Tag: Hoedown

COP – SSH, DQs, Russian Soldiers, Helicopters, Merkins

Pair up – run up Lindsay Court while partner bear crawls, lunges, bear crawl burpee (ask Last Call)

Triple Check on West Drive Circle – Flutter kicks, Squats, run the circle

Triple Check #2 at TES parking lot – lunges, LBCs, Bernie Sanders to fence and run back

Mini-Dora – 50 Merkins, 100 Squats, 150 two count LBCs while partner run the loop

Finish with 1 minute wall sit. Numberama, Namerama.

Welcome Ripcord to Hoedown!

Ten strong for the newest edition of Hoedown, including a one-week veteran’s FNG.

Mosey to basketball blacktop

COP (IC)

• Copperhead Squats
• Imperial Walkers
• Helicopters
• SSHs
• Merkins
• Freddie Mercurys
• Hello Dollys

Jack Webb Legs

• 1:4 Ratio up to 10:40 – Jump Squats and Monkey Humpers

Mosey down Lindsay Dr and hang a right

Triple Check

• P1 – HRMs
• P2 – Heels to Heaven
• P2 – Run the circle counterclockwise

Mosey back to Lindsay Dr

Love Hill

• P1 – Polar Bear, Lunge, Broadjump Burpees
• P2 – Run up to Lindsay Ct intersection and back

Mosey to Handrail Maze

• Partner Jerkins 3×10

Mosey to Horseshoe infield

• PLTs 3×20

Mary – Rosalitas, APDs

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Great to have Neutral’s 2.0 join us this morning.  The first one is the hardest.  YHC never wants to cause a splash of Merlot, but it is a little satisfying when the old dudes can show the young dudes what they can do.  Gomer Pyle was fired up doing his best Andrew Dice Clay impressions and UpChuck had a really good story about his lawyer this morning.  Perhaps he’ll tell it again at the next Puppy Pile.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Prayers for the turmoil in Afghanistan

Teams SOJ/Tuckahoe need Field Day captains 9/18

Third Annual First Inaugural Retreat 9/25 (cornhole sign up coming, get a partner now, preferably from a different nanoregion)

Seven grabbed Monday by the horns.  Here’s what they did, as best YHC recalls.

Honeydo

Mosey to the front school lawn

COP (IC)

• Russian Soldiers
• Don Quixotes
• Helicopters
• Cherry Pickers
• LBCs
• YHC actually has no recollection but you know the drill

Mosey to Church Parking Lot and get coupons

Triple Check x 2

• WWIIs/ Squats/ Run
• Swings/ Presses/ Run?

Pucker

Mosey to other side of Church

11s

• Carolina Dry Docks/ Flutter Kicks?

Garbage Plate

Mosey back to Horseshoe

• American Hammers
• Run the Loop
• Crunchy Frogs
• Bernie the Loop
• Merkins?
• Run the Loop
• APDs?

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Strong work on a muggy Monday morn.  YHC has never not enjoyed a hot potato, except when the associated grease burned his foot.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

HDHH – Wednesday (oops too late)

Field Day

Retreat

Nine of this region’s finest gathered under the waning crescent for an impromptu hot potato. Very little mumblechatter pre-launch, so we just stared at each other. EF Hutton had enough and said, “time to go”. Mosey to the newly sectioned off black top for a Hutton led COP.

COP (EF Hutton)
12x Copperhead Squats
10x Imperial Walkers
10x Helicopters
10x HRMs
20x Suzanne Somers
10x Something or others
20x Suzanne Somers
10x Mountain Climbers

Prostitute (EF Hutton)
5x Burpees, 20x Merkins, 20x Jump Squats, 20x WWIIs, 20x Mountain Climbers. Work around the 4 corners repeating said exercises a number of times.

Triple Check (Handshake)
Mosey up to the field for people’s chair, WWIIs, run across the field for 5 pull ups.

Triple Check (Splinter)
Mosey to the parking lot for jump squats, plank, bernie sanders across the parking lot and up the hill to the fence for 10 derkins then run back.

Mary
Ring of Fire (Duck-duck-goose style) with 10x dealer’s choice followed by a lap around the ring. Thanks for the audible Pigskin! Finish off with a minute and a half of american hammers.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Moleskin
Quiet bunch for Hoedown today. Maybe it was all the counting, or just recovery from the weekend. YHC detected 3 or 4 different language counts by Pigskin today. Regardless, great to get out with the gang and to push each other this AM. Sorry to hear Upchuck is battling his knee. Get well soon brother!

Announcements
HDHH next Wednesday at Honeydo’s
Field Day 9/18
Retreat 9/25

¡Adiós muchachos!

Credit the Summer Tour, the allure of a colored pill, the desire to get back to normalcy fresh off a vacation, call it a fluke, however you slice it, Hoedown was back today baby.  Seventeen hit the mean streets of Tuckahoe VA to attack the day.

Mosey up to the Blacktop

COP (IC)

• Dead Man Hang
• Reach for the Stars
• Helicopters
• Copperhead Squats
• Russian Soldiers
• SSHs
• Merkins
• Freddie Mercurys

Mosey to Horseshoe

Triple Check 1

• P1 – Donkey Kicks
• P2 – Elbow Plank
• P3 – Run the loop

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 pretty trees and back

Mosey over to Third Church side parking lot

Triple Check 2

• P1 – Block Squat Thrusters
• P2 – Heels to Heaven
• P3 – Run the loop

Mosey to Horseshoe infield

Mary – American Hammers, Hello Dollys, Hold 6 Inches

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

At 0524 the numbers were strong as the PAX eagerly awaited what YHC had in store.  By 0530 seventeen in all were ready to do the thang.  Lots of mumblechatter around Hitch’s Saturday night Karaoke Q.  Sounds like a heck of a time.  YHC isn’t much of a singer, but with the right amount of lubrication could maybe belt out some Sweet Child O Mine, Blaze of Glory, or perhaps Regulate by Warren G.  YHC expects only Bone Thugs, Corned Beef, and maybe Wilson share his taste in music.  Comment with your go-to song.  Just curious.  Make it a great one.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Home Run Derby – July 27^th (See Preblast – 0530 Tuckahoe Little League – park in front of Rico’s Restaurant at John Rolfe and Ridgefield)

Ultimate Frisbee – Heartbreak tomorrow

Not mentioned in COT but YHC could really use prayer

10 mighty not so old folks stumbled upon Hoedown on a fine humid Monday. The workout went like this:

COP around the large mulch pile: DQs, CPs, derkins off the mulch pile, LBCs and arm circles. Mosey to Bodos’ primary parking lot.

Elevens with merkins and WWIIs. I mistakenly ended with 10 merkins and 10 WWIIs. I never thought of myself as an overachiever. Mosey to blacktop and walkway to blacktop.

Next exercise is similar to the Gridiron special last Saturday. We did a series of arm, leg and ab exercises. It was noted that the box jumps were not challenging. Sorry about that. The pacer on the first set had to dribble the ball across the blacktop and make a layup. The second set required dribbling across the black top and attempting 3 free throws. Two PAX made two free throws (67% is much better than Shaq). They are the “shooters”; the rest including yours truly not so much.

In between the two sets, we did wall sits passing the coupon back and forth.

After the two sets, we did a triple check with donkey kicks, step up or box jumps on the slightly flimsy benches and a run around the horseshoe.

Closed in prayer. Announcements: 7/17 – party at Hitchhikers’ house. debate with whether we can bring Ms and the family. Hopefully we will get details on that. 7/20 – Doozy’s 2.0 Q, 7/27 – home run derby at HBR, 7/31 – Squirrel’s game – let Bone Thugs know ASAP if you are going so he can figure out the tickets. I think there still is time to register on the summer tour. Ask Gypsy for details.

I enjoyed leading this group today. Do great things men!

Fireman Ed

Four men of energy and action threw out the lure of the Fart Sack to complete the latest edition of Hoedown. Conditions were sunny and 70. According to Vinny, here is more or less what happened:

Mosey to the front of the school for the COP:

SSHs
Dead Man Hang
IWs
APDs
Oblique Crunches (L/R)
LBCs
HRMs
Hello Dolly

Mosey to the Teacher’s Parking Lot

Parking space shuffle: 3 exercises, 3 reps each

Flutter Kicks (4-count)
WWIIs
Rosalitas

Roughly 10 parking spaces

Mosey to the Blacktop for a Prostitute (always come back to the same corner)

Round 1: 10 HRMs, then back to home for 1 burpee
Round 2: 10 HRMs, then to second for 20 WWIIs, then back to first for 10 HRMs, then home for 1 burpee (and so forth).
Round 3: 10 HRMs, 20 WWIIs, 30 Flutter Kicks (4-count), 20 WWIIs, 10 HRMs, and the burpee
Round 4: same as Round 3, adding 40 Monkey Humpers to the loop.

A prostitute in the mid-summer drives a big sweat and usually means one thing: Vinny’s Baseball is up next. Started by our Main Man Rob Sievers, Vinny’s Baseball (copyright used with permission) is wiffle ball (that copyright is not used with permission) batting practice. 10 swings. Cue the song,”Glory Days.” Enjoy the morning.

BTTF for 1 minute of American Hammers.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out with a message about free people living from free countries (USA, Germany, South Korea) being thankful for representative government in an environment that allows everyone to live according to their own conscience. F3RVA is a great embodiment of this ethos: no one tells you what to do, and when you want to build something positive, lots of guys will be there to offer guidance and volunteer their contributions. Boom.

Announcements:

Hitchhiker is hosting a backyard party on July 17, 5:30 pm. BYO beverages, finger food provided.

YHC is considering hosting a Richmond History Trivia Contest. Ms welcome to participate. Hitch has his money on Emily Seoung, his wife. She sounds like a ringer.

NMS:

Day after July 4 is usually light on attendance as guys are on vacation or recovering. Today was a great day for a lighter workout and some Vinny Baseball. Vinny started this over at The Batteau his first year (among several events started by Vinny, including Vinny’s Field Day – look for information on Field Day shortly). Solid F3RVA tradition.

YHC reached out to several guys to borrow a wiffle bat. Who knew that Bodo’s a) has a wiffle bat, and b) has an annual July 4 weekend trip to Asheville compete in a family wiffle ball game? Sweet. But, no love borrowing his bat. So, YHC was off to Dick’s Sporting Goods to invest in a knock off.

Results were mixed. Blue Moon says nobody plays baseball in Germany. Hutton struggles without his glasses, but can smack a softball style pitch. Hitchhiker literally knocked the plastic cover off one ball. YHC needs to hit the batting cages more often. Overall, good showing for four PAX who never practice. Solid morning, fellas.

UpChuck spits the bit.

This week being the occasion of YHC’s 44th birthday, the 2nd annual F3 Ninja Warrior course was in order. After conducting a quick COP including 44 SSHs, we moseyed through the course so YHC could explain the various obstacles and exercises.

After returning to the start of the course, we divided into pairs. The first pair, DTH and Garbage Plate, took off and the race began. The second pair started after waiting one minute, then the third pair after another minute, and so on, while the rest of the waiting pax conducted COP.

Course was as follows:

• Run to the handicap ramp, perform under/overs on the ropes suspended across the railings. At the final ramp, bear crawl to the top.
• Mosey up to the field to the exercise equipment. Shimmy across the parallel bars with arms in locked position // Perform 3 pull ups on each of the escalating pull up bars // Monkey swing across the horizontal ladder // Run across the spring bench // Climb up the chain link wall and down over the other side // Monkey swing across the rings using only one color of ring.
• Mosey to the swing set. Perform 25 swerkins on the swing set (Get in plank position with feet rest on a swing, Pull legs in to a reverse crunch position, extend legs back out and then do a merkin).
• Mosey to the back southern corner of the TES school property. Run up the large mulch pile, climb the ladder or scale and jump over the chain link fence. Run around the back of the office building and then across Forest Ave. into the middle Third Church parking lot.
• In the center, grab a coupon. Run to the first corner of the lot and perform 25 squats with the block // Run to the next corner, 25 swings // Run to third corner, 25 curls // run to next corner, 25 incline merkins on the block // run back to center and deposit the coupon back in the pile
• Bear crawl through the center retainer ditch and out the other side. Once through, run to the back parking lot of Third Church.
• Mosey to the playground. Jump, leap, or climb over the playground fence using the green bench. Climb up to the top of the slide then slide down face first on the nobbly slide, at the bottom, keep feet on slide and perform 25 Derkins.
• Mosey to the fire escape. Run up and down the fire escape 3 times, performing 5 jump squats at the top each time.
• Mosey to side parking lot. Burpee Suicides. Start on the curb, run to the first parking lot line, perform 1 burpee, run back to curb. Run to second line, perform 2 burpees, run back to the curb. All the way up to 8.
• After 8th burpee round, run back to touch the curb, then run back across Forest Ave., around the front of the school, and back to the tree. Scale the rope ladder and touch the limb to stop the timer.

First finishers performed COP while waiting for the pax. Once pax was in, we finished with some ab exercises.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: TClaps to Snuff for winning fastest time! We’re pretty sure DTH and GP also had a a top time but they seem to not be able to add and subtract accurately. Fudd won the prize for most questions- Wait, do we just keep running? Welcome Kung Fu Panda, who showed up on a really weird day. Thanks to Malpractice’s son Josiah for some tips on the course, who is heading to Vegas this summer for the junior Ninja Warrior World Championship! Thanks guys for humoring me in this stupid tradition.

The humidity was high and so were the numbers at this hill repeat post Father’s Day beatdown. The Pax brought it today as we got out of the fartsack to embrace a Roger Roger Q. This beatdown started with a nice slow mosey down Lindsay Ct for some Warmarama:

25 X side straddle hops

10 x dead man hang

10 x Don Q

10 x Merkins

25 x LBCs

10 x 2 leg circles 

Gomer Pyle gave a good laugh as I stumbled through my cadence on those Merkins. Roger Roger is still working on that cadence.

Recover

Mosey across the creek to a humid park like setting for COP # 1:

Apple Turnover with a Twist: 

Normally done on a football field we used the park perfectly placed in the neighborhood to Bear Crawl 25% distance with 25 merkins 

Crab Walk 50% distance 50 WW2s

Bear Crawl 75% distance 75 LBCs

Crab Walk 100% distance 100 Squats

The mumble chatter continued as we were all just about warmed up by now!

Recover:

Mosey back across the creek to the circle on Lindsay Ct for COP #2:

Notice the name HoE-LLIHH 11s

Did he really say 11s on the Hill. YHC called for one of the longest 11s seen in F3RVA. As the mumble chatter slowed to a minimum. Some were mentioning it was the longest 11 they had ever done.Today was a brutal beatdown encompassing 3.5 miles of running and 11s on hill repeat.

1 Merkin run to the top of the Lindsay up hill 10 plank jacks 

2 then 9 

Until 2 minutes left.

Mosey back to the flag!

Thanks for the Q gents and hanging in there with me to allow me the pleasure after a great Father’s Day! 

Announcements:

Tuesday happy hour

Breaking bread need a july sign up

Patch challenge in July

Puppy pile second saturday in July