Tag: The Creek

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!!

Ten souls rejected the fartsack and showed up to work and welcome the weekend.  It went down like this:

COP, IC, 8 reps for all

Merkins         SSH          LBC’s       Plank Jacks

Mountain Climbers    Imperial Walkers      Freddie Mercury’s    Don Quixote’s

Mosey to the corner of the parking lot, ready for 4 Corners.

1st corner, 50 Jump Squats, sprint to 2nd corner, 50 LBC’s, lunge to 3rd corner, 50 American Hammers, sprint to 4th Corner, 50 split jacks, lunge to start, then do it all over again.

Mosey to side of church for 11’s.  Curb to curb, flutter kick for 8 seconds (counts as 1), hold 6 inches for 8 seconds (counts as 1).  Either lunge, bear crawl or crab walk between curbs.

Mosey to the flag, COT, numberama, namerama, YHC took us out

NMS

YHC’s daughter turned 8 yesterday, and Thomas Jefferson would have been 275 today, so YHC honored both with the count.  8 exercises for COP, 11’s work for 8 seconds, 2 circuits of 4 corners, and the total number of reps is 275.  I fudged the math to make it work, counting the 11’s as 11.  The PAX was in fine form today, and Chowdah paced us all through the 4 corners, while Opus proved he can bear crawl faster than most PAX can lunge.  I think we need to have a bear crawl race between Opus and The Carpenter!  Not a lot of mumblechatter today, but YHC thinks Emoji and Yardsale talked through all of it.  BB and LP killed it today, and BB even sprinted all out to the flag.  After finishing this Q, YHC realizes that leading 3 AO’s the week of his daughter’s birthday was probably not wise, but well worth it, and that not all ideas conceived at 11:00 at night work well at 5:30 the next morning.

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

All apologies to EF Hutton… YHC had planned a Master’s themed workout before heading to 45MOM on Thursday.  After Thursday’s amazing Master’s themed workout, YHC considered changing his whole workout around and doing something completely different, but decided the two workouts were different enough that it really didn’t matter too much.

That being said, here is the way the workout went down…
9 amateurs showed up for a day on the links.
Started off bear crawl on short sides of the church.  Ran the long ends.

COP — SSH, Helicopters, crabcakes, smurf jacks, jack squats, plank jacks, wedge squats(toes out), tiger crawl R, L, in, out with 4 merkins before changing each direction.  Repeato

Master’s Trivia quiz — Right answers are 10 crabcakes, wrong answers run and touch a car, come back and do a set of round the world merkins on the picnic benches (3 at first, then adding one for each wrong answer)
Here are the questions.
1. Site of the Masters?
2. What year did the Masters start?
3. What is the 18 hole par score?
4. Last year’s winner?
5. What flower is hole number 13 named for?
6. How many amateurs in this year’s event?
7. Which golfer came back this year after 3 years off?
8. Holes 11, 12, and 13 have a special name.  What is it?
9. Oldest to win?
10. Youngest to win?
11. Back to back winners?
12. Who says ” A Tradition unlike any other?”
13. Name one thing that if you brought it with you on the course would get you kicked out?
14. According to Vegas, who has the best odds of winning?
15.  Another name for a double eagle?
16. Name one of the first female members of Augusta National.

One more round of round the world merkins for good measure.

2 balls, one putter.
No it’s not the punch line of a joke.  PAX split into two highly unequal teams.
Moved to the only place with light at the whole AO.
YHC threw the yellow ball out.  One member from each team putted their ball — closest team wins and has to plank up — other team does ten burpees.  Do this until everyone had a turn.

Mary —
Par 4 ring of fire merkins.  PAX holds plank while one person does one merkin.  Pass around the circle.  Then two, three, then four.
Freddie Couples (Mercuries)

Highlights and general observations —
1.  Good to see Patty Mayo again even if we didn’t recognize him at first.  The signature beard was gone!  He said it was a Christmas gift to his wife.
2.  Question 9 — Spike’s answer was Jack.  YHC asked him for the last name.  He said “Nicholson”  YHC — “No, that’s an actor.  Let’s run.”
3. Question 13 — The answer YHC was going for was “cell phone”.  What he got from the PAX was camera, weed, knives, guns, chinese throwing stars, etc.  YHC appreciated the creativity and gave them credit for a correct answer for a poorly worded question…
4. We were planning to do a lot more bear crawls this morning, but YHC changed the plan when Wheelie said bear crawls were bad for his back early on.  YHC wants this brother to keep coming back and not injure himself again, so the plan was altered.
5. The Jetts are not good golfers, but they are good at doing slooooow merkins.

Go take on the day!

Opus

 

 

 

 

 

5 men and 4 2.0s climbed down from the fartsack trees and gathered in the 70 and sunny weather. Here is what went down

quick run around the church

COP all In cadence

SSH x 10

Merkins x 10

LBC x 10

Arm Circles 10 small, 5 big and reverso

Four Corners

Bear Crawl with a Hand Release Merkin every five steps or Lunge with 3 Hand Release Burpees every five steps to corners 1 and 2

Corner 1 – 10 V-ups

Corner 2 – 20 Flutter Kicks

Crawl Bear with a Hand Release Merkin every five steps or Backwards Lunge with 3 Hand Release Burpees every five steps to corners 3 and 4

Corner 3 – 30 LBCs

Corner 4 – 40 Supermans (Supermen?)

Mosey back to the flag

Numberama

Namearama

Chewy took us out

NMS

YHC and his crew of 2.0s arrived at the AO with time to spare, to see Emoji waiting for us in the parking lot. The flag was planted and the rest of the PAX came rolling in shortly after. YHC’s younger 2.0s have stated that they want jto Q for their birthday. So the COP was given over to them to count cadence and call the exercises, they look ready, and the PAX should expect something interesting in May.

Welcome to Koala (Drop Bear). She arrived with a look of determination and stayed with The Carpenter the whole time refusing to not finish with the rest of the PAX. Hope to see you back out soon.

Quick note. Yardsale is trying to gather volunteers for what sounds like the sketchiest game of bingo in the state. An i think that something about having to do it for Community Service was mentioned.

Good work was done by all

As always, it was an honor to lead.

info on drop bears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear

7 crawlers guided their cars into The Creek parking lot for a festival that went something like this…

Bear crawl to the COP

COP all IC – 20 SSHs, 50 LBCs, 20 SSHs, 10 merkins, 20 SSHs, 20 copperhead squats, 20 SSHs, 10 DQs, arm circles, 19 SSHs, 50 LBCs, 1 SSH…

Bear crawl to the first corner of the church building

March Madness

10 Bobby Hurleys, crab crawl to the first light post, 10 LBCs – repeat 10x

Bear crawl to the second corner of the church building

More LBCs…

Hold legs 6 inches followed by 65 LBCs IC

Lunge part way and then finish with a bear crawl to the third corner at the parking lot entrance

Contra Forward

Line up and do 10 broad jump contra burpees (1 merkin up to 10 merkins) toward the final corner. Lunge or bear crawl the rest of the way.

Final LBCs – 50 LBCs IC, 20 flutter kicks IC, 50 LBCs IC

Total LBCs IC = 365

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Opus took us out.

Announcements: Rounders asks for prayers for someone in need for her family and children. Check with Rounders for more details and ways to help.

NMS

YHC woke up ready to celebrate the two year F3 birthday (yesterday) with The Creek. Opus shared the night before how he was unable to run due to an injury so YHC designed a workout around that reality. Wild Thing was the first one in the parking lot and others rolled in. The highlight was Rounders storming the parking lot with music blasting. He was ready to rumble!

The PAX seemed relieved that we were not doing 100 SSHs right out of the gate. They didn’t have to worry because YHC broke those out over the COP. The wide variety of SSHs was highly impressive. YHC thought that Rounders might break out into a SSH dance. Others joined in the ridiculousness but that didn’t stop the SSH train from rolling.

The PAX groaned loudly as the reality of a potential all bear crawl workout took form. Nobody backed down from the challenge however!

The hatred for DUKE was verbal and frequent as the PAX engaged in the March Madness exercise with Bobby Hurleys serving up part of the pain. The crab crawls added a twist. Hardywood took off like a snow crab in the dark and paced the PAX through the back-and-forth work of offense (Bobby Hurleys) and defense (LBCs).

The lights went out as the PAX was partway between the second and third corners. This led to multiple instances of the PAX bear crawling into mud and various puddles. Perfect!

The PAX didn’t quit and they pressed through to the end. The final 50 LBCs were a race to the finish and everyone crossed the finish line for 365 IC total LBCs.

Two years… I wasn’t sure what to expect when I showed up at DaVille on 3/22/16 but Circle K provided a memorable beat down that day and it has been a F3 adventure ever since. The memories, the challenges, the new friendships… it goes on and on. I am grateful.

I’m looking forward to finishing the two-year celebration tomorrow morning at Dogpile!

The Carpenter

12 bonny lads showed up in the gloom to commemorate an early St. Patrick’s Day and crush a workout.

YHC decided to introduce the Murph to The Creek, so we started off with a mile run, and after a bit of confusion all of the Pax killed it and some even put in extra credit before YHC could flag them down.  Mosey to the picnic table pavilion for COP, IC:

18 SSH, because Ireland joined Britain in 1800 to form the United Kingdom

5 Merkins, because the Potato Famine lasted 5 years, from 1845-1849

22 Imperial Walkers, because the Irish Civil War, begin by Michael Collins, started in 1922

11 arm circles, big and small, then reverso, because St. Patrick died in 461 AD (4+6+1)

20 LBC’s for March 17 (3+17), the date on which St. Patrick died

 

The Murph, OYO

100 Dips              200 leg raises, while holding a potato between your feet             300 jump squats, because it’s also March Madness

Run a mile to finish the Murph

Mosey to the SF, plank up for 2 minutes while YHC reads St. Patrick Day facts:

-St Patty’s Day is the celebrated in more countries than any other national holiday

-Myth: St. Patrick drove snakes out of Ireland.  There were never snakes in Ireland, and this is allegorical (thanks Opus) because his Christian ministry drove out the Druids, who were supposedly snake worshippers

-Lenten restrictions are traditionally lifted on St. Patrick’s Day, so indulge if you wish tomorrow!

-the 3 leaf shamrock supposedly is associated with St. Patrick because he used it to explain the Holy Trinity

Numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS

YHC had a lot of fun coming up with this workout, and it seemed the PAX enjoyed it as well, because they crushed it.  There was some mumblechatter about “this isn’t going to end well” (oh, but it did, more on that in a bit) and Mudface was bringing the effort, but had to keep stopping as his 2.0’s didn’t seem awake this morning, so he got to keep ‘encouraging’ them to move it.  Hardywood killed the Murph, and we didn’t realize he had finished the exercises until he was gone running the second mile, and perhaps a 3rd, leading to speculation that he might be a robot, or maybe he benefits from “different air” not hailing from DaVille.

After COT, YHC invited everyone to his car, and all adults were given the reward of a bottle of Guiness, while 2.0’s received PowerAde (evidently blue is a good flavor).

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and thanks for letting me lead, it is always an honor.

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