Tag: Hoedown

5 Amphibians met to frolic in the primordial ooze, and forget about tax day, for a time.

Here is how it went down

Mosey to the second wettest spot for COP: 22 SSH; 22 HRM; 20 Mud Angels; 20 Australian Mud Angels; 20 Travolta Merkins; 22 slow Freddie Mercury; Arm Circles

Triple Check. Iron Chair with Overhead Claps, Plank Jack (O.P.P. yah you know me) + 10m Army Crawl (extra credit includes the 5 inch puddle)

Mosey to Derkin bars. Buddy up. 6+10+10 one leg Derkin.

Mosey to drop off loop. Bottom Feeder – 5 x creature merkin (8 points) followed by 5x Curb Crawl (Bear Crawl, incline Merkin, Crawl Bear, decline merkin)

Triple Check. Donkey Kick, Flutter Kick, drop off loop

Round of Mary. Freddie Mercury, 6 inches, Back lifts, Flutter Kick, Mud Angel

No announcements. Eager for Dogs and Kids.

YHC took us out.

YHC is always leery of the parking lot at the darkest and most dangerous AO in RVA, so I did include my headlamp in my PCI (thats Pre Combat Inspections, Lab Rat) , but failed to include my shovel flag. Always room for improvement.

Handshake got it right that while rucksacks are a recent fad, crawling around in the mud never went out of style. Actually, I will give those puddles a 5 / 10 – wet but not really muddy. Muddy is when you are still getting mud out as pulverized dust 3 months from now.

A mighty 11 came strolling into a not-so-dark Hoedown this AM for a Splinter led post vaca beatdown. Huddle up to watch Upchuck tie his shoes then off we went down to the bottom of Lindsay for:

COP
SSH x20
Imperial Squat Walkers x20
Don Quixotes x10
Arm Circles each way x15

The Thang
1k5k. Partner up and one partner runs up to the top of Lindsay while the other does an exercise. Exercises were 100x Jump Tucks, 200x merkins, 300 two-count Freddie Mercuries, 400x LBCs.

Mosey back to the blacktop for some more March Madness fun. 3 modified line drills on the blacktop, using the basketball hoops as our lines. At each line complete increasing number of specified exercise. 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x. First iteration was merkins, second iteration was jump squats, third iteration (much to the delight of Bodos) was two-count mountain climbers. Much fun was had.

Bear crawl down the ramp (and via a shortcut if your name is Ronnie) to the cafeteria wall for COT.

YHC took us out.

Moleskin
What a wonderful morning for some light jogging. BT clocked us at nearly a 5k (2.7 miles). We accomplished > 1k exercises so we will call that a wash.

Great to see Two Can out and about again. Up Chuck was gracious enough to offer a second pair of gloves which required Up Chuck to re-tie his shoes, prompting for a delayed departure.

The babbling brook was clean and active this morning. Nice backdrop for the 1k exercises.

Announcements
Game tonight. Make sure you post tomorrow.

Big data is (mostly) watching…

Old Glory flew around parts of Westham this morning as 7 able bodied men attack the Inaugural Old Glory workout at Hoedown. The following is what YHC could remember:

No COP! Grab Shovel Flag and complete a 1 mile run from TES to Trinity Methodist by way of a route through Westham.

Plant Shovel Flag at the corner of Forest and Rock Creek and identify the following four corners to the PAX:

Corner 1 – Forest and Rock Creek complete 20 Merkins

Corner 2 – Back parking lot corner to the rear right of church property complete 20 Jump Squats

Corner 3 – Back parking lot entrance to the left rear of church property complete 10 Burpees

Corner 4 – Forest and Stuart Hall complete 20 WWII Sit-ups

Complete as many circuits as possible in the allotted time frame which was 20 minutes or until 6:00am.

Grab Shovel Flag and reverse the 1 mile route back to TES.

Circle up for 5MOM:

Upchuck – 16 x Reverse Crunches

Gomer Pyle – 15 x Hello Dollies

EF Hutton – 15 x APD’s

Bodos – 15 x American Hammers

Handshake – 15 x Flutter Kicks

Garbage Plate – 15 x Back Arches

Kubota – 15 x Scorpion Kicks

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements and YHC took us out

Announcements:

Roller Coaster/HDHH is this Wednesday at 5:30pm sharp for the run. Meet behind Palani Drive Restaurant at 401 Libbie Ave. Run hills until around 6:15pm, then go inside Palani Drive for HDHH.

Faceplant has his Run VQ tomorrow at Spider Run.

Need someone to Q Breaking Bread for April. Sign up on the Q Sheet. Thanks to Slurpee for handling February and March by himself!

NMS:

Old Glory seemed like a good call this morning in order to keep the PAX guessing beforehand whether there was going to be some April Fool’s shenanigans or not. No jokes, only fools, but we are better fools for completing an Old Glory workout. We clipped a nice pace on the way over and attacked the stations with precision and speed. All except YHC. Urination break and trouble breathing kept YHC lagging behind the rest of the PAX who absolutely crushed it! The circuit distance was about as close as you can get to the No Toll Old Glory circuit distance. Just a small fraction less. The run back was were YHC had to give the shovel flag up to Gomer Pyle because the flag should fly in front of the PAX, not behind where YHC was hanging out/struggling. A nice round of Mary completed a great way to start our week. Upchuck noticed that Bodos calls great cadence and then made a comment about Bodos maybe Q’ing soon……???

A column has been added to the Old Glory tab on the Q sheet to record how many circuits you completed. YHC will Q this again at an unknown date to see if anyone can improve on this morning. YHC sure hopes he can improve.

Have a great day, fellas, and it was an honor to lead this morning!

Kubota

A perfect 6 showed up for a spring-time beatdown. Rather 5 did and one thought it was still winter.

Mosey up to the Gaga Ball pit for COP.

• Russian Soldiers
• Helicopters
• Don Quixote
• Crabcakes
• Scorpion Kicks

Exit the arena for March Madness!

• 8 burpees for the play in teams
• 64 four count flutter kicks, crabwalk across the width of the sea of asphalt
• 32 Box Cutters, mosey to the hill up to the field and crawl bear to the top
• 16 Boo-Yah Merkins
• 8 Chad Michael Michaels aka the Iron Lotus
• 4 Pull Ups
• 2 incline Merkins
• 1 minute Elbow Plank

Long mosey down Forest to Trinity Church. 3 sets of 20 reps of Wilson’s Dying Cockroaches.

Ready for some Doras

• Partner 1 runs the length of the church to the next road and back
• Partner 2 performs 300 LBCs, 200 Monkey Humpers, 100 Merkins

3 sets of 20 PLTs and a mosey up hill to the AO proper.

On the wall for 30 Donkey Kicks (somewhere Honey Do is smiling) and then on your six for some Mary:

• APDs
• 1 legged leg lifts – right over left
• 1 legged leg lifts – left over right
• Hello Dollies

YHC took us out.

13 strong at Hoedown this morning for a crisp workout to start the week off right.

COP:

Quick warmup jog to the rear office lot followed by 10 Don Quixotes, 20 SSH’s, 20 LBC’s, and 10 HR Merkins.

The Thang:

Start up – Mosey to the back church lot and partner up. Run to far end, partner one does 15x Squerkins, return & 15x for partner two. People’s chair for the six. Repeat with 30x PLT’s, 45x Willson’s Dying Cockroach and 15x BooYah Merkins.

The hammer – Mosey to the asphalt hill at Tuckahoe and enjoy a Dora. 100x squats, 200x box cutters, 300x flutter kicks. Trigger partner is crawl bearing up the asphalt hill and jogging back down. Good times. Plank for the six.

On the road – Several stops on the way to the back Tuckahoe field: 30x inclined WWII and 15x Alabama prom dates on the Tuckahoe map. Mosey to the rear playground rings. 4 rounds x 8 each of jerkins on the rings.

Finale:  Wrap-up with a burpee suicide across the back field, 7x at each stop. Plank for the six. Mosey back to the flag.

Numberama, Namerama, COT

Announcements: 
– Go Ruck shadows needed for this weekend; no exercise, just support. Get with Honeydo for details.
– Dogpile this Saturday later start time of 7a and guest leader. Pre-work starting at ET’s; watch the pre-blast for information.

Moleskin – 
Thanks for the chance to lead such a fine group this morning. Mumble chatter was low & effort was strong. PAX put up a solid showing and crushed it. Nice work gentlemen! Peace – GP

Eight PAX set their alarm correctly to the new DST and found warmer temps awaiting them. We started with:

COP in the Gaga Pit: SSH, Don Qs, Derkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks. Mosey to Tuckahoe Shopping Center. Pleasants Hardware was close so we did Wheelbarrow across lot and back. Head over to Kuba Kuba Dos for:

Dora 123: 100 Donkey Kicks, 200 Merkins, 300 Jump Squats. Then 3 sets of 30 PLTs. Head back to TES, to back field for: Airborne Jerkins on the Monkey Bar Rings: 4 Sets of 8. Head to blacktop lot: Bear Crawl across, 25 WWIIs, Crawl back then 20 more WWIIs. Finish up with Freddy Mercurys and American Hammers. COT & YHC took us out.

NMS – Good to see some Hoedown originals back out this morning, even better when Lockjaw and Saab run in to the AO. The DST change reminded everyone how very dark TES is in the morning so we spent a good while off campus.

After Kubota pointed out the new Gaga Ball pit he was not here to break it in this morning. We learned the pit fits 8 snugly, that is about max capacity. Not much to it besides ability for Derkins and the reverberation of Saab groaning on the Don Qs are much clearer.

YHC wasn’t planning on wheelbarrows until Fireman Ed reminded him of a previous Q where we did those right in the Zing Fit lot and had to dodge cars pulling in. The Pleasants Hardware part of the lot has less traffic but the lot is wider.

Lots of partner work this morning. The Airborne Jerkins worked well but the PAX had different methods of getting their legs on the mans shoulders. YHC was not ready for the first round where Handshake grabbed the rings, vaulted his legs up and onto YHC’s shoulders in one graceful move.

Annoucements: Roger Roger VQ is tomorrow at Heartbreak Ridge. Will he test out the Jerkin Gym mud? Use the Cinder Blocks? Dare to go onto the Football Field? Post tomorrow morning to see what he has planned!

8 above average PAX including myself braved the 35 degree somewhat breezy conditions to get a good workout.

The workout went something like this:

Warm-up: Mosey to the Rite Aid and do 25 side straddle hops, 10 Don Quixotes, 13 LBCs, 7 forward arm circles, 6 backward arm circles. Honey Do was remarking on my odd counts and asked if I had a random number generator to which the answer is yes.

Exercise 1: Doras with 100 merkins, 200 jump squats and 300 two count flutter kicks while the partner runs around the Rite Aid.

Exercise 2: Cross the street. Same partner. Partner 1 does 5 merkins, partner 2 bear crawls, Partner 1 catches up to partner 2 and they switch.

Exercise 3: Go to the driest ground in RVA; otherwise known as Bodos’ backyard. Share 100 PLTs.

Exercise 4: Using what little I know about the NFL combine (did you see that a 260 pound defensive lineman ran a 4.41?) I had the PAX try 3 attempts at the 40 yard or meter dash (Offshore and Garbage Plate appeared to be the fastest) and then try 3 attempts at the 60 yard or meter shuttle. Kubota did a Forrest Gump like over run on the first attempt (Stop Kubota Stop). Upchuck made a failed attempt at recasting the “Hi Roger” event from a couple months ago.

We finished with 25 plank jacks, 30 American Hammers, 25 2 count mountain climbers and 25 side straddle hops.

No announcements of note and the Fireman closed in prayer. It was good to see Splinter back in action.

7 redwoods gathered for a Pacific Northwest spring day contemplating 70 and sunny thoughts and the upcoming bikini season.

After determining that no one signed up to Q, hot potato was the call.

Handshake – Mosey to first third church parking lot COP, 10x Russian Soldiers, 10x Copperhead Squat, 10x Imperial Walker, 10x 2 count Merkin, 25x LBC. 11s : Flutter Kicks and Merkin. Freddie Mercury for the 6.

Fireman Ed – Mosey to far parking lot. 4 corners 10 Burpee, 20 WWII, 30 Jump Squats, 40 LBC. Plank for 6.

Garbage Plate – Mosey to Bodos secret playground (jk) for oblique workout. Plank 30s. 25x left plank drops, 25x right, 25x oblique V up left, 25x right. 75% parking lot sprint, backwards run back.

Gomer Pyle – complete running workout 50% sprint, backwards run, 75%, 100%, 100%. Mosey to Tuckahoe parking lot. Bear Crawl to 12 arrows, 10 WW2 Situps on each arrow. Deep Al Gore for 6 + 30s. Mosey to jungle gym. 30 Pullups, 50 Merkin OYO. Mosey to flag. YHC took us out.

Did I miss anything, gents?

NMS

Discussion and reminders about GroRuck special events. Get ready boys! The NoVA Patriots are showing. Happy hour friday. Dredd is Q at a 7a DogPile. Leadership school follows. Then a casual evening stroll with friends – and a few stops along the way. Definitely will be a great event. Check out the pre Blast.

On the first mosey, Handshake seemed to be distracted by another running group. YHC seriously thought he was going to pass them so that the PAX could show their impressive forms, but then we ran across the street for the parking lot and COP. Later that same group came by during the bear crawl, but MOST of the PAX were too intensely focused on their summer goals to notice. Having run with that group in the daylight, YHC abides.

Which brings me to the parable of the day:

YB: Hey old bull, lets each run down this hill and get us one of those heifers.

OB: That’s a great idea, you run ahead young bull. I will walk and get the rest of them.

Gomer Pyle

Share your energy! Stay focused!

Get some!

– Gomer Pyle

On the 140th year since Washington’s Birthday was made a Federal holiday, 10 brave men (at the minimum, all of them Vice Presidential caliber) took the field at Hoedown.

Observing mid-30s temps and a waning drizzle, the clouds parted, and off we went into 70 & sunny weather..

Fun Facts from YHC:

• Technically, the federal holiday is “Washington’s Birthday”. Many states have adopted the inclusion of other presidents into the holiday. Thus, ‘President’s Day’ is generally considered a day to honor incumbent and past presidents.
• Washington’s actual birthday is 2/11/1731 on the old style calendar. When the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, his birthday was updated to 2/22/1732. However, the holiday is observed between Feb 15-21, never actually on Washington’s birthday.
• How weird would it be to have your birthday change when you were 20 years old?? On second thought, I guess everyone was doing it, so..

…today’s workout paid some respect to Feb. 22nd (new calendar) and the 11th (old calendar).

COP:

• Side Straddle Hop x22
• Windmill (no love for Russian soldiers on President’s Day) x22
• Imperial Walker x22
• Hatchet* x11

*New exercise, the Hatchet, aka Jack Merkins
Plank jack followed by a Merkin. Repeat
(named for GW’s cherry tree transgression, which has since been determined to be #fakenews)

Run North on Forest, West on Spottswood, bear left onto Silverspring, to lot behind 3rd Church.

Bear Crawl 1-2-3 (Dora’s obnoxious neighbor who stays up late partying)
Grab a ‘running mate’ (aka partner) and alternate bear crawl across the parking lot while the non-crawler is completing:

• 45 Hatchets (for 45 current & past presidents)
• 200 Mountain Climbers
• 300 Copperhead Squats
• When done, crab walk race your partner to other side, perform 10 burpees, repeat until PAX is done.

This led to some fun discussions of which partner would be running at the top of the ticket, and who would be the Veep.. Feel free to post results in comments.

10 count courtesy of DTH

Back to Last: Run to the END of the Tuckahoe blacktop, then back to last. Repeat until entire PAX is present.

C2C (Corner 2 Corner), Gregorian calendar edition: Washington’s bday, 11th or 22nd?

• Half the PAX at one corner of the blacktop, half at the other corner
• 11 burpees
• SPRINT to other corner
• 11 Lt. Dans
• x4 rounds
• When done, LBC on your own until the PAX catches u

Back to flag

• Flutter kicks x22
• Dr. W’s x22 (like a V-up, but hands together go through between V of legs coming up)
• WWII’s x22
• Hand Release Merkins x11
• Planks

On to the best part of the workout (numberama, nameorama)

Announcements:

• Breaking Bread this Sunday – Slurpee is covering this weekend, see Q sheet and/or back
• T-shirts are in transit, distribution TBD
• Handshake FIRST Dogpile (but not a 2nd VQ) this Saturday

Prayer

NMS:

I am incredibly thankful for this group.
Started a journey late summer to figure out a workout routine before baby #3 arrived, and here we are. Grateful to Don Draper for telling me about F3.

This group means more to me than I can express. Forged new friendships and have been encouraged and challenged (by both the PAX and myself) to build new disciplines in my life.

Thank you to all who encouraged me to VQ.

As I mentioned in prayer, make sure we are leaning on each other for encouragement / prayer when we have a need or are struggling with something.

• If you need something, anything, talk to one of your brothers here.
• If not, share what God has done in your life with someone this week.
  Be bold, be strong, be courageous!

With that, Second Bell rings and Greenbow heads out to go catch baby boy #3.

The power of three was indeed demonstrated as this triumvirate embraced the gloom for a tour around Hoedown.

Off to the front of the school for COP

• SSH
• Russian Soldiers
• Don Quixote
• Helicopters
• Copperhead Squats

Head south down the street and pick up the church parking lot. Too dark. Mosey behind the church for an untouched parking lot.

4 Corners – Ascending and Incremental

• Run to corner 1 for 10 WWII, run back home
• Run to corner 1 for 10 WWII, run to corner 2 for 20 Copperhead Squats, Run to corner 1 for 10 WWII, run back home
• Run to corner 1 for 10 WWII, run to corner 2 for 20 Copperhead Squats, Run to corner 3, 30 American Hammers, run to corner 2 for 20 Copperhead Squats, run to corner 1 for 10 WWII, run back home
• Run to corner 1 for 10 WWII, run to corner 2 for 20 Copperhead Squats, Run to corner 3 for 30 American Hammers, run to corner 4 for 40 Scorpions, Run to corner 3 for 30 American Hammers, run to corner 2 for 20 Copperhead Squats, run to corner 1 for 10 WWII, run back home

PLT 2 x 20 while odd man out BTTW and waits his turn.

Mosey behind the church and pop out in front of the AO. Time for 11s! The exercises are bike rack merkins with abyss finish and box jumps on the front steps with a jog in between.

Quick round of Menage-a-Booyah-Merkin – 16 reps.

What to do with the remainder of the time with three people? Triple Check!

• Run the loop
• Donkey Kicks
• Flutter Kicks

Time for a few minutes of Mary.

• Rosalitas
• Left leg lifts
• Right leg lifts

YHC took us out.

Announcements – GrowRuck approaches. See Honey Do for details and enlistment.

Time to Taper,

Lockjaw