Tag: NoToll

Huguenot Park

  • A NoToll Celebration

    17 of YHC’s closest friends joined in the Gloom for a birthday celebration and a pre-Thanksgiving workout. The rain held off, mostly, and this is what transpired:

    Start off with 20 merkins OYO and the announcement that those would occur every 4 and a half minutes throughout the workout for a total of 200 merkins.

    Mosey to the back lot for traditional COP, started off with 46 SSHs IC and several other exercises, interrupted twice for merkin sets.

    THE THANG:

    Modified Lindsays – mosey over to the side field for modified Lindsays – today we were counting to 46. Start on side one with 30 jump squats and 10 2-ct mountain climbers, run half way stop for 6 SSHs, continue to other side for 25 and 15 and so on until you complete 10 jump squats and 30 2-ct mountain climbers stopping in the middle each time for 6 SSHs and of course pausing for merkin sets at the appropriate times.

    Pavilion Circuit – mosey to the pavilion for cover that YHC didn’t know we needed. Exercises were 10 step-ups, 20 dips and 30 2-ct Freddies, then choose your own adventure – either run a lap around 1 field or bear crawl or lunge around the pavilion – your choice, mix n match, You v You. 5 sets. Yes – stopping for merkin sets as called.

    BTTF for 2 and a half minutes of Mary and one last (10th) set of 20 merkins OYO.

    COT, Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayers.

    NMS –

    I am always thankful at this time of year for another completed trip around the sun, for good health (generally – though I could really use some good health for my girls!!!), for family, for friends and of course for F3. I hope everyone has safe travels this week and slows down and spends quality time with those they love. Soak in every minute. Thank you all!

    Announcements:

    • TYA will be hosting the Alternate History of Thanksgiving at 45MOM starting at 0700.
    • DTH has a bday Q Saturday at Rock N Roll and promised some rucking with logs 0600 with bootcamp at 0700.
    • Rosie’s 12-days is set for 12/17 at NoToll. BE THERE.
    • Get with EF Hutton if you want to participate in the Secret Santa exchange on 12/17 also

    Enjoy the Food, Football and Family – a different “F3” over the next few days!

    No More Gumbo For You!

  • Rush Remembered at No Toll

    YHC has not been south of the river in awhile, there was an opening in No Toll and YHC signed up on the Q sheet and here is what went down.

    COP

    We mosey to the lot by the tall Tower and circle up for 20 SSH, 10 4ct DQ’s, 10 Imperial walkers, 15 Ukrainian Soldiers, 10 Alabama Prom Dates, 20 4ct American Hammers, 10 4 ct LBC’s, 10 Reverse Scorpions, 10 Scorpions and 20 merkins.

    THANG

    Mosey to the soccer field and YHC sets up the Red Barchetta (modified) run and return stations and went as follows: Run 100 yards – 100 SSH, back to start and plank for 6 (BSP6), Run 75 yards and 75 Alternating lunges, each lunge counts as 1 – BSP6, Run 50 Yards and 50 Squats, run 25 Yards and 25 Merkins – BSP6, run 10 yards and perform 5 Burpees – BSP6. Run 100 Yards one Burpee, lunge to 75 Yards, 2 Burpees, Lunge to 50 Yards, 3 squats, Lunge to 25 yards and 4 Burpees.

    Next set up Bermuda Triangle – 1 Merkin, bear crawl to second corner, 2 burpees, bear crawl to 3rd corner, 3 burpees, bear crawl to start – one burpee.

    Next set up small 4 corner escalator Station 1 – 10 Merkins, Corner 2 – 20 Squats, Corner 3 30 4ct LBC’s, Coner 4 – 40 2ct Freddie Mercuries, back down the escalator 30 4ct LBC’s, 20 Squats then 10 Merkins. Make a larger square (thanks Doozy for the help) and repeat up the Escalator, when going back down, 10 LBC’s, 10 merkins, and 10 squats, at the 30 station, then 20 LBC’s, and 10 merkins.

    COT

    Mosey to flag for 2 minutes of stretching.

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out in Prayer.

    Moleskin

    We will be having a chili cook off at the Alamo AO location and it will be this Sunday November 24, Starting @ 3PM and finishing up by 6 PM. Bring the family to this event and check out slack to sign up for this event.

    We need someone to sign up for Breaking Bread this Saturday, please check in with Oyster to let him know if you can help out on this very Worthy Cause.

    It was great to see everyone this morning and I appreciate all of you brothers some new relationships and old ones that I have grown to know for years. Very Special and appreciate all of you this morning.

    Have a great week gents and I will see you in the gloom soon! Cheers…CB!

  • Perfect Pitch for NoGrass

    A solid SOJ PAX of 16 studs squeezed into the few remaining parking spaces at NoToll and crowded onto the basketball court. With fellow missionary “NoGrass” in attendance, here’s an outline of how the Pain Train toured the AO:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Slaughter start with a SUICIDE LADDER – x5 Rounds, counting down Burpees on the end line from x5 Burpees down to x1
    • Circle up for the Welcome, Disclaimer, and usual DTH top to bottom IC Reps
    • Mosey out to PAY THE TOLL (x20 Incline Merkins + x20 Dips)

    COP #1: 

    • Form up on SOJ’s premier lush field
    • HIGH REP 4-CORNERS
    • x70 Squats
    • x80 LBC’s
    • x90 SSH’s
    • x100 Flutters (2-ct)

    COP #2:

    • Mosey to the Pavilion for a DIRTY MCDEUCE:
    • x4 Sets each followed by a bearcrawl, each set with x3 exercises (chest, legs, core), and x12 reps for each exercise
    • Bear crawl to cross 30 yards
    • Exercises: HR-Merkins, Jump Squats & WWII’s

    COP #3:

    • Mosey back to the Bleachers
    • TRIPLE CHECK:
    • P1 – Big-O’s on the bleacher
    • P2 – Flutterss
    • P3 – Runs across field & back
    • When completed, mosey BTTF and stop en route to PAY THE TOLL (again) – this time all in cadence:  x10 Derkins, x20 Dips, x10 Incline Merkins

    COT:

    • Counterama # 16
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    Prayer Requests:

    • Safe travels for NoGrass and his fam
    • Physical healing for ?Pam
    • Country Leadership
    • DTH prepping for Missions trip

    NMS:  What a pleasure it was to have my dear missionary friend Dr Mark Crouch join us this morning. On our last missions trip to Papua New Guinea, Mark and a number of other missionaries and kids joined in, and his son Levi gave him the nickname “NoGrass” which means no hair in the native language (he’s bald). Mark is an extremely skilled physician who I have been deeply grateful to count as a brother and mentor when serving in the field. His wife and four kids have been serving there for 11 years, and we have really enjoyed our time serving in PNG alongside them. Our next trip back is coming up in Mar-May 2025 so your prayers and support are welcome! Check out our Blog link below for more info and to follow along with all the picture and stories. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    https://hendersonsinmissions.blogspot.com

    Yesterday we took the Crouch Clan down to Bell Isle for a fun family walk. Yay for family time!

  • “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone” Michael John Bobak

    19 strong for an election day workout at NO TOLL. Amazing effort by all members of the PAX. We laughed, we even broke a good sweat.

    WARM-UPS : Ukrainian soldiers, helicopters, merkins, arm circles (front/back),  high knees

    Mosey to bridge area incline pushups (24 reps) and dips (24 reps) 

    MAIN WORKOUT: 

    Circuit 1: 4 Corner campaigning at each corner of the soccer field: voting box squats (24 reps), lunges (24 reps), merkins (24 reps), mountain climbers (24 reps) 

    Circuit 2: 4 corner workout w/ concrete blocks (“pet rock”) around parking lot:  curls (24 reps), row (24 reps), body squats (24 reps), lunges (24 reps) 

    Circuit 3: 4 corner w/ pet rock around parking lot: chest press (24 reps), hybrid burpee (24 reps), LBTs (24 reps), curls (24 reps) 

    Mosey to pavilion:  decline merkins (24 reps) sprint across soccer field, broad jump (24 reps) sprint across soccer field 

    Mosey back to bridge: incline merkins (24 reps), dips (24 reps) 

    Mosey to basketball court: bear crawl across court followed by sprint 

    Formed COT numbers, names including 2 FNGs, announcements, prayer requests 

    THE PAX did an incredible job of supporting the “Q”

  • Wiley Veterans

    13 gamers made their way out to No Toll to play a game that they could not win. According to 2 Pop and his run crew this is what went down.

    Mosey to the bridge and pay the entree fee. 20 Incline Merkins, 20 Dips

    Mosey to the “not Pickle Ball” courts (sorry Oyster) for the COP – DQ’s, Helicopters, Dead Man Hangs, Merkins, LBCs,

    Mosey to the parking lot for the main event

    21’s YHC will count SSH to 18 then the PAX has to continue to count (IN THEIR HEAD) to 21. This is where the veterans who have played this game took it upon themselves to continue counting even though YHC had stopped cadence. YHC did appreciate that they continued counting as one without cadence but that’s not how the game works. Punishment #1 Run a lap, PAX continued this until all punishments where given out

    Run, American Hammers, Plank Jacks, Imperial Walkers, Dips, SSH which if you take the first letter from each spells RAPIDS. The last High school Baseball game of the fall ball season is tonight, GO Rapids

    Move to the base line for Parking lot crawls to 10 and back with Lunges and Squats

    Mosey to the corner, regular 4 corners 10 – American Hammers, 20 – WWII’s, 30 – LBC’s, 40 – Sugar Sticks

    Repeto but with LT Dans, Jump Squats, Lunges and Moroccan Night Clubs (for Oyster)

    Mosey back to the bridge to pay the toll 20 – Incline Merkins, 20 – Dips

    BTTF – For a ring of fire 10 of your favorite ab exercise while PAX holds their favorite Lazy Boy position

    Numbers / Names Chaplain took us out

    NMS: YHC saw the Q sheet was open so seized the opportunity. 21’s is a way to keep everyone involved but everyone is a winner when nobody wins. I think that might have come from a book I read about Yogi Berra – “I never said most of the thing I said”

  • A Wise Man Once Said: Set the Bar Low, and Always Run it Back

    13 strong at No Toll for some exercise and invigorating male community leadership. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    Mosey to the back parking lot for Warm-Up:
    Jazzercise, Bruce Lee Punches, Ukranian Soldiers, Australian Snow Angels, Alabama Prom Dates, Freddy Mercuries

    Across the parking lot: Mario Jumps, Mummy Kicks, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Hoppin’ Hillbillies, Open the Gate, No Cheat Broad Jumps

    to the Pavilion for Exercise One: Circuit Runs – stops included the first gate, “the bridge”, and the flag.
    Round One: 25 merkins, 25 WWII’s, 25 Bobby Hurley’s – run back
    Round Two: 50 Heels to Heaven, 50 Carolina Dry Docks, 50 jump squats – run back
    Round Three: 75 Flutter Kicks, 75 LBC’s, 75 Shoulder Taps – run back
    Round Four: 100 can’t remembers, 100 Side Straddle Hops, 100 Monkey Humpers – run back

    Exercise Two: Crab Walk across the grass field.

    Mosey back to the flag for Numbers/Names/ Announcements/Prayer Requests

    YHC took us out

    Final thoughts – It was a homecoming of sorts for YHC as I realized I hadn’t Q’d No Toll in almost 3 years. Strange considering it is the closest AO to my house. The PAX did an amazing job, despite some initial grumbling about running. The running was actually pretty effective in curbing the Chatty Kathy’s in the group. Doozy was the hero we all needed, lighting the path back to the pavilion. Strong effort by all.

    SYITG

  • 2 Short a Kilo

    15 studs posted to NoToll to see what the good doctor was prescribing for the day. The menu featured 90’s beats and 998 reps. Here’s how it played out: 

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey onto the BBall Court and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Nancy K’s x10 ea side IC
    • Don Q’s x10 IC
    • U.Soldiers x10 IC
    • Squats x10 IC
    • Broad Jump Across Court (x10)
    • Bear Crawl Back (x25)
    • x25 Merkins OYO
    • x25 WWII OYO
    • x25 Heels2Heaven OYO

    COP #1: 

    • Press play on GETTIN’ JIGGY WIT IT (Will Smith, 1998, 3:48) 
    • Squats to the beat with a Burpee for every “Jiggy”

    COP #2:

    • Mosey out to PAY THE TOLL
    • x24 Incline Merkins
    • x24 Dips

    COP #3:

    • Mosey out to the field for a BEAST
    • x36 Merkins
    • x36 WWII’s
    • x36 Jump Squats
    • x36 Groiners
    • x36 Flutters (2-ct)
    • x36 Lunges

    COP #4:

    • Mosey over to the parking lot for MANKILLERS
    • Try really Hard to not mess up the count!

    COP #5:

    • Mosey loop around all the fields and BTTF, stopping for reps along the way:
    • x25 Gangsta Merkins
    • x25 Oblique LBC’s
    • x25 Monkey Humpers
    • x25 Invisible Pole Smokers
    • x25 Bunny Hops
    • x20 Crab Cakes IC
    • x5 Burpees IC

    COT:

    • Counterama # 14
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    ADDING IT ALL UP:

    WARMERAMA: 150 reps total

    GETTIN JIGGY: 14 Burpees + 200 Squats

    PAY TOLL: 48 reps total

    BEAST: 216 reps total

    MAN-KILLERS: 220 reps total

    FINAL LAP: 150 reps total

            TOTAL REPS = 998

    Prayer Requests:

    • David, Maria, Courtney

    NMS:  Crisp fall air, jovial mumble chatter, achieving 998 reps, and a 1998 Will Smith inspired playlist – what could be better! Strong work from the PAX pushing through to complete the challenge – YHC will Q #999 at Ruckhenge tomorrow, and then the big 1K will be on Thur at the Forge – LOTS of questions about whether we’ll all be arrested. Nantan Rosie has a plan… Thanks for letting me lead fellas. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • ONGOING – Wed AM Ruckhenge QSource
    • ONGOING – SOBER OCTOBER! 
    • 10/17 – DTH 1000th Post
    • 10/25-27 – F3 Family Camping
    • 11/2 – F3 Daddy Daughter Dance
    • 11/3-9 – VQ Week! 

  • No Take Backs

    14 able bodied, hip thrusting construction workers assembled at No Toll to pass the flaming hot potato around to see what mash ups could be created. Conditions were ideal for the pumpkin spice season. With watches close enough in sync, off we go. This how things went down.

    Last Call Q: Mosey to the main parking lot for welcome, introductions, disclaimers and warm ups that included SSH’s, Imperial Walkers, Helis, Deadman Hang, DQ’s, Dead Man Hang, Merkins, LBC’s, and Freddies. Mosey to the far edge of the parking lot for triple check. Timer runs 2 islands, exercises were curb crawls and pole smokers. Q is passed..

    Bromance Q: With attention to detail Q noticed 4 light poles surrounding the lot. 5 merkins at each pole with various methods to travel to each pole including Bernies, Karaoke, Mosey, etc. One round was enough. Q is passed…

    Last Call Q: Pass the Q….

    Snuff Q: Mosey back to the playground under construction to collect cones or construction barrels. Indigenous peoples run while farmer carrying your item. Route when back thru the parking lot and back to the playground. Take the orange prop and perform 30 WWII’s follow by 30 Bobby Conies. Much fun was had. Time to pass the Q….

    L Woods Q: Restore your prop to its original location mosey back to the parking lot with a brief stop at the bridge to pay the toll with dips and elevated merkins. Continue the mosey for Cocaine Bears. Bearcrawl across the parking lot stopping at each line for 1 merkin. Its a big parking lot. Pass the Q…

    Last Call Q: Pass the Q…

    Dealer Q: Mosey over the field. Partner up for Semi Dora. Timer runs across the field and back. 100 Dips, 200 2 count flutters. Pass the Q..

    Last Call Q: MBTTVF. Pass the Q…

    Snuff Q: Before reaching the flag. Stop off at our favorite props of cones and barrels for 40 Alabama Cone Dates. With great satisfaction and relief Q is passed…

    Last Call Q: AG for 30 seconds. Names, Numbers, Announcements, Prayers. Wedding Singer took us out.

    Announcements; Sober October is still happening. Support those that need it and could not be with us today.

    NMS: With vacancy on the Q sheet yesterday, YHC was fearful of a Doozy Q or other vicious beatdown, so took it with thoughts of spreading the Q to others that have not Q’d recently. Great variety but multiple trips to and from the parking lot, left YHC feeling like it was a Doozy Q. Alabama Conies are much preferred to Mankillers. Great mumble chatter and laughs were had, especially with Snuffs favorite props. Well done fellas. Always good starting the day off in this great company.

  • Cindy Suckfest

    Fifteen F3RVA regulars gathered in the NoToll parking lot for a long-overdue NTB beatdown. One potential FNG cruised through the park during COP #1 and would have stayed had Orange Crush not scared him away. This is what he observed from a safe distance:

    Warmarama

    • Circle up on the basketball court. OC crushed (pun intended) the F3 mission statement and we proceeded with various IC warm-up exercises.

    COP #1 – Suicide Bear

    • Line up along the baseline for bear crawl suicides with a Bernie back to the starting line.
    • At the far baseline we started with 12 merkins and then decreased the merkin count each time a line was reached.
    • Working 12 merkins down to 1 equaled three bear crawl suicides in total.
    • The wet conditions definitely increased the bear crawl difficulty and much was said about how long we spent on the court.

    COP #2 – Heavy Cindy the Prostitute

    • Mosey down to the dumpster enclosure to pick up cindy’s for the following four corners, prostitute style:
      • Corner 1: 10 curls for the gurls
      • Corner 2: 10 cindy squats
      • Corner 3: 10 cindy rows
      • Corner 4: 10 cindy ground-to-overhead
    • To quote RVA’s new Nantaan, this really sucked! Carrying a cindy the whole time and then moving it a different way at each corner kept us under load for the full duration.
    • Two styles of cindy were available, heavy and heavier. By the end we were struggling. Respect also to the guys nursing injuries who wisely modified as needed to ensure a solid four corners beatdown.
    • Mosey back to the flag, stopping briefly to pay the toll with 10 dips and 10 single count step-ups.

    COT

    • Numbers, names, announcements, and prayer requests. YHC took us out!
      • Sober October starts today! Join the 15+ HIMs electing to abstain from a vice this month. See Slack for the dedicated channel.
      • Prayers for Orange Crush’s coworker who is screening for potential cancer ten years after beating it the first time.
      • Prayers for the NTB’s who are four-weeks out from welcoming another baby girl into the family.
      • Praise for Lone Wolf’s dad’s knee surgery!
        • After spending his adult life working as a mason to earn a living to put his three kids through college, his knee was overdue for a replacement. Yesterday his own son, Lone Wolf’s brother, performed the surgery on his dad. How fitting that we also put in a little block work today.

  • Belay On!

    Not one for stats or backblast. Belay logged over 250 various merkins with 17 H.I.M.s in his VQ.

    For those who are keeping track this is what happened.

    Warmarama: SSH, DQ, IWs, UKs, Merkins, WWII, etcs.

    Toll: 20 incline, 10 decline

    4×4: 20 Merkins, 20 lunges 2 count, 20 CDDs, 20 Squats 4 corners on the 3 fields and 1 parking lot.

    countdown burpees around the shelter.

    finish with alternating 10 merkins, 20 LBCs.

    Next backblast is on you buddy.

    Announcements: CPR courses sign up with Flatline, Ruckhenge tomorrow for some Q source. Welcome Nantan Rosie.