Tag: #SOJ

  • Full moon + Dora =

    Three brave souls dared to conquer their weak bodies at 530am in the light of the bright full moon. According to the stones on the ground where the portajohns used to lie, here’s what went down:

    COP

    helicopter

    arm circles

    imperial walkers

    Ukrainian soldiers

    dead man hang

    copperhead squats

    Merkins and Back’ens:

    merkin

    superman

    close arm merkin

    phelps out of water

    hand release merkin

    Starfish stretch

    Mosey to tower, where we encountered the Dora curse. Dora turned us in to bears, and we have to complete 350 ab exercises (she later increased it to 400 😲)

    dora curse

    400 ab exercises while partner bear crawls to top, touch tower, run down

    After breaking Dora’s curse, we moseyed to Logland for some lumberjack training.

    log carry x12 x2 rounds

    log lifts x12 x 2 rounds

    Plank as you wait for your turn

    Moseyed back to the field but was stopped briefly when we turned into bears again, having to bear crawl around the roundabout, before heading back to the field with some lunges and ending with 2 minutes of overhead clapping to celebrate our victory from the bear curse.

    COT: numerama, namerama

    Florence came out of his cop mobile to say hi to us. We’re glad to hear that he is doing good work to restore peace in our city. He says that he misses F3 but hopes to make it out one day and also encourage others to join too.

    YHC took us out. Glad to have Senka out again from NC!

  • Full Beaver Mooners

    9 studly SOJ NOS brothers who all appreciate a big beautiful beaver (moon) gathered to ruck and chat as we do every week. No Q on the sheet, and nobody jumping forward to lead at 0500, so YHC grabbed the reins and launched into Larus. Enjoyed conversing all things hunting and venison processing with Dealer and the PAX exited the woods to take on some streets, bernie for the hills, squats for the SIX. Probably covered about 2.5 miles and ended a few minutes early for some quality coffeerama time. Thx for letting me lead gents. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    COT:

    • Counterama # 9
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer – Gratefulness theme

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 11/10 – NTB on Q for HUGE BELLS #2
    • 11/12 – brother BRU will lead the Ruckhenge crew
    • 11/23 Alamo Chili Cookoff
    • 12/6 Father Daughter Dance

  • We’re Gonna Take You Higher

    On a chilly, but clear morning, 2 Bermuda Boys came out to Goyne Park to take things to another level.

    Warmarama

    530 hit and Doolittle and YHC started a long mosey. After a mile, they found themselves at the basketball court, and finished the warmarama with some SSH, Imperial Squat Walkers, and Ukrainian Soldiers.

    COP 1 Groundwork

    Alternating 10 sets of 10 Merkins and 10 sets of Ab/Core Exercises including Kimchee Twists, Box Cutters, Hello Dollies, Oblique LBCs, Flutter kicks, American Hammers, Star Crunches, and some others YHC can’t remember.

    COP 2 Suicide Penguins

    Plain old Suicides, stopping at the normal suicide stops for a set of 25 DC Penguins at each. Finish with 1 set of Merkins to Failure.

    Mosey back to the parking lot

    1 more set of Merkins to Failure

    COP 3 Cindy Songorama

    “I want to take you Higher” Sly and the Family Stone

    Goblet/Sumo Squats for the majority of the song

    Overhead Press on every “Higher”

    Higher is repeated almost FIFTY times, and the song is over 5 minutes long!

    COP 4 Single leg Balancing and Jumping

    Balance on each leg for 1 minute, then Nancy Kerrigan’s for 20 counts In Cadence on each leg

    Great work by the PAX on this one!

    Lots to Pray for

  • No Dips

    2 PAX showed up at the jungle gym at Ecoff Elementary for the weekly Extra Credit session. YHC feels like his Pull-ups have regressed in recent months, so he decided to just do pull-ups this morning. Doolittle was getting in some work of his own before we increased the intensity for Bermuda Triangle.

  • NERD ALERT

    10 grown boys showed up to play in the rain and run around a parking lot at The Alamo this morning.

    WARMARAMA – Moseyed to the other side of the horseshoe. Gave the mission, kept the boys dry during stretches and got into it.

    COP#1 – Eye of the storm. Three stops. (10) reps at each stop and (25) ab exercises at the center.

    • Round 1 – Merkins
    • Round 2 – Squats
    • Round 3 – Burpees

    COP #2 – Redskin Run. IYKYK

    • Indian run ~0.25 miles.
    • Random arm exercises/stretches at the halfway point.
    • (3) rounds of running the length of the parking lot. (24) merkins and (26) squats at each for Champ Bailey and Clinton Portis.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Daddy Daughter Dance
    • Chili Cookoff

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • GO VOTE!
    • F3’s accountability
    • Hermey’s M has a surgery coming up
    • Heist’s M and her job uncertainty

    Thanks for allowing me to lead, Boys!

  • Solo El Twin Teamo

    Feeling like it would be a solo run this morning, YHC took off from the house early enough to arrive at the AO before launch just in case someone showed up. Parking lot was empty so after a loop around it was off to Tarrington, up Ashwell, across Robious and back to the house.

    Decided to run back down Twin Team in honor of Rosie’s Trick or Treat workout. Still what goes down must come back up, and so the lounge-esque act of running down Twin Team was rewarded by running back up Ashwell. And it was wet, very wet.

    -Singer

  • Virgin Turf

    A 10-PAX of high energy HIMs shrugged off the fartsack to embrace a 40 degree DTH beatdown. After seeing the virgin turf of the new baseball fields during the ruck, YHC decided it was high time for breaking in new ground. Here’s a tough one for the history books. 

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Circle up in the lot for reps
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Nancy Kerrgans IC
    • DQ’s IC
    • RUN to the bottom of the gravel road and back to circle up
    • Imp.Squat Walkers IC
    • Ukrainian Soldiers IC
    • RUN to the bottom of the gravel road and back to circle up
    • Tempo Carolina DD’s IC
    • Tempo Werkins IC
    • Tempo Ranger Merkins IC
    • RUN to the bottom of the gravel road and back to circle up
    • WWII’s IC
    • Heels to Heaven IC
    • Kimchi Twists OC
    • Oblique LBC’s ea side IC
    • Wilsons Wife

    COP #1:

    • Mosey down to the back baseball field fresh turf for a SEVEN OF DIAMONDS
    • Reps at each base, bear crawl to first, bernie to second, run to 3rd and home
    • x7 Burpees
    • x14 WWII’s
    • Intermission for a Plank Review of the F3 Mission, 5CP’s, an Credo
    • x21 Merkins
    • x28 Humpers
    • x21 Flutters (2-ct)
    • x14 Ball Dippers (2-ct)
    • x7 No Cheat Merkins
    • Variable reps completed at home waiting for the SIX after each round (Skinny Dip does NOT break perfect form just to keep up!)
    • (0740 by the time we finished – amazing how much time this eats up!)

    COP #2:

    • Mosey back up to the lot and line up for INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RUN
    • PAX moves at a run pace (not mosey), while last man drops for a burpee and sprints to the front
    • Progress galf way around parking loop

    COP #3:

    • VARIABLE STUFF MADE UP AS WE WENT
    • Lunge Walk a ways
    • Derkins on new concrete planters
    • Spider crawl down steep grass hill
    • Low crawl back up (just elbows and toes touching the ground)
    • Hoedowns IC on the wall
    • Run BTTF w Karaoke both ways, High Knees, Butt Kickers
    • Circle up at the flag for Hydraulic Planks IC

    COT:

    • Counterama # 10
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    NMS:  What a great way to ring in the month of November! Solid number of Rockwood PAX for a cold morning, and special TClaps to a few guys who haven’t been out for a while but answered the call (Skinny Dip, Roadrash, and Dora). Someone in COT thought he said Skinny Di*k… nope, that would be DIP. Haha. Glad to choose the hard path with such a fine PAX of brothers – grateful for each of you! Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 11/3 Launch HUGE BELLS (new KB AO at Forge location)
    • 11/23 Alamo Chili Cookoff
    • 12/6 Father Daughter Dance

  • the beginning of change…

    Where two or more are gathered…great things can happen. Big Rig joined YHC for a few loops around Rockwood and inspecting the new baseball turf fields while discussing deep matters of life change. The beginning of change is recognizing something needs improving. We all have blind spots and sometimes the things we most need to change we can’t see ourselves without the insights of a loving brother. YHC is thankful for Big Rig and so many others who have shown up, led by example, and earned a seat at the accountability table. We are stronger together brothers. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”

    ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭6‬:‭2‬

  • The Dirty Thirty Lives

    Chaplain may not have been at The Graveyard Shift on the misty, sometimes rainy morning at the track at Swift Creek Middle, but his presence was felt. The Dirty Thirty was his creation, and two Swift Freaks decided to awaken it from the dead. On this, the 30th day of October, the eve of Halloween, The Dirty Thirty was ready to unleash it’s fury. It almost had each of them spewing Merlot like exorcised little girls. But they kept the beast at bay. So after the 30 sprints of 100 meters, almost every minute on the minute, for 30 minutes, the beast was put back to rest. And those two Swift Freaks, were not so swift for the remainder of the day.

  • Fart Symphony at the Pavilion

    SIXTEEN HIMs were not deterred by the cold and rainy forecast, choosing instead to jump aboard the NTB beatdown bus. The following is based on real events:

    Hot Start – 1 burpee in honor of baby Zoe’s first birthday today. Then off for a mosey to the soccer fields. Stopped at the bridge to pay the toll despite Snuff’s protest.

    Warmarama

    • One lap around the right field skipping and frolicking for a dynamic warm up. Then we circled up in the middle for a disclaimer and a variety of IC movements.

    COP #1 – Kilo-Dora

    • 100 Merkins/200 Squats/300 LBCs/400 SSHs
    • Bernie to sideline and jog back/squat walk to right end of pavilion and back/squat walk to left end of pavilion and back/jog to sideline and Bernie back to the center.

    COP #2 – Jack Webb (Ab Edition)

    • Movement A: Box Cutters (1-10 reps)
    • Movement B: Flutter Kicks (4-40 reps)
    • Try to keep feet off the ground the whole time. YHC could not keep his feet off the ground…
    • With 16 PAX huddled under the pavilion a symphony of farts erupted through the early morning air.

    IP run back to the flag where we spent the few remaining minutes with half a round of license plate roulette. Kudos to snip for the surprise 17 burpees at the end.

    COT

    • New AOs Bon Iron and Huge Bells are being added to the Q Sheet and Map.
    • Ramp Build project happening this week. See slack for details.
    • Welcome Cotton Tail to RVA, moving here from Greensboro.
    • Reminder to give F3 away! It’s not a club it’s a mission, and sometimes a cult. Invite someone new this week.