Tag: NoToll

Huguenot Park

  • Squiggy It Is!!

    Rudy had the Q, apparently he was only aware of this for about 12 hours. He showed up early. He scouted the land. He made plans. Then YHC showed up just in time with the ghost flag. 530 hot and away we went. 

    Top songs of 2025 on the playlist, hit play and mosey to the large parking lot for:

    SSH

    Hill Billie’s 

    Ukrainian Soldiers

    Copperhead squats

    American hammers

    Flutter kicks 

    Shoulder taps

    Merkins

    Four corners

    Mode of transportation and exercise different each round 

    Bear crawl between stations 

     20 squats each corner

    Lunge walk

    20 merkins 

    Crab walk

    20 WW2

    Broad jump

    5 burpee

    11s

    Donkey kicks

    Ww2s

    Pause to listen to The Cure, look at the moon, and stretch with Snuff. 

    Hold plank

    Name pax to your left, all do 5 merkins for every miss

    Hold Al Gore

    Core principles 

    All do 5 squats for every miss.  No misses so we did 10 to celebrate. 

    Triple check 

    Around the perimeter of the dry land

    Merkins

    Monkey humpers

    Hold plank for 30 seconds 

    Numbers, names including FNG Squiggy! Frozen triangle on Saturday, 6am at Dogpile, you can run, ruck or meet at 5:30 for extra credit with Don Draper. Prayers for Wildcat and his family as they enter a new phase of treatment. 

    NMM

    Thanks to Rudy for being a good sport. Go get someone’s Q!! Welcome to Squiggy, who shares his name with a dog that was walking its owner this morning during COT. He hails from NC, works with Belay, and is a Wolfpack fan. Thanks for letting me lead fellas. Have a great day and be good to those around you!

  • Blasting Doozy music!!!

    As YHC arrived at NO Toll (5:10) to put out todays beatdown paraphernalia, Tin Man was already on the scene getting after it with some laps around the field. YHC put a bucket of goodies out under the Gazebo and made his way back to the truck to see who else would arrive. L-Woods snuck onto the playground to get 5 pull ups in for todays penance. 5:26 time to get after it and see who else has ventured out in the ice and snow.

    5 Iron Men gathered at the flag when all was said and done.

    Indigenous people walk (parking lot was super icy) with the home made medicine ball. Person in the back does 5 Squats, hands the ball to the next guy and runs (shuffles) to the front.

    At the gazebo we do some stretches, LBCs and Merkins

    Move over to find the burpee bucket – Keep it simple, rotating 3 exercises (Squats, Ball Dippers, SSH) PAX moves together hitting corner 1 back to the bucket for 5 burpees. Run to the center of the field back to the burpee bucket so on and so forth. Ice on top of the snow but it was really interesting how most of the time you didn’t break through it and how it wasn’t slippery.

    Doozy music was playing from the bucket as the beatings continued

    Grab the bucket and the ball and indigenous people walk back to the flag with 5 squats in the back run to the front and grab the bucket.

    Lots of time left, leave the ball at the truck. Take the bucket because the music is good.

    Four corners on the basketball court. 10 Merkins, 10 Plank Jack, 10 American Hammers, 10 LBCs. Machismo points out how this is probably the least slick the basketball courts have ever been.

    Repeto 20

    Repeto 30 (with a break at 15 Merkins)

    Repeto 40 (with a break at 20 Merkins)

    BTTF Numbers / Names Machismo took us out

    NMS: YHC had 2 plans for the day, if less than 3 others showed up the beatdown would have been 100% made up on the fly. More than 3 others and we would follow through with the main plan. YHC had planned it this way because there were glow sticks to go along with it and less than 4 HIM seemed like a waist of the sticks. With 5 HIM it was going to happen. However once under the gazebo and looking out onto the snow covered fields we could see everything and the decision was made to save the sticks for another time.

  • What’s Up Dog?

    YHC ruined a great joke by Snuff this morning at coffeerama, but before that the following may have occurred…

    Warmarama started with a mosey to the large parking lot to start warming up on this frosty morning. Following a series of IC movements and stretches we searched behind the dumpster enclosure for our beloved coupons. The PAX were stunned and majorly disappointed to discover that the coupons were gone. Nonetheless, we press on.

    COP 1 – Quarter Pounder at the Soccer Field

    • 25 yds – 25 merkins – bernie back
    • 50 yds – 50 squats – bernie
    • 75yds – 75 plank jacks – bernie
    • 100yds – 100 SSH – bernie

    COP 2 – Inchworm March

    Partner A started traveling around the perimeter of the soccer field at an agonizingly slow pace as we because we traveled via inch-worm merkin. Partner B hit 5 burpees, 10 WWIIs, and 15 crunchy frogs in the middle of the field and then ran to tag out his partner. We made it 1/3 of the way around the field before YHC put an end to the inching madness. The PAX lunge-walked the rest of the field and then moseyed back to the flag for the final 10 minutes.

    COP 3: Bear Crawl Suicides

    Partner A held canoe on the basketball court baseline while Partner B bear-crawled to the free-throw line and back. Partners swapped back and forth until the full court was covered. Time called right at 6:15!

    Announcements:

    • Frozen Triangle 2/7 – run and ruck options
    • Breaking Bread the last weekend of every month. Sign up on the Q sheet.

    Prayer Requests:

    • Prayer for the friends and coworkers who have recently lost loved-ones.
    • YHC took us out.

  • Off To The Races

    In the dead of winter, when the cold seems endless and it feels like we’ve been stuck in a long stretch without a little competition, YHC decided to bring some playoff spirit to No Toll. With college football and NFL playoffs in full swing, it was the perfect time to get some competitive blood flowing among the PAX.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to the pavilion and pay the toll with 10 step-ups and 15 incline merkins.

    Warmerama: Side straddle hops, Ukranian soldiers, cherry pickers, imperial squat walkers, merkins, lbcs, alabama prom dates

    Count off into twos for teams.

    • Relay Races (losing team has 15 burpee penalty) :
      • First Relay: One man runs to the end of the soccer field and back while the team does flutters.
      • Second Relay: Runner bear crawls to a cone, then sprints the rest of the way down soccer field while the team does World War IIs.
      • Third Relay: Team does American hammers, runner crab walks to the cone and back.
      • Fourth Relay: Team does big-boy sit-ups, runner lunge-twists to the cone and runs back.
      • Final Relay: Team does LBCs, runner does broad jump burpees to the cone, sprints to the end of the field and back.

    Mosey back to the flag, stop for 20 decline merkins and a ring of fire merkins.

    Announcements: Frozen Triangle on February 7th, The Bridge January 24

  • 25 years of Kid A

    “I like music that sounds like shit.”

    Orange Crush could never forget the first time he heard Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ at a Boberry Q celebrating the 25th anniversary of that legendary album. It was a life changing moment for OC. An aural awakening. Something opened up for him: a new tempo to his life, a new soundtrack for his soul. Deep down in the recesses of OC’s subconscious, Thom Yorke was crooning.

    Had Orange Crush actually showed up this morning for his own Q, he would have found 18 men and a special edition of the Ghost Flag: Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ 25th anniversary celebration led by Boberry and Snuff. Because one man’s shit is another man’s song.

    Warmarama:

    25 burpees, indigenous people run to the lot, 25 SSH, helicopters, hairy rockettes, American Hammers, shoulder taps, Mountain climbers.

    Mosey to the pavilion for the 80/20 rule: 20 mirkins in the middle then 80 each of at the corners of the field: 80 SSH, 80 LBC, 80 flutters, 80 squats.

    Triple check with dips and step ups.

    Mosey to the center of the soccer field where we all lay in a circle with our heads to the speaker, admiring the halo around the moon. 50 heels to heaven, then elbow planks and pickle pounders while Snuff talked about his Parisian days in haze of hash smoke. American Hammers with duck duck goose.

    Mosey to the lot for some curb hoppers. Back towards the flag with a stop to pay the toll: dirkins and dips.

    Circle up for 13 burpees: Belay’s age when Kid A came out. Lieutenant Dans until the end of the song, with Nancy Lopez unsure if it would ever end.

    COT and prayers.

  • ?what does the oreo say in German? NINE!

    A grand 11 HIM’s RSVP’d “Hell Yeah!” to Oreo’s 9th Birthday Bash, which coincidentally also celebrates NTB’s 9th wedding anniversary. By the minimalist attire of ROSIE temps were 70 and Sunny (as always), but LWOODS’ impersonation of Randy from the Christmas Story movie (stuck in puffy snowsuit) suggested true temps may have been in the 20’s. Here’s how we celebrated YHC’s firstborn:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey onto the BBall Court lot and circle up
    • Slaughter Start with x9 Burpees to thaw the extremities
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variety of Warm-up Reps, each x9 IC

    KILO-OREO:

    • Mosey to the bleachers
    • Partner up, alternating cumulative reps with the other running across the field and back
    • O – x100 Big O’s rotating legs above and below plane of bleacher seat
    • R – x200 Ranger Merkins
    • E – x300 Each Leg Bleacher StepUps
    • O – x400 Oblique LBC’s
    • (No matter what SNUFF says – this DOES add up to 1000 reps!)

    BURPEE LADDER:

    • Mosey to the pavilion
    • PAX complete descending reps of merkins per burpee, from 9 down to 1, woth a run around the Pavilion between sets.
    • Flutters to the Beat for the SIX

    PAY THE TOLL:

    • x9 Derkins IC (painfully slow)

    BTTF:

    • 2.5min of Variable Mary

    COT:

    • Counterama # 11
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer – theme of Gratitude
    • COFFEE! (Thx to SNUFF)

    NMS:  Brothers, thank you for posting in 20-something weather, for your enthusiasm to take on whatever YHC had in store, and for your fantastic mumble chatter. What a great PAX! This tradition of celebrating Penniella’s birthday is now complemented beautifully with knowing we also celebrate NTB’s nuptials. Blanchard’s Coffeerama was spectacular- thank you again Snuff. YHC is deeply grateful to have such an amazing PAX of brothers to be in the gloom with. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 01/01 – 7am Convergence at Dogpile
    • 01/08 – 7pm SOJ Hang at Heists

  • Singing in the Gloom

    43!! Men of F3RVA stepped into the gloom and found out there is a best way to start the day out right at NoToll, join the the 11th annual version of 12 Days of Christmas. Thankful to those who ignored their typical ‘rule’ of avoiding rainy days below 40 degrees and jumped in head first to join in on the Christmas Spirit.

    After an intro, welcome to the FNG from Iceland, and some standard warm up fare we headed to cover for the main event.

    A couple false starts with a few guys getting ahead of the Q in rounds 1 and 2, the PAX settled into a harmonious rhythm as we worked our way through the 12 days:

    • 1 Dozen LBCs
    • 2 Sprints (mosey) across the field
    • 3 Diamond Merkins
    • 4 Imperial Squat Walkers
    • 5 Burpees
    • 6 Carolina Dry Docks
    • 7 Ball Dippers
    • 8 Hand Release Merkins
    • 9 American Hammers
    • 10 Freddie Mercuries
    • 11 Crunchy Frogs
    • 12 Broad Jump Burpees

    I can’t thank everyone enough for coming out today and letting me lead this tradition, my cup is full for the Holidays! The chatter was high under the shelter but, as the Q, I did not get to hear much of it beyond the occasional comment. Naming the FNG was an adventure with a rapid fire of random non-sequiturs coming from Hardywood and minimal repeats or consensus.

    Thanks to EF Hutton for coordinating the Secret Santa and to Snuff, Dealer, and maybe others – for the post workout onsite coffeeteria.

    Lots of things to do, places to be, and people to see over the next few days but take the time to slow it down and enjoy time with family.

    Announcements:

    • Kubota is leading The Bridge on 12/27, reach out if you can go, all 3 Fs in a few short hours
    • DTH is opening the Forge on Christmas day and according to the Q sheet Circus will be in session as well with Atilla
    • NEW YEAR’S DAY Convergence – Dogpile 7am – hit me up if you are going to be there – looking for a couple of Qs.

  • All the Things she said

    13 fanboys brought their bundled selves one cold morning to the hottest ticket this side of Williamsburg. Snuff Underground: Indie rockettes edition. All there with the same goal – try and stay warm. Easy with the beats of Clairo, The Cranberries and Patti Smith. Manic pixie dreamgirl approved.

    5-burpee slaughter start then mosey to the back lot stopping to pay the toll.

    Mosey to the lot with some SSHs then a full mosey around the field only stopping for some OG style burpees in the far corner.

    Loop back around to the bleachers for a triple check.

    Mosey around the lot then a series of ascending cocaine bears followed by ascending lunge walk then squats. No Doubt.

    Mosey back around the half field then back into a circle for several rounds of nonstop mirkin Mary.

    Mosey back around the lot then another triple check with flutters and Bulgarian split squats.

    Mosey back to the flag for a 10-burpee wind down.

    COT and coffee for a hot minute.

  • Snow Toll

    6 Madmen joined YHC for a frozen beatdown in the 5″-ish of snow covered No Toll Glory. Started with disclaimer before we even started a jog, as the conditions were slippery and hard, don’t be dumb…

    Mosey to the parking lot for some warm-ups: SSH, IW, US, Copperhead Squats, Cherry Pickers, Arm Circles, Merkins.

    Workout 1 – Mosey to the Snow Covered Soccer Field, laid out cones that covered an 1/8 of the field. In pairs, 1 partner ran the outside of the cones, while the other continued an exercise around the lap, tagging out as the running partner got back to the exercise partner (There is a name for this, but not sure what it is): Lap 1: Rotating Squats; Lap 2: Walking Lunges; Lap 3: Broad Jump Burpees.

    Workout 2 – Four Corners (Whole Park). (10) Burppes; (20) Merkins; (30) Squats; (40) Monkey Humpers

    Workout 3 – Mosey to Shelter for an Ab Triple Check: Flutter Kicks; WW2; third person run across the field and back.

    Mosey back to the front parking lot, where we finished with some single man sled pushing, which ended up having some good speed when you had 2 people pushing you!

    COT – Gratitude for getting out in the 16F conditions, and through the discomfort, and for safe travels throughout. Also, brought some poor man’s coffee (2 – 24oz WaWa Coffee’s), for a quick coffeerama.

  • Discomfort Crisis

    The general populace may be getting too comfortable but not these 10 men who embraced the suck on the coldest wettest morning of the year. 34 degrees and nonstop rain, LFG. The triumphant return of Crash Test Dummy, who somehow forgot to bring the desert heat. We still love you CTD.

    Mosey to the back parking lot and around the field, then back to the covered pavilion. YHC revealed he had spent too much time on the playlist and not enough time planning, so the warmup was extra warm with lots of SSH and quick reps including 20 big boy WW2s to get the blood flowing.

    4 stations, one at each bench. Bulgarian split squats, dips, decline/incline mirkins, step ups. Each group rotated whenever the mirkin station called out to switch. After a full rotation, we needed to get even more warm: Mankillers to the beat.

    Another full rotation, then a whole bunch of ab exercises to 100: LBCs, American Hammers, flutters, and some other stuff. One more full rotation and then we had one more song to get back to the flag.

    COT – gratitude for the fortitude to get out in the gloom and the push through the rain, through the discomfort, and prove once again that we can face the new day with all 3 Fs.

    And… a cup of hot coffee or 3 out of the back of the Snuff-mobile. A small comfort, well-earned.