Last nights rains moved out and took all the humidity with, leaving this morning’s sunrise to a glorious 70 and sunny…..best feeling day in a long while!  What better way to greet the day than with an hour of play time outside!  24 warriors did just that. I promised TYA that if he came this morning, we would run a mile to start it off.  This caused some confusion for the under-caffeinated pax, as they put it in autopilot and headed for the carillon.  Shakedown about had a head on collision, but quickly straightened it out and we made our…

31 PAX (including two 2.0s)broke the hold and left the comfortable AC behind this morning to post for a Dogpile beatdown to close out the month of June.  YHC planned to get in a few of his favorites before he leaves town for a while.  This is how it went: Circle up around the Flag for COP, including: SSHs DQs Helicopters Imperial Walkers Tempo Merkins LBCs Flutter Kicks 6 Burpees OYO THANG: Bridget Triple Check – Mosey down to the parking lot by the bridge and pair off in 3s for a triple check — 1 member runs out to the…

BLUF (it’s in the Lexicon): Shakedown is COOP Strong.  Consumes the Daily Red Pill.  Brother has EH’d like a million FNGs.  YHC takes his hat off. First, a history lesson… Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve’et ha’aretz. When in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was untamed and shapeless.  (God created man to shape it, and gave Men F3 to help other Men shape each other.) Later that week, a serpent (F3: Salazar) slithered up to his FNG buddy Adam (F3: Steve Jobs) and EH’d him.  Both men posted to AO Hothouse, where Salazar encouraged…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABavfazPTjo Thirty F3 Elementary School 4th graders showed up for F3 RVA Field Day 2018, and history was made. This Year’s Theme: 80’s / 90’s TV Shows/ Music & Games The bell rang. To much fun to be had. No warm-ups. Count off by 4s and mosey to the Carillon Field. Line up behind team captains Rosie, Handshake, Swirly and Hardywood. Let the games begin: Relays – 3 points for 1st / 2 points for 2nd / 1 point for 3rd      Wheelbarrow Derkins – Two PAX members at a time from each team wheelbarrow towards their team cone. Every…

37 Warriors including several 2.0s came out for the rarest of rarities, a Lockjaw Dogpile Q. Long mosey down the road to the far circle beyond the Carillon. COP Arm Circles (Flashdance was present) Helicopters SSH Don Quixote Russian Soldiers Imperial Walkers Line up on the street heading downhill for 11s: 10 Carolina Dry Docks, 1 Captain Thor; Bear Crawl 10 paces for the next series of reps Trot down the road a bit and turn into Pump House Park, cross the canal and hang a right heading to the end of the line maybe 150 yards down.  Partner up…

30, yes you read that right 30 warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day. Today was an F3 olympiad of leadership.  According to legend, it went a little something like this. Today there would be 10 Qs each with a 5 minute punishment session with a one minute transition between. Round #1 Hardywood (YHC) COP: Mosey to field IC SSH, DQ, Merkins regular, merkins right foot in the air, merkins left foot in the air Transition #1 10 burpees Round #2 Kubota – All pax plank and man at the end begins agility drills between the planking…

28 showed up this morning for the Opus VQ at Dogpile — here is what went down… COP — Hillbillies Helicopters Don Quixotes Combo exercises — 5 Plank Jacks, 5 merkins 5x 5 WW2 Situps, 5 Freddie Mercuries 5x 5 flutterkicks, 5 scissor kicks 5x 5 copperhead squats, 5 pistol squats Mosey to the bathhouse for a triple check– 1 person runs to the service road and back, 1 does Donkey Kicks, 1 does an ab exercise of their choosing Mosey to the hill behind amphiteatre — supposed to be a mountain with a partner consisting of 100 jump squats,…