Tag: Hoedown

8 Trumpeteers and one conductor struck up the band for a unseasonably warm rendition of the soundtrack to “The Gloom.”  A few of the high notes included:

Mosey to the corner of West Drive and Beechwood for the COP.  Exercises were something like:

SSHs x19
LBCs x24
Merkins x8
Hillbillies x21

Mosey onto Westham Parkway and back to the parking lot.

Curb Crawls of Pain:

Round 1: Bear crawl across bus loop, at first curb 5 merkins, then Army crawl across grass, then 5 merkins, then bear crawl across bus loop. 5 merkins.  Reverso.

Round 2: Crawl bear, 5 merkins, lunges, etc. Then, reverso.

Round 3: Bear crawl, 5 merkins, Polar bear, etc. Then, reverso.

Four Corners:

Going counter clockwise…
10 merkins
20 monkey humpers
30 flutter kicks (4-count)
40 SSHs

Reverso.
40 Hello, Dollys
30 flutter kicks (4-count)
20 monkey humpers
10 merkins

Mosey to the Big Parking Lot for Triple Nickel:

5 Bernie Sanders up the asphalt hill
5 WWIIs
Run the parking lot
5 burpees
repeato for 3 rounds…

Triple Check in the Big Parking Lot:

Runner follows the arrows while Partner 1 does Decline Planks and Partner 2 does Monkey Humpers

Final Note…Monkey Humper Ring of Fire x30

Number-am-a, Name-a-rama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

Announcement:

Sign up for GrowRuck is going strong.  Already up to 10 or so…in addition to our crew, Charlotte, Hampton Roads, Pittsburgh, and other areas are representing.  See HoneyDo for more.

NMS:

The horn section was out in full force this morning.  The PAX hit all the notes – high, low, long, short, maybe even a few sharps and flats.  Where’s Mr. Holland when the PAX needed him?

Theme for the day…male leadership, specifically for fathers.  8 years ago tomorrow, our family lost my father.  86 years young.  Veteran of the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, and more.  Thanks, Dad, for being willing to share your time, talents, and values each day.

At least 11 Behemoths took to the grounds of TES for a Cyber Monday beatdown at Hoedown, 3 Qs for the price of 1.

THANG

SPLINTER Q

Mosey to Front of School

COP – DQs, IWs, Mountain Climbers, Helicopters, Arm Circles

Mosey to Bus Loop

Curb Crawl – Up to 6 Merkins, repeato and reverso

Mosey back to Front Lawn

P1 – Run to TES sign and back; P2 – Merkins on Bike Rack, repeato x 3

EF HUTTON Q

Mosey to Blacktop Basketball Courts

4 Corners (Compounding at each corner- Bearcrawl Length/ Lunge Width) – Imperial Squat Walkers x 10, American Hammers x 15, Merkins x 20, WWIIs x 25

Flutter Kicks/ 6 Inches/ Flutter Kicks for the 6

FUDD Q

Mosey to Back Field

Beast – Merkins, Squats?, Mountain Climbers, Imperial Squat Walkers, Peter Parkers

10 Burpees OYO

Mosey back to VSF

Numberama, Nameorama, COT (Fudd)

MOLESKIN

The PAX arrived this fine Monday morn to find a rare Q-less Hoedown.  At the beep of Angus’s 5:30 alarm, Splinter grabbed the bull by the horns and off the PAX went.  Mid-Merkin during round 2 of the Partner work an unidentified member of the PAX, not Keymaster, sounded the alarms.  YHC poses the question, is there anything funnier than a well-timed fart?  Call YHC doubtful, weddings, funerals, holiday feasts, beatdowns, a fart is the perfect comic relief for all occasions.  Well wishes to Fudd as he starts his new job in Denver a week from today.  Thanks for taking us out with a bang.  Though there was no time for 36 Burpees, Peter Parkers proved plenty tough to put YHC over the top.  YHC is certain he missed several PAX, please comment so you can be added.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Wish Gumbo a Happy Birthday

Coats for Marmaduke

Something Else??

Ten warriors, sans webbed feet, huddled in the crisp fall air before embarking on today’s hoedown.  Start off with a 3/4 mile run then huddle around the shovel flag.  Resist Conspiracy’s call to number off before tackling this ground ‘n pound.

The Thang
Repeat the following x2
SSH – 25
Merkin – 10
WWII – 10
Copperhead Squats – 10

Repeat the following x5
Merkin – 15
WWII – 15
Copperhead Squats – 15
Worm Merkin – 10
30 second plank

Repeat the following x2
Lunges – 10x each leg
WWII – 15
Flutter Kick – 30

Mosey to the wall for triple check.  People’s chair, mountain climbers, and a lap around the loop.

10x ring of fire then we were complete.

Numbers, names and YHC took us out.

Moleskin
The idea for this workout started a few months ago when my daughter came home from swimming practice and told me they did a boot camp, after their normal swim practice.  She wrote it down for me and I filed it in the backlog for things to get to at an F3 workout.  Today seemed like a good day to test it out.  YHC added the run at the beginning and the triple check + ROF.  Everything else was stolen from her workout.

YHC must have a reputation for patterns and numbers as the PAX was gleefully attempting to figure out the next exercise throughout the first two rounds.  Then they gave up.  Maybe out of boredom or perhaps out of exhaustion.  Today was no joke.

For those counting, we did 155 merkins.  Apologies to Keymaster for attempting to run him off the road on Sunday.  It’s nothing against you, YHC frequently attempts to run people off the road.

Announcements
– Handshake VQ at Heartbreak tomorrow.  For those that want to run, UpChuck has Spider Run.
– 1 hour Berkley plantation workout at Mary Munford Thursday morning at 6:00
– Conspiracy has v1.0 of big data dating back to 2015.  According to his records F3RVA has a 70% abandon rate after the first post.  I think we’ve gotten better since then.

Big Data is watching.

On a beautiful Veterans Day morning, 12 freezing weather loving PAX and I made the sacred pilgrimage from Hoedown headquarters at Tuckahoe Elementary to Kanawha Recreation Association (KRA).

Warm up (in front of three spectators):

15 Side straddle hops, 10 helicopters (in honor of the Jets score against the mighty Buffalo Bills, one better than the Richmond Spiders), 10 Don Quixotes and 10 front and back arm circles

First exercise:  For Veterans Day we did army crawls from the end of the school grounds to the flag pole and back.  I think I was one the last ones to finish which isn’t a good start.

Mosey to KRA by doing what I call a Merkin run.  For some historical context, my first F3 a little over two years ago was at Mary with Flipper as Q.  At the end, he had us run together and drop and do 10 Merkins, etc.  So I decided with this Merkin contest and my unexplainable desire to be at KRA, why not honor the great Flipper?  So we did ~80 merkins on the way there.

At KRA, we did a Dora with 100 Carolina Dry docks which I am told do not count as Merkins (sorry), 200 2 count mountain climbers and 300 flutter kicks.

After that fun, I tried to do elevens with WWIIs and jump squats.  Unfortunately I grossly underestimated the time it takes to go up and down KRA’s parking lot so we stopped about 2/3 the week into it.

We finished with the run and another ~80 merkins having to look out for cars which keeps things interesting when most of the PAX wear dark clothing.

Concluded with announcements (1.  There is an event that is listed on the backblast that Handshake mentioned at Ruth and Ollies in Carytown this Thursday at 5:30.  Handshake I had trouble logging in to the app so if can pass along details that would be great.  2) Marv mentioned a Thanksgiving day football game for under 14s.  Details for this are also on backblast)  and prayer.

Lastly I want to give thanks for all of our veterans.  They have done and continue to do a lot for our country.  When I take a step back and think about all of the freedoms we have (voting, religion, etc.) and the prosperity we have in America, I realize how lucky I am to be an American.   After Hoedown, I went to Tuckahoe Elementary for a Veterans Day assembly because my bro and law is a Marine and my younger daughter goes there.  It was a really cool ceremony.

 

 

 

A lucky 7 were undeterred by cooler weather and full on rain for this morning’s installment of Hoedown.

The Thang

Circle up in the parking lot starting with 25 Merkins.

COP

• Don Quixote
• Helicopters
• Arm Circles
• Russian Soldiers

Mosey down Lindsay Drive for Lindsays.  Exercises are Merkins and Scissor Kicks.  Lunge walk between driveways to mark the transition zones.

Find a space on the asphalt hill for 25 Derkins.

Back to the playground for some leg lifts off of the monkey bars.  20 or so.

Over the the asphalt sea for 4 Corners

• Corner 1 – 10 Mountain Climbers
• Corner 2 – 10 Mountain Climbers, 20 Merkins
• Corner 3 – 10 Mountain Climbers, 20 Merkins, 30 Copperhead Squats
• Corner 4 – 10 Mountain Climbers, 20 Merkins, 30 Copperhead Squats, 40 American Hammers

Already in a circle, we did a Merkin Ring of Fire for another 20 Merkins.

Down to the bus loop for Triple Check

• Run
• BTTW
• Flutter Kicks

20 Merkins OYO

Mary

• Box Cutters
• Rosalitas
• LBC
• American Hammers

PLT – 20 x 2

YHC took us out.  250 Merkins total.

The Moleskin

Rain was everywhere.  On Lindsay Hill, it felt like the current could wash us away.  Our shirts were suction cups on any pavement adding a little extra resistance through hydraulics.  It was easy to get choked up when doing the count during LBCs.  Not the worst we have seen, but it was coming down.

Dressing for the rain was a unique reflection on individual preference.  A windbreaker with no hood, a couple had full on hooded parkas, t-shirt, t-shirt and hat….regardless we all got wet pretty quickly.  It’s also an individual preference in how people deal with the suck.  Let’s just say an overflowing gutter provided a gravity powered bidet for one Pax member.  They are nice and clean now.

Announcements:

• Marathon and Half Marathon this weekend.  Several Pax are running.  Cheer them on.
• Is anyone doing a HDHH this month?

Time to Taper,

Lockjaw

A lucky 13 pugilists came forth on the day before the penultimate day of October to celebrate the start of the week and the 31st Anniversary of Thomas Hearns winning his fourth boxing title.  The glow-light runners on Forest tell the tale this way:

COP: Mosey to Church parking lot.  IW’s x 15, IJR x20, Hillbillies x10, SSHs x20, DQs, LBCs x25, Rosalitas, and HRMs x10

Mosey to the Teacher’s Parking Lot:

Partner up.
Round 1: Wheelbarrow across parking lot.  Partner 1 does 10 shoulder presses.  Swap spots, wheelbarrow back.
Round 2: x15
Round 3: Q senses brewing revolution…Semi-audible…

Mosey to the Parent Parking Lot:

11’s…squats, run the parking lot, run backwards up the asphalt hill, and decline merkins

Mosey to West Drive Circle for Lindsey: flutter kicks and monkey humpers.  Run West Drive Circle between rounds.

Mosey back to the Bus Circle:
Triple check…BTTW, Frederick Mercury, and run the loop.

Circle up at the SF for one round of Mary…Hello Dollies x10

Number-a-ma, Name-a-ram-a, YHC took us out.

Announcements:
November 3 – Hardywood is hosting FNG Fest with the Ghost Flag at Dogpile. Bring a friend and see whether they have the stuff to be nicknamed “Harambe”
Marmaduke is collecting coats for the homeless…likely everyone of us has a closet with old stuff in it (YHC certainly does). If you haven’t worn it in 2 winters…consider the pride you will have seeing your coat keeping someone warm this winter.
BRR…early December.  BT is looking to be persuaded to register. Ankle tape, elbow pads, and a decent rake are all optional.

NMS:
Hutton put it very well this morning.  “Did I miss a chili cook off this weekend?”  W.O.W.  The horn section came out in full force.  The PAX took “push yourself, don’t hurt yourself” to the edge.
YHC was happy to welcome HoneyDo back to Hoedown, thus the Wheelbarrow + Shoulder Press combination…YHC apologizes to the PAX for not including ZingFit in the evolutions.
YHC continues to be impressed with the PAX’s ability to come up with new ways to count reps. 2-count? 4-count?  By 5’s? By 10’s?   New math abounds…https://boingboing.net/2014/03/10/a-math-teacher-explains-new.html

Enjoy the day, fellas.

UpChuck spits the bit.

…two questions that YHC was asking himself during COP one year ago during his first F3 post.  YHC was thinking to himself during COP that if he could be in half the shape that Saab was after a few F3 workouts, then things would be ok.  After Slurpee and Keymaster made YHC run one mile from his house to the AO, YHC was already out of breath before the words “let’s mosey” were uttered by Saab.  Damn, YHC thought, I have already run/walked a mile (mostly uphill), I don’t think I can finish this workout!

In our normal and ordinary life, it was 35 degrees and dark this morning at Tuckahoe Elementary, but in our other life (F3 life), it was 70 and Sunny.  A stalwart 15 descended upon TES for light calisthenics.  This is what transpired….

COP:

Helicopters x 15

Don Quixotes x 10

Imperial Walkers x 15

Merkins x 10

LBC’s x 20

…..and for the Redskin’s BIG win against the Cowboy’s….. x 20 Burpees OYO!!!  FIRST PLACE, Baby!!!!

mosey over to and down Lindsay Ct for a round of Lindsay’s

10 Merkins/30 Heels to Heaven

high knees 50 yards up Lindsay Ct

15 Merkins/25 Heels to Heaven

butt kickers 50 yards up

20/20

carioke 50 yards up

25/15

backwards run 50 yards up

30/10

mosey to the field behind the school for:

5 x Donkey Kicks on school wall, bear crawl 15-20 yards and perform 5 x merkins, run to other side of field and perform 5 x jump squats.  Repeato x 10, x 15, x 20.

Mosey over to Asphalt Abyss for:

Build-A-Burpee:

Perform 1 x merkin, run halfway to fence and perform 1 x jump squat, run to fence and perform 1 x Burpee, run back to start.  Repeato x 2, x 3, x 4, x 5, x 6, x 7.

Mosey over to Shovel Flag and partner up for:

2 x 20 PLT’s each partner

Two Minutes of Mary:

Reverse Crunches

Rosalitas

One Burpee for the Redskin’s win against the Carolina Panthers two Sundays ago.

TIME UP!

Numberama, Namearama, Announcements and YHC took us out!

 

NMS:

Wow!  What a year!  YHC could barely make the mile up to the AO on the morning of his first post and then he had to run the mile back home after the workout.  YHC admits, he walked a lot of it back home and it was mostly downhill.  It would take YHC a week to almost recover so that he could post at Hoedown again!  For the first few weeks, it was only Hoedown for YHC, until he got a little stronger and found out about other AO’s that F3RVA had during other days of the week.  After a clown car of 5 River Road Hills PAX made it to a 45MOM post, YHC knew that he was locked into the F3 world!

It only felt appropriate to re-play my first workout this morning.  Saab did a great job of beating my a*s, so I wanted to see how far I had come since that first morning.  YHC thinks he did a pretty good job of beating his own a*s this morning, too!  Who did the Q better?  I am not going to say because it would not be fair to Saab since he wasn’t there!!!  Safe travels for work, buddy!

YHC does know that the following is true:

1st F:  Like YHC wrote earlier in this post, he could barely run/walk the mile up and back during his first post, but he just ran over 10 miles last Friday at RAMM for a half marathon training run!  YHC would have to say that he is in the second best shape of his life at the age of 41 and it is all because of you, the fellow PAX members, that push me each morning!  Playing High School Football would be the beast shape he was ever in (Glory Days).

2nd F:  YHC considers all of you his friends and family!  He has been on camping trips with PAX members, served food to the homeless with PAX members, gone out to eat with fellow PAX members, and his contact list in his cell phone has grown substantially!  This may be the most important of the three F’s if YHC had to rank them!

3rd F:  YHC knows that he can post to an AO and someone else will be there to help YHC grow in his faith in others and in God.  Praying or speaking at the end of the workout is YHC’s favorite time of the workout!  YHC also knows that he has faith in the PAX to be there for each other in times of need.  FAITH, in general, is a strong thing and can mean everything to those that you come in contact with and share your lives with (friends, family, co-workers)

After 180 posts and 40 Q’s in his first year, YHC would like to just say, “THANK YOU!!!!

Life is good, but there is always room to make it better, especially for someone else!

Kubota

keep posting!

9 strong PAX gathered at Hoedown for a perfect 60 degree morning workout.   A Conspiracy sighting was confirmed at 5:26a.  Mr. Holland arrived way early at 5:28a.  Warmup at the Tuckahoe ES flagpole with 25 SSH, 15 IW, 15 HC, 15 Merkins, 15 LBC & 20 plank to Merkin.  Mosey along Forest Ave towards the corner and happen upon a stack of bricks on Silverspring Dr. – line up for American Hammer time, passing the bricks down the PAX line and back.

Continued on to the corner office building on Ridge Road for a little 4 corner work.  Cumulative 10x Dive Bombers, 20x Monkey Humpers, 30x LBD’s (Little Breakdancers – totally unsanctioned yet unbelievably awesome exercise), 40x Flutter Kicks.

Mosey across the street & partner up for Rite Aid roundup – 3x around the building, partners alternating with people’s chair, donkey kicks & decline plank.  Victory lap with lunges, backward jog & karaoke.

Rewind the tape and mosey back the way we came for a 4 corners remix of 15x DB, MH, LBD and FK and American Hammer time deja vu on the way back to the flag.  Circle up for a ring of fire 10x merkins with exceptional style points awarded to Upchuck, Mr. Holland, Fireman Ed & BT.  Wrapped up with a Mary finale of heels to heaven, hip dips and side v-ups.

Announcements: Hammers & Ales 11/10, Marmduke Jackets, Puppy Pile 10/28, CSAUP 10/20

GP

 

12 mighty athletic specimens showed up on Columbus Day to honor the great explorer of the Bahamas.  For 10/8 the weather seemed a tad humid but that just means more sweat coming out.  The workout went like this:

Warm up – 16 Don Quixotes – in honor of Denver’s points scored against the surprising Jets JETS JETS JETS!; 15 Helicopters, 20 Freddie Mercurys, 25 side straddle hops and 10 Merkins

Headed over to Lindsay Court to which Upchuck scared me with a comment that the neighbors did not want us to use that street anymore (I scare easy).  Anyway, in honor of CC, we embarked on 1492s (year CC discovered the Bahamas).  First set was 14 burpees, run down to the bottom on Lindsay do 46 2 count flutter kicks, run up halfway do 46 more 2 count flutters.  Repeato with 14 merkins, 46 jump squats and 46 more jump squats

Head to Third Church say hi to the fellow that is outside his truck at 5:45 a.m. and proceed with partner wheelbarrows followed by 5 Derkins, watch truck fellow leave, bear crawl with 5 merkins, bear crawl back 5 more merkins.  Fella with truck is back perhaps admiring the 12 studs.  Mosey over to horseshoe.  This is the first time I asked Slurpy for a time check.

At horseshoe, get into groups of 3.  Partner 1 is doing a wall sit, Partner 2 is doing merkins, Partner 3 is running around the horseshoe.  Do this 3 times.  This is the second time I asked Slurpy for a time check.

Next is 100 PLTs followed by another time check from Slurpy.

We ended with a merkin ring of fire and my last time check from Slurpy.  I took the group out in prayer.

Announcements:

Fudd is handling his last Richmond Q at Dogpile this Saturday.  Fudd will be going west and adopting the Broncos as his new team.  You will be missed.

Viral mentioned a tools event 11/10; go to Viral with details as I was not paying attention sorry Viral.

Musings:  I enjoyed my third Q (Upchuck thought it was my first and that is why he came out).  We had a good group this morning and next time I will have a flag and watch.

 

A dirty dozen left the fartsack to embrace an anniversary beat down on this fine October morning.

COP – Mosey to the front of the school

• Arm Circles
• Don Quixote
• Hillbillies
• DRMs
• Crab Cakes

First order of business – 11s!

• Box jumps on the front steps
• Abyss Merkins on the bike rack

Drop down to the visitor parking lot for the following:

• 20 right oblique crunches
• 20 PLTs
• 20 left oblique crunches
• 20 PLTs

Back to the field of darkness, lining up along the long side of the field.

• Anhinga half way (army crawl with burpee popup every 10 paces) and sprint the rest.
• Karaoke back
• Polar Bear half way and sprint the rest
• Karaoke back

Partner up for team 4 Corners.

• Pull ups, leg lifts
• Box jumps
• Dips
• Derkins off of the swings – 20

The derkins set the shifts in stations while all others are AMRAP.  Partner 1 performs 20 and runs to relieve the pull up station, who then relieves box jumps, and finally dips are relieved.  One revolution through.

Mosey down to the Jerkin station.  Two sets of 7 for each partner.

Over to the horseshoe for Triple (or Quadruple) Check.

• BTTW
• Flutter Kicks
• Run the Horseshoe
• Extra Donkey Kick station

The Moleskin

It’s amazing how much ground can be covered in one year.  This AO provides no exception.  Fueled by a Tuckahoe Takeover Q week and strong since inception, this AO truly provides a community workout with many Pax able to run/walk there.  A great way to kick off a week with a great group of guys.  Besides it’s F3RVA’s darkest AO with a true representation of Gloom.

It was good to see Swirly out to Hoedown this morning.  Sleeves were optional.  This was his first visit to the Hoedown except for the CSAUP exchange zone that will be remembered as Ronnie’s finest night.

Pew was up from Mobile where he is doing good work starting that region.  We may see him at a bootcamp tomorrow (Heartbreak or No Toll), so keep a lookout.

Time to Taper,

Lockjaw