Tag: The Creek

11 Davillians descended on The Creek to further our fellowship and honor those men and women who died on this day many years ago at Pearl Harbor.  This is how we toiled.

COP:  15 SSH     10 merkins   10 DQ     15 arm circles, small and big      17 LBC’s  for a total of 77 reps, as it was 77 years ago today that the Naval base at Pearl Harbor, along with Army Air Force fields (Hickam, et. al.) were attacked, drawing the U.S. into the WW2.

Mosey to bell tower for 4 corners:  Run to each corner of the church building, stopping at each for 23 reps of jump squats, boxcutters, merkins and heels to heaven.  23 reps to remember the 23 sets of brothers that died on the USS Arizona that morning.

After planking for the six, it was time for the long lunges!  Lunge to first concrete ‘island,’ do 35 LBC’s, run back.  Lunge to second island, 35 Freddie Mercurys, run back, lunge to basketball goals, 40 SSH, run back.  The total of 110 reps in recognition of the 110 minutes the sailors and soldiers fought back against the Japanese that day.

Mosey to corner of parking lot for lazyish Dora: partner up, one partner lunges and bear crawls around the area, the other partner works on 50 2 count mountain climbers, 50 split jacks, and 69 overhead hand claps while holding peoples chair.  Total reps=169, which is the number of American planes destroyed by fighters and bombers.

Parking lot tracers: Do six lines, stop for 10 reps of exercises I now forget, but included burpees as suggested by Spike.  60 reps because 1941 (19+41).  Mosey over to curb for 11’s of diamond merkins and appropriately, WW2 situps.

Numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS

YHC works at the VA hospital, and still sees World War 2 Veterans in clinics and hallways, although less so than in the past.  Most of these men are not with us anymore, and so YHC wanted to make sure the PAX had something extra to think about today.  It did become clear that by focusing on the numbers and facts, YHC may have been slipshod with the actual exercises, so apologies to the PAX, and thanks for trying to keep me straight.  I earned my F3 name again today!  Also, note to self, don’t request exercise suggestions from Spike, as after suggesting burpees his other thought was “let’s run a mile!”  No thanks, YHC is good!  Great job by the PAX today, they crushed it so much YHC had to ad lib the 11’s to fill up the time, so there is no historical footnote for them.

As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.

9 awesome men and boys posted to the Creek this morning for a serving of Gumbo and it was worth the wait…at least for YHC.  The age differential in the PAX was 52 years with Wild Thing at 62 (RESPECT, RESPECT) as the War Daddy and Recess and Ewok at 10 (HATE, HATE, HATE, RESPECT!) bookending the PAX.  What an awesome sight.  I am humbled at the strength and determination of these men and boys.  Very inspiring and motivational to see men and boys working together to motivate each other and push each other.

The serving went something like this:

Mosey 1 recon lap around the church to warm up for COP, which obviously included:

• SSHs x20
• Tempo Merkins x20
• APDs x20
• Cooperhead Squats x20
• Hillbillies x20
• Eleven Burpees OYO

Lindsay – LBCs and Jump Squats with a run across the field in between.

Plank-o-Rama for the Six then 10 Alternating Shoulder Taps IC

Triple Check – Exercises were Dips and Derkins while the third member bearcrawled to the end of the line of trailers (about 30 yards I would say…on rocks..oops!) and then ran back.  Three times through.

The Suck – 8 exercise stations and 1 rabbit who ran around the church (or if you are Chewy, around the Church and parking lot for extra credit.  Well done young man!).  When runner returned, everyone bearcrawled to the next station.  Exercise stations were:

1. Jump ropes…actual not invisible
2. 25lb KB Swings
3. 35lb KB Squats
4. SSHs
5. LBCs
6. Flutter Kicks
7. Carolina Dry Docks
8. Elbow Plank

ROF – everyone started in plank and when it came to you, do 10 merkins, then 10 box cutters, then pop up to Al Gore – next man starts when the 10 merkins were finished.

3 MOM:

• Freddie Mercuries
• Hello Dollies
• American Hammers

COT, Number-Rama, Name-A-Rama and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Marmaduke still collecting warm clothes.
• Grow Ruck Richmond – See HoneyDo for details
• Good luck to the fellas running Bear Creek on Sunday – Gomer, TYA, Shakedown, Circle K…others?
• Restoration Church First Noelle tomorrow at Honey Meadows Clubhouse – 0930 – see Spit or The Carpenter for details
• Spit has stepped up for December Breaking Bread (well done!) – let’s make sure he gets some helping hands.
• Chewy, MudFace and No Idea are doing the local Rugged in May – let them know if you want to join the team.

NMS:

A beautiful morning for a drive and a beatdown.  I am thankful for no last-minute or early morning surprises this time, so I was able to finally make it to the Creek.  It is a great AO, and I was looking forward to seeing the 2.0s and the age disparity, and Wild Thing and Chewy, Recess and Ewok made that happen.  Gumbo will be served at the Creek again!

Thanks for letting me lead.  It was a pleasure.  Sorry, again, about the bearcrawls through the rocks.  I thought about and audible, but you guys are too tough for that!  There wasn’t even any complaining…at least not out loud!

Have a great Friday everyone.

No More Gumbo For You…until tomorrow at Dogpile.

7 fearless morning warriors kicked off their day the best possible way, in the gloom with their F3 brothers–here’s what happened.

COP, 10 each, IC, SSH, Merkins, DQ, HR Merkins, LBC’s, Merkins, Abe Vigoda, HR Merkins

Indigenous people run around the church to the picnic table area for a triple check

Abyss merkins  between picnic tables, LBC’s, last partner runs to road and back, Al Gore for the six.

Mosey to parking lot, Bermuda Triangle: 3 cones, 30 feet apart in a triangle shape, bear crawl b/t cones, stopping to do 5, then 10, then 15 merkins.  Three reps.

Find a curb for 11’s, heels to heaven and WW2 situps.

Find the flag, numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS

Mumble chatter was lively and varied, ranging from UVA athletics, to Spit and Opus’s favorite spa treatments, to the possibly weird (yes, I’m judging) places Emoji might put hand warmers.  All in all, a fun and taxing workout.  For those doing the challenge, that’s 130 merkins plus however many abyss merkins you did during the triple check.  Thanks for letting me lead.

As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.

12 Choir boys arrived to rainy like conditions but F3RVA App showed Sunny and 70.

A little mumble chatter and the PAX got to work

This how it went down

Mosey around church pending the Jett Clan’s arrival. A couple of loops around Mudface’s truck as a warm weclome.

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, Merkins x5, DQ, Merkins x5, Helicopter, Merkins x5, LBC’s, Merkin x5, Dying Cockroach, Merkin x5, Arm Circles (forward), Merkins x5, Arm Circles (Reverso), Burpee x5 OYO

THANG

Bear crawl to the pavilion  

Friday Morning Dance Party (F3 Style)

Q selected several songs from a playlist (2 of which were preset exercises on the F3 website). The PAX would complete the called exercises until the completion of the set song.

1st Song: Moby -Flower (B-Sides) (Duration 3:27) (aka Bring Up Sally) – Start with your chest on the ground. When the song says “Bring Sally Up” the Pax will be in the ‘Merican up position, and “Bring Sally Down” the Pax will be in the ‘Merican down position. Pax will hold the down position until the next rep.

Mosey a loop around the church

2nd Song: Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life (Duration 4:28) – PLT x 20, Switch, Rinse and Repeat

Mosey down the gravel road, around the T crossing, then back

3rd Song: Eric Paslay – Friday Night (Duration 2:47) – 20 Dips, 20 Skull Crushers, Rinse and Repeat

Mosey around the parking lot

4th Song: JT – Can’t Stop The Feeling (Duration 3:56) – Copperhead Squats and SSH during the chorus

5th Song: AC/DC – Thunderstruck (Duration 4:53) – A Merkin every time you hear “Thunder” and LBC’s during the bridge

Mosey back to the SF

Ring of Fire – 10 Merkin

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Wild Thing took us out

MOLESKIN

YHC had a late business dinner last night and was struggling with an idea for a Q. After looking at the forecast stated having memories of Wilson famous all musical Q in the Amphitheater at Dogpile. Thanks Wilson for the inspiration.

Some great highlights from today.

• Having Rounders back and watching him explaining AC/DC to the Jett boys.
• Emoji positive comment to YHC on keeping on beat during the Skull Crushers and Yard Sale saying YHC should be in a choir. Clearly they have never sat next to YHC during worship at church
• Having Chowdah and LP back in the mix
• Wondering if the music would give the opportunity to EH old ladies in their nightgowns (no takers unfortunately)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Mudface, No Idea, and Chewy are running in a Rugged Maniac in May. If you want to join them, contact Mudface
• Grow Ruck coming to RVA on March 22-24. Mark your calendars now

SPIT ON THAT!!

Took a lap around the church to wait for the Mudface clan.  No sighting of Mudface so we circled up.

Warmup:  Side Straddle Hops, Merkins, Arm Circles, LBC’s, Helix Squats and Hillbilly’s.

Mosey to the Picnic Shelter.  Pair Up – One runs to the road while the other does skull crushers, sit ups with feet on bench, heals to heaven and LBC’s.  Each person runs 4 times and does 4 exercises.  Mudface and his crew posted during this exercise to greatly increase the size of the PAX.

Mosey to the field for 4 Corners.  I wanted to do a Wilt but we modified it.  1st corner – 50 merkins, 2nd corner – 50 Crabcakes, 3rd corner – 50 Bobby Hurley’s, 4th corner – Helix squats – touching rear to the picnic table.  Go around twice to get 100.

Mosey to the Parking Lot for 11’s.  Merkins and Side Straddle Hops.   Before we finished time was up.

Mosey to the flag.  Ring of Fire – 1 Merkin each.  Opus was short one for the monthly challenge so we took care of it.

Numberama, Namarama.  Anouncements (I can’t remember any), Prayer by Yardsale.

3, … wait,      now 4, wait…       now ….  8 steadfast and brave warriors filed in this morning for a VH beatdown.

Rock and Roll Slaughter Starter — 15 burpees

COP —
arm circles, DQ, angled knee jumps, one legged merkins, jump squats

Love Lot —
One partner runs the length of the lot and back, other does board jump burpees, exchange places, keep going till the end is reached.

BoxJumpaLooza
Pick a bench — 2 box jumps, run to the road 4 box jumps, run , repeato until 10 box jumps have been done

VH Trivia contest — right answers are 5 burpees, wrong answers are bear crawl down and up the hill plus 5 burpees (answers in the NMS)
1) In which country were the Van Halen’s born?
2) Name the two other singers VH has had besides David Lee Roth?
3) On what Michael Jackson song does Eddie Van Halen have a guitar solo?
4) What color M and M’s did the band insist be removed at every gig? (true story)
5) Who played clarinet for the band on one of their songs?
6) What famous rocker signed Van Halen to their first contract?

Pull out the speaker and the spotify for the classic “Jump”!

Intro — plank
drums kick in — mountain climbers
verse — merkins
pre chorus — angled knee jumps
chorus — big jump on “JUMP”s little jumps in between
solos — sideways bear crawls around the circle, both ways, forward and back
interlude — back to plank

Mary —
flutters, scissors, freddies, heels to heaven, am hams

Numbers, Names, announcements

NMS —
1) the Netherlands (got it right)
2) Sammy Hagar, Gary Cherone (from Extreme — the More Than Words band) (missed)
3) Beat It (missed)
4) Brown (missed)
5) Jan Van Halen, their father (got it — kind of)
6) Gene Simmons (got it w/help)

This whole workout was based on the routine I came up with for the song “Jump”.  The lads did a pretty good job on the trivia, but they could have done better. Mudface said that he would do much better on a genre called Black Metal.  No Idea what that is.   No one came dressed in spandex with a hole cut out of their butt, but Emoji did show up this morning with some wacky looking beard and hair.  It looked like an ancient medieval wizard get-up.  It did make us laugh though when he tried to do the burpees at the beginning with it on.

See you all in the gloom
Opus

Warm Up:  Did random number of the following to make sure the guys were awake.  They must have been asleep because I don’t think anyone said a word.  Side Straddle Hops, Hillbilly’s, Copperhead Squats, LBC’s, Hand Release Merkins, Helicopters.

Parking Lot Tracers.  This was a little different because there were cars in the lot.  There was a little discussion about who had the cleanest car.  It certainly wasn’t me.

We headed to the shelter and broke into groups of 2 and 3.  One runs to the hard road and back while the other does skull crushers, flutter kicks, WWII Situps and Squats with your rear touching the picnic table on the way down.  Each partner ran 4 times and performed the exercise while their partner was running.

4 Corners of Church.  Run to first corner – 20 LBC’s, Karaoke to 2nd corner 20 Merkins, run backwards to 3rd corner 20 American Hammers, Karaoke to 4th corner 20 Heals to Heaven.

Indian run once around the church.

Over to the parking lot for 11’s which consisted of Merkins, Bear Crawl to the other side, WWII Sit Ups and run back.

To the flag for a ring of fire.  1st Burpees and then Merkins with a clap.

Numberama, Namarama.  Announcements.  There was one upcoming event announced by Spit but I forget what it was.  Maybe I would have remembered if I had posted this backblast in a timely manner.  Busy Friday and weekend – I will do better next time.  As always, it was a pleasure leading these friends.

6 Davillians arrived at New Highland Baptist on the one side of town that had power. The weather was much cooler but as always it was sunny and 70. The SF was planted and the PAX got to work

This is how it went down:

Mosey around the church to allow for any LIFO to show up

5 Burpees OYO

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Helicopters, LBC’s, Split Jacks, Merkins, Arm Circles

Mosey to the pavilion

THANG

The “official” F3 workout deck (Spit style Round 2).

Rules: Per the official F3 Workout Deck rules card, the first rule is, THERE ARE NO RULES. Do your own thang!

The way it was play today:

• Pull a card, perform the exercise and reps = Card # +10; Face Cards 25, Ace 100
• If a plank exercise is pulled preform that per the card time
• If a run is pulled the PAX ran down the gravel road then back (or twice for longer distance)
• Modify if a card that was pulled isn’t one the PAX knows

One person would run a lap around the school while the rest of the PAX completed the exercises pulled from the deck. Switch runners, rinse, and repeat till YHC called time. The PAX was able to completed 3/4th of the deck

Mosey to the SF

5 Burpees OYO

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Emoji took us out

MOLESKIN

With all the crazy weather from TS Micheal the night before, YHC wasn’t sure who would show up. Glad to have who we did.

10/12/18 marks YHC’s and his M’s 5th wedding anniversary. To celebrate the PAX completed 5 burpees at the beginning and 5 more for well wishes over the next 5 years

This deck of cards has turned into a solid beatdown. YHC learned that the creators of the deck most really like merkins. In all we pulled at least 6 cards with 5 different styles of merkins for a total of over 100.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• October CSAUP on Saturday the 20th – See TYA’s Preblast
• Marmduke is collecting coats – See Preblast

SPIT ON THAT!!

Nine PAX and 1 tired Q showed up for a beat down on a nice, cool morning.  The lights stayed on and we did this…

Mosey 3/4 of way around church, then into COP-IC:   15 SSH, 10 helicopters, 15 LBC’s, 10 merkins, 15 arm circles (small, big, reverso), 10 Imperial Walkers

Mosey to pavilion for 50 skull crushers, 50 dips, 50 heels to heaven, 50 squats, Al Gore for the six

Mosey to parking lot for 4 corners, 25 merkins, 50 American hammers, 75 Freddie Mercuries, 100 split jacks, run, lunge, run, lunge in between

Find a curb for 11’s, boxcutters and merkins, mosey to the flag, YHC took us out

NMS

YHC has been helping his M get ready for a camping trip, and stayed up late last night getting everything packed and ready so his M could get to bed early.   The alarm went off and YHC’s first thought was “I’m not going” quickly followed by the realization that it was my Q, so never mind that, time to go!  Arrived early and had a chance to talk with Flounder, discovered he lives within walking distance of The Creek.  There was some mumblechatter regarding the whereabouts of Emoji and Opus, and we considered trying to find Emoji’s house and working out in his front yard but weren’t sure of the exact location, so scratch that.  The PAX discovered that Yardsale’s nonstop talk about Atlee football is due to him being a booster and trying to put butts in seats.  On that note, there is a fundraiser on 10/6 at Atlee–for $20 bucks you can drive any Ford you want for a few minutes, many models available.  Spit and Spike talked the whole time while leading through pretty much every exercise, nicely done gents!

Thanks for letting me lead.  As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.