Tag: NoToll

An amazing 15 studs of SOJ appeared in the darkest gloom to see what YHC had in store for class this morning. Many clocks hit 5.30 but not the Q’s so we wait. According to the ample onlookers enjoying the morning, here is how things went down.

Mosey to the main parking lot in search of light. Finding an operable light post, circle up for introductions, disclaimers and warmups. At the time no FNG’s are accounted for. YHC led warmarama that included SSH’s DQ’s, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, Copperhead Squats, Jazzercise (with toe tap), LBC’s, Suzanne Summers and Freddies. All is warm and right with the world. Lets make our mosey.

To the covered patio, still no FNG in sight. How does a 7 of diamonds sound? 2 fields so lets mix it up a bit. Start on the small field, 7 reps of an exercise (Peter Parker Merkins) at each corner. Come back to the covering for 15 dips on the bench for the cherry on top. Move to the big field, 14 (WWII’s) reps at each corner, with the cherry on top (15 dips). Back to the small field, 21 (Carolina Dry Docks) reps at each corner, don’t forget the cherry. Big field, 28 monkey humpers at each corner, cherry on top. Small field (21) LBC’s with the cherry kicker. Big field, 14 American Hammers, cherry. Small field, 7 burpees at each corner. Finish with a cherry. Still no FNG.

Wosey to the gate and pick up the pace back to the bridge to pay the toll. 25 incline Merkins. This is where we find our FNG. BTTVF flag for quick merkin ring of fire. Time is called. Names, Numbers, Announcements, Prayers. Doozy took us out.

Announcements: Labor Day Convergence at Dogpile. Monday Sept. 4 @ 7. Q is open if you are interested and in town. F3RVA Anniversary Convergence Sat. Sept. 23 @ Crucible. Offshore is leading that. Sit & Sip coming up in September also. Welcome No Show to the group. Hope to see you back out for a full workout soon.

NMS: Great numbers as the summer travelers are settling down for the fall. 7 of diamonds always provides a variety of exercises while avoiding Burpee 11’s. Good mumble chatter by the turtles bringing up the rear. Not quite sure what the rabbits discussed up front. Fields were especially plush this morning, always enjoyable. Thank you gents for giving me the opportunity to lead.

13 SOJ bootcamp studs and 2 broga-loving tuckahoe strollers denied the fartsack any victory and instead embraced the cool gloom of NoToll. Here’s the dragon the bootcampers slayed:

The THANG: 

WARMERAMA: 

• Mosey to the park entrance then back to the basketball courts and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• SSH’s, DQ’s, U.Soldiers, ImpSqW’s

PEARLS ON A STRING:

• PAX run as a group to circumnavigate the AO clockwise, stopping every 30-50 yards for variable COP’s:
• Toll Bridge – x20 Dips OYO
• Posts – x10 Pole Smokers IC
• Field 1, Corner 1 –  x20 Ball Dippers, 2-ct, OYO
• BEAR CRAWL to the Corner 2
• Corner 2 – Tempo Mericans x10 IC
• SPRINT to corner 3
• Corner 3 – WWII x10 IC
• Mosey to Field 2
• Corner 1 – Sumo Squats x10 IC
• BERNIE to Corner 2
• Corner 2 – CDD’s x20 IC
• KARAOKE to Corner 3
• Corner 3 – Crab Cakes x10 IC
• KARAOKE (other way) to Field 3
• Corner 1 – Rosalita Dips x20 IC
• LOW SHUFFLE to Corner 2
• Groiners x10 IC
• Mosey into the Parking Lot
• Corner 1 – Monkey Humpers x20 IC
• MARIO SKIPS to Corner 2
• Corner 2 – ???
• BERNIE to Corner 3
• Corner 3 – ??? PHEW! …that’s a lotta rando made-up-on-the-fly exercises to remember…

CHAIN GANG:

• Mosey to the tennis courts
• PAX line up on the chainlink fence
• Chain Climbers – planking in front, walk hands up to standing then walk hands back down to plank – x10 OYO
• Run a lap
• Chain Smokers x10 IC
• Run a lap
• People’s Chain – Hoedowns x10 IC
• Run a lap
• Balls to the Chain – Hip Slappers x10 IC

BURPEE PLAY DATE:

• Mosey back to the start, stopping for x20 Dips at the Toll Bridge en route
• Form up at the playground entrance
• PAX completes burpees 10–>1 running the playground loop between sets

BTTVSF for COT:

• Counterama # 15
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• NTB took the PAX out in Prayer
• COLD BREW COFFEERAMA

NMS:  The gloom is BACK baby, and some really nice cool weather as well! Great group of PAX this morning hitting it hard to win the day. Apologies to the meditating shavasna gurus for YHC’s jamming tunes upon AO arrival. Sounds akin to Machismo’s efforts with the M. Yikes! Enjoyed the coffeerama tailgating with some of you guys. Thanks for permitting me the honor to lead today fellas! Yours, DTH

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• This Friday Happy Hour at Diamond Billiards after work
• !!! NTB’s VQ !!! NEXT TUE AT NOTOLL
• Homegrown Half Marathon 8/19
• Pickleball Tourney 8/26

Prayer Requests:

• PSA from Upchuck – go get your screening colonoscopy – it’s never too early, and you may even enjoy it…

We had 11 of Richmond’s strongest and fittest men on the battlefield this A.M. at No Toll. According to the two tennis players we tried to EH here is how it went.

Mosey to the bridge to pay our toll 15 dips and 15 incline merkins

Mosey to the tennis courts for COP

DQ’s, Dead Man Hangs, 1 Burpee, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, 2 Burpees, SSH, 3 Burpees, LBC’s, 4 Burpees, American Hammers, Schrunchy Frogs, 10 Burpees

To the corner for a Bro Code 4 Corners, 10 Merkins, 15 WWII’s, 20 Squats, 25 Ball Dippers

Mosey to the soccer field to find the frisbees set up in a clock like pattern and a bucket in the middle of the field. Everyone starts at a different spot on the clock run from the bucket to a frisbee, written on the frisbee is an exercise do 15 of said exercise run back to the bucket do 5 burpees repeto until you’ve hit all numbers on the clock.

Mosey back to the tennis court for some Man Killers (per Last Calls request)

Mosey to the Basketball court for ab Mary, ran out of time everyone does 10 Heals to Heaven

Numbers / Names Machismo took us out

NMS:

It’s been a minute sense YHC has had a Q so while thinking through a plan last night, YHC was hoping to remember how to Q. Almost forgot how to count Man Killers but made an adjustment on the fly and all seemed to work out well. It didn’t take long (on the 9 count) until NTB figured out why everyone loves Man Killers. Just think, you don’t have to do anymore Burpees for the rest of the day

13 Macho men made their way through the abb gauntlet that Bruce Lee laid down. With the Weinke hankie in his pocket Machismo stated the Warmarama.

SSH, obliques L and R, Heel touches, Micheal Phelps, DQs, plank saws.

Continue on to a lap with the 🇺🇲 I. P. Style circle back for the 6.

COP #1 superset with Bruce Lee 20, 30, then 40 reps of each. A.H., Leg Raises, LBCs, heel touches, crunchy frogs, plank saws, .. six pack in tow pax went to the shelter

triple check: Lt. Dan’s, Dips, Filed Run.

Grab the flag and back with sone high knees, butt kickers, side steps.

Toll of 20 dips and inerkins.

suicide to kill 2 min. Then names and numbers.

YHC reflected on taking the most out of every day because aspirin can kill you (Bruce Lee). Prayers for Belay and his family as they lay to rest his grandfather in Iceland. Welcome F3 RVAs newest member CH3. Chris owns a propane delivery business (20lb cylinders) so OC got wise and wanted to name him the chemical formula for propane. As fate would have it CH3 (CH3 Methyl Group) is methane. So Chris for your excessively long fart sack welcome your name will be remembered as chemically complicated but technically cow farts. Looking forward to beating down the gloom with you!

The Summer Tour is awesome.  Highly recommend it.  Sixteen rookies and veterans from far and wide gathered for a long overdue Q on Slurpee Day 2023.

Here’s what transpired:

Mosey to the back parking lot

COP

• Don Quixotes
• Imperial Walkers
• Helicopters
• Copperhead Squats
• Jazzercises
• Crabcakes
• Suzanne Somers L/R
• Merkins
• Heels to Heaven
• SSHs

Mosey to the back soccer field

DORA 1-2-3

• P1 – Run across field and back
• P2 – Exercise (100 x Mike Tyson Merkins, 200 x Reverse Crunches, 300 x Monkey Humpers)

Mosey to the front soccer field

Triple Check

• P1 – Bernie across field and run back
• P2 – Dips
• P3 – Muscle Ups

Mosey to the untapped half of front soccer field

Bearyah Chase

• P1 – Runs across field and back to P2
• P2 – Bearcrawls chasing P1
• 10 Booyah Merkins and Flip
• Repeato until Team has completed Bearcrawl across and back

Mosey back to VSF

Mary

• American Hammers
• LBCs
• Alabama Prom Dates
• Burpee

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Forgive me PAX for I have sinned, it has been 1,288 days since my last No Toll Q, shameful.  All jokes aside, it was awesome to be back at No Toll and lead.  YHC swears he used to be there and do that all the time.  Then SpiderRun became too convenient.  Always fun to see old faces, meet new ones, and have a familiar face pop up.  Someone commented that YHC must be angry today.  I was going to joke that if I wanted to kill the SOJ guys I’d have sent Pigskin to Q, but he was there, so perhaps guilty by association.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ultimate at No Toll 7/18

Prayers for Toto

14 dirtbags showed up to Huguenot Little League to see if the field were playable. They were, so this is what transpired:

2 foul pole to foul pole runs to loosen up, then COP with various exercises meant to keep our hands dry and then it was time for the main show.

3 swings (not pitches). Make them count. Anything other than a fair ball over the fence is an out. Given the numbers, we had a second round with 2 swings. We had 6 HRs in total in the first round and 4 in the second.

This year’s winner (with 2 HRs in each round) was NTB – a newcomer taking the title from YHC. Honeymoon, Warby, McRib and Rosie each launched HRs in round 1 and McRib and Rosie double-dipped with a HR each in round 2.

YHC took the bagel along with everyone else, although I think I may have won the Exit Velo competition with my last hit. Turns out you need both Exit Velo and Launch Angle for a HR, right NTB?

Warby and Snuff put on stellar defensive shows. Nothing like EF Hutton’s HR robbery of last year, but good enough to get on YHC’s list for the F3 RVA Softball team should there ever be one.

Great fun. Well done guys. I know the rain kept people away, so YHC will look for a late July date to run this back! I’m waiting for NTB to let me know when he is out of town. Maybe McRib and Rosie too!

Welcome to Bow Tie (McRib’s 2.0). We stuck with the food theme for the family but we missed the obvious name – Riblet. Thanks for coming out Bow Tie.

No announcements – we almost forgot to circle up. YHC was too depressed.

Until next time, No More Gumbo For You.

A quartet of early risers denied the temptation of the fartsack to enjoy the spirited elementary recess playground favorite of the past. According to the plethora of squirrels enjoying the various waste disposal facilities, here is what occured.

Mosey to the parking lot for introductions, disclaimers and warm ups that included SSH’s, DQ’s, Ukrainian Soldiers, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, Dancing Bears, Hello Dollies and Dying Cockroaches. All is warm and good with the world, onwards to the plush, sprinkled turf.

COP 1: Quarter Pounder: Start at the well saturated touchline. Run 25 yards – 25 merkins, return to the touch (Bernie if your nasty). Run 25 yard – 25 merkins, 50 yards – 50 LBC’s, return to the touch. 25 yard – 25 merkins, 50 yards – 50 LBC’s, 75 yards – 75 flutters (2 count), return to touch. 25 yard – 25 merkins, 50 yards – 50 LBC’s, 75 yards – 75 flutters, 100 yards – 100 monkey humpers, return to touch.

COP 2: Mosey to the gate: Quadruple check. Timer runs to the water tower and back, Squats, Pole Smokers, Carolina Drydocks. 2 rounds.

COP 3: Dodgeball: Short jaunt to the tennis courts. Teams of 2 for partner dodgeball. Must stay within the single tennis court unless retrieving a ball. Upon getting hit or someone catching your throw, victim runs around both courts with burpees at each corner. DTH and Dealer were the victors on this day. NTB was admirable in defeat with YHC hit multiple times.

BTTVF: Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayers, YHC took us out

Announcements:

• Kubota is leading Deliverance paddling session tomorrow. Bring your boat and your donation to the river gods. 5 am launch from Huguenot Flatwater.
• DTH is leading Alamo on Monday, bringing an FNG with him.
• No Toll will be at Huguenot Little League next Tuesday (6/27) for Gumbos Home Run Derby, 5.30 launch. Bangers and Mash are on the menu.

Prayers for Dealers coworker who lost her daughter recently.

NMS: Thank you for the fellows for joining me this morning in trying something new. Dodgeball was a good mix with plenty of burpees for YHC. Balls are sloppy with DTH finding an interesting way to carry his arsenal. Look to bring this back in the future. Thank you gents for playing along.

It has been way too long since I had ventured to No Toll for a workout(it will not be the last). A nice clear morning, conditions felt good for a great workout to commence. After everyone arrived(6 in total for today), a little mosey down to the lot near the fields for the warm-up. SSH, Helicopters, Don Quixotes, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, and LBCs was the beginning. A short mosey over to the mini pavilion for the first of 2 Triple Checks. The first consisted of: Plank Jacks, Step ups and the run. The second one tricep dips, decline merkins and the run. The run part added a little twist: first one regular, second regular with bernie back, the final regular with shuffles, switch directions at the halfway point. Once everyone returned, then it was back to the courts. I forgot No Toll is more condensed not like Rock n Roll where it’s spread out more.

At the courts….4 corner prostitute style. 10 Merkins, 20 Jump squats, 30 double count flutter kicks, 40 SSH. The added kicker example after you did the merkins, a little bear crawl then you hit the next corner. After the jump squats, a little crab walk then run to the next. To add not only a little mobility but hit muscles that are not used a lot. In time, the idea is to get the body moving that it feels free, not stiff.

Still had time left so another 4 corner but this time it was dealer’s choice. I called out a person, we did an exercise. On the way to one corner, walking lunges, another we bernied. Monkey Humpers, Alabama Prom Dates, WW2 in cadence, etc. Back to the baseline for a mini dora….25 Merkins, 50 LBCs and 75 jump ropes to finish. A small run to the flag for a quick stretch and time

Count outs, Announcements and prayer by YHC to take us out

Welcome Matt(NTB) to the group. He comes to us originally from Raleigh, found out about F3 on a recent vacation and did great for his first time. I am sure we will see more of him(NTB Need to Breath his first concert a southern rock band). Machismo will be at SOT tomorrow. Lets come on out and support him, give him a good group to train and lead us

It was nice to be back at No Toll. Way too long since I hit that one but will adjust between that and Old hundred for Tuesday Kettlebells to get my body something more to train. Have a good one and see you tomorrow