On a good a day, YHC can make it from the door to Twin Team in less than 20 minutes but I was surprised when I turned on the wipers to clean the windshield and heard a scraping noise. Luckily the washer fluid kicked in fast and I didn’t have to keep Chaplain waiting. We did our normal route down Robius and back just in time for OCs Legendary beatdown. Mubblechatter included how crazy parents can be about little league sports and how funny it is that no matter where you work, we all have those same types of people. The complainer, the troublemaker, and the person who’s always on leave or short term disability. Seems like its difficult to just find normal people.
With The Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik album going on Boberry’s Bluetooth Speaker, 2 Sailors set sail around the track at Swift Creek Middle. The moon was just about full and the bats overhead, here’s what they may have witnessed
Mosey to the track for the standard warmarama, with a little extra stretching. The workout was pretty simple. Perform an exercise, and run a lap. Keep adding another exercise after each lap. Focus on perfect form!
20 Merkins, 20 Merkins, 20 Goblet Squats, 20 Merkins, Goblet Squats, Oblique V ups 20 each side 20 Merkins, Goblet Squats, Oblique V ups, Groiner Jacks 20 Merkins, Goblet Squats, Oblique V ups, Groiner Jacks, Ball Dippers Double count,
Great conversation with Boberry this morning. Lots of talk about music, 1st cassette tapes purchased as a kid.
I thought it was gonna be a solo ruck this morning cause Beaver is DR for work. Then at 5:29 the greatest prospector of the north came rolling in! Shortly after him Tollbooth made an appearance for his first voluntary ruck.
Knocked out a 3.1 ruck at about a 3.5 mph pace! A lot of chatter with these guys. You never know what’s gonna be brought up. We started talking about Kiefer’s milk and somehow ended up talking about sexual relations with a camel. Yukon has got some stories to tell.
YHC decided to get warmed up before pulling out the cigar and smoking jacket and heading into Twin Team Lounge. Managed to run from Chesterfield co., down to Powhatan Co., and back to Chesterfield just in time for festivities.
4 HIM’s emerged from the gloom like monster bucks, stealthily making their way through the timbers into Pine Fork Park. Slow or fast, they’re always moving but never stopping. The hoodie weather is finally here as we all joined up it looked like we were ready for training! Here’s what went down!
Mosey to CoP Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soldiers, Arm Circles, Fudd’s Wife, Wilson’s Wife, Merkins, APD’s, Flutter Kicks
The Thang!
Mosey to the snack building for Walls of Jericho – 1 pax member calls an exercise for the rest of the pax to do as he runs a lap around the snack quarters. Continue for 7 rounds.
Vicious Circle
Bear crawl around rock pits, last man in group peels off and moseys to center of for 10 merkins and returns to the pax at the front of the line. Eventually switched to lunges around the pit.
Mosey back to the flags for Top Gun
Perform 10 reps each of 6 standing coupon exercises (Curls, Rows, Deadlifts, Overhead Press, Squats, Lunges) for 10 minutes. Repeat the coupon exercises throughout the entire 10 minutes. Every minute on the minute, the Danger Zone occurs: PAX drop their coupons and perform 3 Burpees, then pick up where they left off with the coupon exercises. Acapella versions of Kenny Loggins’ classic tune “Danger Zone” are encouraged, but YHC was the only one feeling that as the rest of the pax was focused on their breathing.
Numbers and Names- We have 4! We also gave our FNG his new nickname, welcome Yukon Cornelius!
Announcements
Daddy Daughter dance coming up 11/2 7-9 PM at WEAG in Henrico. Deadline for signup is 10/27. Sign up link is on F2 fellowship channel. We’ve got our buddy from Williamsburg coming out to that so hopefully this is a catalyst to get him to join us for an AO. Camping trip coming up last weekend in October, more details on Slack.
Prayer Requests
Choo Choo lost a friend David to cancer this past this week at the age of 36. Send prayers to David’s family for peace and emotional and financial support.
YHC closed us out in COT prayer.
It was awesome to have this group of guys out this morning, we hung out and chatted for a good 45 minutes post workout.
Traffic at 345 in the morning was surprisingly heavy as YHC had to take a detour to get to Swift Creek Middle. Managed to get around the road pavers and get a 5k in before the Graveyard Shift
3 HIMs showed up for a low intensity/high spirits 0430 graveyard shift. According to the construction workers, here’s what took place.
Carried our sandbags down to the track and did a quick warm-up. YHC confused some when he called helicopters but started doing arm circles, but we figured it out. Feeling loose, we got to work.
20 Squat Thrusters
Sandbag carry 1/4 mile
40 Zercher Squats
Sandbag carry 1/4 mile
60 plank walk-overs
Sandbag carry 1/4 mile
80 walking lunges
Sandbag carry 1/4 mile
100 mountain climbers with clean and press every 10 climbers
Run around the track once and back to the start
Good conversation and a low-key but good workout. Enjoyed the workout this morning with Warby and Big Rig!
YHC took us out, prayers for those in FL and those in Appalachia. Prayers for Warby and Boberry with their ailments.
5 big boys showed up early for some OTB pull-up and dips training. Props to Tiger King for the second week in a row of extra credit! My frequency of posts will wane soon as I complete the move up to PA – so i’m cherishing every last moment with these stallions! The Big Dipper shined on the following moves…
Warmarama – Arm Circles, DMHang, Hollow Rocks
COP1
Banded muscle up and Pull-up Training
COP 2
11’s with Dips and Pull-ups (10 pull-ups, ouch!)
COP 3
Escalator pullups and dips (1, up to 4, start again, two times through)
Somme HIMs got really excited about cheering on Trav and Tay-tay last night and that enthusiasm drove 7 of us to meet at the stop sign at 0530 and ruck for an hour. We traveled throughout RounTrey for 3.5 miles. Coffee was consumed, conversations were had, world problems have been solved (theoretically).
Nice morning to put some light work in between Alamo and the other AO’s we will conquer this week. There is interest in doing this consistently, so in between our First Tuesday of the Month Rucks, we will meet at the stop sign on Camdale Dr & Bellstone Dr in RounTrey at 0530 for those interested in coming out! Message me for more details. Free parking @ Rudy’s
