Tag: Dogpile

Byrd Park

  • The ghost flag cometh

    A lucky 13 RVA studs came out to find what a Bootleg Q had in store for them. However, YHC and the ghost flag had other plans. After acquiring both the RVA and SOJ ghostflag’s on my last 2 Q’s it was an honor to be back in front of the pack. YHC did not want to let the Ghost flags collect dust in hos garage like the prior holders, not naming names. According to the RVA Run club who were assembling in the adjacent lot here is what transpired.

    Mosey to the round about, very wet so move to some dry bricks. COP- 20 each SSH, LBC; Seal Training: Overhead claps, front claps, 10 Each, Jazzercise, Helicopters, Imperials Walkers, , Copper head squat, Cherry pickers, Merkins, Dollies, Flutters.  

    2 and half triples and a love hill:

    1. Mosey to the pipeline, triple up. Runner up the pipeline. Hand Release merkins aka Justin Tuckers and LBC’s.
    2. Love hill half way back up hill.
    3. At the Triangle, Runner up long hill, Squats and Moving lunges. Lunger moves the start point up the hill. This seemed to be problematic for the PAX as confusion was abound. So this was the half triple.
    4. At the Carillion another triple. Bear crawl up the stairs, run around the top and down other stairs. Dips and incline merkins.
    5. To the amphitheater for box jumps up the seats to the top.
    6. Various runs around the round about at the top.

    BTTF for some stretching for last 2 minutes.

    Announcments- Homegrown half/5K, 10K 8/16, also on 8/16 Bootleg and Upchuck forming clown cars for the bridge. CSAUP 9/26 in SOJ. Labor Day convergence info coming soon.

    Prayers to Flatline’s neighbor,

    YHC took us out in prayer.

  • 80 degrees and sunny

    According to the buck watching us in the Ampitheater, this is how things went down early Saturday morning. An FNG and F3 Princeton transplant joined 11 regulars discussing whether we have ever had a 6am start at 80 degrees, at least according to Sippy’s weather app. No confirmation on whether this was a paid app.

    Mosey to the Circle for a warm up of standard fare – introducing the transplant to the jazzercise and other differently named exercises.

    Up and down the ampitheater – up with increasing merkins; down with increasing squats, back up again with 5 dips per step. This concludes the limited movement section of the workout – on to the running portion.

    Mosey to the end of the field – 1 burpee per light pole. Take a break in the grass for a speed round of Mary. Mosey to the VITA track for some stations. First half – Alternate 10 V-ups and 10 merkins at each station. Switch to 10 monkey humpers and 20 raise the roof to get us to the end in time.

    Things coming up: Homegrown half 8/16 Robious Landing Park; August Bridge (date TBD)

  • A Game of Chance

    We gambled, we mostly lost.  Here’s what transpired:

    Mosey around the circle to the Carillon patio

    COP (IC)

    • Don Quixotes
    • Imperial Walkers
    • Arm Circles
    • Overhead Claps
    • Seal Claps
    • Jazzercises
    • Hand Release Merkins
    • Plankorama
    • Heels to Heaven

    Playing Card Monte  – draw a card and do exercise times the number on the card

    • Spades – Merkins
    • Clubs – 2ct Flutter Kicks
    • Diamonds – Jump Squats
    • Hearts – Side Straddle Hops
    • Face Cards and Aces – Burpees

    Mosey to the bottom of the Amphitheater

    Spin the Bottle

    • Plank in a circle, one by one bearcrawl to center and spin the bottle, whomever the bottle points to joins for 10 Booyah Merkins, repeato all around the circle
    • Repeato with American Hammers or other Abs around the circle, spin the bottle for booyah WWIIs in the center

    Playing Card Monte up the Amphitheater steps – 5 of Spades (Merkins), 7 of Diamonds (Jump Squats), 10 of Hearts (SSHs) each step up

    Mosey to the Rusty Cage

    Triple Check

    • Pullups
    • WWIIs
    • Card drawn – 3 of Diamonds – Run to fire hydrant and do 3 Jump Squats

    Mosey back to SF, building a Poker hand along the way

    Our hand consisted of 7 of Clubs, 6 of Spades, K of Diamonds, 5 of Hearts, and a 3 of Spades

    Dealer pulled a flush on the flop, but ended up K and J high to defeat the PAX

    Finish with Burpees x 5

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    Despite threats of moseying to Burpee lake, around the VITA trail, across the bridge and up the Pipe Loop, YHC kept it close to the Flag.  Handshake was the belle of the ball during Spin the Bottle, getting lucky on each of the first 3 spins.  What a sl*t!  Top notch mumblechatter throughout.  Ask Flatty about his collection of visors, one for every occasion.  Gomer’s mom approves.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • The Bridge
    • Homerun Derby
    • Prayers for Hitch’s father, Offshore for his loss, and Pigskin abroad

  • Hot Potato, Party of Three

    YHC missed the memo about the clown car to New Kent, as he arrived at Dogpile at 0550 to find nobody around except his 2.0s home from college. With potatoes warming in the oven, here’s what went down.

    Warm-a-rama – mosey to the amphitheater for Imperial Walkers, SSHs and Motivators

    The Thang – Doublemint takes the potato to the Ha’ Penny Stage. Finding no coupons, except for a small shard, we pivoted to Touch a Tree – Pax 1: coupon shard curls, Pax 2: air squats, Pax: 3 runner (Round 1: 6 trees, Round 2: 4 trees, Round 3: 2 trees).

    Spinal Tap takes the potato back to the amphitheater for some Mary: carolina dry docks, flutter kicks, Freddie Mercuries, American hammers.

    BTTF !

    NMMS – it was great to spend some time in the gloom with the 2.0s; looking forward to a few more before the head back to campus next month.

    Dmint

  • F3 Curious

    7 HIMS answered the bell nearly 9 days ago. YHC is just getting around to the back blast! Apologies Gentlemen! The following is what I recall.

    Mosey warm up on the way to no burpee lake, stopping often to perform copious amounts of various exercises.

    No Burpee lake: Run to each lightpole on inside to perform, 20 squats, 10 merkins, 5 WWII’s. The PAX determined there were 30 poles including those behind the brick house. Run back to flag stopping at certain points to perform strenuous exercises.

    YHC took us out in prayer! Again apologies for delay (Went on Vacay to beach and completely slipped my mind.

  • Add Your Name if I Missed You

    6 men sauntered forth in the latest edition of The Dogpile. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the ducks on the pond, the following might have happened.

    Nancy Lopez led the COP, including Jazzercise. ‘Nough said.

    Mosey to Burpee Lake. 10 Merkins, 20 something, and 30 something at every light post. It’s not my Q, so who knows. Also, Pax counted variously 24, 27, 29, and 30 light posts. For a group that has trouble running in a single file line (“Native American run”) for more than 100 yards, this is about right.

    Mosey back to Park Ave. More torture along the lightposts.

    BTTVSF.

    Numbers, names, and Nancy Lopez predicted OSU will win the next 7 BCS titles.

  • Don’t tell Swirly how late this backblast was posted…

    15 men gathered for Dogpile

    Tryhard sent out a text earlier in the week that Slaughter (F3 Charlotte) was in town and going to be at Dogpile. A couple Pax members texted saying they were going o be out of town so YHC decided to grab the Q.

    Clock struck 0600 and we took off. It took all of 5 steps for YHC to feel the nagging pain in his knee. YHC knew of the issue but was hoping it would be better, but it wasn’t. The Pax was likely expecting a run-heavy Q but it was going to be the opposite.

    YHC led the Pax in various exercises in the Amphitheater and on the Carillon steps. It was a Chest and Ab heavy workout.

    Announcements – 4th of July workout at Daville, 0700. Home Run Derby at Robious Elementary School on July 15th (instead of No Toll), Monday Pickelball at Forest Hill Park.

    Prayer Requests – none mentioned, only the unmentioned

    NMS – thanks for the patience of the Pax for a Dogpile with some of the lowest step count ever recorded

  • Do you smell something? It wasn’t me!

    Six gentlemen arrived promptly at the designated time looking for an opportunity to push themselves and each other before the rest of Richmond got out of bed. According to the deer who make make the area around the Carillon their home and are rather annoyed to be disturbed by humans, this is what went down

    Migrate to the amphitheater for COP

    COP: SSH, Helicopters, DQ, IW, Copperheads, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, LBC’s, APDs, all IC

    Linger at the amphitheater for Dora 1-2-3: 100 Merkins, 200 LBCs, 300 squats

    Head to the rusty cage: three sets of pull ups AMRAP OYO, visiting a certain tree in between

    Meander to the field for 11’s: American Hammers and WWII’s, lunging forward and backward across the field

    Pause on the star in front of the Carillon for some Mary, stretching and savasana

    Return to the cars for COT

    Welcome FNG now known as… Gas Leak, who definitely dealt it! Great work and glad to have you.

    Announcements: Pickleball on Mondays at Forest Hill, a convergence for July 4th is in the works, safe travels for everybody on Summer Tour

    YHC took us out. 2nd F at Libbie Market as always.

    Thanks for letting me lead.

  • Didn’t We Learn That in Elementary School?

    A record 213 men formed up at 6 a.m. for the latest edition of The Dogpile (officially a pop-up stop on the Summer Tour). Temperatures were 70 and sunny. With UpChuck’s 9th Anniversary on offer, the PAX were treated to a menage of many YHC’s favorite Q’s from other PAX members over the years. To start, the PAX were given two choices: 1 hour of pain (beatdown) or 100 miles of pain (ride). 13 choose the beat down, and one (Florence) was FIFO (first-in, first-out, in his PC). Sorry to miss you, my brother. 200 chose the ride. According to the ladies sporting a contact high while cleaning up the Amphitheater, the following might have happened.

    Slaughter Starter: 5 burpees.

    Mosey to grassy area, wait, dodge some cyclists, wait, dodge some more cyclists, and then, wait, dodge some more cyclists between the normal circle and the Great Lawn for the COP.

    COP:

    100 SSHs (4 count).
    Dead man hang. Fudd’s wife, right leg, left leg, pigeon (left / right), Wilson’s wife, Fudd’s wife.
    Hand release merkins (20)
    Copperhead squats
    LBCs
    Flutter kicks
    The PAX was put on notice that this was a “Leroy Jenkins” friendly workout. Courtesy of Splinter, at any point during the hour, each PAX member can – one time – call “Leroy Jenkins” and the PAX then run as a group to the center of the large traffic circle.

    Mosey 40 feet closer to the Carillon for Touch-a-Tree (courtesy of several prior Qs). This never disappoints. 9 years of q-ing…same questions…3 partners, touch 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2 trees…and so forth.

    Leroy Jenkins called at least once.

    Mosey to the Carillon for a non-traditional Dora (again, a Q favorite over the years). 50 merkins (each), 200 flutters (4 count), and 300 SSHs (ultimately 2 count). This was a test, for sure. The warm, humid air took it out of the PAX, but they persisted. And, they called “Leroy Jenkins” at several points.

    Mosey to the Amphitheater for “Self Destruction,” courtesy of Circle K and his children. Starting at the bottom, the PAX did 1 merkin, 1 monkey humper, and 1 v-up at the first step, then did one additional rep of each exercise as they progressed up the Amphitheater. 2, 3, 4, 5, and so forth. EF Hutton commented that “V-ups are the Devil’s Exercise.”

    Four guys called “Leroy Jenkins” simultaneously towards the end. Whew!

    The PAX moseyed back to the virtual shovel flag for the COT. Numbers, names, and YHC took us out with a message of thanks to the PAX for nine years of support, friendship, patience, and good humor. You all are wonderful.

    Announcements:

    Some dudes are eating hot dogs together at lunch on Tuesday. Join them.

    Breaking Bread this month…for those newer to F3, each of us should take a turn at this. F3RVA has hosted this on the fourth weekend of every month for 9 years. 9 years. This is our collective volunteer event. We always want / need new people to become involved. With 24 nights per year, we should be able to staff this quite easily. We need men to step up! See Oyster for details.

    The Bridge continues on July 13. Whitesnake is leading. This is our opportunity to share F3 with ALL men…including those who are transitioning from prison to gen pop (where the rest of us live). These guys are working hard to change their lives, and we want you to be a part of that effort. For some, this is an effort to help a group in need; for others, this is a great opportunity to pick up Jesus’ call to “visit the imprisoned.” Regardless of your motivation, let’s do this! Contact Whitesnake for details.

    NMS:

    Soupy today. But, out of the soup came two men new to F3RVA.

    Loose Lips joined us on a visit from Columbus, OH. He’s in the area for a few days, and he expects to be back every now and again. Cool to meet someone in the office furniture business!

    Hitch brought an FNG to the beatdown (in addition to the 200 FNGs at the ride) today as well. After confirming with the Pickelball leadership that they do not believe attending PB on Monday merits a name, today was Josh’s first official F3 workout. Upon hearing the discussion of whether he had a nickname, he matter of factly said the following. “You can’t give yourself a nickname. Didn’t we learn that in elementary school?” So true, and indeed, most of us did. He will fit in quite well around here. But, YHC digresses…after a long discussion that included 80s dance music references (or 90s?), the band ABC, Kris-Kross (Jump, Jump!), and several other references, the PAX settled on “Applesauce.” Welcome, Applesauce!

    Also, 200 FNGs for the ride. YHC thanks EF Hutton for his help with naming each of them.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Not a VQ

    It all started with Fargo challenging me about 3 weeks ago to do a Murph with him on Saturday May 24. I said I’ll do it, but only if you do it at an F3 AO. He said he would think about it, so I went ahead and signed him up on what I thought was May 24, but I accidentally signed him up for May 31. Also, I announced on Slack it was his VQ, but was then informed by the local F3 police (ahem, Handshake) that someone could not use a well-known pre-set workout for their VQ, so although this would be the first time Fargo had ever Q’d, it could not be considered his VQ.

    So all that brings us to Saturday when 7 of us showed up to do a Murph together. We ran a mile, attempted to perform 100 pull ups/200 merkins/300 squats, and then run another mile. Nobody got through the full sets, but we had a lively time and Fargo was mocked excessively, as well as YHC.

    That’s it. Fargo VQ still to come. SYITG.