Tag: Heartbreak Ridge

Time to reclaim Hearbreak Ridge.  After 3 straight weeks of ultimate and dingers (all good, just realizing it had been 3 straight weeks), time to strap on the boots for a beat-down.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopter
  • Arm Circles
• Mosey to the football field for a cumulative beast:
  • 216 HRM
  • 180 reverse crunches
  • 144 squats
  • 108 flutter kicks
  • 72 2x crab cakes
  • 36 burpees
• Cool down with 50 LBC and 40 APD
• Mosey back to the parking lot with a Bernie back up the slope
• COT with YHC taking us out

It was time for the paid workout hogging the parking lot to see how real men workout.  Solid work from the PAX today.  If you have not been in a PAX with our elder statesman Pigskin, make it a point.  He is running laps around dudes ½ his age.  It is spectacular.  Plus, he is a great guy to hang out with.  Solid work from all of the PAX.  Lighthouse, Ronnie, and Handshake were leading the PAX.  Great to see Carfax.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

A lucky 13 dusted off the bats and mitts to play some long ball.

Mosey through the woods into TLL complex onto Field 5 outfield

COP (IC)

• SSHs
• DQs
• Helicopters
• Copperhead Squats
• Merkins
• Freddie Mercurys
• LBCs

Mosey to the 1^st base line

• High Knees
• Butt Kickers
• Karaokes
• Bernie Sanders

Mosey to Home Plate

• Run out a Single, Double, Triple, Homer

DERBY TIME

Objective hit Homers – roughly 15 pitches

• 0 = 3 Burpees
• 1 = 10 WWIIs
• 2 = 10 Jump Squats
• 3+ = Batter’s Choice

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

There’s nothing like some old timers hitting the sandlot and re-living their glory days.  Unless of course they never had glory days.  Either way plenty was had this day.  By YHC’s count 15 balls cleared the fence.  UpChuck blasted one the farthest while Roger Roger brought home the trophy with 3 bombs.  More than half the PAX left the yard and YHC walked off with one over the scoreboard.  Welcome friendly new guy TI (Texas Instruments – birth name Cheng).  Special thanks to the guys of Heartbreak Ridge for letting YHC take the Q and do something dumb.  Next year Team Derby West End vs. SOJ. Apologies for not enough Burpees, the PAX was simply too good.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Open spots for Breaking Bread in the Fall

Field Day and Retreat in September – more info to follow

11 hippy looking dudes showed up for some Ultimate frisbee this morning…some knowing what was coming, others didnt have a clue. After convincing almost everybody to give it a shot, we got going to the dewy field of Heartbreak for some fun.

The light was not optimal and the frisbee was always wet, but no excuses were made for the multitude of bad throws and many drops. Fun was still had by all, and the dark jerseys won out with their extra man. MVP standout was definitely Snuff…he has skills. Bodos quickly found out that Snuff was his man and they made for a tough duo to beat. Lights tried our best to mount a comeback, but we just couldnt find the connection to hang in there.

Well played by all, look forward to next June when we can run it all back again. In the mean time, if you want to play pickup, let me know! Many games around the RVA for pickup, and I am always willing to play.

Apology of the week goes out to Oyster and anybody that was guarded by Bodos for the violation of the 1 meter rule. It is a disc space rule….see below (marker is the person guarding the thrower):

Disc space:

1. It is a disc space violation if:
   1. any part of the marker is less than one disc diameter away from the torso of the thrower; or
   2. a line between any two points on the marker
      1. touches the thrower; or
      2. is less than one disc diameter away from the torso or pivot of the thrower.

And now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Lab Rat apologizes…

Strong showing at Heartbreak Ridge and we may have deadlocked a FNG (CarFax) in to joining going forward.

After a mosey (as I was told a fairly quick mosey) to warmup, we headed to the upper parking lot for some leg workouts( Dora of 100 Lunges, 200 Calf Raises, and 300 Squats). Then a mosey to the bottom of the hill for a chest workout (and definitely Homer’s favorite), Clockwork Merkins. Mosey to lower field and exercise equipment for a modified arm workout (Triple Check of 30 dips, Jerkins, Pull-ups). Mosey to the big field where we met a FNG (CarFax) working out by himself. So we brought him along for a modified Ab Ripper X (25 each of Crunchy Frogs, In and Outs, Bicycles/Reverse Bicycles) then a Bear Crawl 25 yards for (25 of Heels to Heaven, and V-up Roll Ups), followed by a Bear Crawl of 25 yards for WW II’s and American Hammers. The Pax seemed like they had more energy so we went for 3 runs up Heartbreak Ridge. It was a good morning!

No Q at Heartbreak ridge this Tuesday so it was another hotpotato. YHC did not realize the rule was who ever is last writes the BB.. Thought who ever took the lead wrote it. But Handshake helped remind me that was not the case. Soooooooooo.. because i didnt think i was writing a BB i didnt really pay attention to what we did. Maybe Handshake can add it into the comments field. 😉

I remember doing lots of triple checks…
I think i watched everyone do a 100 burpees..
i bet we did Merkins..and LBCs along the way..
Oh yeah… i remember playing wheelbarrow bumper cars with Attila and Handshake until Handshake wasn’t nice about it…. ? (Ouch)
Homer was singing some song when he was doing Bear crawls.
5 mins of Mary.. i remember this part.
90 seconds of American Hammers
90 seconds of Flutters
60 seconds of LBCs
60 seconds reverse crunch.

COT

Then Homer and YHC did a 10k run to round out the morning.

Lots going on over the next few weeks:
6/30 – Lockjaw Paddle after work (PM him)
7/1 – Start of Summer Tour 2021
signup sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L8e9W24ygnU0suaGyKxzi1PgPqY1CBd57hLrKTZI-g/edit?usp=sharing
7/1 – Ultimate Frisbee at the Forge
7/3 – 7am Dogpile Convergence (CB on Q)
7/6 – 3rd F Virtual 8PM (see slack for zoom link)
7/8 – F3RVA Town Hall at 8pm (location TBD)
7/10 – Puppypile following Dogpile
7/17 – Hitch House Party at 5:30p AYE!
7/31 – Flying Squirrels (DM BoneThugz)

Seven warriors braved HBR on a quick tour of what is normally Swamp land. It started with I hope it’s not like yesterday. Well good news folks it was a totally different beatdown and it went a little like this.

Mosey around the school to high ground for a 

Warmarama:

arm circles x 15

Reverso x 15

Don Q x 10

Dead man hang x 10

Merkins x 10

American Hammers x 25

Freddie Mercuries x 25

Descend into the swamp for which was 100% dry today for COP #1

Big Apple Turnover with a twist

We visited the big Apple on this journey from one end of the swamp to the other. Ultra distance for the big Apple!

first 25% near bearcrawl 25 merkins, 

crab walk 50% 50 WW2s

Bear crawl 75% 75 LBCs

Crab Walk 100% 100 squats

Mosey to the pitchers mound for COP #2

Today we played a little Home Run Derby

First up called for imperial walkers while the timer pitches, and runs the bases for a home run. 

Pax performs excercises while home run is hit

Russian soldiers,

Calf raises,

Merkins,

Dead man hang,

Side straddle hops 

Air presses

All 7 pax hit a home run today with a special ceremony at the end! Hope to see this one rotated around for those who showed up today you know what I mean.

Mosey to Cop # 3

One end of the dry swamp to the other we did a Quarter pounder

25% merkins Bernie back

50% Mountain Climbers Bernie to start

75% Flutter kicks Bernie to start

100% LBCs Bernie to start

Pinto gave a 10 second recovery then we mosied.

Mosey to Cop #4 

The Big Bang 

Shoulder to shoulder the pax stands and when the Gun goes off it’s a 20 second sprint as the pax scrambles in every direction and performs 20 reps of an exercise at the end of the sprint

Bang: side plank 10 seconds a side

Bang: 20 plank jacks

Bang: 20 merkins

Bang: 20 side straddle hops

Bang 20 flutter kicks

Mosey to the flag for a quick 

25 American hammers

And 50 LBCs

Times up!

Thanks for letting me host this morning gents! SYITG

An enlightened 11 came out to HBR to see what damage the storm a few hours earlier did. No rain and cooler temps were what we found.

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks (per pax request)

Mosey over to PES for Dora 123: 100 Burpees, 200 Jump Squats, 300 LBCs. This took a while. Then over to MS basketball courts for: 10 HRMs at each hoop with bear crawl between baskets. 60 HRMs in total. Then wheelbarrow length of blacktop. Down to the Jerkin Gym, for Nomad’s sake. 4 sets of 8 Jerkins followed by 60 Benchkicks then back to the flag and 2 min of Mary. YHC took us out.

Announcements: HDHH next Wednesday at Hardywood West Creek. 3rd F next Tuesday night.

NMS: Good to have Nomad from Raleigh up to post with us. YHC had planned on some blockwork on the field but the 3 am monsoon caused an audible to the Dora start, much to Atilla’s displeasure. YHC was lucky to partner with Homer as he is a Burpee machine.

Jerkin Gym sets was probably not the best idea but the PAX knocked them out. Lots of real estate mumblechatter today as Nomad’s work fits this along with our resident slumlord Pinto.

A solid Pax of 9 arrived for a muggy morning at Heartbreak Ridge. Here’s what went down, more or less.

Mosey to the side of the school for COP – SSH, imperial walkers, Don Quixotes, arm circles, merkins and LBCs.

Head to the elementary school for a DORA (even though we had the perfect triple check numbers). After some confusion, we did our 100 burpees, 200 reverse crunches and 300 squats.

Mosey back to middle school for a round of AMRAP pull ups, with the rest of the Pax doing sets of dips.

Next we did 3 rounds of Jerkins at the Jerkin gym.

Finally, a triple check at the ridge – merkins, flutters and Bernie to the top.

Back to the flag for a quick 5 merkins.

Numberama, nameorama and Handshake took us out.

Pinto won the award for dressing like the Q. His red shirt was not quite as form fitting as mine, but it was a great effort. Child size medium seems to work best.