different ways to the Penny Stage.  

    Gomer Pile passes the Q to Oyster:  Native American Run let’s go.   Oh wait there’s the six with some more bricks let’s go back.  PAX:  We’re going with Hitchhiker.

    Hitchhiker takes the Q. 
    SSH
    HELICOPTERS
    LBC
    MERKINS 
    SCORPION KICKS
    IMPERIAL WALK
    ARM CIRCLES

    Hitchhiker passes the Q to Faceplant. 
    Mosey to the bottom of the hill. 
    Find a curb: 10 MERKINS
    Mosey
    Find a curb: 15 hand release derkins 
    Mosey
    Find a curb: 10 Merkins 
    Mosey
    Find a curb: 5 hand release derkins 
    Mosey
    Find a curb: 10 Merkins 
    Mosey
    Find a curb: 5 hand release derkins

    Bottom of the hill. Let’s get to the top.  
    Find a partner.  
    Partner 1 run to the top and back.  Partner 2 lunges. Switch. 
    Partner 1 runs to the top and back.  Partner 2 bear crawls. Switch. 
    Partner 1 runs to the top and back.  Partner 2 broad jump burpees.  Switch.  

    Pax is now in Sync.  Faceplant gives the Q  back to Oyster. 
     
    Mosey to the back of the Carillon.  
    Triple check
    1. Find 6 trees
    2. SSH
    3. Flutter Kicks

    Mosey to the Rusty Cage. 
    Triple check
    1. Run to the fire hydrant 
    2. Pull-ups
    3. Dips

    Mosey down pipeline (YHC is it left or right)
    Triple check – 1 round
    1. Run the pipeline (Ether found that Stump we were looking for)
    2. Copper head Squats
    3. LBC

    Let’s Mosey back to the flag.  
    Hitchhiker – should we take the short cut?
    YHC: No
    Hitchhiker – are you sure?
    YHC: Yes
    YHC:  let’s take the short cut we’re running out of time.  

    Numberama and Namerama. Faceplant took us out in prayer.  Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel

    Announcements –

    Field Day, September 18, 2021 @ 7am at Dogpile. 

    Retreat, September 25. See preblast for more details.  

    9/11 step run with the Fairfax region at the Lincoln memorial, possible clown car for this event. 

    Colonial Trail 10 mile run coming up and Spit will have details soon if you are interested

  • International homeless animals day at Dogpile

    10 gloom warriors took to the verdant fields of Dogwood Dell this morning for a beatdown that went a little bit like this:

    Mosey to the second circle, turn back to first. COP. Standard stuff like 24 SSH, some other stuff…

    Short trip to the Triangle, 5 burpees OYO. Each man bear crawls the top leg of the triangle, 10 squats, run down the hill, 10 WW2, Bernie up the hill, 10 Carolina DD X 3

    Mosey towards pipeline, stop at cul-de-sac for 5 burpees OYO

    Triple Check at pipeline. P1 lunge, P2 flutterkicks, P3 runs the pipe loop. Kinda dark, watch your step.

    indigenous people run up Love Hill to the Valley of Despair. Start a Lindsay – 10 dips this side, 30 Merkins the other side of the brush pile. Have a civil discussion about science and politics, audible, back to the flag.

    Lab Rat takes Pax through some Manteo Yoga. Thanks Lab Rat.

    Announcements – See Lab Rat if you are interested in some Ultimate Frisbee games that happen around Dogwood Dell.

    Prayer Requests – please pray for the doctors, nurses and staff tirelessly working with the sick. Please pray for all the kids going back to school and their families – hopes for a successful year. Please pray for our brothers currently sick or quarantining and for their familes.

    Neutral took us out.

    NMS – Good times this morning boys, thanks for letting me lead. Saw the Q was open last night and grabbed it. Was doing some back of the napkin planning before hitting the fartsack and the M suggested I go with a theme. I told her it was going to be just a boring old school DP. She did some quick googling and told me that it was going to be International Homeless Animal Day and Scungili Day. So, that was the theme. The 24 SSH were in honor of the show 24 and Jack Bauer was a big supporter of animals. There you have it.

  • Sweat Soup

    The sloppy gloom of Dogpile welcomed 16 HIM vets to cut water weight with the latest edition of Tryhard Or Die Tryin! According to the groggy ?homeless couple nestled in their sleeping bags on the amphitheater stage, who we rudely awoke with our first COP, here’s how these fine men carved their names into the F3RVA wall of fame:

    The THANG:

    COP #1:

    • Mosey to the Amphitheater
    • Variable IC warmerama with interval ascents – either box jumps or bear crawl up the steps

    COP #2:

    • Mosey around to the Bowl
    • LINDSEY:
    • Dips 10/15/20/25/30
    • Merkins 30/25/20/15/10
    • Run between sides
    • Plankorama for the SIX

    COP #3:

    • Mosey to a flat grassy spot
    • CAPTAIN THOR:
    • WWII & Am.Ham’s, escalating from a 1:4 ratio up to 10:40

    COP #4:

    • Mosey to collect Coupons and circle up in the soft wet grass
    • Dealer’s Choice Round Robin to exercise some PAX for near-future CQ’s
    • Going around the circle, each PAX took a turn calling x10 reps IC of a block exercise – there was amazing variety in both exercises as well as ways to count cadence… 
    • Return blocks

    COP #5:

    • Mosey to the grass circle near the amphitheater
    • Partner up for Carousel Burpees 
    • Alternate carousel (plank walks) around circle with other guy doing x5 burpees

    Mosey BTTF for 3min of Mary

    COT:

    • Counterama # 16
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS: Having never had a legit audience for an F3 COP #1, YHC was torn between pride and caution when we discovered two older folks happily snoozing in their fartsacks on the amphitheater stage. Whether it was a hopeful deterrent to the predawn cadence or just a first morning habit, the man lighting up a cigarette while cooly watching our performance certainly lended an air of drama. It was unusual to say the least. Anyway, following a recent pattern for Tryhard Q’s, today’s was also entirely unplanned. The PAX got their share of shoulder and ab work, and the diamond in the rough today was a little Cadence practice for the PAX calling 16 different coupon exercises. What variety! In the most part, the PAX would benefit from Upchuck’s Q school (details TBD), but generally everyone did a great job!!! And look out for Mr Roger’s VQ – he’s already working on a shovel flag for the big day! Proud to serve alongside such fine men. SYITG, YHC, DTH

  • Madam Wilson and the majestic woodpecker

    Nine of Richmonds finest and one traveler from Charlotte decided to challenge Dogpile this morning. What rain? It was sunny and 70 for this morning’s edition. YHC was excited to get his first Dogpile Q under his belt. At the stroke of 6 off we went.

    COP- Mosey to amphitheater. 20 each SSH, LBC’s. 10 each DQ’s, cherry pickers, Phelps, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Russian soldiers,

    The thang: Perform 5 merkins on bottom step, shout to another PAX to start when finished, run to other side increase 1 step, repeato until all Pax has snaked to the top. Repeato on way down with 10 LBC’s as exercise. Back up with 10 squats as exercise. On down all grab a step. Perform all 3 exercises on ends with shuffles, Bernies, etc. run across. 2.7 miles were logged. We picked up a Brad during the workout he tried to stay up but was struggling. Like shakedown said “Hopefully we brought some brightness to his day. Welcome to Brutus (What are odds we would have a scUM fan join on my first dogpile Q? Go Buckeyes) traveling in from Charlotte. He will be checking in with us every few weeks as he helps his daughter renovate her house here in Richmond.

    Announcements: Lots coming up, lots going on. See Preblasts and Slack.

    Prayers to all those PAX out there who could not make it , may the lord bring them back.

    Always an honor to lead. Thank all of you for being brightness in my life.

  • Wilson is a Master…

    A handful of RVA’s finest gloom warriors posted this AM to Dogpile for a fleshly beatdown. According to Wilson, the master of fleshly beatdowns, here’s what ensued:

    The THANG:

    COP #1 at the Circle in usual DTH Warmerama style in cadence

    COP #2 as fine pearls on a bee line, the PAX stopped at least 4-5x for variable IC and OYO exercises en route to the far field/playground area

    COP #3 was 11’s with extra sauce. The PAX did Burpees 11–>1 on one side and Swing Pumps 1–>11 on the playground side, and moved in a diamond pattern to complete some other reps between sides – x5 Jump Squats on the road side, and x10 dips on the other side. All in all: x66 Burpees, x66 Swing Pumps, x50 Squat Jumps, & x100 Dips.

    COP #4 was an beautiful string of priceless COP pearls on our way back to the Carillon Field

    COP #5 was a Quarter Pounder Finale, x25 WWII, x50 Merkins, x75 Single-Ct Mtn Climbers, and x100 SSH …KUDOS goes to SIPPY CUP as the only one who finished before YHC called BTTF

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

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

    NMS:

    • We came, we conquered our otherwise lazy flesh, we left no man behind. At ET’s afterwards Wilson proclaimed himself a Debater, to which YHC agreed he was a Master Debater. They my have heard it before, but laughed all the same. Thanks for filling my cup brothers. SYITG, YHC, Tryhard

  • Sleepy Saturday?

    19 warriors met up to cap off the week on a nice low humidity summer morning. This is how it went down, more or less. 

    Five Burpee Start to wake up the PAX

    Mosey to COP.  Disclaimer. Side straddle hop x2. Pick up blocks  

    Rusty cage. Triple check: P1 five pull-ups,  then block curls; P2 Abyss Merkins with blocks. Runner to fire hydrant and back.

    Mosey to Pipe Loop. Triple check: Block sit ups & Block presses.

    Mosey to base of Love Hill. 2 Partner evolutions,  switching at big rock

    1. Runner out 100 strides. Partner carries both blocks 
    2. Runner with both blocks. Partner 5 merkins 10 lunges and catch runner 

    Valley of Despair.  11s merkins and WW2s.  LBC for the 6. Call it to mosey BTTF.

    5 burpees to wrap it all up 


    NMS – Great to see everyone.  Was surprised to see an open Q in July so jumped on it.  Great to have a visit from Nip Tuck from New Orleans and Pennsyltuckey from Charleston today.  Both are passing through and stopped in to see what we have going on in RVA. Hope y’all find something fun.  

    Announcements

    • Even if you’re not doing the summer tour consider a donation to Mr Rogers organization. https://vhbg.org/ 
    • HOME RUN Derby @ Heartbreak 7/27, Check with EF Hutton for more 
    • F3 night at the Flying Squirrels 7/31, check with Bone Thugs for more
    • Vinny’s BRR hill run training 8/28
    • BRR September 10-11
    • F3 RVA sit and sip 9/25 – PreBlast out soon

    Get some!

     

     

  • Mixing it up and A Little friendly Competition

    COP

    SSHs, DQs, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead squats, Jazzercise….Oh and 3 burpees between each of those

    Mosey to the triangle – Backwards Triple Check

    Triple Check – Runner, WWIIs, Squats

    Hold 6 inches for 2 mins

    Love Hill x 2

    1 – Runner, Bear Crawl, Lunge, Broad Jump Burpee

    2 – Runner, broad jump burpees, backwards lunge, crabwalk

    Mosey up the pipe loop to rusty cage.

    Partner Up – as a team, 25 pull ups, 50 Jerkins

    Mosey back to circle.

    10 Min competition. Of Hallelujah. Run in place, jump rope, and lunges with hands in air, if you bow put you do 5 burpees and the WWIIs till completion.

    4 Gents finished all 10 mins.

    Back to the flag, numberama,, Namerama, Honeymoon took us out.

    Announcements – Party at Hitchhikers

    NMS:

    Great work this morning gents! Appreciate you guys indulging in a little competition! Have a great weekend, be a beacon of light for someone who may need it

    Duke

  • Dora Brought The Merlot

    23 of RVA’s finest decided to workout without their kids this morning to hang out with Dora.

    This how it went down

    Mosey COP – We started with 25 SSH’s IC at the SF then mosey to back of Dogwood Dell down near the pumphouse then back up Love Hill stopping a couple of time for COP exercises including DQ, Imperial Walkers, LBC’s, Merkins, Freddy Mercury’s, and Arm Circles

    THANG

    We finish the mosey at the stone wall

    Dora 1-2-3 – First partner does the exercises while second partner runs down hill behind the amphitheater, up the other side and back down then Bernie Sanders back up then switch. Exercises were 100 Donkey Kicks, 200 Squats, 300 SSH’s

    Mosey to the Rusty Cage

    Mini Dora – First partner does the exercises while second partner runs to the fire hydrant and back then switch. Exercises were 50 Pull Ups, 100 Jerkins, 150 Dips

    Mosey to the Penny Stage

    Dora Touch a Tree – First partner does the exercises while second partner runs to touch 10 trees then switch. Exercises were 100 Coupon Leg Lifts, 200 Coupon Squats, 300 Curls

    Mosey back to the SF

    1MOM – Superman

    Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

    MOLESKIN

    Apologizes to Marmaduke but today was and run and pound. YHC got the idea of a whole workout Dora thanks to the 2.0’s watching Dora the Explorer on the way back from the River early this week. It was good to work all the muscles today.

    T-Claps go out to Gigabyte today. First for give YHC his 3rd Q with a PAX under the age of 18 splashing Merlot and also for getting hydrated and finishing out the workout. No hate for you today.

    Today was a great example of how great this brotherhood is. YHC watch as other PAX would finish their Dora and immediately jump in to another group to help them finish.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Bone Thugs is taken the lead on F3 Night at the Diamond On Saturday July 31st. See the Pre-Blast for details
    • Q School coming soon – See Pre-Blast
    • Hitchiker Fest – July 17th 5:30 – BYOB
    • A trip to Dirty Jersey is in the works for Aug 28th for a F3 workout with The Carpenter. More details to come

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • RVA 2021 Convergence for Independence Day Weekend

    We were blessed with a cool 60 degree and sunny morning for 30 F3 RVA brothers to get in a Holiday weekend beatdown. Here is what went down :

    F3 RVA July 4th Convergence

    Photos from Dogpile Convergence (We were missing Faceplant, Shakedown, Creeper and Crikey)

    COP

    We mosey to the 2nd Crop Circle for some warm ups of 20 SSH, 10 Russian Solders,10 Imperial Walkers, 10 DQ’s, 20 4ct American Hammers, 10 Iron Cross, 10 Reverse Scorpions, 10 Scorpions and 20 merkins.

    THANG

    We mosey down to the Pumpstation for YHC’s favorite summertime treat of the pipe loop. We did a true triple check in that we divided into groups of 3 Partner 1 (P1) – Runs the pipe loop as the timer, P2 LBC’s, P3 Air Squats. P1 returns to LBC’s, P2 to Air squats and P3 runs pipe loop and then P3 LBC’s, P1 Air Squats and P2 runs pipe loop. This would Complete 1 rotation. We performed 2 more for a total of 3 rotations. Happy to do this with Gypsy and Blue Moon!

    So we need to get back up the hill so we start with 10 merkins at the power pole, then sprint to the next power pole, 10 merkins then walk to the next power pole, flap jack run and sprint until we get to the 2nd cul de sac.

    We short mosey to the bottom of triangle and we perform 3 rotations of dealer’s choice(We had runners, Bernie Saunders, Bear Crawlers and Karaoke…lot’s of you against you here! Flatline started with Bearcrawl and many others Handshake, Garbage Plate, Sippy cup even Anthony Clary(FNG) did this…wow guys up to the top of the hill at crop circle, perform 20 merkins, lunge to the other street and run down to the bottom of hill. Repeat 2 more times.

    We then mosey to the Cage for a quick gauntlet of 5 pullups, 5 dips then run to the hydrant. Mosey down the bowl and up to the wall for air chair (about 30 seconds) ten donkey kicks on your own then mosey to the Flag.

    COT

    Numberama, Namerama and Don Draper took us out for the weekend. Great effort this morning gents and it was an honor to lead on such a beautiful sunny morning. Welcome to F3 RVA Anthony AKA F3 Name –> INSPIRE, you crushed this workout today and I look forward to seeing you again in the gloom!

    Have a safe weekend and I will see you in the gloom…Cheers! CB

    Moleskin

    Announcements – Summer Passport Challenge is in full swing having started on July 1 and through the end of August. This year we are having all 3 F’s as part of the goals for achieving the patch. Gypsy has the patches for those that complete the Tour. The cost of the patch is 5 dollars but is asking for more for a charitable donation to Virginia Home for Boys and Girls(VHBG) and Restoring hope to children in crisis. (VHBG.org) Check out preblast link is below:

    Summer Challenge

    We have breaking Bread happening this summer. This a a great volunteer opportunity and fun to do with your 2.0 for sure!

    3rd F is this Tuesday July 6, 2021 @ 8pm Gypsy will be this Q for that event.

    We have a Town Hall Scheduled for July 8 there will be a preblast with details of location, time and log-in information.

    Bone Thugs is coordinating a Flying Squirrels event for July 31.

    Prayer requests – Please keep Marmaduke in your thoughts as his mom is not doing well. Prayers to you brother and we are thinking about you.