Tag: Hoedown

Eleven Hoes came out for a special Spring Break edition of Hoedown.  The story began as follows.

Mosey up to the blacktop for COP:

• Russian Soldiers
• Helicopters
• Don Quixote
• SSSH

Head up to the field for the Beast:

• WWII
• Merkins
• Box Cutters
• Scorpions
• One Legged APD
• Dive Bombers

Over to the parking lot with 12 spaces for 11s.  Each parking spot represents one progression of 11s with Al Gore in the 12th.  Exercises were Copperhead Squats and 4-Count Mountain Climbers.

Make our way to the grassy infield of the horseshoe and partner up.  Each partner does 25 PLT and then 8 Boo-Yah merkins.  Cycle through three times until there is smoke from fatigue.

Over to the school wall for Triple Check – donkey kicks, flutter kicks, and run the horseshoe.

Head back to grassy infield for Mary – Rosalitas, Hello Dollies, American Hammers.

YHC took us out.

NMS:

Ah, Spring Break.  The quiet in the air without the ambience of kid’s preparing for another week in the school.  No teacher’s rolling in early nor the Monday milk truck tearing down the horseshoe unloading its precious contents of assorted dairy products.  The AO is truly ours.

Spring Break – Time to work on those guns and abs for beach weather, which is where we focused today.  Safe travels to the Pax on the road this week.

There was a fair amount of mumble chatter from Saab and about Saab during the COP regarding the usual aspects of his form and so forth.  Mumble chatter ended with the Beast and resumed post workout.

Some good discussion about CSAUP.  Less than two weeks to go.  Time to train or taper depending on the individual.  Either way, its coming.  Come ready.

Pucker is taking point on the Tuckahoe Party Zone.  Are there a couple of others (Plush, Keymaster, Ronnie, Two Can….) who can join Pucker?

Always Be Tapering,

Lockjaw

 

Ten stallions mounted up for the latest version of The Hoedown.  The school security cameras recorded the following tale:

The Thang:
Mosey to the front of the school for the COP.
Arm circles x10 small, then reverso
Helicopters x10
Arm circles x10 big, x5 reverso
LBC’s x25
Flutter kicks x25
T-Release Mercans x10

Mosey to the Clothes Drop Off Canister

Partner up
Round 1: First man bear crawls across parking lot, 5 mercans at the curb
Second man performs Bernie Sanders on the blacktop hill

Round 2: First man duck walks across parking lot, 5 Carolina dry docks at the curb
Second man performs Bernie Sanders on the blacktop hill

Mosey to Horseshoe for Wild Pony Races

Partner up.  Just like a rodeo…First man carries second man around the circle.  Switching part-way through permitted…and each man does 5 Dry Docks with each switch.  Teams race for glory.  2 rounds…first round clockwise; second round counter-clockwise.

Al Gore for the six.

5 burpees, just ‘cuz.

Mosey approximately 17 feet to the east for Elevens

Elevens…4 count mountain climbers and Snow Angels.  Run in between.

Mosey to Aroma-Mobile to pick up coupons…then to the Wall of Pain

Individual Triple Check…
Wonder Bra x20 (Push ’em up, Push ’em out)
Donkey Kicks x20
Run the Horseshoe

Circle Up…Quick Ring of Fire
Mercans x10

COT

Number-am-a, Name-a-rama, Marv took us out

Announcements:

The PAX were notified to appear for the CSAUP on April 13.  If you are not already on a team, send a note to HoneyDo.

Offshore reminded YHC of the 10k Training Team that Offshore, Shakedown, Swiper, Lab Rat, and others are helping with at The Healing Place.  Come join the PAX after Dogpile on Saturday to teach grown adults how to count in cadence during the warm up.  4 or 5 mile run to follow.

Offshore also shared that there are two clinics on Saturday with the Parks, Recreation, and Community Facilities at Bellemeade Community Center.  From 9-11 there is a soccer clinic and 11-1 a kayaking clinic for kids 5-15.   Get in touch with Offshore or give the community center a call at 646-8235 for more details.

All the talk of kayaking brings back memories of the Gold Medal YHC once received for perfecting the “wet exit.”  Qualifications include a) absolute and utter failure to perform any successful Eskimo rolls, b) executing the secondary method for exiting the boat and remaining alive. By analogy, this is akin to being so bad at parachuting that one perfects the use of the secondary chute.

NMS:

Note 1: YHC’s quads are already sore.

Note 2: With Q-bota & Family on the DL (get better soon!), YHC was inserted as the spot Q for today’s workout.  Nice to get back out with the PAX for a beatdown as YHC has been galavanting across this fine country quite a bit recently.  Nice to see BT this morning at someplace other than an airport (Note: YHC and BT have now bumped into each other in Phoenix and Orlando, neither with a lick of planning).

Note 3: YHC isn’t sure whether there was limited mumble chatter or perhaps YHC’s hearing is just terrible.  HoneyDo did question the etymology of the term “Bernie Sanders.”  Is it because the PAX “Feel the Bern,” or perhaps because the futility of the exercise is analogous to the futility of socialism (YHC chuckles at the marketing geniuses who created “democratic socialism”).  YHC believes the name comes from the exercise making the PAX feel like old, balding men who can’t walk afterwards.

Note 4: The PAX crushed the Wild Pony races today.  Special string of roses to Marv who put in a strong final furlong to bring home victory in Round 2.  Well done.

Final note: Put in a little extra thought this week for Lab Rat and his family…keep his Dad in your prayers.  Hope all goes well, my friend.

Nine steely eyed quants convened in the cool air this morning for a big data birthday celebration of sorts.  Mosey over to the church parking lot for a quick disclaimer and then COP.  We never left.

COP
SSH – x50
Helicopters – x13
Russian Soldiers – x13
Knee Pulls – x13
LBCx – x50

The Thang
Prisoner cell workout.  Everyone grab a parking spot and don’t leave until we complete 1000 exercises.  25 of each of the following exercises, some were in cadence, some OYO.  Repeat the entire sequence for a total of 2 times through.

1-100 and 501-600
Star Jacks
Merkins
Squats
WWII

101-200 and 601-700
Imperial Walkers (4 count)
Dips
Box Jumps
Flutter Kicks (2 count)

201-300 and 701-800
Mountain Climbers (4 count)
Werkins
Calf Raises
Pole Smokers

301-400 and 801-900
Hillbillies (4 count)
Windshield Wipers (4 count)
Lunges (2 count)
American Hammer (2 count)

401-500 and 901-1000
Tuck Jumps
Diamond Merkins
Jump Squats
Reverse Crunches

Mosey back to the flag 90 seconds late where YHC took us out.

Moleskin
YHC almost forgot he signed up to Q until checking the sign-up sheet just prior to bed.  A few weeks ago YHC had plans for a tribute to all sorts of data as on 3/19/2017 the machine started collecting workout stats on it’s own.  All YHC was able to muster on short notice was a quick tally of 1139.  That is how many workouts have occurred in the RVA region in the last year.  Kind of a mind boggling number when you look at it.  As a tribute, the hoes today did 1139 exercises.  Apologies to the PAX for bringing us in a little late.

There were definitely some arbitrary exercises in there that were needed to catch our breath from some of the more difficult ones, including the Star Jumps, Windshield Wipers and Tuck Jumps.  The mountain climbers followed by werkins were no joke either.  A real diabolical Q could have turned this into a bloodbath.

Enjoy the day fellas.  Thanks for tolerating another Splinter Q.

Announcements
Honeydo is recruiting for his CSAUP team.  Still time to taper.

Splinter out.

Twelve intrepid gladiators entered the ring of Tuckahoe’s finest real estate for a post DST beatdown.  Some of the Pax questioned whether it was really 4:30 or 5:30 as we took off.

THANG

Mosey up to field

COP

• Copperhead Squats
• Arm Circles
• Merkins
• LBCs
• Reverse Scorpions
• SSHs

Sprint/Mosey

• Sprint 1 length of field, mosey width/length/width
• Sprint length/width, mosey length/width
• Sprint length/width/length, mosey width
• Sprint entire perimeter of field

Plankorama

Mosey to cafeteria

• 5 minutes of Peoples Chair w/ coupon
• 4 minutes of Hand Release Merkins
• 3 minutes of Heels to Heaven
• 2 minutes of Burpees
• 1 minute of BTTW/ Chicken Peckers

Mosey to blacktop

Triple Check

• Partner 1 Elbow Plank
• Partner 2 Dips with feet on back of Partner 1
• Partner 3 Run to Fence, Backwards Back

Mosey to Horseshoe

Inchworm Bearcrawl around Horseshoe

Mary (FKs, Alphabet)

Ring of Fire

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

YHC was expecting a colder, gloomier morning, but was greeted by perfect sunny and 70ish weather.  Lots of yawns coming from the Pax while waiting for the party to begin.  Marv was questioned about VCU’s post season destination to which he replied, nine months in the weight room.  Later it was revealed that VCU took pity on the lesser fortunate programs and gave up its spot in the dance this year.  Sounds a lot like Giselle explaining to the Brady bunch that you have to share Super Bowls with the rest of the NFL.  Seems a little off, but I’ll take Marv’s word for it.  Keymaster dropped a bomb while his feet were propped up on YHC’s back during the triple check.  YHC would like to lock Keymaster and Wilson in a car together with the windows up and see which one could make the other submit or die first.  Keymaster is the favorite at 10/1.  Great to have Angus back out for the fairweather section of the F3 schedule.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tuckahoes – need guys to man the Hoedown Party Zone

F3 Bracket Challenge – Splinter to host again?

A dozen, including a well connected FNG, started their week off in the Gloom. We made the most of dry ground and ample moonlight by:

COP – Invisible Jump Ropes, Don Qs, Merkins, Scorpion Kicks, Flutterkicks, Helicopters.

Mosey to field- 4 Corners. 5 Burpees, 10 Merkins, 15 WWII situps, 20 Mtn Climbers. 2nd round increase by 5. 3rd round increase by 5 again. Then hit pull-up bars – 10, 8, and 6.

Triple check – Donkey Kicks, Box  jumps, run.

Head to front of school- 4 sets of 20 PLTS. Then some bear crawl for good measure. Back to flag to finish with 3 min of Mary. Wedding Singer ttok us out.

NMS – Welcome FNG Handshake. Apparently he knows several PAX but Mr Holland gets the credit since he posted with him. YHC wanted to play on the top field for a while because it has been soggy up there for the whole winter.

Keymaster and Slurpee ran to the AO, ensuring he was not lost like last week. Plush put in solid work in his 2nd week in, great to have him back out.

Apologies go to Wedding Singer as YHC asked him if he was LIFO but apparently he’d been there the whole time. He’s becoming a hoedown regular. Another apology goes to Ronnie for the PLTs that put a hurting on his injured ass.

Congrats again to TYA on his 100 miler completion this weekend. There was mumblechatter on if TYA ran his 100 miler faster than Saab’s Cloudsplitter last year.

Have a great week men!

12 redwoods and a FNG showed up for perfect beat down weather.  As typical for Hoedown, it was dark and a little rainy, but 70 and sunny when we started.

Commence with 6/10ths of a mile run around to Dogwood Park.  Chase the owl away, scan for dogpiles, and a quick disclaimer as well as welcome FNG Jim.

COP

• Don Quixote
• Helicopters
• Arm Circles
• Imperial Walkers
• Invisible Jumprope

Dora

• Partner 1 – 100 Monkey Humpers, 200 LBC, 300 Flutter Kicks
• Partner 2 – Bear Crawl up the hill and come down the hill anyway you want as long as not on two legs.

Lindsays in the playground – Derkins off of the benches/toys and American Hammers.

Those with headlights illuminated safe passage across the creek as none of the Pax fell in the water nor fell on the rocks.  This puts us out at the bottom of Lindsay Court.  Partner up.

• Partner 1 run 4-5 driveways up and back.
• Partner 2 does standing broad jump up the hill.  Reverso
• Repeat with Lunges and Russian Soldiers to the top of the hill.

Mosey over to VSF for Mary:

• Hello Dollies
• One Legged APDs (sounds redundant, right?) – left leg and then right leg
• Rosalitas

Quick ring of fire.

Honey Do took us out.

NMS:

It was great to have a FNG out today.  The Tuckahoe nano-region was pretty nice with the names today.  Plush lives directly across the street from the AO, which is a good way to continue to join us or have to listen to us in the early morning hours outside his house.  We hope to see him out again soon.

So it turns out it wasn’t just one owl in the park.  It sounded like several.  While YHC was doing LBCs, I thought about how easy a target we would be for an owl attack.  They were certainly vocal and wanted their park back.  Perhaps Saab can tell us about his owl encounter sometime.

Nothing much to report on Lindsay other than an overwhelming smell of fruit loops in front of one drive way.  Either we stumbled across a hidden stash of the fine cereal or something else.  After consulting google, Sassafras produces a strong smell similar to fruit loops.  Now we know.

We returned to the AO and came across a refreshed Keymaster.  It was as if he was impervious to the effects of the workout and it showed in the ring of fire and mary.  #showupontimeorbeleftbehind

CSAUP is upon us.  Still not to late to join a team.

ABT,

Lockjaw

 

 

7 PAX braved the rain for a sloppy beatdown that went something like this:

THE THANG.  Mosey to the blacktop for COP.  Hammer Dances, Hillbillies, Mountain Climbers, Mariah Careys, V-Ups x20 IC.

Mosey to the wall next to the gym for triple check.  Walk-Ups, Gas Pumps, and lap around the blacktop.

Mosey back to the blacktop for two rounds of Touch-A-Bench.  In Round 1, one PAX finds three benches and performs 1, 2, and 3 Box Jump Burpees while the other PAX does 12-count Clockwork Lunges, then flip flop.  In Round 2, one PAX finds three new benches and/or swings and performs 5 Derkins while the other PAX does 12-count Clockwork Lunges, then flip flop.

Mosey to the lower playground for an incline/decline Curb Crawl.  Bear Crawl down hill and Crawl Bear up hill, perform Merkins up to 5 then back to 1.

Mosey to the bottom of Lindsay Court and pair up.  One PAX performs exercises while the other runs 4 driveways ahead and runs back, then flip flop.  Exercises were Walk-Up Merkins, Backward Broad Jumps/Ankle-Breakers, Crab Walk.

Two count from Two Can and mosey back to the bus loop for some Mary.  20 American Hammers IC, then 49 Reverse Crunches IC.  COT

NMM. YHC heard there was a 70% chance of rain on the way to the AO, and on the way home, heard there was a 90% chance.  PAX arrived home with solid evidence that the actual number is about 10 points north.

Toucan mentioned that he is participating in Run Ranger Run: https://www.runrangerrun.com/Pretty cool.  YHC thinks TYA could compete with some of the team totals.  Too bad our early moseys were of the Gridiron variety.

Good to see Goldberg.  YHC thinks he heard Goldberg mention he posted to Punisher in the gloom for a solo beatdown.  Respect.  Hope to see you at Hoedown more often.

YHC snatched the Q from Upchuck at 5:29, but somehow he took it back at 6:14 for 49 reverse crunches.  Let it go!

Continued prayers to PAX grieving the loss of family members including Flatline and Lockjaw.

 

Alternate Title: “Q HAS TIMEKEEPING ISSUES”

16 pre-dawn warriors decided that the comfort of the fartsack was no match for the determination and dedication of bettering themselves physically, mentally and spiritually.

This is what went down:

COP:

Helicopters x 15

Don Q’s x 10 (Saab speed)

SSH x 20

Russian Soldiers x 10

Imperial Walkers x 10

Merkins x10

Crab cakes x10

LBC’s x 10

 

Thang:

Four Corners on the Asphalt Abyss

1st corner: 2 count Freddie Mercuries

carioke to…

2nd corner: Burpees

broad jump to…

3rd corner: Jump Squats

carioke to…

4th corner: WW2 sit-ups

broad jump back to 1st corner

3 rounds @ 10 reps/20 reps/30 reps each except Burpees (5/10/15)

Plank-o-rama for the six.

 

Mosey to Asphalt Hill for…

Jacob’s Ladder with Clockwork Merkins

Bear Crawl up to top of hill and perform 1 merkin at one o’clock

Crawl Bear down to bottom and perform 2 merkins at two o’clock

Repeat all the way to twelve o’clock.

Al Gore when finished

 

Mosey to cafeteria wall for Triple Check

Partner one does Dwight Howards on wall

Partner two does LBC’s on concrete

Partner three runs the bus loop

Three Rounds

 

People’s chair to wait for the six

BTTW, then 10 Chicken Peckers OYO, then BTTW for a nice slow 10 count from Wedding Singer

 

Mary:

Hello Dollies

Heels to Heaven

Rosalitas

Hold six inches for a 20 count

 

Finale:

Merkin Ring of Fire

5 Burpees OYO

 

Number-rama

Name-a-rama

YHC took us out with a prayer of thanksgiving for this day and for the brothers of F3.  Lifted up the families of Fudd, Lockjaw, Sippy Cup and Circle K.

 

NMS:

YHC started to get worried about the condition of the AO right after Dogpile Saturday when the current monsoon that we are having began.  YHC and Lowery (not an F3 name), YHC’s faithful four-legged 2.0, moseyed up to the AO on Sunday afternoon during a break in the weather.  The field was only suitable for Labradors that love to swim!  YHC had some exercises planned for the field using his BIG CONES, but other plans had to be made.

16 is one PAX short of tying the record at Hoedown.

Slurpee and YHC showed up early to the AO because of YHC’s anxiety with EF Hutton already there and ready to go.  Then the cars started rolling in.  I had been expecting a small group and what I got was a large one.  Never underestimate the dedication of your fellow PAX!!

YHC’s cheap timekeeping device stopped working during Mary and a guess was made after Mary was over that it was 6:15.  YHC called out Number-rama and was quickly told that we had 5 minutes left.  Thus, the Merkin ring-of-fire and Burpees.  YHC also learned that when you Q, 45 minutes seems like an hour!

YHC was relaxing on his couch Sunday evening when all of a sudden the Tweets came in!  A couple of the PAX(Honeydo and Splinter) tweeted that YHC would have a hard time sleeping last night and that he would be practicing the workout in his head all night.  YHC actually slept well until 3:45am when he woke up and laid there not wanting to miss the alarm clock.

YHC would like to thank everyone for their support and encouragement!  I had a great time and will be putting my name on the Q sheet today for future workouts!  I also want to thank Keymaster for getting me involved in my first F3 workout in October, but it is the rest of you that have kept me coming back!!

Have a great Monday!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 shook off their Super Bowl hangover and came out to play on the black ice at Hoedown.  We did:

COP – SSH, Don Qs, Merkins, Flutterkicks, V-Ups, Copperhead Squats.  Head over to 3rd Pres Parking lot for Super Bowl recap:

41s and 33s of Exercises:  Merkins & WWII Situps, Carolina Dry Docks & Gas Pumps, Freddy Mercurys & Hand Release Merkins.  Mosey back to school blacktop:

3 Sets of 25 PLTs. no feet touching ground on way down.  Jerkins – Start and 10 and descend by 2s down to 2.  Donkey Kicks and V-Ups.  Start with 20 & 10 reps, then increase reps each by 10 twice up to 40 & 30.  Then 30 more DKs just for Saab.

Head down for Triple Check – B2W, American Hammers, and run the loop.  Finish with Heels 2 Heaven.  Flipper took us out.

NMS – Small numbers this post Super Bowl at Hoedown.  Either the Hoedown PAX includes many Eagles fans or just fans of clean, honest, non-cheating football, it appears many chose the fartsack this morning.  For the 6 who did post the PAX were greeted with black ice patches all over the ground.  As we started YHC groaned as we had the dreaded 5 PAX count, making partnering difficult.  Luckily Flipper joined us in the COP to make it a good even 6.

In the 3rd Pres parking lot some PAX were feeling the Winter Olympics vibe and attempted to lunge-skate across the lot on the icy spots.  The 33 Hand-release Merkins really put a hurting on the PAX except for Splinter who mentioned that if you incorporate your dong into the merkin that it reduces the full range of motion and makes it much easier.  The PAX asked Splinter to demo this new dubbed Dong-release Merkin but he held out on a full demo.  YHC expects him to drop this on an unsuspecting PAX during a Splinter Q sometime soon.

Saab was Fuddian this morning with a need for clarification on several exercises.  Apologies go to Flipper and Offshore who had to B2W above a nasty ball of snot YHC hocked up on his round of B2W.  Offshore enjoyed YHC’s borrowing of V-Ups from Circle Ks girl’s Dogpile smokefest this weekend.  Kubota did his best to bring out the inner-Toga in YHC with his Elbow plank form.  We were lucky to have no spills in the icy conditions.

Announcements – Sign up for CSAUP Century Classic and Healing place volunteer run if you haven’t already.

10 Strong resisted the warm, dry fartsack this morning, and posted to Sunny and 70 conditions.

COP

Side Straddle Hop X 15
DonQ X 10
Merkins X 10
LBC’s X15
Flutter Kicks X15
Copperhead Squats X 10
Arm Circles (Large and Small) X 20 total

Mosey to Bottom of Lindsay for some Lazy Dora

-100 Merkins, sets of 10, P2 planks while P1 exercises

-200 LBC’s, sets of 25, P2 holds legs 6 inches while P1 exercises

-300 Squats (modified to 200) – Sets of 50 while P2 holds squat lunge position.

Partner Carry up Lindsay to the stop Sign

Mosey to the Field For Wheelbarrows = Wheelbarrow to the 25, stop each man does 10 merkins, same at 50 yard-line and 75.  Switch positions, and wheelbarrow back stopping at same points.

Mosey to Horseshoe for Triple Check – Balls to the wall, flutter kicks, P3 Runs (each team 2 times through).

PLY’s (leg toss) = 2 X 25 each, 50 each man

MARY

Dolly X25, Keymaster (WW2 X 25), Splinter (20 Pickle Pounders)

Numberama, Namerama, and HoneyDo took us out….

NMS

YHC appreciates 10 PAX showing up in the elements for some fun.  Mumblechatter was light, and we got right down to business.  Thanks to Keymaster for partnering during DORA, although he dealt another super, juicy bomb out of his rear (second AO in 4 days where he’s likely left a crater in the ground).  YHC is certain that his drawers and socks for that matter are ruined forever.  YHC is now thinking that perhaps a dietary intervention might be necessary in the not too distant future (as this is becoming a pattern).  Thoughts?

Needles to say, YHC was happy to partner with Ronnie for partner carries so that breathing was again possible.  Glad to see Ronnie back out after conquering the flu!

The PAX seemed apprehensive when we hit the field for Wheelbarrows as conditions were lake-like with parts resembling Woodstock…  Honeydo took a mud pie to the shoulder and face due to the slip and slide conditions, however, his recovery was remarkable.  Enjoyed partnering with you brother!

Great to see Wedding Singer and Garbage plate out at Hoedown, way to work guys!!

Announcements: 

-BT:  Toga is having knee surgery today, have him in your thoughts and prayers.

-HoneyDo is taking the lead on helping out the men of the healing place as they train for the Monument 10k.  See him for details.

Thanks for letting me lead today fellas, have a great Monday!