Tag: Hoedown

12 athletic behemoth PAX and the Fireman showed up to witness the Fireman’s second q on a low 70s humid morning.

Even though I am a Jets fan, I am excited about football season coming upon us in 6 days for college and 10 for NFL.  Our exercise routine went a little something like this:

Warm up:  In honor of Spinal Tap, 11 Don quixotes, 11 helicopters; then 20 Side Straddle hops, 20 Freddie Mercurys and 10 forward arm circles and 10 backward arm circles.

First exercise:  Mosey to parking lot at corner of ridge and forest, partner one lunges with the partner 2 does 5 burpees, partner 2 catches up to partner 1 and they switch.  Probably ended up doing 35-45 burpees unless you are Splinter and Jack Sparrow whose strides are super long; they probably did 20-30 burpees.

Second exercise:  Mosey to adjacent parking lot.  Bear crawl from one corner to the next corner, jog to next corner, 16 WWIIs, bear crawl to next corner, jog to next corner, 16 Merkins.  Repeato with backward crabwalks (or since I wasn’t clear on direction choose some form of crabwalk, do 32 LBCs and 32 jump squats).

Third exercise:  Mosey around adjacent neighborhood with a friendly somewhat dark jog (SilverSpring road to Spottswood to forest, first right to intersection).  Year NFL founded was according to wiki: 1920.   Run to end of culdesac, 19 merkins, run backwards back, 19 more merkins.  Repeato with 20 2 count mountain climbers.  then repeat with partner wheelbarrows.

Fourth exercise:  Mosey back to Tuckahoe and do 100 combined partner leg tosses

Lastly:  Kubota took over with a merkin ring of fire (or Mary).

Announcements:  Puppy pile went really well last Saturday.  Looking for a date in September with only limited conflicts.

Labor Day convergence.  Admittedly, I missed the other announcements but I think there is a big race at forest Hill Park in October.

I closed the group in prayer.

General Musings:  I mentioned to the group to try to not make puppy pile on 9/29 because of the Penn State/Ohio State game to which the response was “Is the game in the morning?” and I said “no” but neglected to tell them I would be in Pennsylvania for the game so while I am tailgating and getting fat, by all means have puppy pile.

Warmest Regards, the Fireman

 

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 across the field, crawl bear up the hill, bear crawl down the hill, karaoke back across the field
• Elbow Planks
• Monkey Humpers

Over to the playground equipment for Lindseys:  Dips and American Hammers

Back across the stream and slow mosey (conversational strut) to the base of the hill.  Partner up for piggy back rides to the top of the hill stop sign.

Mosey back to the school and to the bars and find a new partner:

• Jerkins – 3 sets of 7 reps.
• PLTs – 3 sets of 25
• 8 4-count BooYah Merkins
• 20 right oblique crunches
• 8 4-count BooYah Merkins
• 20 left oblique crunches

Back to the VSF for some Mary:  Flutter Kicks and APDs.

YHC took us out.

NMS

With the summer tour and vacation in the rear view mirror it was time to return to Hoedown, YHC’s hometown AO.  Typical for a Monday, it was raining and dark at the AO upon first arrival.  A Hoedown signature look.

The stream crossing in the dark is a little tricky, but the Dogwood Park extension brings a fresh venue to this AO and well worth the trip.  YHC noticed nobody wanted to be his partner for the partner carries and Fudd received this weight by process of elimination.  I take it as a sign that we need some heavier Pax in our midst, or its time to lose a few more pounds.  Fudd handled the weight well, those his strides were heavy.

Announcements:

• Puppy Pile this Saturday
• Fireman Ed has next Monday’s Hoedown Q.  If you missed his first, go ahead and be here for the second time around.
• Labor Day convergence – see pre-blast

Time to Taper,

Lockjaw

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 Carolina dry docks, 19 jump squats, 19 WWIIs and 69 2 count flutter kicks.  Then we did 19 LBCs, 19 burpees (elicited a few groans), 19 flutter kicks and 69 jump squats.  .

Mosey to Lindsay Drive.  Asked Trivia question about Mets loss to Nats of 25-4 (2nd worst loss in Mets history).  In honor of the Mets 4 runs, I has the PAX do a 4 by 4 4 corner style. This consists of 4 merkins and 4 2 count mountain climbers at the top of Lindsey do down 2/3 the way to another 4 by 4 go across the road 4 by 4 to the top again 4 by 4.  Repeat to 4 8 by 8s and then 4 12 by 12s.

Mosey to front of Tuckahoe for 100 PLTs (partner leg toss).  Then mosey to nearby parking lot for back and forth lunges followed by American hammers – 25, merkin ring of fire, HoneyDo led burpees and the last 15 side straddle hops.

Numberama followed by names, etc. and a prayer at the end by the Fireman.

Announcements:

Puppy pile – 8/25

CSOP (Completely stupid and utterly pointless) at Forest Hill – Viral I think you said 10/20 but correct me on that if needed

Labor Day Convergence

Three Lakes Park event

I had a good time Q’ing for the first time.  Admittedly I did not sleep much as I kept playing scenarios and what ifs in my head.  Great job PAX and look forward to Qing again in the near future.

 

 

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, 12x, 13x, 14x, 15x

Mosey up Lindsay

16x, 17x

Mosey

18x, 19x

Mosey

20x

Mosey

21x

Head over to blacktop hill and relieve yourself of coupons.

11’s

1 x whatchamacallits, Bernie Sanders up hill, 10 pole smokers on fence

Repeato until 10 whatchamacallits and 1 pole smoker. (Made it about halfway until time up)

Mosey to the Shovel Flag

COT, Numberama, Namearama, YHC took us out

 

NMS:

Great work by all the PAX today!  YHC was trying to keep up with Gomer Pyle but just didn’t have enough to do it.  Great work GP!  YHC doesn’t believe anyone was woken up on Lindsay with the sounds of bricks clanking together or hitting the road.  The PAX killed the Super 21’s in quick fashion.  YHC didn’t think 45 minutes would be enough time, but we ended it with 10 minutes left.  Wish we could have gotten all the 11’s in, but time was called.  Whatchamacallits have become quite popular.  They still suck, though!  Glad to have Opus at Hoedown checking it off of the Summer Tour.

Announcements:

Fireman Ed has his VQ at Hoedown next Monday!

Roller Coaster/HDHH this Wednesday at Kuba Kuba Dos at 5:30pm

PuppyPile on August 25th after DogPile.  Marv has the Q

 

Great work today guys, and way to get it all out!

Kubota

keep posting!

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 around and come back the other direction with traditional polar bears.  Turn around again for lunge polar bears with broad jump burpees every 5 steps.  Attempt crab walk polar bear with 4 count crab cake on the way back.  Flipper completed, others switched to traditional polar bear half way through.

Toss the potato to Flipper and he led the PAX to the car pool drop off loop for triple check.  BTTW, merkins, and a lap around the loop.

Lateral the potato to Slurpee for the next round, Dora.  Exercises were merkins, flutter kicks, and squats/lunges.  Be wary of random school workers driving on sidewalks at 550am.

Transition to the parking lot for a random assortment of Mary which included 6 inches, 2 rounds of ring of fire, 6 inches, single leg APDs, freddy mercuries and LBCs.  Juvenile comments were strong this am.

COT where Pucker took us out.

Moleskin
Nice work by the PAX this morning.  There wasn’t a single exercise in the bunch where one could catch your breath.  That’s what a hot potato will do to you.

During Dora, YHC had his eyes closed pumping out flutter kicks with the rain gently hitting my face.  I saw the car pull in the drop off loop and drive up on the sidewalk behind the PAX doing flutter kicks but didn’t think much of it.  That was until the horn blew and I looked up and saw a car about 10 feet away from me.  Whoever that was, had the nerve to drive up on the sidewalk, do a u-turn and then try to nestle right up beside the cafeteria wall.  All of this while there are about 25 parking spaces about 30 feet away.  Be on the lookout PAX.  That dude was just out of his mind.  Sorry Pucker, we may have done more flutters than necessary.  I was flustered and lost count.

Great to see Fudd again and great to see Jack Sparrow becoming a regular at the Tuckahoe AOs.  YHC was surprised when the potato was passed to him during mary and he couldn’t come up with a single ab exercise.  He quickly replied, “I don’t do abs”.

Announcements
Amateur RAMM Gears day this Friday.  Bring your bike and have No Tools use his tools to fix it up.

Splinter out

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.

Round 1 – 5 merkins each corner; Round 2 – 5 merkins +10 Mountain Climbers in each corner; Round 3 – Do the others + 15 Squats; Round 4 – Add 20 2-ct Flutter Kicks; Round 5 – Add 20 1ct Freddie Mercuries; Round 6 – Add 15 Monkey Humpers; Round 7 – Add 10 Alternating Shoulder Taps; Round 8 – Add 5 merkins and do all the exercises together (somewhat in cadence).

Back to the flag for the COT.

NMM

An ominous start to the week as YHC woke up to lightning and thunder, wondering how many Tuckahoeans? and/or summer travelers would post.  There is a small awing that YHC planned to stay under if the lightning stuck around but it cleared up right after COP in time for us to push though the Compounding 4 corners.  Did not realize the 4 corners would take up the whole time, plus about 45 seconds, even with the PAX pushing hard and staying together for most of it.  Those extra 45 seconds are on me, no charge for overtime this week.  It was only 180 merkins, not 200, sorry Kubota, I thought it only felt like 175.

Welcome to RVA Papa Smurf from Sarasota, up visiting family.  He lived in RVA a few years ago but took on some F3 tourism today and crushed it, posting on Twitter before leaving the car.  He confirmed that Flashdance is alive and well in Florida and has jumped into F3 down there head first.  Swiper is getting into running mode flying around between corners.  Kubota will be following YHC around this week on the summer tour.  I apologize in advance for anything new that flops this week.  First flop, cadence with single count, and 2-ct exercises.

Thanks for coming out despite the threatening weather.

Announcements:

Prayers for Fudd’s sister as she heads into surgery later this week and grieves for her lost father-in-law.

RVA Ghostflag will be at 45MOM this week

Happy hour at Wood and Iron in Midlothian Friday at 5:30

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 the 2nd goal for 10 merkins and 10 jump squats.  Back to the end then to the 3rd goal for 10 merkins, 10 jump squats, and 10 leg thrusts.  Run back to the end line then to the 4th goal for 10 merkins, 10 jump squats, 10 leg thrusts, and 10 burpees.  Al Gore for the 6.

Break out the speaker for Roxanne.  BT had flashbacks to the day he started hating Jville.

Slow stroll over to the miniature field for triple check.  1 partner does jerkins while the other holds.  Third partner bear crawls down the hill and back.  Repeat for a total of 3 times.

Jog to the front of the school to locate some bike racks.  Partner up for full extension merkinfest.  3 sets of 13 with the middle set being derkins.  Grab the bike racks for full extension on the decline.

Dosey doe over to the teacher parking lot for a game of arrows.  Bear crawl between arrows and then complete 5 WWIIs at each arrow.  Modify after a few arrows to alternate between WWIIs and 4 count flutter kicks.  Plank for the 6.

Mosey over to the cafeteria wall for triple check again.  This time exercises were BTTW, donkey kicks and a lap around the loop.  After 1 iteration, swap out BTTW with people’s chair.

Circle up for numbers, names and COT with YHC taking us out.

Moleskin
What a wonderfully humid day it is today.  YHC couldn’t think of a better way to spend it.  The PAX was fully energized, especially when the speaker appeared, allowing us to complete 27 burpees in 3 minutes and 15 seconds.  28 if you are Mr Holland who got excited and added an extra.

YHC bounced around the whole AO this morning, wanting to push himself to do a variety of exercises that are typically difficult.  Today was no different.  Thanks for playing along.

Show up tomorrow at Spider Run.  Wedding Singer suggested we play a game of Edward 40-hands tomorrow.  Only those who post will find out.

Announcements
Puppy pile this weekend.  Wedding Singer has a puppy to spare.

Splinter out.

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 while partner 2 does an exercise on the hill.  Exercises were 100 incline (feet up the hill) WWIIs, 200 clockwork merkins (50 at noon, 3, 6, and 9), 300 single count lunges.

Pass the potato to Slurpee who took us down Lindsay.  Modified polar bear back up the hill.  Seven stride bear crawl followed by 7 merkins.  I’ll call this the Slurpee Bear.  Repeat until you get to the 6th car then partner up and partner carry up the hill and back down to the bottom.  50 jump squats then sprint back to the VSF.

EF Hutton took charge for mary, teasing us with something special he has been working on.  Alas, that will have to wait.  Mary included Freddie Mercuries, six inches, Wilson’s spaghetti party (two ways) then a ring of fire.

Numberama, namerama, then Flip dog properly took us out.

Moleskin
Today was the day of audibles, lots of ideas that required modification.  YHC took two of those honors, first with the attempted incline WWIIs.  That was a complete disaster.  Audible to flat WWIIs.  The second audible of the day was cutting 300 lunges down to 200.  YHC was getting bored.

Slurpee continued Audible Monday with two audibles of his own.  The Slurpee Bear was a pure smoker.  Third audible was to lunge as necessary.  Fourth audible was to only go 3 cars instead of the full 6.  I imagine this seemed like a good idea in his head.  Note to the PAX, careful calling on Slurpee during a hot potato.

The PAX wasn’t very creative during COT when naming our FNG.  Ponch did a good job providing background but nothing juicy stood out.  We tried the first concert (Travis Tritt), after which the PAX stood at each other trying to pull a Travis Tritt song.  Flipper finally pulled Trouble.  Sabotage indicated the FNG was light on his feet running up the hill, which prompted Twinkle Toes.  No one was excited about it but we rolled with it as there were no other creative options.  While driving home, YHC noticed that the license plate for our FNG was “JZY JFF”.  After a post workout conference with the Qs and Flipper, we settled on Carlton.  Ponch, let your boy know he is now Carlton not Twinkle Toes.  You are welcome.

Ring of fire with dealer’s choice merkins was a sight.  Especially Two Can demonstrating proper hand clap merkins.  Boy can get off the ground.

Well done all.  See everyone soon.

Splinter out.

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 the playground and quickly found a good 4-man circuit, and used a runner as the pivot.  We got in some leg crunches from the monkey bars, pullups, dips, and elevated planks.  Two rounds of those was plenty of upper body for a minute.

Since there were 5 of us, I will name this next one “The 4 Pillars”.  Yoga is the one thing I wish I did more of.  I am extremely inflexible, so most of the yoga I do is just me rolling around doing my best, but I have always enjoyed the balance poses.  So, in trying to incorporate some of that, we set up 4 corners around the field, one pax at each corner holding poses.  The fifth pivot member would do 3 burpees then run to next corner and swap out. Polling the pax after this, it sounds like this movement is definitely a keeper if a couple tweaks were made.  Most notably, changing up the poses to more F3-ish friendly.  Examples thrown out were:  People’s chair (aka Helix squat), The Crane (wax on, wax off optional), and the summertime pool classic, The Jack Knife.  We actually did:  Tiny Dancer and Tree.

The workout was finished up with 3 rounds of Barry Sanders up the paved hill with 10 squats at top and 10 merkins at bottom.  With a few minutes left, we got the blood flowing thru the legs with parking lot tracers to the back and 5 minutes of Mary.

Thanks to Sabotage for taking us out this morning with a wonderful prayer of thanks.

Apology of the week goes out to ME, and is owed to me by Fireman Ed for completely ruining the air quality in one corner of the playground and then LEAVING.  The vapor trail did not follow and lingered for an impossible amount of time…so long I wondered if I did the deed myself….but dont remember eating pho recently.

 

Lab Rat apologizes…

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 for some Doras.

• Partner 1 runs from the speed bump to the dumpster and back
• Partner so does 100 reverse lunges, 200 monkey humpers, 300 flutter kicks

Karaoke a block down Ralston and then Karaoke facing the other way another block.  Bear crawl down the hill on University Drive.  Partner carries up the other side of the hill.

Run to the next stop sign at Ridge and elbow plank for the six.  Cross the road and Catch Me If You Can for a long block to Westham Parkway.  Partner 1 runs backwards.  Partner 2 does 5 HRM and runs forward to catch him.  Reverso.

Hang a left on Westham Parkway and perform an exercise when you come to each intersection:

• Sunset – 10 Boo-Yah Merkins
• Lakewood- 20 PLT for partner 1
• Hillsdale – 20 PLT for Partner 2
• Lindsay – 20 Box Cutters (turn left of Lindsay)
• West Drive – 10 Dive Bombers
• Lindsay – 5 Burpees

Back to the VSF for Merkin Ring of Fire:  Call out a number 1-5 and a style of Merkin for the Pax to perform.  Pass clockwise and the next Pax must call out a different number and style of Merkin.

Finish with some American Hammers.

YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Today! –  double dip opportunity at 6:30 pm – Come out to the Punisher and get a second Lockjaw Q
• Home run derby tomorrow – See preblast or Gumbo for details
• This Thursday – paddling on the river (water permitting) at 6:00 pm from the Huguenot Bridge.  No experience necessary and space in the tandem for those who want to give it a try.  See Lockjaw for details.
• July 4 Convergence – Hot Potato down on Belle Isle.

Always Be Tapering,

Lockjaw