Tag: First Watch

A whopping 13 amigos pulled the early morning shift on the Tuckahoe Neighborhood Watch to determine if the predawn hours were any less swampy but found no such reprieve. With Handshake arriving early for Broga, Marv turned out to be the launch timer. The following was rumored to have occurred for your viewing pleasure.

Short mosey over to the church for warmarama, disclaimers and all legal documentation. Exercises included Invisible Jumprope, Helis, Dead Man Hang, Jazzercise, LBC’s, Hello Dollies, Rosalitas. No sweat dripping yet, lets begin:

COP 1: Mankillers: With everyone in position, YHC decided to bust out a fan favorite to burn some clock and determine the rest of the routine. Kubota could not contain his excitement and was thrilled with decision.

COP 2: Slow mosey to the coupon pile to collect some weight. Group of 3’s and 4’s all added up to a variety of Triple Checks. Many exercises in 3 sets with timer either running or block reps.

Numbers Names Announcements and Prayers – Kubota took us out.

NMS: After weeks of going off campus with plenty of miles logged, YHC had no plan except to avoid exercises named after states and tours around neighboring streets. Triple Checks seemed like a good way to encourage good mumble chatter and have some laughs along the way. Topics included, among others, timely slack posting, beach attire and scheduling the open house at Flo’s new Scotts Addition abode. Mankillers were just an added touch to bring some SOJ class to the group. Appreciative of the great numbers turning out in the humid temps. T-shirt ideas should be a flowin.

Eleven vehicles and nine Bros assembled for the earliest beatdown in RVA.

Here’s what transpired:

Mosey to the Church patio

COP

• Don Quixotes
• Copperhead Squats
• Hillbillies
• SSHs
• Jazzercises
• Diamond Merkins
• Mountain Climbers
• Heels to Heaven
• Crabcakes

Mosey to side of Church porch

• Snuff inspired Bear Crawl Mosey in and out of columns, up and down stairs, over the bricks, through a sprinkler, roughly 100 ft

Mosey to the end of Culpepper

Love Hill

• P1 – Run to Ross and S. Ridge and back
• P2 – Mosey toward P1 rotating Lunges and Polar Bears

Mosey to Thom and Culpepper

Auto Lottery (Circling Thom and Cameron exercise at each Automobile)

• Car x 5 Merkins
• Truck x 5 WWIIs
• Crossover x 5 Jump Squats
• SUV x 10 Monkey Humpers
• Van x 5 Burpees

Mosey back to parking lot

Mary

• American Hammers
• Wilson’s Spaghetti Party
• Alabama Prom Dates
• Burpees x 3 OYO

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Marv was highly amused by Crabcakes for unknown reasons, but the Bear Crawl Mosey was no laughing matter.  The Automobile Lottery math proved difficult, almost as difficult as remembering which vehicle corresponded with which exercise.  Next time we’ll just do Burpees for all of them since there was not a van to be found.  Welcome back Abscess.  Quiet morning without big and little brother.  Cawfee Talk featured tales from Yellowstone.  Lockjaw recommends the Bison Burger.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Retreat 9/24 – Sign up for Cornhole

Eleven studs waltzed out and announced their presence with authority for a 5:00 run, err, Beat, down. Temperatures were sunny and 70. According to the groundskeeping crew at U of R, the following quite possibly happened:

Mosey to the Sprinkler-fed lawn in front of River Road Baptist. Groans. “It’s gonna be too wet.” Yep. Cold, wet, and sandy. Fun fact: it rained last night. Second fun fact: the sprinklers were on when Broga started. Third fun fact: the sprinklers turned off at 4:50.

Circle up.

SSHs
WWIIs (wet)
HRMs (wet)
Imperial Walkers
Hillbillies
Flutter kicks
Pancake toss (flip over x3)
Carolina Dry Docks
Something else

Let’s mosey. Q runs to the other side of intersection of River and Ridge. Headlamp goes out. Rookie move.

Mosey along River to Saab’s house. The man lives on River. What can we say? We know people with prestigious addresses. Do some exercises in his driveway to celebrate.

Mosey down River to U of R fields for the Main Event. The Michigan. In the dark. (See dead battery, headlamp).

100 yard sprint x 10 times

80 yard spring x 8 times

60 yard sprint x 6 times

40 yard sprint x4 times

20 yard sprint x2 times

10 yard sprint x 1 time

Breaks sprinkled to allow for recovery of breadth, stretching, and griping.

50 burpees called at the end. 11 groans heard…attendance taken and everyone is alive and able to breathe. Boom. Let’s mosey back to the VSF, Indian-run style, Kubota fast walk pace, stopping this time at Saab’s new neighbor’s house. Exercises.

Reform the line in the same order. Or, 5 burpees. PAX did the burpees.

BTTVSF.

5 MOM, with reverse crunches, flutters, Alabama Prom Dates, and more reverse crunches.

Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

Great to hear Lab Rat is doing better. Can’t wait to see you back out there.

Let’s hope Tryhard’s sister continues to have good numbers.

Since YHC is slow to post this, sorry if you missed Roller Coaster this evening at 5/5:30 at Hillcrest. (Note: Copyright alert. Not sure what type of law school graduates are running hills in SOJ land now that Hunton’s finest have moved to the Promised Land, but those calling other AOs Roller Coaster best beware…this AO has been Roller Coaster for about 6 years. Time to checkity-check before you wreckity-wreck).

BRR…sign up. Good numbers. Fellas are getting in shape.

NMS:

Daniel joined us today. He’s 29, he’s a Scorpio (actually, we have No Idea what his Zodiac sign is and, in any case, No Idea is a different guy entirely), his wife is close personal friends with Marv’s wife, they go to church with Marv, and he runs a dental practice in Hopewell where he apparently treats jaundice in a lot of Union Army soldiers. Seems like an overall solid dude. Hope he comes back. Oh, and his F3 name is Abscess. Strong work today.

Corey Widmer “Suck It” Awards of the Day:

Hutton’s for his views on YHC’s physique. YHC suggests getting some Structure in your life.

Bodo’s for being Bodo’s. #coffee

Everyone who griped about getting wet at 5:02 a.m. only to find they were soaking wet (and stinky) at 5:35 a.m.

BTW, for anyone who has not been to Broga, it’s early, and it’s worth it. Thanks, Last Call. #solidstretching #sprinklers #marble

UpChuck spits the bit.

Eight Danny Noonan wannabees huddled in the normal gathering spot while the Q meandered around prior to launch. After all preparations were made, YHC walked up which immediately shut down mumblechatter. Wait three minutes to see if little blue would show up and then off we went for traveling COP.

COP

• Mosey to the end of the triangle for invisible jumprope x20
• Mosey to the next road for helicopters x10
• Mosey to the next road for suzanne somers x10
• Mosey to the next road for copperhead squats x15
• Mosey to the bottom of the hill for mountain climbers x10 and LBCs x20

The Thang

We tried a new creation today. Leap Frog. It needed some modification as we worked through it but YHC believes it was a success. Organize into groups of three. One partner runs up the hill 20 seconds, stops, and starts to do merkins. Second partner runs past the first partner 20 seconds. When your partner passes you, switch exercises from merkins, to jump squats, to WWIIs. Trailing partner does 10 WWIIs and then runs up past the first partner in leap frog fashion. It worked, hard to describe, but it worked. We went all the way from the bottom of the hill to the light.

Short mosey over to the parking lot for curb crawls, 1-5.

Another short mosey to the triangle park for a skills based challenge. Pax was 20 feet away from a 10 foot circle. Cycling through the PAX we had to try to chip a ball in the circle. In the circle, 20 LBCs. Just miss the circle, 5 merkins, completely miss the circle 5 burpees. Second round we eliminated the “just miss”. We did almost all burpees. Third round was a speed round with cumulative merkins for every miss. We did 8. Fourth round we ditched the club and just tried to throw it in the circle. 7 of 9 were successful so we did 2 merkins. BTTF.

Announcements

• TYA is off to the bridge this Saturday. Ping him if you are going.
• Lots of HDHHs not on Hump Day. Next one is Tuesday at Snuff’s house. See slack for details
• Prayers for our brothers that need our assistance. Reach out a hand to provide support.

Moleskin

YHC was unsuccessful in identifying his next captain’s choice partner. Everyone complained about not cutting the grass but what YHC learned is that everyone sucked at chipping. Maybe we should try putting next time, you know… night putting. Bacon Bits and Ronnie had the biggest scares. I thought their shots were headed for the house across the street.

Appreciate the opportunity to try something new fellas. Let each of us offer strong support for those around us no matter where they need assistance. That’s what this brotherhood is for. None of us is alone in our challenges.

SYITG fellas.

Splinter out.

Two guys named Jack and seven more did a whole lotta jackin this fine morn.

Here’s what transpired:

Mosey to the Church patio

COP

• Imaginary Invisible Jump Ropes
• Hairy Rockettes
• Copperhead Squats
• Arm Circles
• Heels to Heaven
• Merkins
• Plankorama
• Suzanne Somers L/R
• Freddie Mercurys
• Hello Dollys

Mosey to far corner of Henrico’s smallest park

Partner Jack Webb 1 – Upper Edition

• P1 – Run to traffic light and back
• P2 – Merkins/ Air Presses (1:4 ratio up to 10:40)

Mosey to Cameron and Culpepper

Partner Jack Webb 2 – Lower Edition

• P1 – Bernie up hill to street lamp and run back
• P2 – Jump Squats/ Monkey Humpers (1:4 ratio up to 10:40)

Mosey Cameron/ Thom Loop

Lindsay – Carolina Dry Docks/ WWIIs

Mosey back to parking lot near coupons

Partner Jack Webb 3 – Abs Edition

• P1 – Bear crawl from light pole 1 to light pole 2 and run back
• P2 – WWII/ Reverse Crunch (1:4 ratio up to 10:40)

Mosey back to flag

Ring of Fire

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

After Kubota’s warm up, YHC was total Zen today.  Not even the PAX’s constant eye rolls could kill the buzz.  There was a live Spiderman showdown meme when Ronnie realized there was another Jack amongst the PAX, welcome Flo.  With no prior knowledge of a two Jack post, YHC planned 3 Jacks of his own.  You can never jack enough at First Watch.  Where’s Bleeder when you need him?  With broken promises to win OSOTW by two returning vacationers, Last Call came through and saved the day.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Upcoming NoTolls – Ultimate and HR Derby

Retreat 9/24 – Sign up for Cornhole

7 had a blockbuster of a time at this week’s First Watch! Coffee was great too!

9 merry Pax including myself descended upon the outskirts of arguably the top university in greater Henrico County to embark on some disc golf with the help of a coupon and some exercise add-ons. According to the nine of us it went like this:

COP: DQs, CPs, HRMs, FMs, ACs. Mosey with a couple of stops to the disc golf course – half mile trek. 2 carry the coupon while the others run. 25 2 count flutter kicks at the first stop with a switcheroo on the coupon. Then next stop is 25 heels to heaven. Switcheroo number two. Then 30 LBCs and on to hole 18.

Hole 18 is a straightaway 220 foot uphill hole. 10 merkins per shot. The PAX did a decent job as no one appeared to shoot worse than 4 or 5. The Q had to get help in order to find his disc. Vamos to hole #1. this is a downhill 165 foot throw around a couple of trees. This hole requires 3 burpees per shot. The Q proceeded to throw a little bit to the right but we had a mix or pars, bogeys and perhaps even a birdie. Bear crawl ~100 foot to tee 2. Same process but with 10 jump squats per shot. This hole is a bit harder so mostly bogeys and doubles. Lunge ~150 feet to hole 3. Dogleg left about 200 feet with 10 Carolina Dry Docks per shot. Much to the chagrin of Handshake, we finished after that hole since we were 10 minutes from finish time.

Mosey back with coupon and mountain climbers and plank jacks. At home base, do a burpee for total combined points on the 4 holes (I had 15). Finish with a long set of American Hammers and then a little DQ for stretching.

I was impressed with the ease of moving the coupon around. Perhaps I need to add more coupons. The PAX did better overall than December. Prayers for continued recovery for Gypsy, Lab Rat, Pinto and Blue Moon. Do great things men!

Fireman Ed

The SOJ takeover continues with the PAX placing bets on who would be the Q on this jungle-humid June morning. Kubota took the prize – it was YHC.

Warmups – 25 Don Quixotes to go for the record. 20 Imperial squat walkers. Mirkins, LBCs, Rosalitas and some other nonsense. That’s the thing about First Watch, it’s early enough to pretend like we don’t remember exactly what happened.

Bear crawl centipede with a very long route snaking up and down the stairs, through the hall and up the ramp, them down the stairs again.

Mosey around back for a triple check with the timer running to the far end of the lot, WW2s and squat thrusters using 2 traffic cones we found. YHC told the story about how after years of taking pictures of his kids with cones on their heads, people continue to send him cone pictures every week. True story.

Next up, harking back to the bottle flip craze of the late 20-oughts, we each took a try launching a cone into the air. If it landed right-side up, monkey humpers. If not, burpees. Needless to say we did a lot of burpees. The PAX was grumbling about the number of burpees so YHC took an audible and did 10 more burpees OYO.

Triple check from the side of the church with the timing running up the hill to the front, wall sit toe touch arm raises (commonly called LaLannes), and flutter kicks.

Up the hill to the front for 45 mirkins OYO. Back across the street to the parking lot for a long bar crawl with dips. Jump through the V tree and back to the flag.

Thanks for having me out – as Splinter says, there’s nothing better than that 5am sense humor. It just has a different feeling.

COT.

2nd F at Starbucks to start the day off right.

Peace.