Tag: DownRange

  • Watch This.

    10 gathered. 8 ran. 1 cooked. 1 rubbed his heal. Temps were sunny (for sure) and 70 (in all fairness, YHC didn’t check). According to the little fuzzy caterpillars all over the roads, this is what happened, more or less:

    Gather at Casa de Vinny & Co on Wendover. Run west and south, before returning north and east. Turn left, right, left, and left again. Find a lake. Circumnavigate that lake. Turn right and go to the railroad tracks. Do not cross the tracks. For that matter, never, ever cross Buford. Return up a big hill, take the trail to the right (across from the mom/wife cheering us on), and head BTTVSF. 5 or 6 miles or so, depending. 

    Numbers, names, let’s eat. 

    NMS:
    BRR team members gathered for a pre-run, Charlottesville style. It was hot. Really hot. In the shade. Outside the shade, it was hotter. 

    Thanks to Punch List and Fresh Prince (of Bel Air, VA; not the RVA guy) for being our pace cars. Those dudes did yeoman’s work helping us to prepare. 

    Circle K and Vinny created a good little feast of burgers and sausages afterwards while the crew lounged and chatted around Vinny’s pool. Coor’s Light and Gatorade all around. If you haven’t seen Hutton attempt (video floating around) to board a watercraft backwards, YHC suggests you should do so. Sorry, Hutton, but failure can be funny.

    Also, if you have heavy feet, lacrosse is not for you.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

    Icarus himself would have crashed today. We were way too close to the sun. Shade was at a premium. Way to push through, fellas.

  • Saturday morning Bern Fest

    FNG’s out ranked the grizzly veterans this day 4 to 2 but No Worries YHC and DTH had the skills (provided by God and F3RVA) to make this work.

    COP (Disclaimer, Principles of F3 and some other jazz)

    DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, Merkin, hello dollies and LBC’s

    Mosey to bottom of the hill, Light pole ally up hill

    Run to first light post 5 merkins, second light post 10 merkins, third 15 up to 30

    Mosey walk further up hill where the slope gets a little more intense

    11’s Bernie Sanders up the hill (kind of like the second half of twin team but more upwards) 10 ball dippers per leg, run back to the bottom 1 jump squat, 9 and 2, 8 and 3 so forth and so on.

    Mosey BTTF area (basketball court) for a quick 4 corners Prostitute style all abs

    10 – hello dollies, 20 – American Hammers, 30 – Scrunchy Frogs, 40 – LBC’s

    Numbers / Names YHC took us out

    NMS:

    DTH, Greenbow and YHC ventured out to visit a men’s retreat in Windy Gap NC that Greenbow took YHC to 3 years ago and YHC (God willing) will never take a year off. YHC was able to bring DTH this year and it proved to be every bit as powerful as it has ever been. Thank you Jesus for bringing YHC into this awesome event and prepare the hearts of the next line of men that will be asked to go next year.

    The 4 FNG’s that we brought into the Gloom where from different areas of the country and where in their own right very fit. They probably didn’t expect the high cardio and leg work of a Doozy Q but they where more than up to the challenge of pumping out a few merkins. YHC hopes to see these fine men next year and prays that they will join the ranks of their local F3 community.

  • Heavy on F#3

    A few hardened veterans welcomed another Richmond native to the F3 ranks while attending the Windy Gap men’s retreat this weekend. Here’s how the FNG was shown the ropes:

    The THANG:

    COP #1:

    • F3 Welcome, Explanation, & Disclaimer
    • Warmerama on the BBall court, starting with Suicides then getting stretched out with the usual DTH exercises IC

    COP #2:

    • LINDSEY on the grassy slope:
    • Lunges (single count) at the bottom
    • WWII’s at the top
    • Bear crawl from bottom to top
    • Mosey the the end of the upper field

    COP #3:

    • DORA 1-2-3:
    • x100 Merkins
    • x200 Squats
    • x300 LBC’s 
    • Run across field and back between switching partners

    Mosey Loop BTTF:

    • 5min of Mary

    COT:

    • Counterama # 4
    • Namerama (Welcome ELMER’S!)
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  YHC joined with a few dear brothers to attend the annual Windy Gap men’s retreat in North Carolina. This was YHC’s first time attending, and !WOW!, YHC had no idea how much stress and internalized emotions have been bottled up. But nothing like intimate sharing and prayer among true brothers in Christ to receive a new lease on life. Today’s little workout was the 2nd F3 workout at the retreat, Doozy having led the first one yesterday (with FOUR FNG’s no less!), but our buddy Cal from Mechanicsville was also interested in giving it a try, so YHC put together a simple but effective welcome for him this AM. Cal is in the IT world, loves soccer, and has creative interests in the arts & crafts world, hence “Elmer’s” – welcome brother! Ya’ll can expect to see this fine man posting soon to an AO near you. As always, it was a pleasure and joy to join in something hard with awesome brothers. Let me close with a simple but powerful prayer I learned which I hope will bless you too. SYITG, YHC, DTH

    God I know you love me, and I know I have acted in ways that don’t acknowledge your love for me. Help me to remember how much you love me. Amen! 

  • The Bridge Charlottesville is changing lives

    1 lone PAX (YHC) made an 1 hour 15 minute trip to Buckingham (Charlottesville Area) to make a GP appearance and just visit a new AO.

    COP: SSH’s, DQ’s, 3rd Graders (Cherry Pickers), Imperial Walkers and Merkins

    No mosey: 21’s PAX does SSH’s in cadence while Q counts to 6 and then stops. PAX is supposed to count in their head to 21 and stop. If not in sink PAX does predetermined exercise, PAX never did get in sink. Don’t remember all the exercises but there where many Burpees, Merkins and Ball Dippers

    Again No mosey: 6 minutes of Mary with WWII’s, an odd new one YHC will bring home they called plank jack but not how we do them and American Hammers

    Numbers / Names

    NMS:

    WOWWWWW, what a program. You have got to go to this AO. This facility take in guys that have had addiction issues of one sort or another and for 6 months they rehab, learn new skills (HVAC, Auto mechanics, plumbing and more) then they job place them with their new skills and put them in a half way house. Once they graduate from there they have more options. Also once they are at the halfway house F3 Charlottesville has an AO for them to go to call Green Trees. God has been laying some things on YHC’s heart lately and this program just changed my direction and plans.

    YHC will be planning another trip to the Bridge in September if anyone wants their world rocked

  • On Columbia!

    One PAX awoke with the dawn and set the tone: wet, stinky, and sweaty. Temps were 70 and sunny, with a touch of Columbia River windy. According to Harry, a trained killer mutt with 4 inch legs, the following might have happened:

    Mosey to the patio for The COP:

    Imperial Walkers
    Side Straddle Hops
    Hillbillies
    Swirly’s Dead Man Hang
    Mercans
    WWIIs
    Reverse Crunches

    Mosey to the 7th Hole (green) of the Frisbee Golf Course for a Beast:

    Mercans
    box cutters
    WWIIs
    4-count flutter kicks
    Hello Dolly (Harry joined YHC for this round)
    burpees

    Al Gore between each round for The Six.

    Mosey to the 7th Tee for three rounds of stuff:

    Derkins x5
    Dips x20
    Abs x20

    Bear Crawl to the 8th Tee, about 75 meters.

    UniTriple (one PAX, three rounds):

    WWII X10
    FKs 4 count x20
    Rosalita x20

    BTTVSF

    NMS: YHC is taken a little R&R with the family along the Columbia River, straddling the border of Washington and Oregon. Harry, perhaps the smallest dog YHC has ever seen, decided to break from his owner’s grip to work out with YHC. Nicely done. Harry put in some serious running, probably 200 steps to cover 20 yards. He then sat down in the grass. It’s you against you, brother.

    Name, number, Mumble to self. Try not to wake the dude meditating on the patio.

  • Acadia with 2.0 Coupons

    YHC has spent a glorious 5 days with the M + 2.0’s + brother John (AKA “Flint”) on Mount Desert Island (Maine), enjoying all that Acadia has to offer. Among many hiking/boating/swimming/fishing adventures, today’s rigorous climb to the summit of St Sauveur Mtn (679’), carrying one or both 2.0 “coupons” was quite the workout worthy of a backblast. The frequent near-vertical rock scrambles made the going a bit hairy, but YHC had the occasional breather picking blueberries along the way, and the views of Somes Sound were breathtaking. The descent was killer on the quads, and we were all exhausted when we reached the bottom. Of course, since we found ourselves about a mile from where we parked, YHC volunteered to complete the workout with a sprint to retrieve the vehicle and maintained a sub-7-min pace on the mile. This was exactly the vaca YHC has been aching for – thanks be to God. SYITG, YHC, Tryhard

  • Soup of the Day

    One PAX took to the mean (deserted) streets of Plantation to indulge in the latest edition of The Shopping Trip. Temps were sunny and 70. According to the construction worker attempting to nap on his truck bed (this is Florida, so easily the least weird thing that YHC has seen), this is more or less what happened:

    Route: hotel to DHL building, across Peters to office park to La Quinta to Westfield Mall. Reverso at Broward Blvd. 4.1 miles. Not bad for YHCs second rehab run.

    Number, name, YHC talked to himself.

    Quick Coffeeteria, minus the coffee, with Omar, the maintenance guy, in the parking lot. His kids are now in Davie from Jamaica, hoping to stay.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Doozy and Posey took a little trip and found Big Data

    It was an epic trip to F3 Indianapolis where YHC and Posey found nothing but true F3 hospitality from the downrange AO’s that we were able to get to. YHC made it to 3 local AO’s and Posey made it to 2. Our tour guides where Kindergarten Cop on Tuesday, Wrigley on Wednesday and Motor Boat on Thursday. We saw this car near Pittsburgh but where unable to find out the true identity of the driver as he went right when we went left.

  • The Shopping Trip

    One PAX returned to the pre-COVID AO for the most recent edition of The Shopping Trip (not to be confused with The Field, which is a beat down). Conditions were sunny and 70 (with a side order of humidity). According to the series of business park Security Guards, this was the route:

    north on Pine Island, east to 8150, then through 8151, past the LaQuinta (no police / obvious arrests today), left on SW 10th, left on SW 78th, left on Federated to Broward. Reverso and BTTVSF.

    Name, number, YHC took us out with a quick RIP for Omar’s (see below) father and grandfather who both passed recently.

    NMS:

    You can always go home. YHC has become solid pals with Omar, who runs the building operations where YHC stays on business. He’s a Jamaican, solid human (he’s F3 without ever having posted to F3), and only hasn’t posted because his work hours are 10-7. Safe travels to Omar as he heads home to Jamaica to pick up his kids, who will move to the USA. Great to catch up with a friend YHC hadn’t seen in a while.

    YHC spits the bit.

  • Pupcation

    YHC had a pupcation for this summers break. Unfortunately the beach house that was reserved the year before ended up not allowing pets. So the M and 2.0 headed down to join the rest of the family and YHC stayed back with Daisy our new puppy … Then YHC get’s a call hey there is a campground close by y’all could come visit for a day or two… On the way baby !! Daisy and I rolled down – she’s is an awesome traveler by the way ! We arrive and there are rules for pets on the dang beach.. They can be on before 9am and after 5pm. Whatever no worries we can get some early morning beach runs in and that is just what we did. Not sure if you have ever tried running with a 4month old puppy but that ain;t easy boys… Camping was hot as crap so Daisy and I rolled on back to town after 2 sweaty nights with misquotes the size of freaken small birds – thankfully YHC had packed and I mean packed the cooler !!

    Glad to be back with y’all in RVA – See ya in the gloom ..