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15 Davillians and 3 men completing the summer challenge descended on The Creek to try and break a sweat on a beautiful and cool morning.  Here’s how it went down.

COP

15 SSH     15 Don Quixotes      15 invisible jump ropes      15 arm circles (10 small, 5 big, reverso)

15 imperial walkers

Mosey to bell tower

Bear crawl to first curb, ABC’s,  bear crawl to second curb, 15 angle grinders, bear crawl to basketball goal, 15 4×4’s, Al Gore for 6.

Mosey to  pavilion for triple check: one partner runs to road and back, the others do LBC’s and split jacks.

Mosey back to parking lot for 11’s: Merkins and American hammers

Mosey back to shovel flag for COT, YHC took us out

NMS

YHC and family leave today for our annual trip to Hershey, PA, for all things chocolate, so it was important to get in one last F3 workout.  Somehow YHC forgot how late he is up before every trip with last minute packing, and barely escaped the fartsack this morning.  Some members of the PAX seemed to have wished YHC had not shown up, as their was a lot of mumblechatter during 4×4’s, although the PAX powered through all of it well.  The 4×4’s and angle grinders were new to YHC and some of the PAX too–it’s always good to do something different.  YHC had planned ring of fire to wrap it up, and wanted the 2.0’s to contribute the exercises. so asked them for suggestions.  That’s when one of Mudface’s 2.0s asked “Does walking count?”  Mudface was so proud!

Congrats to Rosie for finishing up the summer challenge, and YHC is unclear if Swiper and Offshore are done as well.

Announcements:  Puppy pile tomorrow, 7 AM.  Labor Day Convergence at Three Lakes park, see preblast for details.

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

Twelve warriors emerged on the grounds of New Highland Baptist Church for another Friday morning beatdown.  This is what occurred:

Mosey around the church.

COP

• 5 Burpees OYO
• Arm Circles – 10 big, 5 small IC then reverso
• SSH – 20 IC
• Helicopters – 10 IC
• Don Quixote – 10 IC
• High Knees – 10 IC
• Backwards Lunges – 10 IC
• Merkins – 10 IC
• Angles Knee Jumps – 10 IC
• Foot to Hand Mountain Climbers – 10 IC
• LBCs – 20 IC
• Sitting Freddie Mercuries – 20 IC
• American Hammers – 20 IC

Triple Sprints – In 3, one partner sprints about 40 yards, 2nd partner sprints back, and so on.  Once a sprint is completed, the PAX member does 5 burpees.  Each PAX member will do a total of 5 sprints and 25 burpees.  Once this has been completed, bear crawl to the middle.

Mosey to Pavillion

AMRAP – Rotate between the following exercises for 3 minutes

• Round 1 – 5 One Leg Squats then rotate to other leg
• Round 2 – 5 Upright Alabama Prom Date Dips // 5 Derkins

Elevens – Rotating Elbow Planks and Mountain Climbers running about 30 yards in between the exercises.   (After first 3 completed the elevens, the exercise was stopped for time.

Mosey to Parking Lot

Plank-O-Rama  – All PAX would start in Plank Position

• Carolina Dry Docks // Merkins – Rotate between exercises (10 IC)
• Rotate to Side Plank and Hold – then drop hip and lift (10 IC)
• Rotate to Back Plank and Hold – then do upright Alabama Prom Dates (10 IC)
• Rotate to other side plank and hold – the drop hip and lift (10 IC)
• Rotate back to front plank and hold – Carolina Dry Docks // Merkins – Rotate between exercises (10 IC)
• Freddie Mercuries (20 IC)
• 6 Inches  Hold while Q counts down from 30.
• 5 Burpees OYO

COT – Numberama, Name-o-rama, Spike took us out.

NMS

As YHC was deciding which AO to attend in the morning, he noticed that no one had signed up to Q The Creek the next morning.  Because there was a good chance that Summer Tour participants would post at the Creek, YHC signed up.  At 5:30 AM, there were 12 Davillians and no Summer Tour participants.  With 2 more Fridays left before Labor Day, there should be several PAX members making there way north if the Summer Tour is still continuing.

It was great Qing again at The Creek.  The Creek for 2 years consistently has the largest PAX in Mechanicsville.  It also has the largest amount of 2.0s in F3RVA.  Great effort from all the PAX members today.  Apologies must be given to Mudface for limiting the amount of running we did today.  YHC will try to increase the mileage next time he Qs The Creek.  It is always impressive Mudface the amount that your 2.0s post.  Well done!  Nice to meet you Flounder and thank you for explaining your nickname.  It was also nice seeing It has nothing to do with Animal House.  Nice to see you again Boom Boom.  Good luck with your 3rd year at The Institute.

Announcements

• August 25 – Puppy Pile
• Labor Day – Convergence at Three Lakes Park.  See Pre-Blast.
• ReeseStrong 5K – Postponed for a year.

Gotta Run!

Phonics

12 fighters escaped the fart sack and found themselves in a parking lot to engage in a fun fest that went something like this…

Mosey out to the street, down to the first street and then back to the parking lot via the pavilion.

COP All IC – 50 SSHs, 10 flutter kicks, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 flutter kicks, 50 LBCs, 10 flutter kicks, don quixiotes, 10 flutter kicks, arm circles, 10 flutter kicks

Mosey to the field

Field of Dreams

Run to each corner and do an exercise, increasing by 5 up to 20 and then decreasing by 5 down to 5 for each corner (5-10-15-20-15-10-5).

• First round – merkins
• Second round – flutter kicks
• 25 partner leg tosses
• Third round – merkins

Mosey to the flag

All IC – 10 flutter kicks, 10 american hammers, 10 flutter kicks, 10 freddy mercuries, 10 flutter kicks, american hammers, 10 flutter kicks, 1 copperhead squat…

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Dogpile tomorrow – Ghost flag will be present
• Puppy pile on Saturday, 8/18 at 7:05 am after Dogpile
• Convergence at Three Lakes Park on Labor Day morning

NMS

YHC has been out of town a lot this summer and it was good to be back with the PAX this morning. The PAX was ready to roll and YHC took them on a scenic run in what appeared to be an off campus beginning but we turned back for the COP.

YHC has not been running out the SSHs as much in recent months so that needed to change. Various PAX members decided to jump around and run into one another during the SSHs and that brought some added entertainment to the start. The idea of doing a LOT of flutter kicks came to YHC’s mind a few days earlier and the PAX picked up on that theme quickly.

Spit and Patches attacked the Field of Dreams and set the pace for the morning. Ewok and Recess blazed a 2.0 trail when they were not beating each other up. There some mumble chatter but it turned to groans when the exercise for the second round of the Field of Dreams turned to flutter kicks. The PAX soaked up the dew in the field like sponges!

Welcome to Flounder. His name took awhile to create but the various parts of his life story converged into the name.The morning was a glorious one as always whenever the PAX fights through a workout together.

The Carpenter

 

 

10 Warriors (5 Davillians, 4 2.0’s, and one Summer Tourist) arrived a a overcast then raining Creek (no worries its always sunny and 70), to enjoy the end of the week with a beatdown.

This is how it went down

Mosey around the church in different ways including backwards, karaoke style, and forwards

COP (ALL IC) – Invisible Jump Rope, Hand Release Merkins (HRM’s), DQ, HRM’s, Helicopters, HRM’s, Arm Circles (forward), HRM’s, Arm Circles (backwards), HRM’s.

THANG

Partner Up

PLT in sets of 10, 15, and 20 each partner

Triple Up

Triple Check: HRM’s, LBC’s and run around the front parking lot

Quintuple Up

Chaos Four Corners: Teams of five, split up with a different person at each corner. The fifth partner starts running to the first corner to pick up the first partner. Before they head to the second corner they must complete 10 Jump Squats each, Rinse and repeat at each corner picking up the rest back on the way. 2nd corner – 10 2ct Mtn Climbers, 3rd – 10 Heels to Heaven, 4th – 10 LBCs. 10 HRM’s at the end

Chaos Four Corners Reverso: Same as before but this time all PAX starts running and dropped one PAX at each corner then comes back to pick up PAX

Partner Up

PLT Is sets of 20, 15, and 10 each partner

Mosey back to the SF, 10 HRM’s IC, Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, Wild Thing took us out

MOLESKIN

The Hand Release Merkins brought about an each challenge during the COP. It seemed YHC’s arms were going to fall off while doing Arm Circle. By looking at the rest of the PAX faces, YHC feels they would agree

We had a cheering section this morning with a Southern Baptist Mission crew sharing our parking this morning.

Glad to have Wedding Singer join us. Good Luck with the rest of your tour.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Swim Team practice at Dogpile tomorrow. Come prepare
• Pre blast for Labor Day Convergence coming soon

SPIT ON THAT!! 

11 Davillians roused themselves from slumber, including one 2.0 FNG, to kickstart their day in the best possible manner.  Here’s what happened.  Honest.

COP

20 SSH   20 Helicopters   20 DQ   20 Imperial walkers

20 invisible jump ropes

Mosey to corner of church for 4 Corners

20 LBC’s, frog hop to next corner, 40 Heels to heaven, lunge to next corner, 60 Freddie Mercury’s, frog hop, 80 flutter kicks, lunge back to first corner, repeat the whole thing cutting the numbers in half.

Mosey to picnic tables, triple check, skull crushers, dips and last Amigo runs to road and back, go until everyone has done it three times.

head to curbs for 11’s, hold six inches and 4 count flutter kicks, mosey to SF, numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.

 

NMS

YHC’s shoulder is a bit messed up, so had to come up with a Q that required no shoulder work–time for abs and legs!  COP involved YHC messing with the cadence, eliciting mumblechatter from Spit and Mudface.  You’d think they would be used to it by now….

The PAX crushed 4 corners and triple check, such that YHC had to make up 11’s and couldn’t think of a new ab or leg exercise, thus the 4 count flutter kicks (thanks for the suggestion, Spit).  Seeing what the PAX (and YHC) called frog hops was entertaining, and Mudface even accused YHC of skipping “like a little girl” which is probably inaccurate.  Probably.  It’s always great seeing new faces, and congrats to Doc for doing so well today, although given that Spike is her dad, it’s also not that surprising.  Way to bring the effort, Doc!  Good to see Rounders out again–is it typical to work out in a puffy vest in July?  Army guys are weird….

Announcements: Amateur RAMMgear next Friday, bring your bike, no matter if it was made this century or not.  Also, Preblast coming soon for Convergence at Daville (specifically 3 Lakes park) on Labor Day.

Thanks for letting me lead.

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

Warm Up:  20 Side Straddle Hops, 20 LBC’s, 20 Hillbillies, 20 Hellicopers, Arm Circles, 15 Heels to Heaven, 20 Invisible Jump Ropes and 20 American Hammers

Escalating 4 Corners of Church: Run to first corner – 5 burpees, run to next corner – 5 American Hammers, run to next corner – 5 Merkins, run to pavillion – 5 skull crushers each side.  Pause until the PAC catches up by doing planks.  Next do 10 of each, 15 of each, 10 of each and finish up with 5 of each.

11’s:  start with 10 heels to heaven, bear crawl across the parking lot, complete 1 LBC, grapevine across the parking log and continue with 9-2, 8-3, etc…..  Cut a little short due to time constraints.

Mosey back to the flag.  Numberama, Namerama.  Anouncements – Kid Friendly workout Saturday morning at 7:05.  Emoji took us out with a prayer.

I’d like to welcome 2 visitors today, Kubota and Shake Down.  I didn’t hear much muble chatter this morning but maybe it was because I was at or near the rear most of the time.  Thank you to Spit and Wheelie for planking everyone up until we slower members caught up. Have a great weekend men.

 

10 party animals launched out of the fart sack and landed in a parking lot for a hand-release fun fest that went something like this…

Mosey to and through the pavilion and then around the church building to the starting location.

COP All IC – 20 SSHs, 10 hand-release merkins, 20 crab cakes, 10 hand-release merkins, 20 LBCs, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 helicopters, 10 don quixotes, 10 hand-release merkins, arm circles, 10 hand-release merkins, 10 copperhead squats

Mosey to the corner of the building near the basketball hoops.

Dora 1-2-3 – Partner up. Crank out the Dora with 100 hand-release merkins, 200 WWII sit-ups, 300 jump squats.

Mosey to the flag

All IC – 10 american hammers, 20 flutter kicks, 10 american hammers, 20 freddy mercuries, 10 american hammers, 10 heels-to-heaven, 1 american hammer…

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Mudface took us out.

NMS

YHC has noticed some partial merkins in recent weeks and decided to amend that with some hand-release activity. This was inspired by Hardywood’s call to full merkin mayhem. It was also inspired by Helix’ full-form exercises at every turn.

The COP always provides an opportunity to throw the PAX off a bit. The hand-release merkins after every exercise elicited grunts and groans. That means YHC is doing something right! At one point, Spit tried to jump ahead of YHC and he got down to the ground but YHC shifted at that exact moment. There is always a healthy level of cat-and-mouse going on with Spit!

The PAX went to work on the Dora 1-2-3 and took no prisoners with the hand-release merkins. Spit called out Hardywood’s technique of throwing the arms out to the side and lifting legs. Some of the PAX gave it a shot. Most of them didn’t. Wild Thing continued to show that being in your 60s is not an impediment to pounding out a F3 workout. Spike shared how he woke up at 4 am for a five mile run before the workout. T-claps for that! The WWII sit-ups provided another “opportunity” to not shortchange the exercise. After the jump squats, some of the PAX decided to go for the dunk on the lower rims while others attempted to touch the high rim. Most missed…

It was another glorious morning in the gloom with a fantastic team.

The Carpenter

Spit posting for Pick 2

A Total of 21 including 9 FNG’s (Guys and Gals) and 7 2.0’s arrived at New Highland BC on Friday to help Pick 2 celebrate his wedding weekend.

This how it went down:

Mosey around the church one lap then head to the field

COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Imperial Walkers, Shoulder Taps, Merkins, LBC’s, Arm Circles

THANG – Mosey the pavilion

Triple Check – Dips, Skull Crushers, Run down the gravel road and back. Rinse and Repeat 3 times of course

Mosey back to the field

3 BALL

• PAX was divide into to teams
• Have one group start “at bat” and the other group start in the field. The group “at bat” should create a batting order that they maintain for the entire game
• The first participant at bat kicks each of the three balls into the field, one at a time, and then runs the bases. The kicker tries to kick the ball into open space so the fielders do not catch the ball. Fielders attempt to catch and/or retrieve the balls as soon as the first ball has been kicked, while being aware of the other balls being kicked.
• Fielders collect all the balls and place them in the bucket beside “pitcher mound”. Fielders work together to run and hand off the balls to each other to get the balls to the bucket.
• Participants must be on a base when all balls are placed in the bucket. Once on a base, participants are not required to run to the next base. They can decide to stay on the base if they do not think they can make it to the next base before all the balls are placed in the bucket. If they are between bases when balls are all returned to the bucket, they return to the previous base. More than one participant is allowed on a base at a time.
• Runs are scored each time a participant reaches home base safely.

Mosey to SF for Numerama, Namerama, Announcements, PICK 2 took us out

MOLESKIN

This was a nice change of pace at The Creek last Friday. We had a great showing from wedding party including the father of the bride (Blue Tux), father of the groom (Vila), and The bride herself (Pick 1).

The 2.0’s seem to enjoy 3 Ball the most but YHC did notice a few adults getting into as well.

To learn more how 3 Ball works watch the video

Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Pick 2 on their marriage this past Saturday!

16 came out this morning to tackle a semi-themed workout at the Creek.

Here is what went down–
COP
IJR, DQ, arm circles, tempo merkins, plank jacks, alternating shoulder touches, flutter kicks, roll-ups, box cutters

Mosey to big field
10 minutes of burpees — PAX members pick a number of burpees between 6 and 12 and complete that many in one minute — any extra time left over is rest time before the next minute starts.  Repeato 10 times.

4 faces of Mount Rushmore
1st face — 10 Lincoln Leg lifts
2nd face — 10 LLL, 20 Roosevelt Roll Ups
3rd face — 10 LLL, 20 RRU, 30 Jefferson Jump Squats
4th face — 10 LLL, 20 RRU, 30 JJS, 40 Washington Werkins

Mosey to Lot for Bisontennial

One partner bear crawls to picnic tables and runs back while other partner does the following exercises —
200 Crabcakes
200 SSH
200 Mountain Climbers

Mosey to Flag for Numbers, Names, Announcements
Emoji took us out.

NMS —
YHC will miss all you guys for the next month while he is gone on a family vacation whose original plans started a long time ago when the kids were young and watched a documentary on the redwoods.  It was at that point that the vision of this great cross country trip first started.  It is now much bigger than YHC could have even imagined at the very beginning.
People’s reactions when we tell them what we are doing range from “That sounds like an amazing vacation” to “You’re crazy!”  We have thought the same things going through this process.
Anyhow, the workout went pretty well — everyone loved the 10 minutes of Burpees just as much as YHC loved them the first time he experienced them at 45 MOM a few months back and the second time a short while ago at the Gridiron.
Kudos to Sugarsock for kicking butt on the four faces of Rushmore.  Those roll ups were tough after about 10.
Will post pics of YHC and family planking in front of Mt Rushmore for you all on Twitter.

See you soon
Opus

 

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