Tag: Hoedown

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

In honor of my birthday, we did 69 Burpees! It’s great to be here!

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: 10 Don Quixote, 10 Hand Release Merkins, 20 Dollies, stretching exercise

Upper parking lot: 5 minutes of burpees

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

Wall Courtyard: 10 more Burpees.

Railings: Bear Crawl but weave in and out the railings: Plank up and wait for the 6^th.

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 Squats. 2 times

9 Burpees

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

Back to lower grassy area, a couple of Mary exercises and stretches and Time’s up.

Announcements:

WaThoHuk is looking for a few good men. Wednesday at Pocahontas Middle School. A 3 to 3.5 mile run with some bootcamp. 5:30 AM.

Please consider Give to Give.

A lucky 13 showed this morning for the kick off to Thanksgiving week. For those of you keeping record, this was the first Q for YHC at Hoedown, YHC’s newest Monday home. To keep the PAX on their toes, YHC had some games in store. Thankfully the rain held of for this mornings festivities. Everyone seemed to be in good spirits at the get go.

To get things warmed up, stretching ensued. YHC is a firm believer in actually stretching now at the start. Deadman hang, right leg over left, Michael Phelps, elbow over head.

For those keeping count, we then did the first round of 21s. Everyone lost and 10 burpees ensued.

Then first game, called Tag. One person is it, stay in a tight group and mosey, the it person drops and does 3 merkins then sprints up to the group and tags someone new. They drop and do 3 merkins, and repeato. Catch is you cannot tag the person that tagged you last.

Mosey on down to the bottom of the hill. There partner up and do 20 bo-ya merkins. First partner then runs to the top of the hill and does 3 burpees and runs back down the hill. Second partner starts to head up hill doing bear crawl alternating with lunges each round. At the top both partners then do 20 more bo-ya merkins

Tag back on up to the parking lot for another round of 21s. Everyone lost again, more burpees.

In top lot, did an apple turnover with two layers in honor of thanksgiving week. Each white line in parking lot bear crawl alternating with crab walk, all the way to the top of the lot and back. Second layer, alternating each line, 3 merkins and 3 WW2s.

Mosey on to the top black top for another round of 21s. All lost again. More burpees.

Partner up for another game, this one is called rock, paper, scissors. Partner up, stand on opposite side of lot with your partner, run to the middle and do rock paper scissors. Loser does 5 burpees, winner holds plank. 10 rounds total – keep score. Lots of cheers and shouts and groans of bad luck during this game. It’s a favorite of YHC’s because it gets the competitive edge out in even the calmest of PAX members.

Next YHC believes there was another round of 21s, or maybe not.

Mosey on back to the circle for a quick triple check. First partner does wall sit, second partner does flutter kicks, and third partner runs the circle. Hitchhiker did a great job pushing YHC to sprint hard. Then back to the flag for the COT.

Names, Numbers, and announcements

Don’t forget YHC’s Thanksgiving morning extravaganza at Mary, then Black Friday to Forest Hill Park for loops – FUN TIME, YHC highly recommends both events, two thumbs up.

YHC took it out with prayer.

By my count, we did 188 merkins:

Warmup was 4 sets of 20 merkins (10 in cadence each set) for a total of 80 merkins

5 minutes of burpees: 50 merkins (10 burpees each minute)

Countdown from 10 to 1 of Derkins: 55 merkins

Belly touch 3 times: 3 merkins

Español palabra al día: ¡Arriba! Up!

By the way, I have the Q in 2 weeks. I plan to work 69 Burpees into the routine, and some other stuff.

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

Warmup: Front of school: 20 IWs, 10 Diamond Merkins, 15 American Hammers, stretching exercise

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

Warmup: Upper Far Parking lot: 10 Don Quixote, 10 Merkins, 20 Dollies, stretching exercise

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?? (I forgot what you called them. Put your hands on the wall the in cadence, move one hand and then the other to the ‘floor’ and back on the wall): People’s chair Muhammad Ali, 15 Donkey Kix OYO

Upper parking lot: 5 minutes of burpees

Railing for Dips/Derkins: In cadence: 10 Dips, Hop over the railing, 10 Derkins, 9 Dips, hop over the railing 9 Derkins, etc.

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

Back to lower grassy area, a couple of Mary exercises and stretches and Time’s up.

Announcements:

Gypsy is collecting clothing beginning December 1.

TYA has a day after Thanksgiving race: starts at 7:00 AM at Shelter # 1 of the Forest Hills Park. Each hour, either run 4 miles on the trail, 5 miles on the road or 10 miles by bicycle. Repeat until you give up. Those who last the longest tend to make around 8 laps.

Thoughts and Prayers for Hitchhiker. His wife lost an aunt (stroke) and his father-in-law is in the hospital with Covid.

13 Hoedown regulars and 1 out of towner from Raleigh found it easier to take on the Gloom with the time change. Majority of PAX were there 5 minutes early, even Handshake arrive at 5:25. With a call for 10 pre-beatdown merkins we took off to 3rd’s lot for COP:

COP: SSH, Don Qs, Russian Soldiers, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks. Mosey to office building for 4 corners: Accumulating style: 10 WWIIS, 20 Merkins, 30 Jump squats, 40 LBCs. Over to Coupon drop zone. Triple check of Scissor Sisters & run the loop. 20 Merkins after.

Mosey down to Triple check loop for proper one: Balls2Wall, Heels2heaven, & run loop. Once the lights were on in the parking lot head over for Bear-arrow loop. Bear crawl arrows loop with 8 merkins at each arrow. 88 in total.

Over to flag for few minutes of mary + 40 more merkins getting us to 238 count for the morning. COT and YHC took us out.

NMS: Several pax were anxious to see what the Honedyo Q would look like. Kubota wasn’t there to find out. Good to have Burt join us from F3 Raleigh. He’d never seen Scorpion Kicks before but afterwards said it was a keeper to take back to Raleigh. Good to have 14 out at Hoedown!

Six warriors with bellies full of candy from the night before descended upon the empty parking lot to kick off the week. It was a hot potato kind of morning and Bodos kicked it off right. We did some stretching and moseying.

Then the Thang, Bodos did that and YHC cannot remember it all.

After that Bodos handed it off the potato to Garbage Plate. Garbage plate worked the PAX out hard, and then handed the potato off to Neutral for what may be have been his VQ potato. Neutral moseyed us on over to the blacktop and we did a 4 corners. We went back to the flag and circled up some quick merkins, then we hit the clock.

Bodos took us out with some thoughtful words.