Tag: Hoedown

A quiet and lucky 13 started the week off right with a morning at Hoedown. Short stroll over to the small parking lot for COP – Helicopters, Don Quixote, SSH, Russian Soldiers, and Hillbillies.

11s in the parking lot. Exercises are Merkins and 4 count American Hammers. The form of locomotion was call by each Pax member to go over and back.

Off to the grassy island around the horseshoe for PLTs – three sets of 25s.

Off to the Jerkin Gym for three sets of 7.

Over to the sea of blacktop for descending 4 corners:

• Corner 1 – 40 jump squats, 30 LBCs, 20 Mountain Climbers, 10 HRM
• Corner 2 – 30 LBCs, 20 Mountain Climbers, 10 HRM
• Corner 3 – 20 Mountain Climbers, 10 HRM
• Corner 4 – 10 HRM

Karaoke the long sides and lunge the short.

Mosey up to the field and line up on the sideline for some Dora. Partner 1 runs across the field and back. Partner 2 completes 100 Carolina Dry Docks, 200 Monkey Hummers, 300 LBCs.

Finish up at the horseshoe for Broga led by Last Call.

YHC took us out.

Nine PAX joined YHC for the last January 2022 Hoedown that will ever exist and left with flashbacks of Merkin month.

Here’s what transpired:

Mosey to front of school

COP

• Don Quixotes
• Helicopters
• Dead Man Hang
• Grab the Sky
• Copperhead Squats
• Imperial Walkers
• Merkins
• LBCs

Mosey to parking lot hill

Bernies and Burpees

• P1 – Bernie x 3
• P2 – Burpees (combine for 75)

Mosey to the recess field

Triple Check 1

• P1 – Pullups
• P2 – WWIIs in the snow
• P3 – Run over and back, stopping for 5 Dips

Mosey to other side of field

Merkin Ladder

• 1 Merkin, run across field, 2 Merkins, run back, 3….17 + 1 bonus round

Mosey to the Horseshoe

Triple Check 2

• P1 – People’s Chair
• P2 – Freddie Mercurys
• P2 – Run the loop

Mosey 3 feet across the sidewalk

PLTs 3×20

Plankorama into a Ring of Fire

Mosey back to the Flag

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Pre-beatdown mumblechatter had to do with Faceplant and Hitch’s playdate.  Faceplant says Hitch has better toys at his house.  YHC remembered thinking his friend’s parents had the world’s coolest van because it had a 4×4 inch black and white television mounted in the ceiling in 1985.  UpChuck had terrible toys as a kid and still does as a grown up.  Jacks tournament at his house next Thursday.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Happy Hour – Wednesday new southside Triple Crossing

No tricks, no games, no creative gimmicks this morning. Just ten studs with their yellow walkmans for a classic Hoedown beat down.

COP: Mosey to church lot for 10x SSH, 10xCP, 10x DQ, 10x deconstructed burpees, 20x LBC, 10x Rosalitas

Parking lot 11’s – 4ct AH’s & 4ct Superman

Mosey to back church parking lot for 4 corners cumulative with 10x WWII, 20x jump squats, 30x MH, 40x merkins, jog/Bernie long section, crab walk short sections. People’s chair for the six.

Move to the auxiliary lot to snag coupons and partner up for a Dora around the corner church building. 50x overhead press, 100x block squat, 150x block press. Al Gore for the six.

A slight shift up to the wooded lot for a good old triple check: run the loop, coupon curls, alternating coupon merkins.

Mosey back towards the flag with a quick pit stop for 2×10 jerkins and 30x dips.

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements (thx for Breaking Bread service, prayers for GP and Pigskin in Honduras) and YHC took us out.

Moleskine: First ever Hoedown for Flatline today, hopefully not the last although some questions were raised as to the validity of Upchuck’s American Hammers. Good to have Steamer back for week #2 and a pleasure to start a Monday right with such a fine group! SYITG – GP

10 intrepid adventurers set out across the frozen Tuckahoe tundra to attempt their best impression of Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage. Two simple goals: stay dry and don’t fall down.

40 SSHs, 20 Don Quixotes, 20 Imperial Squat Walkers, 10 Helicopters, arm circles in both directions and some other warmup stuff lost to brain freeze.

Careful mosey to the covered walkway where our ship was frozen in ice and locked for the duration. While dry, the walkway formed a natural wind tunnel but luckily these men are extremely aerodynamic and almost never complain. Some merkins followed by a centipede railing crawl counter-clockwise up down and around covered walkway.

Dora to the mountains of madness: run the perimeter of the covered walkway while partner does 100 WW2s, 200 merkins, 300 flutter kicks.

There was some concern that the centipede railing crawl wasn’t balanced so we ran it back clockwise.

10 burpees OYO.

A second dora with a perimeter run while partner does 100 Lalannes – a wall sit with toe touches (thank you Pigskin for the reference – I am now down the rabbit hole of old Jack LaLanne videos on YT), 200 jump squats and 300 wall-sit arm raises.

10 more burpees OYO.

Since we had 3 minutes someone suggested Mary so we did 3 minutes of Lieutenant Dans.

Careful mosey back to the flag for the COT.

A prayer of gratitude for being able to come out into the cold and put in the work. Peace.

I got there just barely before launch time. Obviously, a supply chain problem.

We had an FNG. Bodos with the headlock. Works with Bodos. Former Marine, avid outdoors-man. Well-traveled and well read. Welcome Mimi!

Weather report, 30 and dry. Perfect! One of the great things about F3; people will show up! Good crowd! 15!

 

Warmup: Corner Parking lot: 20 SSHs, 10 Man-maker Merkins, 15 knee-ups, stretching exercise

Warmup: Upper Parking lot: 20 IWs, 10 Diamond Merkins, 15 American Hammers, stretching exercise

Warmup: Corner Parking lot: 20 Russian Soldiers, 10 Shoulder slap Merkins, 15 Crunchy Frogs, stretching exercise

Warmup: Upper Parking lot: 15 Lunges, 10 Hand Release Merkins, 20 Dollies, stretching exercise

Upper parking lot: Mankiller (12, 10, 8, etc.)

Wall Courtyard: 10 single count air-press (People’s chair), 10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence, 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Wall Courtyard: 10 single count milkers (People’s chair), 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers in cadence, 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Wall Courtyard: 10 single count Lalannes (People’s chair), 12 BTTW ToeTaps in cadence, 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Wall Courtyard: 12 Dirty Hookup: People’s chair Muhammad Ali, 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Romanian Dead Lifts: 10 each leg in cadence. Unfortunately, I have a great deal of trouble maintaining balance during this one. Which is why I plan to incorporate it into my Qs, until I can get it right. Next time you see Gomer Pyle, you can thank him for this one.

Railings: Bulgarian Split Squats 10 each leg, 10 Derkins, 9 etc.

Upper Parking Lot: Partner up: Each side of Parking lot: bear crawl. When you meet, 10 Hand Slap Merkins: Repeat

Up to the grassy area behind the school: Partner up: partner 1 runs to the pull-up bars and does 5 pull-ups, Partner 2 does WWII sit-ups. 3 times

 

Announcements:

UpChuck reported (later, see Slack) on Breaking Bread: All taken spots up until May

A Great Eight inexplicably gathered on a sunny and 70 degree morning, which felt more like 35 and icy rain. After jumping out of the cars at 5:29, the pax quickly checked in and moseyed up Lindsay, left on Forest, down to the office building next to the Mobil station. We managed to find sheltered space under the covered lot, and after some COP, YHC whipped out a makeshift whiteboard for some ground and pound.

100 SSHs
90 Squats
80 LBCs
** 15 Burpees **
70 Mtn Climbers 2x
60 Merkins
50 American Hammers 2x
** 15 Burpees **
40 WW2s
30 Ball Dippers 2x
20 Burpees
10 Diamond Merkins

When finished, we cut the exercises in half and worked our way back up the ladder.

Ended with some ab exercises, wall sits, and chicken peckers.

Moseyed back to the TES lot, now with ice driving on our heads, and after a rapid namerama and numberama, YHC took us out. Everyone back in the cars by 6:17.

NMS: This was one of those mornings I would have likely fartsacked were I not the Q. Amazing to see 7 other guys show up on a morning like this. These crazy people are what makes this group so great. Handshake wore leggings for the first time in a looooong time, and he was actually disappointed that we stayed under cover. He was hoping to put those double layers to good use. Garbage Plate wins the award for toughest dude for running to and from the AO from his house.

Ten local middle-aged men gathered in the gloom to compare their numbers of appliances. Odd mumblechatter pre-launch but it sufficed.

COP

– SSH
– Hillbillies
– Don Quixotes
– Arm Circles
– Merkins
– LBCs

The Thang

Very short mosey to the sideline for progressive line drill. Run to the first basketball hoop, perform an exercise, then return back to the start and wait for the 6. 1st and second basketball hoop, etc until you got to all 4 lines, repeating all 4 exercises. Exercises were 10x merkins, 20x Mountain Climbers, 30x Jump Squats, 40x American Hammers. Repeat in descending order.

Wander over to the arrows for, arrows. Bear crawl between arrows and 3 burpees at each arrow. As Last Call put it, Merry Xmas.

Shift over to the end of the lot for triple check as the lights came on. Reverse plank, walk-out/back merkins, run and bernie up the hill.

Follow the leader over to the other lot for curb crawls. Up to 5 and back down, audible to not do the way down.

6 minutes of mary which included WWII, H2H, Freddie Mercuries, followed by a 10 count ring of fire with Fudd going nostalgic and singing for us.

Numbers, names, announcements before YHC took us out.

Announcements

Convergence Saturday 7am at Rock N Roll.

HDHH at some point this week.

Enjoy the day fellas.

16 regulars came out on a clear winter morning to see who the jolly visitor with the white beard was. Some thought it was Santa, but found a better surprise when Toga joined us in the Gloom. We did:

COP on blacktop: SSH, Don Qs, Hillbillies, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks

THE THANG: Stay on blacktop for some 4 corners:

11 at each corner: Round 1: Merkins, Round 2: V-Ups, Round 3: Burpees. Then 2 rounds of 22 PLTs.

Mosey over to Coupon Drop zone, hoping we had 6 or more blocks to use. We had just enough for a Triple check: Mtn Climbers, Squat Thrusters, run loop. Mosey over to 3rd back lot for: Wheelbarrows, Crab Walk, Lunges, and Bear Crawl. Mosey down to TES lot for Bearrows: 4 HRMs at each arrow and bear crawl the loop.

Over to flag for 1 min of Mary. COT and YHC took us out.

NMS: Last 2 times Toga has posted at Hoedown YHC has been the Q. Is he timing his family visits to RVA to get a Honeydo beatdown?? Always good to have him back in RVA. Many PAX were expecting a Fudd sighting as well, maybe later this week.

11s on the 4 corners took a while to hit the theme but EF Hutton figured it out. 44 Burpees was just enough to warm us up. We learned that Bodos checks our Coupon drop zone daily to ensure proper coverage. Always good to have Kubota post on a non-Wednesday and happy birthday to Libby!

Good times at Starbucks after with a good group.

14 of Tuckahoe’s finest converged at Hoedown on a cold dark clear morning. After making his way out of a mind fog, YHC recovered the Q and off we went.

COP in the first Third Church lot: Deadman hang // Helicopters // Cherry Pickers // DQs // Imperial Walkers // Russian Soldiers // Crabcakes // APDs// LBCs// Inverted Crabcakes // Merkins // Elbow Plank // Pickle Pounders // Squats // SSHs. Mosey to middle lot.

Triple Check with a Coupon. Round 1: P1 Squat Thrusters, P2 American Hammers, P3 Run the loop. 3x // Round 2: P1 Block Burpees, P2 WW2s, P3 Run the loop 2x // Round 3: P1 Curls, P2 LBCs, P3 run the loop. 1x.

Catch the Murder Buddy: Partner up. P1 Murder Bunnies around the lot, P2 runs the lot and catch P1, switch off. Mosey to TES blacktop.

Four Corners, Four Rounds. Round 1: 28 SSHs in each corner // Round 2: 21 LBCs in each corner // Round 3: 14 Merkins in each corner // Round 1: 7 Burpees in each corner. Mosey to Flag.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: At a neighborhood Christmas party last night, YHC partook generously in some homemade eggnog that turned out to have a LOT of rum and bourbon. Waking with a significant headache this morning, passing the Q was seriously contemplated, but then YHC remembered how much Handshake would mock him so pride and resilience won the day.

Look out for a Xmas Karaoke Q this Saturday. Prayers for the dad of a good friend of Splinters’ 2.0, fighting for his life against Covid.

No pulpits were smashed in the making of the latest Hoedown, here’s what did transpire.

Mosey around front of school

COP (IC)

• DQs
• Copperhead Squats
• Helicopters
• Arm Circles
• SSHs
• Merkins
• Mountain Climbers
• Crabcakes
• Flutter Kicks

Mosey down Forest and hang a left on Spottswood

DORA

• P1 – HRMs x 100, Reverse Crunches x 200, SSHs x 300
• P2 – Run up the big hill to the first SUV on the right

Mosey back to TES parking lot hill

11s (Bernie in between exercises up parking lot hill to fence)

• Burpees
• Heels to Heaven

Mosey to blacktop

Triple Check

• P1 – Captain Morgan Squats
• P2 – Mountain Climbers
• P3 – Bear Crawl to dotted line, run to fence and back

Mosey to Horseshoe infield

• 17 Merkins & 4 Burpess for the Washington Football Team

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

YHC received a text from UpChuck last evening to let him know he’d likely need to modify due to his ongoing injuries.  Not to worry YHC hadn’t planned to hit the upper body and legs too hard.  Wait, nevermind, sorry Pal.  Today’s version of 11s was truly awful, expect to see it again.  Bodos is really good at smashing things, not so good at counting beyond 100.  Apparently, Pigskin’s headlamp produces 1,000,000 candlepower.  Who knew that was a thing?  As always, thanks for following YHC’s lead.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Clothing and shoe drive – See Gypsy

12 Days of Rosie’s Christmas – Dec 21 at NoToll

Punisher Happy Hour 6pm tonight – See Slack later today for location