The Great Eight posted for a Monday workout and here is what they got. COP 10 Burpees – Welcome back from vacation!  A gift from YHC to YHC (and the Pax) Helicopters Imperial Walkers Don Quixote HRM (or DRM at the Hoedown) LBC Mosey down Lindsey and ford the stream to Dogwood Park. Perform the Anhinga across the field.  YHC crafted this exercise after watching this bird in its natural element.  We performed the following in our interpretation:  Army crawl 10 paces and launch into a burpee.  Repeat until you have traversed the field and perform SSH. Triple Check! Karaoke…

9 hardened veterans in total showed up at Hoedown this morning.  Thankfully the rain ended last night and the morning was actually not bad at 69 degrees and humid. The Fireman started things off promptly at 5:30 which seemed to surprise Garbage Plate and Bodos. The hoedown went a little something like this: Warm up:  20 Side Straddle hops, 20 Don Quixotes, 20 Arm Circles and 20 Mercans Mosey to one of the nearby parking lot on Forest asked the PAX the last time the Jets won a SuperBowl and the answer was 1969.  As a result we did 19…

11 Warriors attacked Hoedown in the dark gloom this morning.  Condition were 70, Sunny and Humid!  This is what went down: COP: Invisible Jump Ropes x 15 Don Quixotes x 15 Helicopters x 15 LBC’s x 15 Carolina Dry Docks x15 Mosey back to YHC’s truck and collect coupons (2 x bricks) Thang: Head down Lindsay Ct to the bottom and commence SUPER 21’s with Coupons 1 x Merkin/1 x WWII/1 x Squat 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x Butt Kickers up Lindsay with coupons held high 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x High Knees up Lindsay with coupons held high 11x,…

Six hoe regulars convened in the bus loop, waiting for the rain.  No one signed up so we stole from Batteau this AM and hot potato’d it.  Once the rain started, off we went to the front of the school for: COP (Splinter) Invisible Jumpropes – 25 Copperhead Squats – 25 Don Quixotes – 10 Mountain Climbers – 20ish Merkins – 10 The Thang Splinter continued from COP and we mosey’d over to the bus drop off lane for an impromptu series of polar bears.  Polar bear lunge the length of the bus lane, jump squatting after 5 lunges.  Turn…

5 RVA regulars and an out of town visitor sat in their cars for the light show until 0529 and jumped out to get the beatdown going.  As YHC contemplated what to do in case of lightning at an AO only visited once in the middle of the night the rain started to slow. THANG A few flashes took the warmup under the metal awning held up by metal posts, maybe not the best place but better than out in the open.  DQ, Helicopters, SSH, Alternating Shoulder Taps, LBC. Mosey to the corner of the blacktop for Compounding Four Corners.…

Nine of God’s finest creations assembled at Tuckahoe Middle School for a last day of hate beatdown.  We delayed for 2 seconds for Two Can to get settled and then off we went.  Mosey up to the blacktop for something like this: COP SSH – 40 DQ – 13 IW – 13 Copperhead Squats – 13 LBCs – 40 Moleskin Quick saunter to the end line for a blacktop version of line drills.  This time we deconstructed a burpee then followed it up with burpees.  Run to the 1st goal, 10 merkins.  Run back to the end line then to…

Ten of the region’s finest assembled in the waning crescent for a hot potato Q.  With the regulars gone, Hoedown is turning into a regular “who want’s it” staredown.  YHC took control this morning before passing the potato.  Mosey to the black top ocean for COP that went something like this: COP SSH – 25 DQ – 10 MC – 20 LBC – 20 Arm Circles – 15 each way Mosey back to the drop off loop just as Flipper arrives. The Thang Start off with Dora, the traditional way, not the proper way.  Partner 1 runs around the loop…

Five pax stood in the parking lot looking at each other wondering where all the regulars were and who was going to Q.  When asked who wants it, all pax but Lab Rat took one step back.  OK then, let’s do some experimenting! Original plan came to a screeching halt when we went to do a lap around the school only to be met by a formidable fence.    We straightened back out and got some COP done in front of the school.  Nothing fancy here, but get the muscles warmed up and stretched out. We then moseyed back to…

When YHC arrived, the Pax was light in numbers, but the Pax converged quickly with Mr Holland having three seconds to spare.  Mr Holland is the Atomic Clock. COP SSH Russian Soldiers Don Quixote (no Saab, so we went at a medium pace) Helicopters Mosey across the front of the school and to the shopping center parking lot.  Line up for some 11s. 2 count mountain climbers and Carolina dry docks Run about 10 parking spaces between sets Once we exhausted the parking spaces, we crossed Ridge and headed down Holmes to finish In the Kanawha parking lot, partner up…

Twelve fart-sack escapees convened at Hoedown for a Slurpee replacement Q.  Actually, there were 9 of us and three tricklers.  Today was not the day to be late to the AO.  Huddle up then off we went, north on Forest to the church parking lot for… COP SSH – x25 Burpee – x1 Russian Soldiers – x20 Burpee – x2 Imperial Walkers – x20 Burpee – x3 Copperhead Squats – x15 Burpee – x4 Don Quixotes – x10 Burpee – x5 The Thang Slide over about 10 feet to start 4 corners with Old Glory exercises at each corner.  The…