Tag: NoToll

A smooth bakers dozen of SOJ finest leprechauns embraced the cooler temps for a joyous St Pattys Day Beatdown. Here is how things went down in our search for the elusive pot of gold.

Mosey to the large parking lot paying the toll along the way 20 dips and 20 incline merkins at the bridge. Continue the mosey with eventful mumble chatter persisting along the way.

Circle up for introductions and salutations. Rule of the day for anyone not wearing green, a burpee is required following each exercise. Warmarama included the following: SSH’s, DQ’s, Helis, Jazzercise (with toe taps), Merkins, LBC’s, DeadBugs, a bit of Broga. Burpees were appropriately allocated along the way.

The Thang:

Wosey to the corner for 4 Corners, Lady of the Night Style: 10 HR Merkins, 20 WWII’s, 30 2-count Shoulder Taps, 40 Monkey Humpers. Brocode style.

Brief Wosey to the drive aisle for 11’s. Lunge across the road for 10 American Hammers, Bear Crawl Back for 1 merkin. Repeato.

Wosey to the Gate for a quick triple check. Timer runs to the water tower and back, LT. Danny’s and Monkey Humpers. 1 round completed for time.

BTTF for 1 burpee as time was called.

Numbers, Names, Announcements and Prayers. Oyster looking for Breaking Bread volunteer for Sunday March 29th. Good time and great way to include your family in this awesome cause. Sweet talk a few Kotters and missed faces into emerging from their winter stables to embrace the gloom.

YHC took us out followed by coffee (thank you Snuff) and appropriate Irish beverages provided for celebration by the Pax.

NMS: Good to get back on the Q sheet after a long hiatus. Typically St. Pattys is a good start to the spring like temps, however seems like the 4th winter is still upon us. Good to see some new faces out and coffee is always enjoyed. Green is not a popular color for F3RVA clan so burpees were properly distributed instead of pinching. Always a fun time at the top of the morning. Thank you boys for the opportunity to lead.

Neither the Old Glory nor 35 degrees and raining (though Sunny and 70 in our minds) could deter 8 gloom warriors from posting to NoToll. Rosie immediately asked YHC if we really had to do the OG, and YHC admitted that he had a modification in mind. With that tease, the clock struck 0530 and off we went OG in hand for two laps.

The flag was planted in the familiar corner and YHC began by saying that anyone who was there to set an OG PR – have at it. The rest of us, in honor of YHC’s 10-year F3 anniversary (actually Sunday but I will be out of town), will do the OG bro-code style or no man left behind. We stick together but the goal is not to go easy. The goal is to push each other and complete at least 3 laps. With that, the 20-minute timer was set and off we went.

3.25 laps completed

Back to the flag for 2 more laps native american style – with some farlek-esque runaways.

Return to the basketball courts for 4 minutes of plank-o-rama and American Hammers

COT with numbers, names, announcements and prayers

The one announcement was an upcoming evening off the books ruck this Saturday launching from Einstein’s (Ruckhenge) heading down the train tracks (Stand By Me style) and ending at Galley with some food. 3:00 – 7:00. See DTH or slack for details.

NMS:

It has been 10 adventurous years since YHC finally gave in to Rosie’s headlocks and left the warm comforts (and better scenery) of the mornings at ACAC for the gloom, and it has been a great trade in so many respects (other than the scenery). I appreciate you all and the inspiration and motivation you have shared with me. I love the new blood and the old blood and everything in between in this group. We are all working our way through this journey with our own triumphs and failures and unique adventures and hurdles, but there is strength in knowing that there are so many brothers there for strength, support, laughter, guidance, and shit-talking. Here’s to many more years with you all. Thank you!

No More Gumbo For You!

12 Souls made it out to to experience another wonderful day at No Toll. YHC made it just in time to not look like a total jabroni, woke up in a sweat realizing I had the Q that morning… Lets Go!! Moseyed to the parking lot for:

Warmarama: SSH; Ukrainian Soldiers; Imperial SW; Arm Circles; Merkins; WW2; American Hammers; Another set of SSH

Workout 1: Soccer Field Triple Check – Air Squats; Dips on the Bleachers; Runner crosses the soccer field, 2 burpees then back.

Workout 2: 4 corners old glory style – Burpees (10); Carolina Dry Docks (20); WW2 (30) (started cold and dry, ended warm and wet); Monkey Humpers (40).

Workout 3: Cocain-ish Bearcrawls – bearcrawl to each parking space line, at each line do an exercise, then crawl to the next increasing reps at each line, a total of 8 lines. 1st Set – WW2; 2nd Set – Merkins; 3rd Set – Jump Squats; 4th Set – flutter kicks.

Workout 4: 11’s on the tennis court. Good old fashion Merkins and LBC’s

Announcements – L Woods is helping to organize upcoming service opportunity with the Latinos in Virginia Empowerment Center on March 7th at Dorey Park. See Slack. Also GrowRuck 9/26/2026, Leesburg, Signup!

11 Ice-melters surveyed the permafrost in search of snow to melt. The Richmond ICE AGE may be passing and YHC took it upon himself and the Pax to speed it’s departure. Disclaimers were given and some took it too seriously, uh-hem “Last Call.” According to Squiggy here’s what went down:

Wamarama: mozey to field one for some SSH, Merkins, WWIIs, ISWs, DQs in random numbers

C.O.P. 1 Mozey to the pavillion to start the first sundance. EyE of the Merkaine… at pavillion 10 merkins, corners for 25 WWIIs, 25 Burpees, 25 ISWs, 25 Squats. Pax then tried to raise the temps over 32 with some raise the roofs.

I.P. Run Ice skater style low to the ground and lunging while the last man did 5 burpees and ran to the front.

C.O.P. 2 4 corners 25 Aussie snow angels, 25 plank jacks, 25 Freddie Mercuries. 25 mountain Climbers.

C.O.P. 3 11s with an animal walk between on the basketball court.

Pleasure to lead and we’ll see next Tuesday if we sped the ice Melt. Never in the history of Richmond ever has the snow lasted on the ground this long from 1/25 nearly 2.5 weeks. Many Pax throughout Richmond kept up the routine despite enduring single digit wind chills, and ice covered AOs. Memorable Qs were delivered from the likes of Doozy, Machine Head, DTH, L Woods, Salt Lick and others. Let’s relish the end of the Ice Age like the Type 2 fun it was, “uncomfortable in the moment, rewarding afterwards”.

Prayers to the reported 12,000 who visited the ERs of VA during this event. Lifting up YHCs mother who received a head wound from falling ice. Here’s also to the lessons in life that save us from worse mistakes later re: Hugo on Ice… Keep up the good work. Machismo – out.

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.