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Byrd Park

  • 52!

    9 men braved the low 60’s for another edition of Dogpile. Let’s go!!

    Warmarama: Slow mosey down pump road. Deadman hang, helicopters, imperial walkers, DQs, arm circles, merkins, APD, LBC, flutter kicks.

    The Thang: Light Pole Alley
    Round 1: 3 light poles
    10x Jump Squats
    20x SSH
    20x Plank Jacks

    Round2: 3 Light Poles
    10 Merkins
    10 Hand Release Merkins
    10 Diamond or Wide Grip Merkins

    Round 3: 3 Light Poles
    20 Squats
    20 Heals to Heaven
    20 Box Cutters

    Skip to the next light pole
    Mosey to next light pole
    Sprint to the next light pole.
    Mosey BTTF
    Stop at some rocks for incline Merkins
    5 minutes of Mary.
    BTTF

    Numberama:Namerama

    Moleskin: What does one do for a 52 Q. Rusty Cage? No. Triangle? No. Love Hill? No. Pipeline? No. To the Bridge? No. Amphitheater? No, Burpees Lake? No. To the field? No. Touch a tree? No. Vita Trail? No. You must be going down to Pump House Drive for Lamp Lost Alley!! You damn right we are. Everyone loved it, probably will get requests to do it again real soon. Let’s go!

    Oyster

  • LABOR DAY CONVERGENCE

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     LABOR DAY CONVERGENCE 

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    Monday 9/1 – 7:00 – 8:00am
    Dogpile

    Take the day off from your job but don’t take a day off from putting in some work!  Join us at Dogpile on Labor Day for a convergence workout and coffee/bagels afterwards.

    See you there! 

    :facepunch:

    See Crabgrass for info to to help with support.

  • Stumbling in the gloom

    Stumbling in the gloom

    14 HIMs showed up to follow YHC into the gloom for my VQ.  We moseyed the “wrong way” over to the picnic shelter for a warmarama, where the Pax gently reminded YHC to not abruptly end workout cadences and actually shout the cadences.  Most were done in sets of 18, to celebrate the 18 years I lived in Ohio before leaving home.  We followed with 9 Burpees, to celebrate the 9 National Championships of The Ohio State University’s football team, and then moseyed down to the Pump House.

    Along the way, it was decided that as an homage to YHC’s first post, Applesauce (like Kriss Kross) was going to make you Jump, Jump, with Leeroy Jenkins calls triggering two Burpees.  At the Pump House we did a Cycling-themed Pipeline Triple Check, with Freddy Mercuries and HR Merkins (to help with YHC’s cyclist arms).  Next we went up the hill, aborting an ill-conceived mosey down the bike trails after Senor Frog almost died, and meeting at the cages for another triple check, with Pullups/Jerkins and Copperhead Squats.

    Next we moseyed over to the Carillon to partner up for a Dora in honor of YHC’s 9th Anniversary, which was also at the Carillon, with 90 LBCs, 180 Dips, and 270 SSHs.  With a few Leeroy Jenkin’s calls along the way, there was much jumping and pain on the way back to the flags.  Once there we wrapped up with a circle of fire featuring many Merkins, closed with some Fudd’s and Wilson’s Wives, and then finished about 30 seconds early, to much grumbling and disappointment, about right for a VQ.

    Numberama, Namerama

    Announcements

    1. Labor Day Convergence – 7AM at Dogpile
    2. Breaking Bread – Oyster is on it for this month, but please sign up for September
    3. The Bridge – Definitely coming up in September sometime

    Huge shout out to Hitch for his enthusiastic EH bringing me out 3 months ago and and his friendship along the way, Bodos, Vandelay, and Croissant (Memphis) for encouraging me to join F3, and all the Pax who’ve welcomed and encouraged me at Dogpile, Pickleball, 45MOM, and Union Market coffeteria over the last few months.

  • Medicine balls, logs, etc.

    Expecting a small # today due to the other events, YHC arrived with a 25 lb medicine ball and decided to experiment with a few different modalities.
    Here’s how it went:

    COP: Mosey to circle. Helicopter, plank-o-rama, copperhead squats, toe taps.

    Head to platform on Carillon and partner up. Partner 1 throws medicne ball off balcony and runs down to retrieve it while partner #3 does decline plank off the railing. 3x.

    Carillon platform 4 corners: 5 burpees, 10 hand release merkins, 15 plank jacks, 20 LBC. Round 1: run between corners. Rd 2: bear crawl between corners. Rd 3: lunge between corners.

    Head to backside of carillon platform. Partner #1 throws medicine ball as high as possible up against the carillon and catches it when it comes down while partner #2 runs a lap up and down the stairs.

    Mosey to the playground for some heavy log work. Partners pick up logs and carry them to stage. Then partner up and Touch a tree. Rd 1: 3 trees, roll log. Rd 2: 3 trees, lateral jumps over log. Rd 3. 3 trees, Crab walk pushing log ahead of you with leg thrusts alternating legs.

    Touch a tree part 2. 1 partner holds one end of log up off ground while partner #2 touches 3 trees. Done 3x.

    Mosey to rusty cage for: Orangutans clockwise and counterclockwise. Then 3 rounds of: Partner #1 dead hang from bar. Partner #2 elbow plank with medicine ball on back. When one partner fails, switch.

    Mosey back to flag. Line of trust (circling up is kind of weird with 2 guys). YHC prayed us out.

    Moleskin: YHC used this workout to try out some things in preparation for his 50th birthday Q next month. The logs will certainly be in play again there. It is great to see Blank Space’s improving endurance after only a few weeks of 2 posts a week. Keep up the solid work! YHC is grateful for how he has been pushing me to do more boot camp posts.


  • No spuds today!

    Eleven young bucks emerged from the gloom this Saturday morning, most expecting a starchy start to the weekend but no, at the last minute the Q was taken and green, cruciferous vegetables were the dish of the day. According to the deer tending to the community garden, this is what went down.

    COP: Helicopters, DQ’s, IW’s, Copperhead Squats, Ukrainian Soldiers, Dead Man Hang, the Merkin, LBC, all IC

    Mosey to the amphitheater and perform one burpee on each step going down then we head to the Ha’ Penny Stage.

    Partner up for three rounds of Touch-A-Tree – exercises were LBC, plank, burpees.

    Slouch down the path past the rusty cage to the pipeline, find a partner and perform three rounds – exercises American Hammers and squats

    Return back up the hill to the Rusty Cage for a triple check – exercises pull-ups and squats, timer checks on the fire hydrant.

    Jog back to the bottom of the amphitheater and perform three merkins on each step to the top.

    Coagulate on the turnabout outside the amphitheater for some Mary and stretching then back to the flag.

    Numbers and names. Announcements: Upchuck and Bootleg are making a trip to The Bridge on Saturday 8/16 for anybody interested in an alternative to the Homegrown Half activities occurring SoJ the same day.

    Handshake asked us to keep Charlotte and her family in our prayers as they go through one of the most painful experiences life can bring.

    As always, thanks for letting me lead and giving me motivation to get out of bed before sunrise on a Saturday and do something to make myself and the world better.

    SYITG

  • 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.