Tag: Heartbreak Ridge

A dozen HIM’s manned up to welcomed Pinto’s 2.0 FNG to Heartbreak for Ultimate Frisbee. Twas a wee bit gloomy, but by the time our warmerama lap was complete, there was enough light YHC didn’t need to use the glow sticks to mark end zones. We did however enjoy a light-up frisbee which helped a ton with visibility. Teams split up light and dark, with the bad guys stealing Snuff to have one more than YHC’s dark-colors team. YHC reviewed the rules and reminded the PAX of x3 Merkins per turnover for those guys involved, and x3 Burpees for the losers of each touchdown. 

The game went smoothly, with YHC landing the first touchdown in fantastic snag/somersault style, and each team firing back touchdown for touchdown, keeping the score even until the last ten minutes. Tied up 6-6, the Light team put together a couple admirable touchdowns to win 8-6. 

Most memorable highlights were a couple of YHC’s teammates sandwiching HoneyDo in the end zone TWICE to prevent his touchdown efforts. HoneyDo later took it all out on YHC with a palm to the face and a successful touchdown. YHC payed the pain forward with a clumsy slam on Snuff, who silently crumpled into a rib-hugging ball, and for which YHC served some apology burpees. Overall, YHC had a great time as always with the Heartbreak crew, and it’s been a long time since Roger Roger and Lumberg have made it out, so that made the morning extra special! And big welcome to JELLY! The PAX was asked what their favorite beans are (since it’s Pinto’s 2.0), and Jelly was the fan favorite. Always a pleasure, YHC, DTH

COT:

• Counterama # 13
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

Six sweaty studs were surprised to find the AO completely dry after yesterday’s rain. Humidity was still ample. Unfortunately for Seymour we were not doing Ultimate but instead a beatdown commenced:

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, Freddy Mercurys, Scorpion Kicks.

Mosey over to the blue-ish hue of PES for a Dora 123: 100 Merkins, 200 Heels2Heaven, 300 Jump Squats. Over to playground for: 4 rounds of 8 Pullups and WWIIs. Head over to tennis courts. 3 rounds of Wheelbarrows and 10 Derkins each man. Followed up with 3 rounds of: 40 Benchkicks and 20 Squats. Finish up with one round of AMRAP Derkins. Head back to flag for 2 min of Mary. YHC took us out.

Announcements: HDHH-ish at Snuff’s house tonight. See Slack for more info. Leadership Zoom tonight at 5:00, see Slack.

NMS: Solid work by the PAX this AM. Felt like we all sweated out 5 pounds at least this morning. Nobody knows what color the new lights at PES are but at 5:30 it makes for a different vibe in the Gloom. Looks like we conned Seymour into Q’ing next week.

Baker’s Dozen at Heartbreak Ridge today. But no ET. What Whitesnake said was true. ET got a permission Slip not to be here in order to get ready for BRR. But Handshake was here.

Pinto was released from Injured Reserve so that he could make it today. In honor of his return, we climbed no trees and handled no gas-powered equipment.

Doozy and Posey (Doozy 2.0) were here. Last time I saw Doozy, he was inflicting a severe beatdown at Gridiron. Today was not up to a Doozy standard but I did my best.

Somehow or another, I’ve missed Bacon Bits for about a month. Atilla showed up in between managing winning championships in baseball. Nice to have Flo here. Despite yesterday’s awful beatdown at Hoedown, Flo was back for more. We had Seymour and Rosie who worked Heartbreak into their rotation. In addition to those previously mentioned, great to have the usual suspects here (Lighthouse, Honeydo).

 

And so it went like this:

Warmup head-fake in the parking lot. We didn’t run anywhere.

SSHs, Helicopters, IWs, Don Quixote, Plank stretch

Mosey to Railings

11s Hand Release Merkins and Ukrainian Hammers while running over/under railings

Mosey to at the basketball courts behind the school and tried to avoid falling down due to the sand on the bottom of our shoes.

15 People’s chair air press in cadence

10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence

15 Donkey Kix OYO

15 People’s chair milkers in cadence

10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers in cadence

15 Donkey Kix OYO

15 People’s chair Lalanne in cadence

10 BTTW Toe Taps in cadence

15 Donkey Kix OYO

15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali

10 Dirty Hookup

15 Donkey Kix OYO

Mosey to the covered walkway:

Run to the end but Belly touch every 2 poles.

2X

Bear crawl/crab walk to the second doorway

Mosey to the benches in front of the school; 3X

15 Dips single count Cadence

15 Derkins single count Cadence

10 Bulgarian split squats, right leg back, single count Cadence

10 Bulgarian split squats, left leg back, single count Cadence

Line up on curb near benches and burpee/broad jump to the loading dock

Mosey to flag

4 minutes of Mary

 

Announcement:

Hump Day (minus 1 day) Happy Hour tonight: Southside at Triple Crossing Beer in Midlothian. Questions? Contact Doozy

 

Take out by YHC

 

I was very happy to see so many people today! More than the normal numbers. It reminds me that once in a while, I should visit some other locations and meet some other people. As many have said, I am very grateful for F3 and the people I have met here. It has really made the move from Charlotte to Richmond wonderful.

A quiet group of 7 gathered for this weeks Heartbreak Ridge and this is what transpired

Mosey around the front of the school and back around to the Bus Gas loop area for a COP which included various exercises

Mosey to the Bus Loop, and line up along the 7 Poles. Everyone does Pole Smokers but P1 does 10 and runs down 7 poles. P2 repeats until the end. Exercises to swapped at exhaustion to LBC’s and HRM’s

Mosey up to the loop in front of Pemberton Elementary School for a Triple Check. P1 does Wall Sits, P2 does WWII’s, P3 runs the loop.

Mosey over to the Playground on Pemberton Elementary School and partner up. P1 does 5 Pullups, P2 does Flutter Kicks (round 1), Freddie Mercuries (round 2). Repeat for 6 rounds.

Mosey to the field and do a Four Corners, Corner 1: 10 Burpess, Corner 2: 20 HRM’s, Corner 3: 30 Jump Squats, Corner 4: SSH’s

Mosey back to the Flag for 4 Minutes of Mary with various Ab exercises.

Announcements – The Bridge this weekend, Honeydo is the Q but if you’d like to Clown Car reach out to him

Prayer Requests – Johnsonville and Chum Bucket as they get through Covid

NMS – After a long 10 days of no F3 it’s always hard to get back. Easiest 2 ways to come back after a break is to: 1) Sign up to be Q: you have no made yourself responsible and expected to be there, no excuses 2) You choose the workout, so you can ease yourself back in or “pull off the Band Aid” your choice. The Backblast title comes from #2 “if you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation” meaning if you don’t want to get your butt kicked by someone else’s workout, then sign up to lead.

YHC has enjoyed his 4+ years in F3. It’s allowed YHC to see what and how other people lead/are inspired to lead/lead in their own way. Also, it’s allowed YHC to see and recognize his own personal limitations and struggles. While vacation and sleeping in was really nice, it’s not sustainable for YHC’s mental and physical health.

It appears that headcounts were the victim of vacations and Tater’s pool party.  With that said, three faithful warriors battled the gloom and HBR this morning.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • Ukrainian soldiers
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the parking lot for a burpee march – hit it spot with a burpee, going all the way across, end with 20 WWII sit-ups and 20 APDs; rinse and repeat 3x
• Mosey to the HB Hill for an arch loader up the fill with 20 reverse crunches and 15 2x American hammers
  • Bear crawl
  • Crab walk
  • Bear crawl
  • Duck walk
  • Bear crawl
  • Cheetah sprint
• Jack Webb on the softball field
• 3x with weighted squats, FM and a run
• Mosey back to the flag for COT with YHC taking us out

Great work by a loyal and faithful PAX.  God is good all of the time!

Attila

A prime number, 7, for Heartbreak Ridge. In attendance today were the essential food groups; Bacon Bits, Tater and Pigskin; 2/3 of the professoriate of VCU (Offshore and Lighthouse); the Championship Baseball Manager who destroyed the Roman Empire (Attila the Hun, congratulations on this past weekend’s 2 championships); and a White Snake fresh from rescuing ET from a pack of wild cyclists at RAMM.

It went like this:

A Warm-up mosey, Karioke left, backwards run and Karioke right in the parking lot.

COP with 20 SSHs, 10 Manmaker Merkins, 15 Knee-ups and a stretching exercise.

Mosey to Heartbreak hill for a Jacob’s ladder (run to top, 1 burpee and return to bottom, then 2 Burpees, etc. up to 7)

Mosey over to the railings behind the Quioccasin parking lot and hand-foot walk the rails from the bottom to the top

Mosey to the wall under the side covered porch of Quioccasin for;

15 People’s Chair/air press in cadence, 10 BTTW hips slaps in cadence, 15 Donkey Kix OYO;

15 People’s chair/milkers (moo), 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers, 15 Donkey Kix

15 People’s chair/Lalannes, 10 BTTW Toe Taps, 15 Donkey Kix

Stretch

Over to playground at Pemberton

The following 3 times: 10 Pull-ups, 20 Merkins and 20 hook your feet Sit-ups

Mosey to parking lot for BLIMPS; 5 Burpees, 10 Lunges (each leg), 15 IWs, 20 Merkins, 25 Plank Jax, 25 Squats

Mosey to front of Quioccasin picnic tables for; 15 Dips in Cadence, 10 Bulgarian Split Squats in cadence (right leg back), 10 Bulgarian Split Squats in cadence (left leg back): 2X

Back to start:

20 Flutter kix in cadence, 20 APDs in cadence. 60 count 6-inch leg lift.

Acabado

No announcements. We’re not aware of a July 4 convergence.

Takeout by YHC (first verse of “Be Thou My Vision”)

A magic 8-ball PAX assembled on this no-so gloomy summer morning to push themselves.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the tennis court – wheelbarrow to the net for 10 derkins, rinse and repeat 3x each man
• Mosey to the blacktop for a 4x check – run, HRM, Freddie Mercuries, balls to the wall
• Mosey to the baseball field for an arch loader with 15 WWII sit-ups a the end of each round
  • Bear crawl
  • Crab walk
  • Bunny hop
  • Duck walk
  • Crawl bear
• Mosey to the jerkin gym for 4x 8 jerkins
• Mosey to the hill for hill runs
• Mosey back to the parking lot for COT with YHC taking us out

Great PAX today with some solid work.  Remember amateur hour for RAMM on Friday morning.  Come one and come all.

Prayers for the PAX members continuing to heal.  God is good all of the time!

Attila

A perfect 16 HIM’s posted to Heartbreak for an SOJ Takeover game of Ultimate Frisbee. With humidity at 1000%, our West End hosts ensured the sprinklers were ON for refreshing showers throughout the game. Here’s how the PAX exercised all three F’s in style:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA:

• Mosey the field perimeter dropping cones (full length, but only 75% of the width), and then circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

THE GAME:  With absolutely perfect numbers for Ultimate, the PAX divided into Team Atilla with 8 dark shirts and Team Mariner with 8 light shirts. Rules were reviewed, and the decision made to forego burpees or merkins on turnovers. 

While each PAX put forward amazing effort for their teams, here follows the most remarkable highlights of the game:

• Early scoring by Team Mariner demonstrated definitive skill and coordination between Snuff and Bodos, and early grumbling by Team Atilla suggested uneven team skill levels
• Team Atilla stopped counting when the score reached 3-2, but MVP’s Mariner, Snuff, and Bodos kept the TD’s going
• Shout out to TI – The Ringer who’s never played
• Upchuck won a small ribbon for “Most Hands On”, and Bodos’ shirt is proof if you let the bear give you a hug, you might regret it
• Upchuck also earned 5 Burpees, the only given out, for batting the frisbee out of bounds over the fence – respect to the man for no complaints crushing the burpees
• Bodos had 1st Place in Most Glorious (and frequent) Dives (pretty sure he’s actually just 25 years old…)
• Handshake went beast mode in celebrating turnovers
• Offshore has sneaky good skills
• Our lone LIFO was Kubota, but only missed the last TD and COT

FINAL SCORE: Team Mariner 10 // Team Atilla 3

COT:

• Counterama # 16
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• BODOS took the PAX out in Prayer

7 of West Ends best came out to see what this Davillian had in store for a takeover day

This how it went down

Mosey around the parking to the side

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Scorpion Kicks, Merkins, Arm Circles

THANG

Mosey to the pull up bars

Triple Check – Pull Ups, Dips, Bear crawl to the first tree and crawl bear back

Mosey to the track

4 Corners – 20 WWII’s, 20 Squats, 20 (2ct) Flutter Kicks, 20 Merkins. Rinse and Repeat

Mosey to the hill behind the concessionaire

Jacob’s Ladder – Run up and down the hill start with one Burpee finish with 7

Mosey back to the SF

Captain Thor – 1:4 ratio with 1 WWII and 4 single ct American Hammer, Rinse, Increase, and Repeat till at 10:40 ratio

1 MOM – Ring of Fire (5ct Merkins)

Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

MOLESKIN

It was great to be back to a bootcamp in the Tuckahoe Nano Region. YHC hasnt been out here for almost 1 1/2 years. Some were even surprised someone beside Honey Do uses Scorpion Kicks in a COP.

Great day to show up with adding of a new transfer PAX from SC named Faceplant. Any idea on how the two faceplant compete for the name, haha

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Prayers for Seymour in his upcoming travelers

SPIT ON THAT!!

There were 6 for Heartbreak Ridge. I was returning from a week at Disney World where I saw one of Whitesnake’s relatives at Animal Kingdom. I was inspired to do the following workout.

Warmup:

Mosey to the front parking lot. All in cadence:

20 SSHs

20 IWs

20 Skaters/touch toe

20 Ukrainian Soldiers

20 Alternating Lunge Twist Right/Left

Mosey to the grass in front of the school

Do the following series of 4 exercises 10X, then 9X, then 8X, etc.

Burpees

WWII

Jumping lunge

Merkins

Find some wall, under the covered walkway.

15 People’s chair air press in cadence

10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence

15 Donkey Kix OYO

15 People’s chair milkers in cadence

10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers in cadence

15 Donkey Kix OYO

15 People’s chair Lalanne in cadence

10 BTTW Toe Taps in cadence

15 Donkey Kix OYO

Mosey to the benches over by the parking lot; 3X

15 Dips single count Cadence

15 Derkins single count Cadence

10 Bulgarian split squats, right leg back, single count Cadence

10 Bulgarian split squats, left leg back, single count Cadence

To the football field

Line up at goal line; Run to the other goal line but one belly touch every 10 yards.

Alternating bear crawls and crab walks every 10 yards to the opposite 40 yard line. (3 bear, 3 crab)

Backwards run to the goal line.

Repeat belly touch, bear crawls and crab walks.

Back to the flag for dollies, Travoltas and 30 seconds of plank.

Announcements:

The Bridge this Saturday. For details, see Slack.

Prayers for Gypsy, Blue Moon, Pinto, Lab Rat and the people of Ukraine.

I recently got back from a trip to Disney World. While we were there, one of our grandsons ate some Sugar Free Gummy Bears. If you want to read something truly funny, read product reviews of Sugar Free Gummy Bears. The following is one of the links I found. I could not complete reading this from laughing so hard. You will likely have to copy and paste the following to get the link to work.

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2755/The-Reviews-For-These-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bears-Will-Have-You-In-Tears-Laughing?fbclid=IwAR0nkN9KG0gfgqOJMEJ-iYBhCTrawyMm1syWeV1n4G2vXZ9uYwxezqujaUU