Tag: Dogpile

As the pilgrims traveled tirelessly through the night of CSAUP, nine brave men emerged onto the launchpad. As we all know, on this day in 1981 the shuttle Columbia returned to Earth in NASA’s first orbital space flight, STS-1. In tribute, here’s what went down this morning:

First orbit: run the loop down to the pump house and back up. Circle up for COP (SSH, IW, DQ, Freddie Mercury, Merkins)

Countdown & Liftoff: mosey to midway down amphitheatre for tricep dips as a 10-countdown, all the way to the bottom. Box jump back out for liftoff.

Anti-Gravity: @valley beside amphitheatre: WWIIs on one crest, burpees in valley, jump squats on other crest. Start with 5, escalator up to 10 of each.

Anti-Gravity Part II: mosey to Rusty Cage. 10 pull-ups, 8 jerkins. Repeat 3x.

Second Orbit: Partner up by Carillon loop. One man bear crawl while partner runs backwards in opposite orbit around circle and median. Switch off each time you meet until duo has completed a bearimeter.

After 22 years, Columbia met a tragic end as a leading edge of a wing lost heat protection, causing the shuttle to burn up in re-entry in 2003.

Our own Self Destruction took the PAX back into the amphitheatre. On each step, escalating number of SSH, merkins, & V-ups, until time ran out.

MOLESKIN
Glad to see so many in the PAX this morning, despite many of the Dogpile faithful journeying through RVA overnight! Shout out to Spit, who only left early in order to also run the Monument 10K (you know, that other race that happened this weekend). And welcome to Philly’s finest FNG, Liam Smith, aka Allstate. He’s a college buddy of YHC, and happy to come into unfamiliar territory for a good ol’ beatdown.

16 warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day for a precious little field trip of Byrd Park and surrounding communities. For our adventure it was the perfect conditions for success, 70 and sunny. According to legend, it went a little something like this.

Mosey to Byrd Park for the Mumble Chatter Prevention Task Force COP

10 SSH, 10 SSH RL, 10 SSH LL

10 HRM, 10 HRM RL, 10 HRM LL

25 Mark Spitz

20 WWII

5 Don Quiote – These were slow and low that is the tempo

2 Arm Circles

Mosey to Maymont parking lot for Burpee Barrage

Running one loop there are 4 light posts.  Complete 4 loops of the following.  Post 1: Right Arm Burpee, Post 2: Left Arm Burpee, Post 3: Right Leg Burpee, Post 4: Left Leg Burpee.  On round one, complete one rep of each.  On round two, complete two reps of each.  Repeato until four rounds completed.

Mosey to Colorado street to the Amelia School for Super Trifecta

In a triple check style complete the following:  one person runs up the hill and back, one person flutter kicks, one person exercises.  Switch places when the runner gets back and complete the following exercises as a team.  100 burpees, 200 WWII, 300 SSH.

Partner up and wheel barrow up the hill switching every 15 steps.  Short recovery at the top of the hill and wheel barrow back down.

Back to Colorado Street for the Hunchback of Picabo Street.

In an indigenous persons style run with a twist, the last two men piggy back, run to the front while weaving in and out of each of the pax.  We did this for what seemed like forever.

Near Byrd Park find a piece of land and start Super 21s.  Courtesy of the great Flatline, this exercise goes a little something like this. Round 1 complete 1 merkin and 1 WWII as a group.  Round 2 complete 2 merkins and 2 WWII as a group.  Repeato up to 8 rounds.  Quick mosey to the other side of Byrd Lake.  Complete rounds 9, 10 and 12.  With the game clock running out, YHC called an audible and the pax moseyed back to the flag.

Numberama, namerama, YHC lead us out.

News:  Sign up for CSAUP and do whatever you can here.

Please send your light and love to Lab Rat.  Pappa Rat has hit a little bit of a rough patch.

Moleskin: YHC is eternally grateful to the pax for showing up and BRINGING IT this morning.  If there was ever a justifiable excuse for fart sacking, today was it.  Busy people have just that, lots of justifiable excuses.  YHC has two thoughts here.  There is zero chance YHC would get up and do this workout, on this day, in these conditions solo.  ZERO chance.

Dig a little deeper, get it all out and be super.

Hardywood

 

32 gloom warriors and 2 FNGs fiercely met the break of day this morning at Dogplie. It appears that Spring has sprung; new guys, Cotters welcomed back (good to have you back Posh), lots of Pax –  hopefully today’s turnout is a harbinger of good things to come.

Today was YHC’s virgin Dogpile Q and it went a little something like this:

COP: 25 SSH, 15 Don Quixote (bombed a joking jab at Flatline’s helicopters instead of windmills from No Toll – guess you had to be there ?), 15 Helicopters, 15 Russian Soldiers, 15 Coplerhead squats, 10 2 count Merkins, Wilson’s wife, Fudd’s wife, knees to elbows, lots of mumble chatter, done

Micro mosey to the top of the irregular quadrilateral (Wilson said it is decidedly not a triangle – he called it a rectangle but that’s not quite right either) for The Cooper: run a lap then back to the circle for 10 Burpees, 10 squats, 10 Merkins – run a lap then decrease exercises by 1, repeat on down to 1. This was what YHC thought was a good way to handle the volume of men but it went a little long so when most of the guys were done we scooped the six to move on to the next…

Form 2 lines for weaving Indian Run to the bottom of Love Hill. Cluster. However it served the intended purpose of transportation to the mission objective while keeping the Pax generally together.

Grab a guy roughly your size for partner carries to the stone steps. Go as long as you can then switch. Transition is 5 Booya Merkins.  Audible to scoop the six. We were running out of time.

No time for the planned pull-up / burpee 11’s at the Rusty Cage so straight to the amphitheater…

Box jumps to the top. 1 on first step, 1 on second. 2 on third, 2 on fourth – on up to 9/9 – regroup – mosey to the flag. Good times.

No time for Mary so numberama, namerama, 2 FNG’s – nice. Welcome woodworking FNG Rob Baker (Gepetto) and acountant FNG Bill Davis (Beansie). Lots of dissent and discussion including the realization that YHC is apparently not appropriately familiar with the required F3 film canon and hasn’t seen Caddyshack since he was an adolescent and had a vcr. No regrets but I will remedy and revisit that cinematic classic soon.

Anouncments – final weeks of Healing Place 10k training.  CSAUP is coming so plan accordingly.

YHC took us out with St Francis’ peace prayer.

Thanks guys for letting me lead this morning. Happy Easter.

26 warriors shook off the Saturday morning fart sack and decided to engage in a sunrise fight that went something like this…

Mosey to the circle beyond the carillon for COP

COP all IC – 50 SSHs, 10 merkins, 50 LBCs, 10 merkins, 20 copperhead squats, 10 merkins, 10 DQs, 10 merkins, arm circles, 10 merkins

Mosey to the carillon field

4x4x4x4s

Partner up – Partner #1 on the field, Partner #2 on the surrounding paths

• Run to the first corner, do four 4x4s, return to the start, 10 LBCs
• Run to the first corner, do four 4x4s, run to the second corner, do four 4x4s, return to the start, 10 LBCs
• Run to the first corner, do four 4x4s, run to the second corner, do four 4x4s, run to the third corner, do four 4x4s, return to the start, 10 LBCs
• Run to the first corner, do four 4x4s, run to the second corner, do four 4x4s, run to the third corner, do four 4x4s, run to the fourth corner, do four 4x4s, return to the start, 10 LBCs
• Plank until the PAX finishes

Mosey to reservoir

Reservoir Dogs

One partner runs around the reservoir while the other works on accumulating exercises, switch until completed:

• 300 squats
• 400 LBCs
• 500 SSHs

The PAX finished the SSHs together with a final 30 SSHs IC.

Mosey back to the flag

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

Announcements: Some runners needed for CSAUP. Contact HoneyDo about the specific need.

NMS:

YHC completed his two year F3 “birthday” Q week with the what he considers the Super Bowl of F3RVA – Dogpile!

YHC arrived to see Swirly staked out and ready to engage. There has been some talk about camping out over night in the parking lot to beat Swirly to the spot but we are not sure if that is legal or wise… (CSAUP campout?)

The cars piled in, the SF was planted and conversations fired up. There was some talk about SSHs but YHC alerted the PAX that the predictable 100 SSHs would not be part of the picture this morning. Flashdance spoke highly of the SSHs and tried to bait YHC to up the numbers. YHC shared that there was a surprise later in the workout along those lines…

The COP included some mumble chatter but the merkins seemed to keep everyone honest. There is something positively fantastic about lighting up 50 merkins IC (100 total) right out of the gate. Swirly affirmed that mid-way through the workout during one of the moseys.

Spit introduced YHC to the 4×4 a few months ago and it has become one of YHC’s “favorites” in that it packs a punch in a short amount of time. The PAX went to work on the 4x4x4x4s (four 4x4s at four corners with adding a corner each time). The choice of breaking up the PAX between the field and the outside path may not have been wise. Sippy Cup provided some much-needed light as we ran the paths and tried to avoid debris and random branches that seemed to aim for our eyeballs. Phonics, Rosie, Hardywood and Sippy Cup seemed to be pacing the PAX at the front while all fought hard to get it done.

YHC learned that the reservoir run was no joke. Many commented how Hardywood flew around the 1/2 mile run. YHC wondered if he climbed the fence, swam the reservoir and found his way back. The time was limited but the PAX knocked out the 300/400/500 along with some power running.

As always, the encouragement and support flowed between the PAX as we all pushed through another glorious morning together in the gloom. There is nothing like it!

I am truly grateful for the 2 years of engaging in these kinds of morning adventures. F3 has been a gift in more ways than I can count and each member of the PAX (whether 3 weeks in or 2+ years in) bring something to the table that adds to the shared experience.

At ET’s afterward, Hardywood asked, “What else do we stay committed to consistently for 2 straight years?” We then reflected on why F3 elicits that kind of commitment – the challenges, the friendships, the pain, the thrill of insane workouts…

We are seeking to kill off the Sad Clown Syndrome every time we choose to engage. Let’s continue the push and see how we grow as stronger, better, faithful men in the process!

The Carpenter

Saint Patrick’s Day is here and YHC had been thinking about this Q all week. What to do and how to show RESPECT for this day. Today is 4 weeks since YHC father passed and on the mind too. Early text to Swirly asking him to post his flag and YHC arrived at 545 memorizing his work out and thinking to himself…..count correctly and breath!! 21 regular PAX members and 1 FNG posted for a Flatline Q and starting St. Patrick’s Day out with a BOOM!

0600…..time to Mosey. One loop around the circle at Ampitheater awaiting late arrivals.  COP: x11 Helicopters, x24 Imperial Walkers, x 46 SSH…..YHC had more planned for COP but x46 SSH is no joke plus next workout would take some time. Mosey with a run to The Lake.

Shamrock The Lake….as YHC had conjured up!! Partner Up and here we go: at each light pole, partner 1 performs 3 exercises-x3 merkins, x 6 LBC’s, x9 SSH while partner 2 runs a lap around The Lake and meets up with partner 1. Bear crawl to each light pole, switch and repeat until The Lake has been circled! YHC planned accordingly because this evolution took some time but outstanding work PAX and way to push and finish! 15 mins left and time to Mosey to access road at bottom of bunker complex, just up the hill from The Lake.

Triple Nickel……x5 Burpees at the bottom of the road, run to the top for x5 squats, and back down=1 rep. Perform 5 reps………hence triple x5 x5 x5. 5 mins left and mosey back to the flag.

YHC finished the workout making sure all PAX members were accounted for!

Number-ama, Name-r-ama, Announcements: Keep Labrat in our prayers as he is with his father in the hospital in SC. CSAUP-find a team. If you want to run-tell us and we can help with all else!! Healing Place 10K Training Team after Dogpile-5 mile run today! See Upchuck!

YHC took us out!

NMS: According to Spit, approx. 4 miles ran today for Dogpile. EXCELLENT CSAUP training! Spit awesome partner as usual!! x46 SSH is a lot and YHC had more planned for COP but cadence and counting would have been difficult and bad so YHC cut COP to 3 exercises…11/24/46=YHC father’s bday! But YHC knows how the PAX loves when YHC calls out cadence or better yet, messes it up!! RVA has Shamrock The Block so YHC wanted to start the am out right, hence Shamrock The Lake!! Shamrock has 3 leaves and according to Irish tradition means 3 things-Faith, Hope, Love and if you find a 4 leaf Shamrock, 4th leaf=luck!

Gentlemen of The PAX-we have Faith in God or a higher power as well as Faith in our M, families, and F3. Hope is a powerful, powerful thing that the PAX has and we can give to others!!! Love for our families, M, and kids along with each other and one of the reasons why F3 is awesome and special. If you allow F3 into your heart, there is nothing but Faith, Hope, and Love!!!! The last 18 months has shown YHC this, especially the last 4 weeks!!

PAX members, thank you for following this am. Wasn’t quite sure how it would work out but thumbs up, YHC thinks! Way to push and get it all out! Only those who post understand!

Loud and Proud,

Flatline

27 Pax gathered for a pre-daylight savings beatdown.  The workout went something like this:

Mosey a couple of laps around the circle and gather for the COP.

COP

10x Helicopters, 10x Imperial Walkers, Arm Circles forward and backward, 12x Merkins, 20x SSH, 10x Twisting jump-lunges.

Animal radii.  Bear Craw to center 5x merkins, Crawl bear back.  Then Crippled bear each leg.

Mosey to the amphitheater for the Cupid Shuffle Plank-o-Rama.  Down, down =  2 merkin. Right and left.  Walk it by yourself = switch from incline to decline. Kick = lift legs alternately

Mosey to the rusty cage for Orangutans and then Partner Pullups1à5 and Chinups 5à1.

Mosey to the bridge near the pump house for a Pipe Loop Triple Check.  Plank, reverse lunges up the paved hill, and run the pipe loop.

Mosey to the hill near the Maymont trail.  Sprint up hill and Balls to the wall on the house at the top while you wait for the six

Mosey back to the flag for a quick 2 min of Mary, flutter kicks and cross leg lifts.

COT—YHC took us out.

Moleskin

Thanks to Rosie for switching with me to let me Q today rather than last week.  I’d been planning this one for a while and needed some morning light to pull it off.

YHC always likes to try an experimental exercise each time he Q’s.  The twisting jump-lunges were good in theory, but were a major FAIL.  The Pax was flopping all over the place and we had to abort before we reached 10.  It was good for a quick laugh, however.

YHC was impressed at several moments during the workout today.  Garbage Plate and Hitchhiker on the uphill sprint,  Helix and Bodos on Orangutan, and Hardywood on the pullups, going for the 1-handed variant at the end.  Way to push it guys.

At the very end of the workout, YHC heard some guys shouting “water.”  Aisle 5 was a bit woosy after the uphill sprint and balls to the wall, and needed a little respite so he wouldn’t merlot.  Aisle 5, it was great to have you back at Dogpile, and I hope you are okay.

Welcome back? to FNG Rickroll, invited by Loose Goose.  For those not so internet savvy “Rickrolling is a bait-and-switch prank that involves posting a hyperlink that is supposedly relevant to the topic at hand in an online discussion, but re-directs the viewer to the music video of “Never Gonna Give You Up,” or what I did if you happened to click on the link above.”  I didn’t get all of the backstory here, so someone please fill it in in the comments.

30ish F3RVA men braved the sunny and 70 weather with 20 mph winds to what they thought would be a Sippy Cup Q but got Rosie instead.  Flag planted deep to stay upright in the wind,  a few requests to start early to get out of the wind ignored,  clock hit 0600 and we were off.   

Mosey toward the second circle but turn into the field when some construction flags were seen in the circle.   Warm up with SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, add the Jville hop, merkins, LBC and flutter kicks.   Continue to the second circle for the Golden Triangle.  Bear creek, 10 merkins, run, 20 jump squats,  backward run,  30 box cutters.   Round 2 – bear crawl,  10 burpees, run, 20 monkey humpers, backward run,  30 2 count Freddie mercuries.  

Mosey to the RustyCage, can’t miss a chance to stop here.   Hardywood was headed to the trail,  always 1 step ahead.   Partner up 3 rounds of 5 pull ups, 10 WWII, 5 jerkins.  Plankarama (lost an FNG here)

Now there’s enough light to head down the trail.   Run down to the pump road,  find a new partner.   100s for our brother crushing 100 miles today.  100 merkins, 100 jump squats,  100 old man V-ups (crunchy frogs), partner runs the pipe loop.

Mosey over to Love Hill (lost Upchuck), new partner.  P1 runs halfway up P2 goes up with lunges, polar bears, and broad jump burpees.  Mosey up the hill to the field by the parking lot for Mary to close it out.

NMM

First off Tclaps to Hitchhiker,  that’s 2 weeks in a row he’s posted with 3 FNGs.  Great work on the EH, somebody buy that man some coffee because coffee is for closers.  Loose Goose brought an FNG but he didn’t make it past the Rusty Cage, I didn’t get the full story, merlot spill? Loose Goose is planning to have him out again soon.  Seymour crushed some pull ups and jerkins today.  Welcome back to Aisle 5 and his 2.0 Dirty Rice with his second post.  Sippy asked YHC to switch the Q with him next week so he child stay home with the kids while his wife helped her mother.  Luckily YHC had a late change of plans and got to stay in town for Dogpile.  YHC had planned too hit the pipe loop since we only have one more week before daylight savings puts us back in the dark for a while.  Hardywood tried to go straight down the trail but we can’t skip the Cage,  or at least YHC can’t.    Always a pleasure to lead this group but a large group at Dogpile is especially fun.

 

31 Warriors including 4 FNG’s commenced for a solid beatdown that went something like this:

 

COP

 

Side Straddle Hop X 20

Arm Circles, Forward and Back X 10 each

Merkins X 10

Flutter Kicks X 15

LBC’s X 15

Burpees = 5 (Saabsky love ya)

 

THANG

 

Mosey to the Amphitheater:

 

-Start at bottom (ascending merkins with each step) to the top (Total 171)…Reach top, Descending jump squats (Total 171)….get to the bottom plank up….

 

-Mosey to the grassy area behind the amphitheater (fish bowl) for Jacob’s ladder = Run downhill, back up (1 burpee), back down hill and up (2 burpees)… All until you reach 8 total….  Touch Down Al Gore….

 

-Mosey to the Field (6 cones down the field)… Tell me if this might be crazy but partner Carry Suicides…

-P1 carries P2 to first cone and back (Each man performs 15 PLY’s each).

-P2 carries P1 to second cone and back (Each man performs 15 PLY’s each).

-” ” through six cones

 

–Mosey to Rusty CAGE….Partner up, 3 sets of 7 Pull ups each man, 3 sets of 7 Jerkins each man

 

–Mosey, Circle up, Ring of Fire Merkins

 

Back to Flag for MARY…

 

Swirly took us out.

 

NMS:

 

YHC understood this AM that Kubota had revealed a “cone preview” via twitter last night. Spit said to “bring it”, while Wilson apparently was going to opt to Fartsack….. YHC then received an email from Splinter (Swirly copied) that we would likely have an F3 brother visiting from North Carolina… Being that this was to be YHC’s first Dogpile Q, the nerves started to slowly creep in. YHC could only imagine in his own mind that one of the F3 founders would be showing up.  Managed to get to sleep, however, YHC awoke at 4:30 a.m. instead of 5 a.m. without a chance of falling back to sleep.

 

The PAX was lively as usual upon arrival, then 6 a.m., BOOM time to roll….It was a blast Q’ing Dogpile today, thanks for all of the encouragement and assistance along the way. Welcome to FOUR FNG’s, credit to Hitchhiker for some major headlocking!

 

YHC would like to sincerely thank the PAX for your recent thoughts and prayers concerning something my family just went through. I am very grateful for the support, friendships, and many other things I get out of F3.

 

Thanks for letting me lead, have a great weekend boys!!

Announcements:

-Breaking Bread tomorrow (Sunday) = See Kubota if want to join.

-Healing Place:  See Honeydo for details

-Bon Air United Methodist Church:  3 p.m. (tomorrow, Sunday) Memorial for Flatline’s father.

25 warriors came out for Lockjaw’s 2nd Carillon beat down of the week.  This is what transpired more or less.

Mosey to the far circle for COP:

• Russian Soldiers
• Helicopters
• Don Quixote
• Imperial Walkers
• SSH
• LBC

Mosey back to the Rusty Cage for 7-11s:

• 7 wide grip pull ups and then 11 dips – three times through
• 7 dive bombers and then 11 partner assisted bicep curls – three times through
• 7 regular pull ups and then 11 Captain Thors – three times through

Mosey to the large field in front of the Carillon and establish a large circle.  Bear crawl counterclockwise and perform merkins of the appropriate amount on the clock face – 3, 6, 9, and 12 while bear crawling in between.

Line up for indigenous people pole smoker run.  Pax on end does 6 heels to heaven while the rest of the Pax holds 6 inches or at 90 degrees.

Make the trek down Love Hill and partner up.  Partner 1 runs to the top of the hill while the other partner does lunges.  Swap roles.  Next exercise was broad jump burpees and then polar bears until the Pax reaches the top.

Partner up with someone of appropriate size.  Partner carry to the top of the embankment, jog down and repeat with different roles.

Mosey back to the SF and circle up for some Mary.  YHC borrowed a tennis ball from the dog park and threw to Saab who ordered up some Rosalitas.  The ball was passed to Flipper, when Upchuck cut him off and led reverse crunches in such abundance that YHC called it at 7am to do COP.  Upchuck does not like sharing with others.  🙂

Labrat took us out.

NMS:

With a group this size, there is always some mumble chatter.  Rusty cage produced most of it, including this backblast’s title.  Fudd and I were face to face on the dip bars when he shouted “nuts to nuts”.  YHC is glad he didn’t inch his way closer for that set.  Dive Bombers made their repeat appearance and once again required a demo as well as various alternative nomenclature to convey the concept.  “Muffin Diver” seemed to resonate with Saab for some reason.  Must have been the name of the boat where he took SCUBA lessons.

Fellowship at ETs was great as usual with a wide variety of topics in conversation.  TYA, Bleeder, and Gomer Pyle joined us.  Great to see our Pax on the mend come out for coffee and conversation.

Announcements:

• Who has HDHH this month?  That would be this coming Wednesday.  Some talk of doing another brewery run.

Always Be Tapering,

Lockjaw

25 came out to play before the rains came at Dogpile. Here is what happened before Swirly said verbatim:  “I like the Penis” at the end:

COP – Modified disclaimer, Imaginary JumpRope, Merkins, Helicopter, Don Qs, Flutterkicks, Scorpion kicks

Head back to Amphitheater – Self-destruction (finish up to the end after audible last week) –  Increase all the way up steps:  SSH, V-Up, and Merkins.  Head down to Rusty Cage:  4 Sets of 5 Pull-Ups & 10 Dips.

Back up to Amphitheater field for Human Centipede. Then PAX stays split each group goes to COP circles on side of Carillon.  2 Burpees, run to other circle then 4 burpees, all the way up to 10 Burpees.  Back to field – Sprint across and back, with some burpees thrown in for Wilson.  Partner up for 4 sets of 20 PLTS each man.

Finish up with Honeymoon Suite and back to the flag and Swirly took us out.

NMS – YHC knows how much it must have bothered Circle K that the PAX ran out of time on the full Self-Destruction last Dogpile.  That was a great way to start and also eat up a good chunk of time.  It also kills any mumblechatter quickly.  PAX who were not there last week, like EF Hutton, were left to learn how to do a V-Up.  YHC was not about to attempt a proper V-Up demo and the PAX figured out there is a lot of flailing on the ground required.

Good to get in some more Dips at the Rusty Cage.   The Human Centipede may work best with a smaller PAX as even splitting up to 12 man groups is a long way to hop.  Also good to see Wilson back in the Gloom, maybe some of the New Market taunts on recent BBs are working?

Lab Rat and Marmaduke were talking Great Danes as Lab Rat is in the market for a small horse, maybe to mill his grains for his homebrew needs.  Too much infantile mumblechatter in the Honeymoon Suite to even mention although to clarify this is not where Swirly said “I like the Penis”

Annoucements – CSAUP upcoming – sign up for a team. Kubota has his VQ on Monday at Hoedown.  New Dogpile T-shirt orders coming.

Prayers for Fudd’s sister and their family.