Tag: Heartbreak Ridge

A dozen of Richmond’s best got together for their own rendition of “We Are The World”. As many of you know, there comes a time when we heed a certain call and when the reptiles and amphibians must come together as one.

Senor Frog moseyed us to the outfield and we did an assortment of warmups in cadence including SSH, DQ, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, WWII, LBC, Scorpion Kicks and probably others.

He then led us to the blacktop of 2 rounds of four corners. 25 count the first go around of merkins, LBCs, squats & pickle pounders and then a second round picked by the unoriginal Pax of merkins, LBCs, arm circles (Upchuck with some originality) and squats.

The Q was then handed off to me and we hit the softball infield for some running of the bases-3 PAX as a home plate timer of ten burpees who then relieved a group at first base of monkey humpers and they went to second base to relieve a group doing WWII’s and then they did the same for a group of third base flutterers who went home to do the burpees. Each group did each set of exercises once.

Then it was time to hit The Ridge. We did Elevens starting with ten HRM at the bottom and one jump squat at the top. Senor Frog forgot to rake the newly mowed hill. Our bodies soon picked up most of the grass clumps. After we were soaked to the bone, we hit the track for an Indigenous Peoples Run. After 3/4 of a lap, instructions were required as 2-3 people running to the front at the same time seemed to be the norm. That’s not how its done people. Instead of 5 minutes of Mary, we did another lap correctly. 1.7 miles total today!!

Announcements: July 4th convergence at Atlee High School, 7AM. Reach out to Corned Beef to help. July 19th the Bridge is back. More details to come in July. Sign up for Breaking Bread!! Oyster and Upchuck have more details. Finally, Dry July is coming, mainly because of the cool rhyme and also to challenge yourself to take something out of your life that you probably don’t need anyway–alcohol, social media, Handshake.

There’s a choice we’re making, at F3 we’re saving our own lives, its true we’ll make a better day, just you and me!

Eleven PAX, including an FNG, all heard the downpour before 5 am but posted to HBR anyway. We did:

COP on back blacktop: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Merkins, LBCs. No scorpion kicks much to Lighthouse’s dismay.

Four corners to start: 10 burpees, 20 HRMs, 30 WWIIs, 40 Jump Squats. 2nd round keep the numbers going: 50 Carolina Dry Docks, 60 Mtn Climbers, 70 LBCs, 80 SSH. Over to DK wall for Dora 123: 100 Merkins, 200 Donkey Kicks, 300 Squats.

Mosey across the field all the way down to Jerkin Gym. 4 rounds of 7 Jerkins. Over to Heartbreak Hill to introduce our FNG to the namesake: 5 rounds up & down with 5 Merkins at top and 2 Burpees at bottom. Mosey back to flag for 3 min of Mary.

NMS: Welcome Sinbad! Impressive to come out in the wet conditions, although the rain stopped right before we got started. The lack of rain made is just swampy and humid with nothing to cool us down but we got after it. Solid work by all the PAX.

Light rain for the start, a bit warm, very humid.

Mosey forward, Karioke left, Mosey backwards, Karioke right back to start

Disclaimer

Warmup: in cadence

• 20 SSHs
• 20 Imperial Walkers
• 10 Don Quixote

Mosey to Heartbreak Ridge

• Jacob’s ladder: up the hill 7 times with 1, 2, 3, etc. to 7 Burpees at the top
• Stretch

Mosey to railings behind Quioccasin for 11s; Under the railings in both directions

• HR Merkins on grassy side
• Star jumps on the gravel side
• Stretch

Mosey to the wall at Quioccasin

• 15 People’s chair airpress
• 10 BTTW Shoulder Taps in cadence
• 10 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Milkers
• 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
• 5 Burpees OYO
• 15 People’s chair Lalannes
• 10 BTTW toe taps
• 15 Pole smokers OYO

Mosey/lunge walk/bear crawl to Quioccasin parking lot and partner up for a Dora:

• 50, each partner does 50 Merkins
• 100 Crunchy Frogs: Pulled the plug early because of time

Mosey to flag passing by the Fire Station and its decorations.

• 15 Heels to Heaven in cadence

Announcements

2^nd Tuesday 2nd F at Joey’s Hot Dogs in Innsbruck: noon

Wednesday Kayaking(?)

COT

One of the lessons for the past Sunday was on the Tower of Babel. The story in Genesis is about why there are so many languages. Babel in Hebrew means confusion.

Communication when people speak different languages is very difficult if not impossible. But even communication between people who speak the same language can be difficult. Some keys to effective communication: listen, be patient, ask questions to understand and speak clearly.

We continued the conversation on various topics at Starbucks. Illustrating the difficulty of communication, one of us went to a different Starbucks. (We typically go to Starbucks off Gaskins; Gayton Crossing).

For the non-tour stop regulars, the beat goes on at HBR.  Nine faithful warriors converged in the west end and here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to HB Hill for a Dora on the hill
  • 100 HRM
  • 200 WWII sit-ups
  • 300 APD
• Mosey to the jerkin gym and partner up for 4 rounds
  • 8 jerkins
  • 15 PLTs
• Mosey to the field for a 3x check
  • Run
  • Step-ups
  • CDD
• Bear crawl across the field and crab walk up the incline to the parking lot
• Round of Mary
  • One legged crunches, each leg
  • Straight legged crunches
• COT with YHC taking us out

Good work from the PAX today.  Good to see some familiar and long time/no see faces.  As usual, YHC included some deceptive cardio.  Great to have Nacho Libre with us at the early hour.  Mega T-claps for him and the PAX for keeping it clean.

Congrats to those PAX members with recent graduations!   Lunch next Tuesday at Joey’s for those interested.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

A six-pack of noble warriors assembled at HBR for an impromptu Q from YHC.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Suzanne Somer
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the football field for a beast
  • HRM
  • WWII sit-ups
  • Copperhead squats
  • Crab cakes, 2x
  • Side crunches, each side
  • Burpees
• Mosey to the jerkin gym for 4x 8 reps
• Mosey to HB Hill for 5 hill runs with 15 reps at the top
  • One-legged crunches, each side
  • Straight-legged crunches
  • FM
  • FK
• Mosey back to the flag for COT

Great work from the PAX today.  Congrats to Pinto on his son’s marriage and his liver surviving.  Congrats and prayers up to Pinto and Fudd as they see kids graduate HS this week.  No Hornydo today.  Hope the back gets better.  Do not let the cougars mess it up further.

The beast was a bit of a mess with a wet and dewy field.  YHC made sure every inch of the PAX was covered in dew and grass and dirt. 

See Slack for the Summer Tour.  Lunch in 2 weeks.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Ten noble warriors ventured to Heartbreak Ridge hoping to avoid the Ridge. After ten minutes of typical warmups, we instead hit the tennis courts for some dodgeball. Tatar and Mr. Rogers sat out and did their own exercises–due to some combination of injury, keeping teams even and recurring wedgy nightmares from 8th grade.

We did best of 5. Team Fuddskinattilahouse vs Team Handfrogsnakarone. You get hit or your ball gets caught, you go to the designated area and do 5 burpees and then can come back. If no one from your team is left in the doubles court, you lose. After Handshake reminded us of the 5 D’s of Dodgeball, we began.

Final result: Team Handfrogsnakarone won 3 via great dodging, dipping, diving, ducking and dodging. Team Fuddskinattilahouse won 2 by technicality–the other team still had ‘alive’ players but was getting balls off court. Were those details necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.

We left the courts with enough time to hit the benches in the front of the school for two rounds of Bulgarians, dips and one round of derkins.

Back to the flag for heels to heaven, flutters, lbcs and ten burpees.

Christmas in July is coming soon but until then, there is the Memorial Day convergence at 7 at Tredegar and Pickleball starting the following Monday at Forest Hill Park. And don’t forget, I don’t think I’m a lot dumber than you think that I thought that I thought I was once.

4 brave redwoods weathered the early morning to get the day started right at HBR.  After assembling at the near end of the parking lot, there was a quick mosey to the bus lane.  Here is how it went down from there:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • APD
• 50s down the bus lane the field, 5 sets of 10 of each
  • 50 merkins
  • 50 WWII sit-ups
  • 50 squat thrusters
  • 50 2x crab cakes
  • 50 one-legged crunches, each side
  • 50 Chuck Norris
• 4x check
  • Run
  • H2H
  • Wall sit
  • Straight-legged crunches
• COT with YHC taking us out

One last Q in the silent years for YHC. 

YHC easily guessed the PAX today;  4 faithful posters.  YHC was unable to turn the rain off at Handshake’s request. Prayers up for Roger Roger and Fireman Ed.  More prayers for Senor Frog as he ties the knot this weekend.  Lunch tomorrow at Fish & Pig.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Eleven strong emerged from the fog at Heartbreak Ridge. Several of the PAX were still sore from winning this weekend’s Century Classic but tales of the Westhoe’s domination gave the PAX energy for the beatdown:

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, LBCs, Flutterkicks, Scorpion kicks. Over to covered area for pole smokers Indian run. Then up to PES lot for Dora: HRMs, Heels2Heaven, Jump Squats. Over to playground for 6 rounds of 6 Pullups.

Back to QMS parking lot: Polar Bear across the lot, lunge back. Called for time.

NMS: A solid 11 this morning and perfect conditions. The Tomatoes thought so as well as they had a good group formed while we finished up the Pull-Ups. The full Dora took some time but 200 Heels2Heaven gets the PAX ready for pool season coming up. Over half the PAX made it to coffee after.

10 hombres gathered to see what THE Handshake had planned for Heartbreak Ridge.

YHC got out of the car at 0529 and heard Atilla making jokes at Honeydos expense, 30 seconds of “pleasantries” and the clock his 0530 and we began to mosey. Circle up at the base of the Track at Quioccasin for a COP.

Mosey down Quioccasin and across to Westridge. And turn right at Westridge where it and Camrose split. Start at house 1 and complete 10 HRM’s, mosey to house 2 and complete 20 WWII’s, mosey to house 3 and complete 30 Squats, mosey to house 4 and complete 40 SSHH’s, mosey to house 5 and complete 5 Single Leg Imperial Walkers. Repeat this 3 times to make it the 15 houses to the end of Stoneridge.

Atilla remarked that YHC led the Pax to a dead end, but alas it was not a dead end, it was just the beginning. Mosey the pathway to the back of the Law Office on Gaskins. Group up for a Triple Check. P1 – runs the Parking Lot, P2 Heels to Heaven, P3 Monkey Humpers.

After the Triple Check we lined up for a Pencil Roll about 12-ish Parking Spaces. YHC, Fudd, and Offshore were committed to the full Pencil Rolls, the other aged Paxed have thiccer fluid in their ears and couldn’t handle the full distance. To be fair, it was awful.

Start the Mosey back to the flag. Mosey 5 houses and then 2 back and complete 20 of an exercise, do that until we get back to Quioccasin and Mosey to the flag.

Announcements – CSAUP this weekend/Friday night. The Bridge on May 10th with Hermes, see Slack.

Prayer requests – None

NMS – YHC was happy to see an empty Q sheet on Sunday so he could sign up. It was also nice to have Honeydo in attendance. New territory was discovered which was even better

15 fly guys arrived (eventually) to Heartbreak for Earth Day Q, 54 trips around the sun, and 8 years reborn as Gomer Pyle.

According to the bus drivers sneaking a peak during preflight, this is what went down more or less.

Welcome, Mission, disclaimer. 5 burpee start. Mosey to the the forbidden soccer field, lunges and bear polars down the hill (backwards polar bear, five bear crawls and ‘merican). All exercises In cadence: 1x SSH, 20x sumo squats, 10 Helicopter, 10 Turn & Bounce, 10 Don Quixote; 50 ‘mericans: 20 4 count regular, 10 HRM; 54 WW2s; 50 Little baby crunches: 10 regular, 10 Left Leg straight, 10 Right leg straight, 10 legs to the sky, 10 both legs straight. 5 grass angels, 5 aussie grass angels. 20 monkey humpers, 20 gorilla humpers, 10 APD, 10 Tuscaloosa Trailer park twisters. 10x Shazzam! (R)

Mosey to benches. Split into two groups. Group 1: 20 dips swap with group 2. Group 2 squats until group 1 complete. Repeat regular dips 3 x. Final set of dips: 20 climax dips. 100 dips total.

Handshake lunge (2 steps and squat) mosey to jerkin bars, . Pair up. 7-10 jerkins (hit max and do it again x2. 21 – 30 jerkins total.

Mosey to base of hill. Bernie up. Burpee. Bear Polar down. Mosey to bleachers, Polar bear up. Burpee at the top.

Quick round of flutter kicks. Deadman hang. Demonstrate pectoralis major massage technique.

Roger Roger took us out.

NMS – Long COP grumbling expected but aimed to keep the COP under 30 min. Handshake will figure out where shazam! (R) comes from eventually. Great to see Vandelay and Nacho Libre out – NL makes everything look easy. Being a little out of target fitness makes it challenging to hear much of the mumble chatter. We all had fun. I am grateful for this group of HIMs to count on and run around in the morning and do silly things with.

Thanks for letting me lead.

Get some!