Tag: Hoedown

We have 18 strong PAX including yours truly; that includes 3 FNGs which is awesome.  We went to work on a somewhat mild winter morning.

Workout went something like this:

Warm up:  16 Side straddle hops (in honor of the Bears score, poor Cody Parkey), 15 forward arm circles, 15 backward arm circles, 20 LBCs and 25 Freddie Mercuries

First Exercise:  Mosey to the Rite Aid after figuring out how to best navigate the Ridge Road crossing.  Do 4 corners – start with 10 burpees, then next corner 10 burpees and 20 WWIIs, then 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 jump squats, and lastly 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 jump squats, and 40 2 count flutter kicks.

Second exercise, reverse back the 4 corners with 40 2 count flutter kicks, 30 jump squats, 20 WWIIs and 10 burpees.  I sensed the FNGs were thinking “Wow these dudes are serious”.  After some planking activity we proceeded back to the front of Tuckahoe.

Third Exercise:  Get a partner and split 100 Merkins on the bike rack, 200 step jumps and 300 2 count flutter kicks, one partner exercises while the other runs to the start of the teacher’s lot.

Last exercise:  Handshake led the group with a merkin ring of fire.

Announcement:  Olivander is handling Puppy Pile which is scheduled for 1/26.  Closed in prayer.

Musings:  The Fireman was amazed at having 18 PAX and this was his first time picking names for FNGs and this morning we had 3 of them.  The first names went without too much trouble (Welcome Bernanke and Scrum) but on the 3rd name we got stuck on Dell and then Viral starting talking about a “dude” in the old Dell Commercial.  So I thought why not go with Dell dude which in hindsight sounds pretty lame.  The Dell “dude”‘s name is Steven by the way.  So there were lots of mumble chatter and laughter at the Fireman’s expense about how bad a name that was.  Well smarter minds prevailed and the 3rd FNG is Escobar.  Welcome Escobar!

 

12 strong decided to send off the 2018 gloom with a tour of Westham and a review of the year of Hoedown.  5:25am and Phonics appears and surprises everyone with the “cross-town” trip.  5:28am and Mr. Holland arrives one minute early.  5:30am and it’s time to mosey to the front of the school for:

COP:

Don Quixote x 12

SSH x 31

Copperhead Squats x 20

LBC’s x 18

12/31/2018

Mosey down Ridge Road to the Trinity Methodist parking lot.  There were two VQ’s at Hoedown this year.  Fireman Ed had one of them.  Fireman Ed is a J-E-T-S fan and their record this year was an improvement on last year’s 3-13.  They went 4-12 this year.  So Fireman Ed got to choose 4 sets of 12 of something.  They were merkins with a burpee in between each set, so you had to get up in between the sets.  Well done, Fireman Ed.

Mosey down Rock Creek Rd to a right on Baldwin Rd and come to a halt in front of Marv’s house.  VCU won last night and have improved their record to 9-4.  So Marv got to choose 9 reps of something and 4 reps of something else.  They were 9 burpees and 4 hillbillies.  This stop had nothing to do with the Hoedown year in review.  We just stopped because it was Marv’s house.

Mosey down Baldwin to Westham and stop at stop sign.  Hoedown had an FNG this year that has really stayed the course and has accumulated 168 posts in 2018.  It was Handshake.  Handshake was not present, so Phonics got to choose the exercises because he came the farthest distance this morning.  16 2-count mountain climbers and 8 2-count Freddy Mercuries were performed.

Mosey south on Westham and stop at Beechwood.  The other VQ at Hoedown for 2018 was YHC’s.  YHC is a Reskins fan and at Hoedown we usually perform burpees equal to the number of points the Redskins score the day before.  Well, you can’t do ZERO burpees, so YHC went with their record of 7-9 and we performed 7 hand release merkins and 9 WW2 sit-ups.  One burpee for Mr. Holland being one minute early this morning.

Mosey down Westham to a right on Hillsdale and approach Lockjaw’s house.  Lockjaw had the most Q’s at Hoedown this year (9) so we did 4 sets of 9 box cutters with a burpee in between each set in front of his house.

Mosey to a left on Lakewood and stop at Westham.  YHC did not know this, but we were at Pucker’s house.  Pucker was still inside in the fartsack.  The average attendance at Hoedown this year was 12.  So we partnered up and performed 4 sets of 12 plerkins each partner.

Mosey north on Westham to the other Hillsdale intersection and stop in the median to complete 25 Tron jump squats in honor of Fudd who finally moved out of his house down the street.  YHC wanted to make it down to his old house and perform them in the yard, but time was not in our favor of making it that far.

Mosey up Westham to Lindsay Dr. and stop.  There was a CSAUP earlier this year that Team DRM (Tuckahoe) won in blowout fashion.  Hoedown in Team Tuckahoe’s home base, so PAX lays down and with legs straight out spells “COMPLETELY STUPID AND UTTERLY POINTLESS”  One Burpee for Gomer Pyle breaking his foot at Hoedown earlier this year.

Mosey back to TES and get in teams of three for a favorite of many Q’s at Hoedown, a triple check using the bus loop.  P1 runs loop, P2 does flutter kicks, P3 does donkey kicks on cafeteria wall.

COT, Numberama, Namearama, Announcements and Gomer Pyle took us out!

Announcements:

Convergence at Heartbreak Ridge tomorrow at 7am!  YHC voted for 5:30am but was overruled.  Now YHC cannot attend because he has to leave at 7:00am to go to Williamsburg for the day and go shopping with the M.  5:30am would have been better!  Who cares if you are still hungover.  HA!

Gomer Pyle is going to Honduras in a couple of weeks for a mission trip.  Please donate if you can to help his team out.  If you would like to donate, shoot him a message and he can tell you how.

Swiper’s Birthday is today.  HBD Swiper!

NMS:

What a great first full calendar year at Hoedown.  The darkest AO in RVA has drawn some great numbers and has had 16 different PAX members Q during the Monday morning beatdown.  Even Lab Rat has Q’d Hoedown.  YHC felt like running this morning, so we got in 2.5 miles during the tour and stopped to get in the appropriate exercises at safe areas of the streets (the intersections).

There are plenty of possible FNG’s living near TES, so let’s make a better effort in 2019 of EH’ing those guys and getting them back out after their first post.  Everyone be safe tonight.

See ya in the gloom!

Kubota

keep posting!

17 Strong including 2 FNG’s and a visitor from Charlotte arrived at Tuckhoe Elem this morning to burn some calories before Christmas.

This how it when down

Mosey to the front of the school

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, Merkins, LBC’s, Dying Cockroach, Arm Circles

THANG

Mosey to blacktop

Suicide Dora – Partner up, 1st partner completes exercise while 2nd partner doing a suicide. Switch, Rinse, and Repeat. Exercises: 100 Merkins, 200 LBC’s, 300 Squats

Mosey to the playground field

4 Corners – 10 Burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 WWII Sit-ups, 40 SSH

4 Corners (Reverse) – 40 SSH, 30 WWII Sit-ups, 20 Merkins, 10 Burpees

Mosey to the corner of the school

Hill Crawl – Bear crawl up the small hill complete 1 Merkin, Crawl Bear down and complete 2, Rinse and Repeat till 5

Mosey to the bus loop

Bear Crawl Indian Run – In two lines start bear crawling around the loop while the last guy at the end of the line completes a Burpee then runs to the front. Rinse and Repeat till Q calls time (at least everyone went once)

Mosey to the SF

3 MOM – Heels to Heaven, Freddie Mercury, Flutter Kicks

Numberama, Namerama, and Announcements. YHC took us out

MOLESKIN

Since this was YHC’s first time Qing at Hoedown he made sure to arrive Swirly Early to secure/scope out the AO. Handshake arrived shortly after and we enjoy some pre workout 2nd F. The rest of the PAX came rolling and running in after 5:25

The Suicide Dora seemed to quiet the PAX down. YHC could hear very little mumble chatter. The 4 corners add another challenge as YHC was introduced to the mud pit at the back of the playground. Luckily PAX looked after each other and no one was injured.

Welcome to Rebar and Flyover! Rebar who is friends with Fudd is studying for is Bar Exam (side note for the 3rd time). Flyover is MARV’s brother-in-law from Iowa. Glad to have you fellas and you make it out again soon

Glad to have Pig Skin just us from Charlotte. Always great to hear how F3 is doing in other parts of the country.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Marmaduke is still collecting coats. Up to 90 from what we heard. Let’s get him to 100!

SPIT ON THAT!! 

13 strong posted at Hoedown on a foggy Monday morning.

THANG
Mosey to the back office lot for a warmup of 20xSSH, 10xMK, 20xLBC, 15x Hillbillies

Mosey to the circle of Paris Ridge.   En route we honored 16 Redskin points with 16 strong burpees. Partner up for a trip up the Ridge, trading off for inchworm Merkins and Bernie runs.    Celebrated at the top with two sets of PLT x20.

Return to Tuckahoe for four sets x8 of Jerkins and a four corners extravaganza in the back lot – 20x WWII, FK, Carolina Dry Docks & Burpees, then reverse direction.

A Garbage Plate Q would not be complete without some crawl bear.   Incline crawl bear.   3 sets of 20x copperhead squats + incline crawl bear at the concrete ramp near the cafetorium.  More work for the arms with a round of crab soccer in the beautiful, dry, warm grass of the bus circle.  Wrapped things up with a ring of fire – well done by all.

Welcomed ~FNG Matador to the mix – friend of Hardywood.  Solid effort and respect for hanging in without gloves!  A veteran of Best Bully Sticks, there was little question or chatter on a name; Ollivander crushed it.

Announcements –
Hardywood’s daughter may have a book signing Wednesday at Crossroads – TBD…
HDHH Wednesday 12/19 Midlothian Capital Ale House, 5:30

GP

What started out as an Awesome Eight evolved into a Fine Nine with Mr Holland LIFO’d in.

Mosey to the Horseshoe for COP.

• Helicopters
• Arm Circles
• Imperial Walkers
• HRM
• Freddie Mercuries

Over the the edge of the horseshoe and wheelbarrow across the infield.  5 Derkins and reverse with partner for the return trip.

Triple Check! – Partner 1 high knees around the horseshoe, Partner 2 does Donkey Kicks, Partner 3 does Flutter Kicks.

Over the teacher’s lot adjacent to Lindsay for Lindsays.

• American Hammers/Copperhead Squats
• Lunge over, backward lunge back

Back to the playground field where Mr.  Holland mysteriously joined us.  Divide into two teams for some football.

The Moleskin

The combo of HRM and Freddie Mercuries made some nice snow angels.  The snow was like a bean bag providing ample lumbar support during the American Hammers.  We left our mark this morning.

The reflection from the snow provided more than ample light for some football.  The score was somewhat lopsided, but we were making a comeback.

Upon Mr Holland’s arrival at 6:00, he informed us that he had been to Betty Weaver and back this morning.  Looks like there were no fresh tracks in or out of that AO, so he decided to post where there is a guarantee of no cancellation; Hoedown.

Years before there was Hoedown, some of us met up there in late 2015 or early 2016 for a snow workout.  I remember Honeydo, Saab, and TYA were present as well.  Nothing like merkins in the middle of a main road with no traffic in sight.

Snow Days are the best days to post.  Challenges getting to the AO, cold temps, and wet boots only add to the experience and the memories.

Time to Taper,

Lockjaw

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.