Tag: Off The Books

4 Iron bell maniacs smashed through Goyne Park this morning. 2nd week of our Off the Books Thursday chester AO is going well – JOIN US! 35th Bday Q made this one feel extra special. We actually got Florence to sweaty to hold the kettlebell – the path there read something like…

• Warmarama
  • SSH, Helis
  • Stretch with the Kettle (loosen up side and front body)
• THE THANG
• COP1 – Clock KB Carry
  • Rifle to 3 o clock
  • 5 No Cheat Merkins
  • Farmers Carry to 6 o clock
  • 5 NC Merkins
  • Repeat with various carry options (Front Raise, Lunges, 1armed)
  • Swap up 2nd round with 5 WW3’s
• COP2 – Cross body triple check
  • PAX 1 – Cross body toss on curb + Merkin
  • PAX 2 – Kettlebell swings
  • PAX 3 – 1arm snatch carry around circle
• COP3 – “BERMUDA” Bank (~300 reps as a group, 1 PAX always running)
  • B – Bulgarian Split Squats
  • E – Eccentric Curls (OUCH!!)
  • R – Raises (to the front)
  • M – Mosy to taco truck – 10 booyah Merkins
  • *Florence grabs gloves with 8 minutes to go haha
  • U – Upright Rows
  • D – Deadlift
  • A – Abs
  • *Modified down reps on the last half so we could get the rest of this JUICY Lift in
• MBTTF
  • Announcements: Crucible Saturday, TBD on SitnSip
  • Prayers: Sending love to Florence’s family as Aunt is heading for the kingdom soon

Absolutely love this group. Nothing the squad won’t try and tackle. Thanks for spending a great Bday morning sharpening each other. SYITG (next week, same time, same place!!)

-State Farm

Almost fall-like (but not quite) as a PAX of 10 hit up OTB this morning.

Two walkers and eight runners.

Don Draper planned an 8 mile route for the runners as RVA half marathon training is now in full swing. The trip up Grove hill toward the end was a nice touch.

2nd F at Starbucks. Almost had the 10 PAX requirement for a free Rowhouse session this morning, but Draper had to bail early b/c of his Ms birthday. Happy birthday to Mrs. Draper.

Great morning to be out!

The Bermuda boys are doing focus group testing for interest in a Thursday/Friday AO on the SOUTHERN southside of the city. Beta test run today offered a little cindy beatdown for a trio of HIMs. Went something like this!

• Warmarama with coupons, stretch, dead hang
• 3 laps around the circle
  • Rifle Carry to burnout
  • Murder bunny to burnout
  • Farmer’s Carry to Burnout
  • Rinse and Repeat for 3 laps
• Crab walk Cindy’s
• Triple check
  • Cindy on back merkins
  • Ww2 w/ Cindy
  • Run
• Bear Crawl Corners
  • Set Coupons on 4 corners of court
  • 10 reps of dealers choice  at your corner
  • Bear crawl to next Cindy/corner – 10 reps
  • 4th corner is run a lap
  • 3 rounds
• MBTTF, Names, Numbers, COT

I’ve loved to see growth in the Bermuda AO on Tuesday’s. We are hoping to expand membership in the Chester/Hopewell area via an additional AO later in the week. Ideally using Kettlebells or coupons (more appropriate for Southside Clydesdales). We’ll hold the informal Thursday Coupon gathering at Goyne while the PAX cook-up a permanent option. DM me if interested.

State Farm

YHC had just gotten 5 miles pre run before the pre run with Boberry. Neither of us had any route planned out. Boberry suggested a trail run. We hit the trail on the other side of the river. I would say I barely have even a little bit of trail running experience, but always glad to try something new, especially with someone who has a better idea of what they are doing. Great to catch up with Boberry as our paths have crossed on many occasions, but got to get to know him and his story a lot better. Also glad to run with a more seasoned runner. Hope I didn’t slow him down too much. We made it back with about 10 minutes to spare before the convergence. Caught up with a few PAX and YHC hit the road.

4 middle aged cyclists shrugged off the fartsack to book some miles in preparation for a century in a few weeks. Launched from the DOG, down Westwood through Brookland Park to the Cannon Creek Greenway south. Picked up the Cap trail and headed East to turnaround at Varina HS, back to downtown, cross the river on the Potterfield, up Riverside, back across the Nickel, make a few turns to arrive back at the DOG. Stats: 28.3 miles, in just over 2 hours, w/ 900 feet of elevation. TClaps to NoTools for keeping us going the right direction and for logging the Strava. YHC was somewhat tired afterwards so the century should be fun! Thanks for joining me out there fellas. Great ride!

Targeting Sept. 2 for the century to Jamestown and back!

7 Runners, 4 walkers, and a friendly pup got out on the streets for some low humidity Sunday miles. Runners found some hills in Salisbury getting ready for the Homegrown Half on 8/19.

Walkers walked, runners ran.

2nd F at Starbucks.

Nuff said.

5:57 a.m. 5 blurry eyed runners discussing the running route for the morning when Aisle 5 comes in hot. No Wilson today to join Aisle 5 for a walk, but there was a backup plan: electric unicycle.

Pretty much the last thing on earth we expected to see this morning was Aisle 5 charging ahead or behind the running Pax with his bionic enhancements. Really cool. Played music and everything.

10k knocked out just under an hour.

Starbucks post run. Good second F on a variety of topics including bourbon and the pros/cons of men’s short shorts.

P.S. Text a dude who hasn’t been out in the gloom awhile. I plan to work on Aisle 5 this week.

4 runners out for OTB on a great Sunday morning. We got 6.5 in thanks to Draper’s route skills. Aisle 5 and Wilson walked and solved all the problems of the world. Can’t ask for a better start to the day.

Big Rig and YHC escaped the clutches of the fart sack to run the Graveyard Shift. 4.85 miles were logged. We did the Morning Wood paved trail loop Twice then added on a little extra. Big Rig has definitely bested YHC for long distance running. He was slowing his pace for YHC a couple times. Here’s the route :