Tag: Source of Truth

According to a traumatized CPS bus driver, eight middle aged dudes were huddled behind the bleachers at Midlothian Middle while four others peeped the windows in the surrounding neighborhoods – here’s what went down, more or less:

Warmarama – SSH, IW, Helicopters, DQ, Freddie Mercuries, APDs

Thang 1 – mosey to the bus lot for XXL parking space tracers

Thang 2 – mosey to the front of the stadium bleachers for 11s: 1 x copperhead squat, bear crawl up the hill, 10 x incline merkins, crab walk down; etc.

Thang 3 – mosey across the field to the Bleachers of Ill Repute for some Nikki, the short and nasty cousin of Crossfit’s Nichole: AMRAP jerkins on the back of the bleachers + 400m lap, repeat for 10 minutes

Thang 4 – mosey to the concession/bathroom building for a Doublecheck(TM): PAX1 does hand release merkins, PAX2 up the hill and back; flapjack and repeato x 1

BTTF for some cool down broga: janu sirsasana, reclining pigeon, apasana (knees to the chest, a/k/a the “Wind Release Pose” — for real), happy baby.

Runners returned from a 5.8 mile jaunt.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Announcements: 1st, 2nd and 3rdF field trip this Saturday for the Bridge AO in Dillwyn/Buckingham – Vinny has the Q. Clown cars depart from Twin Team at 06:00, return around 11:00. See post by Vinny on Slack for more info.

Jan. 1 convergence at Rockwood Park to launch new SOJ Saturday morning AO – beatdown at 07:00, coffeteria to follow at Dunkin. See Florence or Doozy for deets.

Honeymoon is bringing Murph back to Twin Team – last Friday of every month; be there or be square.

Thanks gents for allowing me to lead this morning; make it a great one!

Doublemint

SOT’s BB from 12/8 was never posted so YHC is logging it. We ran around and did exercises.

YHC arrived to SOT to find an eager parking lot full of PAX. Unfortunately the marathon did not erase the need for speed for some and at the bell they went running. According to the bus driver the rest of the PAX went and did this:

COP Mosey to front bus loop stopping half way to do 20 merkins along the way. 20 each SSH. LBC’s; 10 Each: DQ’s, Cherry pickers, Helicopters, Jazzercise, Drydocks, Flutters, Dollies, Imperial walkers Russian soldiers.

The work: Snake the bus parking lines running with Bernie back through the front lot.

Century corners. Mosey to track. Run 1/4 lap stopping at each corner to perform 100 of called exercise with first PAX to 100 sounding the call to run. Merkins, LBC’s, Squats, SSH’s, Monkey humpers, Drydocks, Flutters, Dollies, Lunges with a few sprints thrown in brought us to 3 1/4 lap.

Up the hill: 10 lunges and 10 merkins until top was reached. BTTF!

1 minute light stretch and time was called.

Announcements: None

Prayers: To Florences FIL having surgery.

Honeymoon took us out in prayer.

Always an honor to lead.

8 SOJ Brethren landed at SOT. 2 went running and 6 did Boot Camp.

Runners : Don Draper, Tobit

Bootcampers : Abignale, Marmaduke, Honeymoon, Hermie, Nancy Lopez, Florence

Mosey down the hill to football parking lot

Warmarama :

20 SSH IC, 10 Russian Soldiers IC, 10 Imperial Walkers IC, 10 Don Q’s IC, 10 Cherry Pickers IC, 10 Merkins IC

THE THANG :

Mosey to football field

1st & 10 :

100 yard field marked at 10 yard increments. Perform 10 Merkins, 1 Burpee (11’s) at the 10, sprint the remaining 90 yards. Recover jog back to the 20. Perform 9 Merkins, 2 Burpees, sprint the remaining 80 yards, recover jog to the 30. Repeat until all 100 yards and 11’s have been completed.

Black Jack :

Start on the sideline of a football field. Perform 1 Merkin – run to other sideline – perform 20 LBCs. Run back and do 2 Merkins. Run back for 19 LBCs. Repeat until you do 20 Merkins and 1 LBC, running between the sidelines. Always adds up to 21 – BLACK JACK!

Mosey to grass hill and sprint back up to the parking lot then back to Ole Glory

1 minute of Flutters

DONE :

Numberama

Name-arama

COT :

Prayers for POG’s daughter who just got 3 stitches.

Vagabond and Gypsy are collecting new and gently used men’s shoes, as well as men’s clothing attire appropriate for interviews to donate. Bring them with you to AO’s and just drop them off with Vagabond or Gypsy.

YHC took us out in prayer

NMMS : Great to have Abignale join us. Appreciate all you brothers.

9 Brave Souls battled the cold to strengthen one another at SOT.

Runners : Bone Thugs, Don Draper, Rosetta, Tobit

Bootcampers : Wedding Singer, Bullseye, Snuff, Gumbo, Florence

YHC led the Bootcampers for the following Suck to ensue :

Mosey to parking lot near football field 

Warmarama :

20 SSH IC, 10 Don Q’s IC, 10 Cherry Pickers IC, 10 Russian Soldiers IC, 10 Imperial Walkers IC, 10 Merkins IC

THE THANG :

Mosey to football field 

Plank Hurdles:

Everyone starts in the plank position in the end zone. 1st man from each group sprints to the 10 and planks, 2nd sprints, hurdles him, planks on the 20, 3rd man hurdles each, planks on the 30, etc. At the end of the group, 1st man sprints, hurdles everyone, etc. Everyone should finish in a plank in the opposite end zone. RINSE AND REPEAT

Mosey to hill that goes up from football field parking lot to the main parking lot

Triple Nickel :

Find a hill. Start at bottom, run to top and complete 5xcalled exercise, run to bottom and complete 5xcalled exercise, 5 repetitions (5/5/5=Triple Nickel). The exercise we did was Burpees. 

Mosey to nearest corner of School Building

Walls of Jericho :

Just as Joshua was instructed to do in the Bible – performed around a large building so we used the school building, pick 7 different exercises and complete 7 reps of each then run a lap around the building. Complete for 7 laps. Exercises we did before each lap were Squat Jumps, Merkins, Freddie Mercuries DOUBLE COUNT, Ball Dippers DOUBLE COUNT, Merkins, WWII’s, Lunges DOUBLE COUNT (We only finished Half of the Walls of Jericho before 1 minute remained on our time)

Mosey back to imaginary Ole Glory

1 minute of Flutters

DONE

Numberama

Name-arama

COT :

Bone Thugs reminded us to pray for our Government Leaders, regardless of who’s in office.

Gypsy is organizing a shoe drive to donate new and gently used shoes for men, as well as clothing appropriate for job interviews. Collection will take place in December. Keep an eye on Slack for coming details on AO locations and dates for collection.

YHC took us out in prayer.

NMMS :

Note to Self – Start with Walls of Jericho as the first exercise so time doesn’t run out. Enjoyed posting with you brothers. In this month of Thanksgiving, you all remind YHC how great this brotherhood is.

After being out of the loop recently, YHC signed up for the Q to jump start things. After posting I then realized that comes with writing a backblast , minor changes to WordPress or how my computer treats it were ironed out and here we go.

With my name on the Q sheet the PAX did not know what to expect but with some renewed Q-drenaline going we were able to knock out some miles on the track.

Mosey down to the lower parking lot to try to get out of the wind, no such luck, with a warmup featuring random counts of the favorite hits.

All track work starting with Catch Me if you Can – Partner up – 1 pax runs backwards, the other does 3 burpees and runs to catch up. 1 full lap – that got the blood flowing, I venture to say that is not a Marmaduke favorite anymore.

Dirty MacDeuce – 12 4-count reps of Tempo merkins, Freddie Mercuries, Squats – run a lap, repeato with HRM, Flutters, Lunges, then again with Merkins, APD, Jump Squats

Mega-Beast – Beast on the track with stops at 100/200/300m for 6 reps each, keep going to the start then reverso – 2 rounds with merkins and squats. – next time we break this one out we can concentrate on only doing that to get the full six rounds

Mosey on back to the VSF for some Mary, including Crunchy Frogs, which may or may not have been on hiatus along with me.

Great to be back out and taking the Q. Thanks to those that posted for putting up with me and my desire to run in circles today. A little worried that my cadence would be off but it was just like riding a bike (which coincidentally is what I have been doing a lot of). Good to see the New Market crew out and hear they have been building a strong nano-region in SW Chesterfield.

Have a great day.

Pulled into SOT to find 8 eager PAX with an empty Q sheet. A Hot Potato was called. According to the early arriving bus drivers here is what went down.

Wedding singer took the reigns first. COP- Various exercises were performed with differing degrees of difficulty.

Dora- 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 flutter kicks. Runner to the sidewalk from opposite end sidewalk.

Singer called on a pass to YHC. YHC having a momentary lapse of judgement offered to go last and write the back blast.

Bullseye called for it next. Run to back of school down hill. Triple check with 4 men per side. Runner crawl bears halfway up hill then runs back, Wall sits and Drydocks for the others. Mosey to middle of track visitor side and partner up. First does 10 step ups per leg and second does ??.

YHC took the next leg. Mosey to corner of track for 4 corners. 10 merkins, 20 WWII’s, 30 squats, 40 LBC’s. Mosey to lot for a quick 50% and 75% run. Then a 4 corner on a straight line up the hill BTTF with same 4 exercises. Some quick stretching to round us out. Time was called.

Thanks to Wedding Singer and Bullseye for partnering on the potato. Good to see Boberry at a beat down to balance all that running.

Hermie took us out in prayer.

11 men came to Midlothian Middle School in search of some truth. What they got instead was a Q who managed to butcher the FIRST exercise in the warm-up. Luckily we all made through alive. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

Mosey to the lower parking for warm-ups:
Imperial Walkers, Don Quixotes, Russian Soldiers, Dean Man Hang, Cherry Pickers, Freddie Mercuries.

Exercise One: The Big X
Starting in the middle of the track run to each point of the X, which covered most of the school property, and complete the called exercise. Run back to the middle, do five burpees. Wait for the PAX, then repeat.

Rd 1: 25 hand release merkins, 50 squats, 75 alabama prom dates, 100 SSH’s – 20 total Burpees
Rd 2: 25 heels to heaven, 50 jump squats, 75 monkey humpers, 100 LBC’s – 20 total Burpees

Tried to sneak in some Victory Hill, but we ran out of time. Everyone sprinted up and headed back to the flag.

Numbers/Names/Announcements

YHC took us out.

Final Thoughts:
Strong work by all the PAX today! Did not realize that the X would pretty much take up the whole workout. I think we got our steps in for the day.

Heard that the runners hit 6.1 miles. Those guys are looking strong leading up to the marathon.

Appreciate the opportunity to lead.

Apparently Doozy had one of those moments (like the commercial) where his computer was dying with no cord, hence the reason YHC is typing this beat down. At 530 the air was warm with a bit of dew on the surfaces when Doozy yelled “Mosey” and off we went. The runners departed for the coffee house at about the same time.

COP- various warm-ups of varying difficulty were done at moderate levels of correctness by the PAX.

The thang: Run to the bottom of the hill. Triple check with Runner to top of hill, Merkins, and that one where you are upside down on the wall.

Mosey to back of parking lot: Lot crawls with bear/merkins then lunges squats add 2 each one.

Mosey to front of school for another triple check. Runner to the flag pole with incline merkins, and dips. Mosey around the school the long ways stopping to perform 5 burpees at each corner. And there are about 10 corners. BTF and I almost passed out.

Doozy took us out in prayer.

Great Q Doozy. Way to push it PAX. Be awesome today!

7 Ground and pounders and 3 runners made their way through the Gloom to visit S.O.T.

Mosey to the tennis courts COP

DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, Merkins, LBC’s

Mosey to the bottom of the hill for a Dora

Can’t remember the exercises 100, 200 and 300

Mosey to the field – Field Crawls

Bear crawl to the 5 yard line do 1 merkin, Bear Crawl to the 10 yard line do 2 merkins, increase by one at every 5 yard yard mark until 10. Finish out the field with Lunges to each 5 yard mark and a squat increasing by one until you get to 10

Mosey to the track for a triple check

Partner 1 does Hello dollies, Partner 2 does LBC’s and Partner 3 runs up the stairs around the bleachers and back

Mosey (Toothfairies up the stairs) and across to the tennis courts

Suicides using both side lines of all 3 courts across

Burpee indigenous people run BTTF

Numbers / Names / Marmaduke took us out

NMS:

As YHC is a day late getting this BB out and given his age, most of yesterday he does not recall. YHC and Honeymoon did have a discussion about the presence of Wilson and how we thought he might have gone with the runners. When the runners returned YHC did look for Wilson but he was not with them either. YHC was going to include Wilson in the head count for this BB but didn’t want to mess Big Data up