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A fearless 29 appeared in the darkness of NoToll for the 8th annual edition of the F3RVA 12 Days of Christmas. YHC may not be getting a Christmas card from any of the PAX in attendance after that beatdown but that’s ok, I know where I stand in their hearts.

Big circle for the warm up with lots of chatter – 12 of each SSH, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Shoulder Taps.

Main Event – 1 Dozen LBC, 2 Field Sprints,; 3 Diamond Merkins, 4 Imperial Squat Walkers, 5 Burpees, 6 Carolina Dry Docks, 7 Ball Dippers, 8 Hand Release merkins, 9 American Hammers IC, 10 Freddie Mercurys IC, 11 Crunchy Frogs IC, 12 Broad Jump Burpees.

Oyster warned me that he wanted the full 45 minutes that he paid for so we packed into the parking lot as more of an oval for the last 3 minutes of Mary.

Great morning to be out on the plush yet slightly frozen fields of NoToll and good to see a few bare knees for the SOP strong crew. I know Honeydo was supporting the SOP cause on his birthday across town. The caroling got a little off sync about halfway through but the PAX got back on track quickly for the remaining rounds. A few new options for rounds 6-8 kept the PAX on their toes. Great to have Circle K make the trek SOJ to represent DaVille. Flatline showed off his military training and agility flipping over Circle K and deftly avoiding taking out the Q with a smooth tuck and roll. The Woke Panther was shining bright with his rainbow lights. Our local giant, Gomer Pyle, showed out in the team photo this morning, according to Tryhard that’s how you position a deer (or anything else) to make it look bigger. (Note to self for future photos?) I hope everyone is as energized as I am after this morning. Grateful for this group and for all of the blessings we have this season.

Merry Christmas gentlemen.

Everything is coming up Rosie.

Nine SOJ HIM’s embraced the chilly gloom of NoToll to see what the good Doctor might pull from the annals of beatdown glory. For your reading pleasure, the PAX conquered the following:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA:

• Mosey down to the parking lot and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable Rapid Fire Sets to get the muscles warm top to bottom

COP #1:

• Mosey over to Field #1
• 4 CORNERS (Escalator+DeEscalator)
• Corner 1 – x10 Merkins
• Corner 2 – Add x20 Am.Ham’s (2-ct)
• Corner 3 – Add x30 Squats
• Corner 4 – Add x40 Groiners
• Reverso going back around removing an exercise each corner
• PLANKORAMA with review of the F3 Core Principles and Credo

COP #2:

• Mosey across to Field #2
• Partner up for Catch Me If You Can
• P1 begins bear crawling down length of Field while P2 completes x20 2-ct Hallelujah Flutters, after which P2 mosey’s to switch with P1
• Complete x3 rounds of flutters each then mosey to the Pavilion

COP #3:

• TRICEP TRIPLE CHECK:
• P1 – Dips
• P2 – Merkins
• P3 – Crab walk out 20 yards & back

COP #4:

• Mosey back to Field #1
• Partner up for PLT’s
• x20 each, x3 Rounds

COP #5:

• Line up on end of Field #1
• 50% Run length of field
• 100% Sprint
• 25% Mosey and settle breathing
• 75% Run

Mosey BTTF:

• Bernie Sanders En route
• x90 seconds of burnout LBC’s

COT:

• Counterama # 9
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Really enjoyed the rapid fire COP’s today to get around the AO a bit, and the PAX absolutely crushed it! Highlight of the morning was Last Call’s unnerving enjoyment of taking on two men at once for PLT’s. What can we say, he’s got a big heart! YHC believes the PAX and AO are now properly prepared for Rosie’s Twelve Days of Christmas next week! SYITG, DTH

Announcements:

• 12/20 NoToll 12 Days of Christmas
• 12/21 Final Gravity HDHH
• 12/31 Doozy’s 100th Q for 2022 at R&R
• TBD – SOJ Leadership/Planning Mtg
• 1/21 Frozen Triangle

9 men stayed south of the James so as not to pay any tolls. The toll was paid in sweat however by the PAX that morn.

Started with a short mosey to retrieve some coupons from the woods by the fields. Then return to the basketball courts for some warmerama. Highlights included jazzercise, collard pickers, and hairy Rockettes.

The thanng

triple check! Partner 1 runs the loop around by the tennis courts and back. Partner 2 merkins. Partner 3 goblet squats with the coupon

then one round of suicedes on the basketball court.

round 2

a Dora! Partner up, as team complete 50 blockees, 100 squats with coupon, 200 chest presses with coupon. Timer runs length of court then Bernie’s back.

return the coupons

Just enough time for some 4 corners! 10 merkins, 20 WW2s, 30 ball dippers, 40 monkey humpers.

numbers, names, announcements, YHC took us out

nmm

Better late than never on this BB It wa great way to start the day. Tunes were a crowd pleaser for once with 90s rock on the jukebox.

A dozen SOJ warriors braved the cold gloom, warmed by the idea of a Tryhard sweat fest. While a couple gloom-brothers sauntered off for an intimate walkabout, here’s how the other x10 PAX celebrated YHC’s last day of hate:

The THANG:

DECK CHALLENGE: 

• Mosey to Field #1 and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Explain the challenge is to complete x39 cards from the F3 deck, to honor the Q’s last day of hate
• Classic rock playlist ON, let’s go!

1. SPRINT across field and back
2. x100 2-ct Flutters OYO
3. x20 Copperhead Squats IC
4. x10 4-ct Merkins IC
5. High-knee across field and back
6. x10 WWII IC
7. Butt-kickers across field and back
8. x20 Smurf Jacks IC
9. x10 Chuck Norris Merkins OYO
10. x10 Rosalita Dips IC
11. Bernie across field and back
12. x100 Calf-raises OYO
13. x10 Werkins IC
14. x20 Freddie M’s IC
15. Sprint across field and back
16. x20 Monkey Humpers IC
17. x20 Diamond Merkins OYO
18. x10 High/Slow Flutters IC
19. Bear crawl across field, mosey back
20. x10 4-ct Jump Squats IC
21. x10 HRM’s IC
22. x20 Heels to Heaven IC
23. x20 Burpees OYO
24. Lunge backwards down field, mosey back
25. x20 Merkins OYO
26. x20 LBC’s IC
27. x100 SSH OYO
28. x10 Gorilla Humpers IC
29. x100 Arms Circles OYO
30. x20 Am.Hammers IC
31. Sprint across field and back
32. Lunge walk down field, mosey back
33. x10 Carolina Drydocks IC
34. x15 Oblique LBC IC (ea side)
35. x20 Mtn.Climbers IC
36. x10 Lunges IC
37. x20 Shoulder Taps IC
38. x20 Plank Jacks IC
39. Karaoke across field and back

EXRA CREDIT!

• 8-ct Opus, x8 IC
• 8-ct DR.W’s, x8 IC
• 8-ct Body Builders, x8 IC

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 12
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  As always it was an amazing honor to bring the heat for some beloved SOJ brothers. Between the labored breathing and rock music YHC made out some decent mumblechatter, and some kind of joke was enjoyed by the far-side PAX during our Gorilla Humpers, and of course there was some welcome hate-talk with the 8-count extra credit. Whadya expect?!? Haha, Look forward to seeing ya’ll for the 40th birthday Q tomorrow. Who KNOWS what crazy is comin! Yours, DTH

Announcements:

• 11/30 – DTH 40th bday Q at SOT
• 12/2 – Rosie’s M will be selling nudes of Rosie at the Gallery of the Black Irish Social Club from 5-8pm (321 W Broad St)
• 12/3 – Dogpile Magnum PI Day (mustache, Hawaiian shirt, donations for the Bridge)
• 12/10 – 3-6pm HDHH Hardywood West Creek with the Capitol PAX
• 12/20 – NoToll “12 Days of Christmas”

Prayer Requests:

• PAX on IR – Doublemint, Doozy, Prince, and many others – connect with them and pray for them!

A cold morning to give thanks to the gloom with some throwback tunes.

45 minute playlist:

SSHs, DQs, Mirkins, LBCs, stretching, etc etc.

4 corners lady of the night with mirkins, American Hammers, jump squats and LBCs.

Triple set of wall sits, balls to the wall and donkey kicks, Pigskin-style.

Indigenous bear crawl around the court.

11s with mirkins and WW2s.

Basketball court suicides with 5 mirkins. Then another with 10 mirkins.

Circle up for some Mary, 25 mirkins, then 25 more, and then because we were just going for it, 25 more after that.

Thanks for entertaining my playlist – music makes it easy to push harder.

Peace.

7 Holiday travelers decided to get out and hit the road just to get prepared for the next couple months and all the windshield time they may have.

Mosey to the parking lot for COP

DQ’s, Dead Man Hangs, Helicopters, Hillbillies

Lets mosey (with headlamps) out the back of the fields to the VA Credit Union parking lot for 20 WWII’s.

Mosey to the VA Health for Woman’s parking lot 20 WWII’s and 30 2 count Mountain Climbers.

Mosey to the back entrance to Cosco 20 WWII’s, 30 Mountain Climbers and 40 Jump squats

Mosey to the storage company on the corner of Mall and Robious 40 Jump Squats, 30 Mountain Climbers and 20 WWII’s

Mosey onto the sidewalk on Robious 30 Mountain Climbers and 20 WWII’s

Mosey to the entrance of No Toll for 20 WWII’s

BTTF – Repeto all 3 sets of exercises 20 WWII’s, 30 Mountain Climbers and 40 Jump Squats

2 sets of Ring of fire first set is abs second set is legs

Numbers / Names YHC took us out with and example from a Podcast I listened to the other day about putting down the weight that you are carrying.

NMS:

YHC is old and does not have the best memory. The hardest thing for YHC to do is remember names and Scripture. As an attempt to put Scripture with the example this morning (without actually looking up the Scripture) YHC wanted to recall the Verse where Jesus talks about his burden being light which is Matthew 11. YHC’s brain kept saying Proverbs 119, which Jesus couldn’t have said because Proverbs came from the Old Testament. YHC did memorize Proverbs 119 at one time but its about keeping your way pure. In the end YHC’s point being that you have a lot of brothers out there in the Gloom that have been or are going through what your going through, don’t carry that burden all by yourself.

An 8-PAX of SOJ HIM’s prepared their hearts and minds for midterm elections in the best way possible, doing things the hard way, together. Here’s what went on the Gloom Ballot:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA:

• Collect bricks at YHC’s truck
• Mosey onto the BBall court and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• THUNDERSTRUCK – Musical warm-up entailing the PAX perform repeated squats with bricks held overhead, then pumps bricks out to sides with each “Thunder” or “Thunderstruck” lyric 
• Other Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

COP #1:

• Mosey out to Field #1
• QUARTER-POUNDER WITH CHEESE
• Brinks in hand, the PAX gave a shout out to Bernie to reach each quarter of the field, stopping for reps, sprinting back to start between
• x25 Brick Merkins
• x50 Squats, bricks held overhead 
• x75 Freddie Mercury’s, bricks overhead
• x100 SSH (bricks optional)

COP #2:

• Brief Plankorama with Bricks in Hand
• Low Plank held on bricks during MidTerms Trivia – PAX knowledge effectively demonstrated to the tune of prolonged low plank

COP #3:

• Mosey back to the BathHouse for a TRIPLE CHECK
• Partner 1 – Brick Hoedowns
• Partner 2 – Core Brick Exercise (Dealers Choice)
• Partner 3 – Runs down to the playground and back carrying their bricks

COP #4:

• Drop off the bricks en route back to the Basketball Court
• ELEVENS (to honor 11 Virginia Representatives being voted on today)
• 10–>1 Ball Dippers (2-ct)
• 1–>10 Merkins

Circle up for COT:

• Counterama # 8
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  YHC didn’t feel particularly froggy this morning, but nothing like being the Q for an awesome band of brothers to kickstart the morning. The usual groaning was endured with bricks appearing, and more so with the musical beatdown to start the workout, but everyone did their best all the same! The appearance of the Blood Moon was spectacular, and the Elections Trivia was enthusiastically voted “Best Homeschool Curricula.”  Appreciate ya’ll humoring and pushing me this morning. Love, DTH

Announcements:

• Merkin Challenge ongoing
• HDHH on 11/22 (2 weeks from today) at Hardywood West Creek
• Forrest Hill Loops on 11/25 (see Slack)

Prayer Requests:

• Last Call knows a young guy our age going on Hospice for Prostate Cancer – prayers for Buddy and his family, and for all of us to keep our eyes & hearts open to find JOY each day regardless of the trials of life

8 strong this morning at NoToll, 1 LIFO and 1 rucker. 7 total for this quarter’s installment of Old Glory.

Strong effort as always by Rosie – darn near completed 4 full laps. Also strong performances by Snuff and Heist. Heist and Belichick were OG virgins, so welcome to the party.

Log your laps here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L8e9W24ygnU0suaGyKxzi1PgPqY1CBd57hLrKTZI-g/edit#gid=1717732871

Come out and get some OG in February at NoToll

Ended with COT, numbers, names and prayers

Announcements:

• Prayers for Bullseye’s mom as she recovers from a femur break (and surgery?)
• Prayers for Snuff’s brother-in-law as he deals with some life obstacles.
• Prayers for Doozy as he hoped to get a no-surgery report from Ortho today – fingers crossed
• Grow your staches this month gents and spread the word for The Bridges.
• Magnum PI day at Dogpile 12/3 – staches and Hawaiian shirts mandatory

Great morning gents.

No More Gumbo For You

11 Beastmasters made their way to the lush battle fields of No Toll this morning to see what Doozy had cooked up

Mosey to the Basketball court for COP while McRib wheels in hot

DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, LBC’s, Booty Scooters

Mosey to the pavilion

Freaky Beast

The right side field is for Abs, the left side field is for legs the pavilion is for 10 dips every time your under it. Each round we stop at the center of the right side field for 6 of an exercise then to the end for 6 then back to the center for 6 pass through the pavilion doing 10 dips to the center of the other field for 6 to the end for 6 back to center for 6 back into the pavilion for 10 dips (x6)

Mosey to the parking lot for a quick and dirty four corners, 10 of each exercise (WWII, American Hammers, Scrunchy Frogs, LBC’s)

BTTF

Your choice 10 Burpees or 10 Big Boy WWII’s

Ab ring of fire PAX holds Lazy boy position while each HIM does 10 of their favorite ab exercise

Snuff decided enough was enough and started the count before YHC had a chance to get everyone their moneys worth

Numbers / Names Florence took us out

NMS:

McRib decided to try to offer up one of his ribs by slip sliding in the mud as he was running around YHCs feet at the pavilion. Apparently, the sound was much worse than the fall. It sounded like we where going to have to partner carry him to the Emergency Room at Johnston Willis which luckily was closer than the cars. In the end he said he actually fell mostly in the mud and only partly on the concrete and all of his ribs are still intact.

Twelve HIM joined YHC this morning for a beatdown that went something like this….

Mosey to basketball court for COP: SSHs, Cherry Pickers, Ukrainian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, LBCs, Merkins, Hello Dollies, Tricep Extensions (this one was a crowd pleaser)

Sharks and Minnows: Minnows line up along the fence and attempts to cross the court without being tagged by a shark (just YHC to start). If you get tagged, perform 10 merkins and become a shark on the next go around. Each round consisted of a different animal walk….Crab Walk, Bear Crawl, and Duck Walk. It goes without saying that Snuff has got some mad animal skills.

Mosey to back parking lot for Triple Check: Pole smokers, American Hammers, and a run around the parking lot.

Bearpees: We did two rounds of this. Cross the parking lot with 4 count bear crawl and 1 burpee. Cross it again with 8 count bear crawl and 2 burpees.

BTTF for 4 MOM: Flutter kicks, FMs, Rosalitas, APDs.

Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests, Florence took us out.

Announcement: Happy Hour Thursday at the Veil Forest Hill, 6-8, family friendly.

Prayers for Doozy’s shoulder recovery. There was another prayer request and it has slipped YHCs mind…please put it in the chat.

NMS: After a week long hiatus due to travel and exciting work conferences, YHC was ready to be back out in the gloom. In fact, YHC put his name on the Q sheet weeks ago because he knew he’d need the push to get back at it after being gone. Strong work by everyone this morning. As noted above, Snuff does animal moves like a ninja. Honorable mention should go to DTH and Florence, who also did well in evading being tagged. Bearpees is one of YHCs favorites….am I alone in this?

As always, thanks for humoring me and letting me lead. Have a great Tuesday! Peace!