Tag: The Creek

8 Crazy guys showed up for a rain soaked workout this morning!  Gumbo was supposed to Q, but the M and 2.0’s got sick in the middle of the night.  Gumbo texted Spit who was already up because of Baby Spit and Hot potato was called.  Hope the Gumbo family is feeling much better soon!

Spit took the beginning — mosey around the church with 5 merkins every so often to break up the run a little
COP — in no particular order
IJR, Merkins, LBC’s, Arm Circles, DQ, Helicopters, Flutterkicks Crab cakes, Imperial Walkers, Dying Cockroach

Pass off to Hardywood
10 merkins, run around a loop of the parking lot
Next loop around do 10 merkins, add 20 squats
Next loop around  do 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 WW2 situps
Next loop around do 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 ww2 situps, 40 flutterkicks

Pass off to Vinny
A brand new exercise!!  with a cool name.
It is called the Windsor Farms Do-Si-Do
Brief description — Partner up.  1st partner holds 6 inches and holds other partners ankles while the other partner completes 10 merkins, repeato with 15 merkins and then 15 merkins again.

Pass off to Phonics
11’s — 1 upright alabama prom date on bench, 10 burpees
Rinse and repeat (literally)

Pass off to Opus
5 Skull Crushers each leg, 5 dips, 5 derkins
10 skull crushers each leg, 10 dips, 10 derkins

Numbers, names, announcements
Tomorrow is Puppy Pile at 7:05 Dogwood Dell — all bring frisbees!

NMS —
Last night there was a mysterious message from Phonics saying that there was a guy coming to the Creek today, but he needed some shoes.  size 11 or 12.  I thought it was an FNG — if it had been his name would have been Joe Jackson.  Anyways it turned out to be none other than Abacus who was not wearing normal workout clothes, but did have tennis shoes on from somewhere.  He showed up in a Tesla (his employer) — more on that later…

Workout was fun and difficult, but extremely wet.  It rained and then it rained some more.  and some more.  YHC was wringing his shirt and shorts out every few minutes.  At least YHC was not sweating to death…

Nice having Abacus, Vinny and Hardywood there from other venues!  Come back any time!

On to the Car.
Afterwards, Abacus asked if we wanted to ride in his car.  Some of us took us up on that offer.  But first, the car had to give us a demo…  see the video if you want to see something completely stupid and utterly pointless.  but also pretty cool.

So Abacus took some of us on a ride.  A few notes — going 0 to 45 in a second is quite awesome!  Having the car drive itself, also awesome, but maybe a little scary.  If Teslas are the way most cars will end up in the future, then the future will be great!  Go check one out if you ever have a chance.

Peace out,
Opus

 

6 Davillians that were not participating in the summer tour stormed the ground of New Highland Baptist for a Hot Potato Q (or in this case a 2.0 Takeover).

This how it went down:

Spit’s Q

Mosey around the church one lap stopping 8 times to complete 5 merkins

COP

• Invisible Jump Rope
• DQ
• Imperial Walkers
• WWII Sit-ups
• Arm Circles

Slash’s Q

Four Corners – 5, 10, 15, then 20 Heels to Heaven

Mosey to the field

Decline Ladder – 10 WWII Sit-ups, Run across the field, 9 WWII Sit-ups, run back. Rinse and Repeat till down to 1

Mosey to the Pavilion

Partner Burpees – As partners complete 50 Burpees. One partner works on Burpees with other partner run up and down the gravel road. Switch and repeat.

Mosey back to the parking lot.

4 Corner Escalator – 5 2ct American Hammers and 5 Merkins, increase by 5 at each corner till completing 20/20. Short 10 count rest then repeat going down 20/20, 15/15, 10/10, then 5/5

1 MOM – Merkins (IC) and 10 Heels to Heaven

Polar Bear Tracers – using the side lot bear crawl and complete one Merkin at each parking line (10 total)

Moesy back to the SF

Ring of Fire – 5 Squats then  1 Burpee

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

MOLESKIN

This was the first “official” day of summer for the kids in Daville. With that being the case YHC noticing the Q was vacant for today proposed that we make today a 2.0 lead workout. There was no response on FB Messenger other than a thumps up from Pick 2. Well scratch that idea, Plan B normal Hot Potato.

With it being the first day of summer and RAMM special ride, YHC wanted what the numbers would look like. Yard Sale and Emoji pulled in early giving us some good ol pre-workout mumble chatter. Just after 5:25 Spike pulled up with Slash (his 2.0) and our newest PAX member Bulkhead (2nd post). It seemed that Slash was excited about leading some this more. Ok then Plan C!

YHC got things started and passed it Slash who pulled a Swirly and didn’t give it. He crushed it! YHC has never seen the PAX so spent at the end. Slash had the PAX moving non stop.

Glad to have Bulkhead out once again. Hope to see him as regular soon.

ANNOUNCEMENTS  (per Gumbo)

• Field Day at Dogpile this Saturday – t-shirt from your youth has been requested.
• Puppy Pile 6/23
• Get in on the Summer Tour – Phonics, Vinny, Offshore and others are checking them off fast.
• Amateur Hour (or 45 minutes) at RAMM Gears tomorrow
• HR Derby coming up 6/26 at Robious Elementary/Huguenot Little League INSTEAD of No Toll.  Pre-blast forthcoming.

SPIT ON THAT / SLASH ATTACK!!

COP all IC

SSH x 15

Merkin x 1

Helicopters x 10

Crabcakes x 1

Arm Circles x 10 small, 5 Big, Reverso

Mosey to the dew covered freshly mowed field

Belching (this is what it is named in the Exicon)

Pax lines up face down

Q says go

PAX sprints 10 strides and hits the deck

One merkin, one WWII situp

Low crawl forward or back to line the PAX back up

Repeat until they reach the end of the field

Mosey back to the parking lot

Four Corners Ascending

Run to each corner and perform 10 burpees

exercises added to the bottom of the burpee at each corner

1st – 1 Hand Release Merkin

2nd – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups

3rd – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups, 3 2 count Mountain Climbers

4th – 1 Hand Release Merkin, 2 WWII sit-ups, 3 2 count Mountain Climbers, 4 Alabama Prom Dates

Yard Sale asked if we could do them again and YHC hates to disappoint the PAX.

Four Corners Descending

APD replaced with LBC’s because some things can never be unseen

Work the corners back down to Hand Release Merkin Burpees

Mosey back to the flag

one Turkish get up each side and one Boat/Canoe to eat up time

Announcments

Summer Challenge is going on

Puppy Pile 6/23 0705

July 4th Convergence

Numberama

Namearama

Chewy took us out

NMS

The Belching was just good, wet, messy fun that looked interesting while reading through the list of routines.

YHC watched a video of a lady beating the world record for burpees in 60 minutes (1,490) with form that would get you mercilessly mocked at any AO that YHC has been to. This lead to too much though about burpees and all the fun things that can be done with them. That gave YHC an opportunity to get his work in for the Swamp Rabbit challenge as well. Tea Party and The Carpenter tore this one up. Aperently YHC will have to step up his Qing game if he hopes to challenge those two in the future.

It was necessary to change out APD after watching the form and technique of Yard Sale, that along with the noises that he was making this morning was definitely NSFW. There is not enough brain bleach in the world for that image. YHC was just glad that he did not have to explain that to his kids on the way home.

Proud father moment, when Chewy went back to the second corner to check on Ewok who was having some trouble and then staying with him until he finished the last corner. YHC seeing his oldest 2.0 go back and make sure that his youngest 2.0 was ok was almost enough to give him a feeling. Coincidentally, at that same time some dust got in YHC’s eye and he had to blink a lot to get it out.

Thanks for letting me lead

 

 

 

 

 

11 Davilians (including 4 2.0’s) and one guys that must have gotten lost on his way to RAMM, arrived at New Highlander to get this month started with a BANG!

This is how it went down:

Mosey around the church then pick up any LIFO (none yet)

COP (ALL IC)

• SSH
  • 5 Merkins
• Helicopter
  • 5 Merkins
• Copperhead Squats
  • 5 Merkins
• LBC’s
  • 10 Merkins
• Flutter Kicks
  • 5 Merkins
• Arm Circles (The Carpenter has arrived)
  • 10 Merkins

THANG

Mosey to the side parking lot

11’s – Bear Crawl to the opposite side start with 10 (2ct) American Hammers, run back to the other side complete 1 Heels to Heaven. Rinse and Repeat till reps are reversed

Church Corner’s – While running a lap around the church complete the following: (1st) 25 Squats, (2nd)  50 Merkins, (3rd) 25 Squats, (4th) 50 Merkins

Mosey to the pavilion

Triple Check – Dips, Box Jumps, Run down the gravel road and back

The Human Jerkin – Get into groups of 3. With one of the 3 laying prone, face-up on the ground and the other 2 using the lawnmower pull to lift him while his arms were at a static curl 90 degrees.  All 3 cycled through.  Then the person on the ground did the work while the 2 guys standing held their arms at a static 90 degrees.

Mosey to the SF for Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

NMS

What a great day to be at The Creek. YHC didn’t have a true theme other than working on F3 Swamp Rabbits’ June Challenge. For those who are Twitter followers of F3 Richmond (aka Lab Rat), would have noticed a tweet yesterday regarding join another F3 Region’s monthly challenge. The challenge (per Lab Rat) is the following: 5000 Merkins, 5000 Squats, 50 miles. Since YHC knows he wouldn’t be able to complete the summer tour, this seem to be a good alternative.

Speaking of Lab Rat, as one of the founding members of DaVille he finally made his first post at The Creek (yes this is true YHC looked it up!). The mumble chatter will never be the same.

The Carpenter clearing thought we were on CST by setting his alarm for 6. YHC received a text around 5:23 (did read till after the workout) from him saying he was on his way. Give the approximate time of 10 minutes it took for the PAX to complete the COP, The Carpenter basically got out of the fart sack and to the AO in about 15 to 17 minutes. Knowing its about a 10 minutes YHC would have to say that was pretty impressive.

The Human Jerkin (Which YHC  has just named) seemed to be a hit. That’s again to Moses from F3 Charlotte for introducing this and the Partner push/pulls to YHC at F3 Phoenix last week.

Apologies (taking a play out of Lab Rat’s book) goes out to those that decided to sign up for this June challenge after the workout. Turn out Lab Rat and YHC were mistake. The challenege is actually 5000 WWII sit-ups instead of squats. Oh well atleast it’s only day 1.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• F3 Arlington/DC launches tomorrow. Vinny and YHC will be attending. See Twitter post
• F3RVA Summer Tour has begun! Who will be the first to post at every AO this summer?
• Next PuppyPile 6/23 at 7:05. Sippy Cup will get things started
• July 4th Convergence at Tredegar. See Pre-Blast

SPIT ON THAT!!

7 Grown men and one feisty 2.0 showed up for a beatdown this morning.

Here is what transpired…
Hallelujah Run around the church

COP–
Hillbillies
Helicopters
Combos (not the snack) All IC —
5 SSH, 5 Merkins 5x (no stopping between exercises)
5 WW2 situps, 5 Freddies 5x
5 flutterkicks, 5 scissors 5x
5 copperhead squats, 5 pistol squats 4x

1 minute toe taps on curb
30 seconds on, 30 seconds rest
40 seconds on, 20 seconds rest
50 seconds on, 10 seconds rest
1 minute full on.

Triple Checks at the benches–
derkins, ww2s on benches, touch a car
dips, skullcrushers, touch a building

Catch me if you can — 
one partner starts bear crawling around the building, other one does 7 burpees and then runs to catch the other one.  Switch roles.  Repeato until we make it round the building.

Thanks to all the guys and girl who showed up today for this morning’s beatdown.  It was a beautiful morning with a little less humidity than normal.  Nothing stood out this morning as far as mumblechatter is concerned, but YHC thinks everyone was having a great time with the workout.  Pick two has become a regular again and we are glad for that!  Missed regulars Carpenter and Spit this morning.  Hope you both are doing well — see you soon!
BTW — George Young of AC/DC fame was a member of the Easybeats back in the 60’s.  This is one of the first rock songs YHC remembers from his youth and still loves it!

Peace
Opus

 

8 Crazy Davillians (including two amazing 2.0’s) decided today would be a good day to take a swim and posted at The Creek. To respect the flag, the SF was kept in the car until the end. After Emoji took a photo to document occasion, the PAX headed out.

This is how it went down:

Mosey (or swim which ever was easy) around the church for a lap then head to the pavilion. 

COP

• SSH
• DQ
• Helicopters
• LBC’s
• Merkins
• Dying Cockroach
• Flutter Kicks
• Arm Circles

THANG

Mosey back to the parking lot

Four Corners – While running a lap around the church stop at each corner to complete an exercise. Exercise were as follows: 10 Burpees, 20 (2 ct) Mtn Climbers,  30 LBC’s, 40 Squats

Four Corners Escalator – Running another lap around the church stop at each corner to complete a set of exercises. Exercises were as follows:

• 1st Corner – 10 Merkins
• 2nd Corner – 10 Merkins, 20 Jump Squats
• 3rd Corner – 10 Merkins, 20 Jump Squats, 30 (1 ct) American Hammers
• 4th Corner – 10 Merkins, 20 Jump Squats, 30 (1 ct) American Hammers, 40 LBC’s

Four Corners Escalator Reverseo – Running  lap around the church the opposite direction stop at each corner to complete a set of exercises. Exercises were as follows:

• 1st Corner – 10 Merkins, 20 Jump Squats, 30 (1 ct) American Hammers, 40 LBC’s
• 2nd Corner – 10 Merkins, 20 Jump Squats, 30 (1 ct) American Hammers,
• 3rd Corner – 10 Merkins, 20 Jump Squats
• 4th Corner – 10 Merkins

4×4 Four Corners – First to the first corner complete one 4×4 (4 Merkins x 4 (2ct) Mtn. Climbers), run back to the start, run to the first corner again complete one 4×4 then run to the second corner and complete 2 4×4’s, run back to the start.

Audible called – Pick up the six complete the lap around the church (but no 4×4’s) and mosey to the normal SF location. SF was then planted

Bear Crawl Ring of Fire – Circle up around shovel flag. Begin by bear crawling around in circle until Q says stop. Upon stopping, first Pax completes 10 merkins while other Pax plank, then next PAX in line completes 10 merkins while other PAX plank. Rinse and Repeat until all PAX have completed Merkins.

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, Emoji  took us out.

MOLESKIN

What a blast this workout was. YHC always enjoy those the change to post in the rain and getting to Q just adds to that enjoyment . The challenge was put out to the DaVille PAX on FB last night. Some heard the call including The Carpenter who brought his 8 and 9 year old 2.0 girls out. TClaps to those girls who not only showed up in the pouring rain but also gave this workout all they had!

The PAX tried to enjoy every moment of this workout by during most of the exercises in puddles (or miniature ponds in some cases). Rounders lead the charge in this by starting off his Burpees in the best puddle of them all during the first four corners.

Mumble Chatter seem to focus mainly around how wet could the PAX get and the noises our clothes were making during exercises.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Spit’s takeover week concludes tomorrow at Dogpile to celebrate 2 years with F3RVA
• PuppyPile 2.0 Workout Tomorrow at Dogpile, starts at 7:05 a.m.
• Memorial Day Convergance at Tredegar/Belle Isle May 28th. 7 am
• F3RVA Summer Tour begins the weekend of Memorial Day and ends on Labor Day. Who will be the first to post at every AO this summer?

SPIT ON THAT!!

Warm-up run around the church

COP

Crunchy Frog

Smurf Jacks

Hand Release Merkins

Arm Circles (big, small, reverso)

to the wettest, muddiest part of the field for

Tunnel of Love

Pax lines up in plank

Last in line army crawls to the front

2 time through

5 burpees or boya merkins at the end

Mosey to the back parking lot for

Basketball Shootout

PAX Separates into two teams (1.0s VS 2.0s)

one member of each team takes a shot

Make it , the team does 3 burpees

Miss it, team runs other side of the parking lot and back

shoot for 10 minutes

Winners take a victory lap around the church

Losers plank until they get back

Seagulls

plank up

Play the song Seagulls, Stop It Now

Merkin every time it says “seagulls” or “stop”

Mosey back to SF for

Boat/Canoe ring of fire

PAX holds boat

one person does 5 Boat/Canoes then hands off to the person beside them

Announcements

PuppyPile 2.0 Workout is May 19th at 7:05am at Dogwood Dell after Spit’s beat down.

Numberama

Namearama

Recess took us out

NMS

Three months ago Recess and Ewok asked if they could Q The Creek. YHC checked the Q list and it was open and the date was saved.

They jumped in it feet first. I typical VQ fashion  there was no sleep on VQ eve and they woke YHC about an hour and a half early. The workout was discussed and it was determined that a weinke would not be needed (this ended up being a mistake). We woke up Chewy and hit the road.

YHC and his crew got to the AO at 5:20 to see and unfamiliar car waiting. Welcome to The Creek Vinny. A quick ride around the AO to make sure that the basketball hoops were still there, another five minutes watching The Carpenter take his 2.0s for a quick tour of the parking lot, and then we got to work and picked up Hardywood at the end of the first lap.

After some coaching, the disclaimer was said and the FNGs were welcomed. Cadence for the COP was on point, but there was some confusion as to what exercises were going to be performed. But the pulled it back together.

Tunnel of Love, was originally gong to be four corner tunnel of love with ascending count exercises at each corner around the field. The PAX made it half way down one side when an audible was called. All of this occurred after the debate of weather it should be done trough the mud or over the gravel, mud won out. Have several 2.0s making up the tunnel adds a level of difficulty, as YHC learned as he tried to crawl under The Carpenter’s smallest 2.0.

The teams for basketball were 2.0s versus 1.0s. The boys in the DaVille region need to work on their shooting skills. YHC belives that at least one, if not both, of the 1.0s baskets were scored by visitors from other regions. The 2.0s dominated the 1.0s in this, leaving with a score of 4 to 2. They then went off on what was either the longest or the slowest victory lap while the rest of the PAX planked. We were running out of things that you can raise while in plank by the time that they got back.

YHC thought that there were a lot more “seagulls” and “stop” in the some. It turned into a 3 minute plank with 4 merkins as a rest.

YHC is proud of this boys. Was it the smoothest Q? No. Did they lose focus and start planing with the other 2.0s there? Yes. Did they push the PAX? I think that they did. Was it fun? yes it was. Was it the most frustrating Q the YHC has been a part of? Yes, Yes it was. But they came to me to lead it and they planned the whole thing out with little input from me and in the end two boys, with their age still in single digits, lead their VQ for a PAX of 18. So what they have from me is pride and respect.

Thanks for letting them lead

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 warriors (including four 2.0s) rolled stormed into the parking lot, the SF was planted, and the PAX embarked on a fun fest that went something like this…

Mosey around the field and back to the parking lot.

COP – All IC – 25 SSHs, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 plank jacks, 25 invisible jump ropes, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 plank jacks, 25 LBCs, 10 don quixotes, arm circles

Mosey to the front corner of the building.

Lunge & Plunge

Partner up. One partner heads in one direction around the building while the other heads in the other direction. Lunge (10x) followed by hand-release merkins (3x). Meet up with your partner and do 5 booyah merkins. Continue around the building back to the beginning.

Mosey to pavilion…

Triple Check – Box jumps, Heels to heaven, run to the road and back…

Crush It!

• 5 skull crushers one way, 5 skull crushers the other way, 5 dips IC
• 10 skull crushers one way, 10 skull crushers the other way, 10 hand-release merkins IC
• 15 skull crushers one way, 15 skull crushers the other way, 15 plank jacks IC

Mosey to the SF – 20 flutter kicks IC

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

NMS

YHC put out some invites to EH a few guys and to re-engage some others. The warmer weather and early sunrise make for an ideal time to EH new PAX while also inviting others back. It was great to see Pick Two back in the mix along with the others.

The 2.0s came to fight this morning and they crushed the entire workout. Recess and Ewok exhibited unending energy and showed a preview of the fun that will come next week when they Q.

The mumble chatter was off and on throughout the morning. The “Lunge & Plunge” provided ample time for catching up while also keeping the PAX moving.

Spit showed the fruit of his recent running work and posting down I-64 (including a Q this week) by pacing the PAX most of the morning. Yardsale showed a ton of fight and he even put in a special request for the skull crushers. YHC had initially had burpee suicides in the quiver but called an audible due to Yardsale’s request.

The gloom is always a blast and this morning did not disappoint!

The Carpenter

9 Davillians (including 3 2.0’s) thought they were showing up for a raining workout but just got some Spit.

YHC arrived at 5:25 to an empty parking lot but while planting the SF, the PAX came rolling in. time to get to work!

This is how it sent down:

Mosey around the church

COP (IC)

• 10 Happy Jacks (5 – SSH + 2 Jump Squats) – OYO
• 10 DQ
• 10 Cherry Pickers
• 10 Merkins
• 15 American Hammers
• 15 Flutter Kicks
• 12 Temp Merkins
• 15 WWII Situps
• Arm Circles

THANG

Catch Us If You Can – In teams of 3, Partner A carries Partner B while Partner C completes 10 burpees. Partner C runs to catch the PAX then switch. Rinse and Repeat for one lap

mosey to the pavilion

Lazy Dora – Partner up, first partner holds plank or Al Gore which second partner does exercises. Exercises as follows:

•  100 Decline Merkins
• 200 Picnic Sit Ups
• 300 Dips

Mosey to SF

Captain Thor – 1 WWII Sit Up + 4 American Hammers. Rinse and Repeat til 10 WWII + 40 American Hammers or till Q called time.

Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

MOLESKIN

It was great to back at The Creek. YHC has enjoyed the running challenges and the PAX of RAMM but its good to be with the Davillians on Friday once again.

Even though it was raining during the workout this morning, YHC still made sure they PAX got a little wet with some exercises on the ground. Also since The Carpenter was out of town, Yard Sale made sure to find every puddle along the mosey.

Welcome back to Rounders! Rounders shared that if he just showers at work he can make it out almost every morning. Aye Rounders, take one straight out of Lab Rat’s playbook

Also welcome back to Pick 2. Way to push it this morning brother. That soon to be Old Lady of yours got you busy with wedding planning. Don’t forget your bro time

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• YHC and Mudface are looking to change some things up for Tomato Run. Stay Tuned
• Puppy Pile May 19th at 7am – See Preblast

SPIT ON THAT!!