Tag: First Watch

The Q sheet has been sitting somewhat empty in Westhoe over the last couple of weeks so YHC has been jumping in to fill the sheet as needed. Yesterday it was the Site Q/Weaselshaker at Heartbreark and today it was 1st F/Weaselshaker at First Watch.

0500 YHC launches us and we mosey down the hill. Flip Flip COP perfectly choreographed.

Hutton Q – Mosey over to a hill for a Triple Check. P1 runs up the hill to the street sign and back. Partner 2 does Merkins and Partner 3 does squats.

Handshake Q – Mosey up the hill to the street sign and do another Triple Check, but this time P1 runs down the hill and back, P2 does Flutter Kicks, P3 does Carolina Dry Docks.

Hutton Q – Mosey back up to the parking lot for a Dora. 100 Decline Merkins on Guard Rail, 200 WWII’s on Guard Rail, 300 Monkey Humpers

Handshake Q – each man get in a Parking Spot, Pencil Roll left to another spot, LBC’s, Pencil Roll again and some other exercise that YHC can’t remember. Partner Up for while P1 gets in the Merkin position and P2 picks up his feet and they do a perfectly synchronized Derkin-Squat combo, henceforth to be call the Partner Squerkins.

Announcements – none, but grab and over Q if y’all can

Prayer Requests – Mary, Fudd’s sister. All those in need known or unknown.

NMS – fun morning with 6+1 guys. Kubota is on the Broke Dick Brigade but we were glad to see him come out and walk

8 men gathered all wondering who was going to be the Q. YHC spoke up and said we’d do a Hawt Potato and YHC would start off….

Mosey to the top of the Triangle for a COP. The Pax was mocking YHC for the Swedish Chef counting routine so YHC decided to keep the Q.

After the COP we moseyed down to the bottom of the hill for a Triple Check. P1 runs, P2 HRM’s, P3 WWII’s.

Mosey over to the bottom of the hill. YHC did a freestyle riff of an Arch Loader. We did various exercises to make our way up the hill. First up was YHC’s Traveling SSH’s.

Eventually we made it almost up the hill then decided to mosey to get to the top and finish with 2 minutes of Mary.

Announcements – none

Prayer Requests – Mary who is Fudd’s sister, who is battling Cancer.

NMS – fun morning and good laughter. YHC’s favorite new exercise was introducing the 16 Count Don Quixote/Burpee Combo. The Pax LOVED it.

It started as seven and then broke out into two groups of two and three groups of one for a series of Tabathas after COP.

Series 1 – Seal Jacks, Squats, HRMs, Elbow Plank, and Box Cutters – Timed across stations and three times through the series.

Series 2 – Rocky Balboa’s, Lunges, Dips, Elbow Plank, and Flutter Kicks – Timed across stations and three times through the series.

YHC took us out. Prayers for those in our schools and Last Call’s friend’s grandson.

As the clock struck 0500, Splinter and Hutton returned from their pre-workout run and Fudd came screeching into the parking lot. YHC knew it was time to get started. Slow mosey around the parking lot to pick up everyone.

Mosey across River to the front of the church and circle up. Warm up exercises included:

• SSH
• Don Quixote
• Dead Man Hang
• Merkins
• LBCs

Mosey around to the back of the church and partner up for a triple check. P1 – BTTW. P2 – WWIIs. P3 – run short loop around dumpsters.

Staying at the same spot, partner up for a dora. P1 runs to the church vans at the end of the parking lot. P2 completes 50 merkins, 100 flutter kicks, 150 jump squats.

Short mosey towards Ridge for 4 corners.

• 10 burpees
• 20 squats
• 30 American hammers
• 40 SSH

Mosey around to the side of the church for 11s.

• Donkey Kicks (starting at 10)
• Bear crawl across to curb
• Inclined merkins (starting at 1)
• Lunge back

Mosey back to flag for a few minutes of Mary

• APBs
• Freddie Mercuries
• Heels to Heaven

Numbers / Names / Announcements. YHC took us out.

Moleskin

Lots of good mumble chatter this morning. Topics included whether 1-900 numbers still exist (not verifying while in my office), whether YHC is a Gen X or millennial (YHC thinks of himself as a Xennial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials), and the brick pattern used at River Road Church, Baptist (which is the source of the backblast title). During 11s, Fudd asked if anyone knew the pattern and YHC knew that it was flemish bond (which is alternative short and long bricks). After much discussion surrounding the origination of flemish bond, Splinter complained about spending too much time on the topic. A brief tour of Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_bond) indicates the name references a region of northern Belgium (not the Netherlands as the pax initially believed) but originated in Northern and Central Europe in the Middle Ages. It became popular in England in the 17th Century, and then became popular in Virginia.

At the start of another year around the sun, I am eternally thankful that I am part of this group coming together in the early morning hours, rain, heat, cold, whatever, to push each other to be better men. Thank you for letting me lead today!

The elite of the elite gathered in the church parking lot at 0430 for pre-game exercises. One chose one path, the other chose another. Those same two gathered again at 0500 for today’s First Watch edition.

Traveling COP

• Mosey to the bottom of south ridge, stopping at various points for
• SSH
• DQ
• IW
• Copperhead Squats
• Helicopters

The Thang

Partner up for Dora 1,2,3,4. 100 burpees, 200 squats, 300 mountain climbers, 400 LBCs. Travel back up south ridge after each increment of 100 by playing catch me if you can with 5 HRMs and bernie sanders.

We made it most of the way through before shuttling back for 3 minutes of mary.

Numbers, names, Handshake took us out.

Announcements

• Don’t miss 10 year this weekend. The only one that matters is 7am at Dogpile.
• Prayers for those around us for various reasons.

Moleskin

A workout of two offers an opportunity to slightly modify planned approach while engaging in coffeeteria throughout the entire workout. Great to catch up with Handshake as we navigated down and back up south Ridge.

YHC will assume the weather scared people away and it wasn’t that my workouts are too soft.

Splinter out

5 of F3RVA’s finest looking chaps and 2 not so much (you know where you stand) enjoyed the welcome abodes and comradery that the brisk fall Tuckahoe weather to see what was in store. A few early risers took part in running or stretching prior but this how the meat and potatoes of the beatdown went down.

Mosey to the church patio for introductions and disclaimers. Warm ups included Invisible Jump Rope, Jazzercise (with flair for some), Arm Circles, Reverso, Quick Tempo Merkins, Suzanne Summers left, LBC’s, Suzanne Summers right, Dying Bedbugs/Cockroaches, followed by a bit of stretching. All seem loose and ready to get cooking.

Mosey down River to Country Squire. Brocode Mailboxes for all. Perform 10 hand release merkins at each mailbox on the left, 10 WWII’s at each mailbox on the left. 5 burpees performed at the For Sale sign. Continue down Ridge to Overlook. Partner up for Love Hill. Timer runs to top of the hill and returns. Exercises were walking lunges, Broad Jump Herpes, Bear Crawl. Skip/Glide back down to Ridge. (Try to stay on the road if you can).

Keep your partners or find new ones for more Love Hill action back up Ridge. Timer runs to closest intersection while exercises include Lt. Dans, Bernie Sanders and Lunges.

At the base of the triangle partner up for a triple check. Timer skips to the light and jogs back. LBC’s and Carolina Dry Docks. 2 rounds completed before time to get BTTVF.

Dead Man Hang Ring of Fire for 1 minute. Numbers, Names, Prayers, Announcements (see Slack). YHC took us out.

NMS: The bat signal went out yesterday for a worthy Q. No one answered so you got stuck with YHC. There was talk of hitting the taint but YHC thought the better to ease the running and enjoy ample mumble chatter. Highly recommend skipping be a part of future workouts to release the flamboyant nature of each individual to the PAX. Great work today fellas. Thank you for the opportunity to lead on a perfect morning.

Three star gazers arrived for pre-launch activities but none were shared. One ran, one walked, one broga’d. All came back together to wait for the cavalry to arrive. Once the clock struck five, away we went for an audible Q. Mosey to the back parking lot for:

COP

• 10x Helicopters
• 10x DQs (Last Call approved)
• 10x IWs
• 15x Arm Circles
• 10x Copperheads
• 10x walk backwards over the fence each leg

The Thang

Three is a perfect number so triple-check was the theme of the day. A few strides over to the corner of the parking lot. Burpees, mountain climbers, run a loop.

Slowsey to the eastern corner of the triangle for merkins, squats, skip to the mailbox and run back.

Attempted flying headlock. We will see this guy soon.

Zig-zag back to the launch parking lot for WWIIs, lunges, karaoke to Kubota’s truck and back.

BTTF for something, something else, and 5 burpees for the pace car.

A few minutes of mary with APDs, Freddie Mercuries, American Hammers.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Announcements

• Labor Day convergence at the Knuckle

Moleskin

Small numbers makes for great mumblechatter. Triple check is a tried & true F3 exercise. It wasn’t what YHC had planned for today but it seemed appropriate given the numbers. You know you are a true F3er when you can carry on two different conversations depending on who you are mixed with while the pace car does his thing. Today was perfect evidence of this.

Thanks y’all. Will save the actual workout for another day.

Splinter out.

With the departure of EF Hutton making a multi-stop summer tour, this group of six completed this week’s installment of First Watch.

Over to the church for COP. The pace and types of exercises were well received by the Pax, including a new unnamed exercise that was named by the Pax and serves as this back blast title.

Off to the back parking lot for 4-Corners, Tabata style. 30 seconds of one exercise, 30 seconds of another and mosey to another corner for four corners total for that set. Despite technical difficulties, we conquered the following:

Set 1 – Mountain Climbers and Merkins

Set 2 – Squats and APDs

Set 3 – Carolina Dry Docks and Box Cutters

Back to the flag for some Mary.

YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Pickleball tournament this weekend. There is still time to sign up.
• Señor Frog earns respect in a couple of weeks. Heartbreak will be the time and place.
• Convergence Labor Day at the far west end AO. I think it is called Pussy Willow or something to that effect. See Whitesnake for details.
• 10-year F3RVA convergence on September 21. Lot’s of fun and activities on the horizon.

Coffee was great as always with Blue Moon and Fireman Ed.