Tag: The Creek

9 frozen warriors including 2 2.0’s and a visitor from the west put on their long pants (or tights), through on their hoodies, and gave it their all for the last workout at The Creek for 2017.

This is how it went down:

Mosey around the church for one lap

COP

• SSH
• Imperial Walkers
• Hillbillies
• Merkins
• Gas Pumps
• American Hammers
• Helicopters (or windmills)

THANG

11’s

Starting from the front part of the parking lot complete 10 merkins, run to the back end of the parking lot and complete 1 WWII sit up then run back. Rinse and Repeat till completing 1 merkin and 10 WWII sit ups.

Flutter Kicks and Freddy Mercuries (IC) for the six

Four Corners

Using the four corners of the church complete the following:

• 10 Jump Shot Squats
• 20 Merkins
• 30 2-count Mtn Climbers
• 40 LBC’s

SSH’s and Heels to Heaven (IC) for the six

Going in reverse complete the following:

• 40 LBC’s
• 30 2-Count Mtn Climbers
• 20 Merkins
• 10 Jump Shot Squats

SSH’s and Heels to Heaven (IC) for the six

Partner Party

Partner up; using the side parking lot, Wheelbarrow to the first median, Partner carrier to the second median, switch positions and repeat the way back.

Six inches for the six

Mosey to the pavillion

Picnic Medley

10 Skull Crushers with Right Leg, 10 Skull Skull Crushers with Left Leg, 10 Dips, then 5 up/down dips holding until Q says so.

Mosey back to SF for Ring of Fire with 5 Burpees

Numberama, Namerama, The Carpenter took us out. 

MOLESKIN

YHC had only one objective today; KEEP THE PAX MOVING!!

Everyone knew how cold it was so no entrance the gloom from their cars until 5:28. Once everyone did emerge from the cars we found Rounders brought his 2.0’s. TClaps to Ham-bone and Tomahawk for showing up in 18 degree weather.

Mudface had been on a hot steak for showing up to the AO early. Well all good things must come to a end as he set a new personal LIFO record showing up over 15 minutes late catching us in the middle of 11’s. If he knew that was what we were doing he would have showed up later

On this date 22 years ago, ability to name Mr. Holland & Opus came available as the movie was released in theater. It was great having Mr. Holland join us at The Creek today and yes own AO has actual baskets to do jump squats.

The Carpenter and YHC didn’t make the best of choices when it came to choice of distance during partner party. YHC choice the longer distance for wheelbarrow and Carpenter got extra credit during the carrier.

This marks the last post for YHC in 2017 and according to “Big Data” this marks his 50th Q and 151st post since March 20th. It’s been an amazing year in DaVille with add new AO and celebrating anniversary of old ones.

DAVILLE 2017 BIG DATA

Average post per AO

• The Creek – 13.3
• DaVille – 11.2
• MANNDate – 5.8
• Tomato Run – 3.5

Top 5 Q’s

• Lab Rat – 51 (Tied for 3rd – RVA)
• Spit – 50 (5th – RVA)
• Circle K – 22 (15th – RVA)
• Mud Face – 21(16th – RVA)
• Opus – 19 (tied for 17th – RVA)

Top 5 Post

• Lab Rat – 156 (6th – RVA)
• Spit – 151 (7th – RVA)
• Opus – 113 (tied 15th – RVA)
• Mud Face – 108 (tied 20th – RVA)
• Phonics/Circle K/Helix – 95 ( tied 25th – RVA)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Prayers for Rounders for a job change that will also prevent him from posting as much

SPIT ON THAT!!

 

Twas the Friday before Christmas when all through The Creek
Not a creature was stirring, not even an Emoji, how weak;
The shovel flag were planted in the ground with care,
In hopes that The PAX soon would be there;
The PAX of 16 (including 1 FNG) were all snug in their winter gear;
While visions of Burpees made things unclear;
And Jett’s in their antlers, And YHC in his Christmas cap,
Had just lead the PAX out for a long winter’s lap;

The rest went something like this:

COP (ALL IC)

• Mtn Climber x25
• Dying Cockroach x25
• Plank Up/Downs x25
• AL Prom Date x25
• American Hammers x25
• Gas Pump x25

THANG

The Abyss Christmas Road

Alternate between Dips and Abyss merkins between picnic tables.  PAX rotates around outside of picnic tables doing  10 two-count dips in cadence, then rotating to the next spot. When they get to end spot in the rotation, they go inside for 10 one-count abyss merkins instead of dips.

Captain Thor

1:4 ratio of Big Boy Sit ups and American Hammers (1 count). Rinse and repeat till 10:40 ratio

Triple Check

WWII Sit-ups (Hardywood Style), Mtn. Climbers, Run to the end of the gravel road and back

Partner Check

In team of two complete 25 Hail Mary’s (each), 25 Booyah Merkins, the sprint back to the SF

3 MOM – Freddie Mercury’s, Boat/Canoe, LBC’s

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out. 

MOLESKIN

What an amazing showing this morning. YHC arrived 10 minutes early to get things set up and to his surprise MudFace and the rest of the Jett clan shows up 8 minutes early!! Miracles do happen around the holidays 😉

The PAX didn’t even wait this till it was time to do Gas Pumps for the 4th F to be heard. Chowdah was leading the charge.

During the Christmas Road it was mentioned that Dips were not an Ab exercise. YHC made sure to note that “if you are doing them right then they are”.

Welcome to Rainbow (No Idea’s 2.0). Glad you could join us this morning and hope you will be back soon.

Welcome Pick 2 to the DaVille PAX. Glad those guys down south didn’t scary you away.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• There will be no 3rdF “The Rising” this week

SPIT ON THAT

11 ( including 3 2.0s) of the hale and hearty made it out to the creek for some fun in the Sunny and 70. Here is what went down

Run around the church. Every time YHC is passed the PAX does a burpee. 6 burpees were done, YHC is slow and will stop and run backwards for no reason

COP all IC

SSH x 10

Merkins x 3

Helicopters x 10

LBC x 10

Proper Dora

Partner up

one partner does 1 x 2 count Dry Dock Crabs , 2  x 2 count Mountain Climbers , and 3  x 2 count American Hammers while the other partner runs around the church. This is done until 100 sets have been done between the partners

Plank for the 6

Build a Burp Workshop

4 Corners x 2 laps

1st corner 5 Burpees

2nd corner 5 Donkey Kicks without a wall

3rd corner 5 Werkins

4th corner 5 Jump Squats

Mosey back to the flag

5 Burpees just to make sure that everyone did some

Numberama

Namearama

Announcements

3rd F opportunity at Rise and Shine Dinner on Thursdays starting at 6:30 am

Lab Rat has a thing, it is a good thing, people should check it out. https://www.raisewithus.org/

Ewok took us out

NMS

In a strange occurrence YHC and his boys managed to make it to the AO first this morning, we planted the SF and still had time to kill. With 5 minutes to go the rest of the PAX got to work.

This is the anniversary of YHC’s VQ and he had three different plans for this morning. The PAX picked the #2 and this is what it was.

Chewy and YHC started coming to F3 about a year ago after being EHed in by THE Carpenter. Since then YHC has brought the rest of his boys on a regular basis. It is great that they can see that there are still people who are good to each other out there. It is also great when you can use exclusion from an early morning beatdown as a mean to ensure that chores are done. You guys are the best.

Thanks for letting me lead

 

 

 

A hardy 9 men and 3 2.0s gathered at The Creek to test themselves and exprience a three-way Q

Opus has the Q

Scout run around Church

COP all IC

plank jacks

merkins

plank jack merkins

flutter kicks

WW2 situps

LBC’s

figure 4 crunches

Tempo Jump Squats

Q gets passed to Yardsale

Indian run around church

Tunnel of Love

Four Corners in the field.  run to first corner first corner 10 Merkins, karaoke to second Corner 20 heals to heaven, Run backwards to third corner 30 flutter kicks , karaoke to fourth corner 40 lbc’s

Mosey to pavilion

Partner up

one partner does Skull Crushers while the other partner runs to road and back then switch. This is dont twice to make sure that both sides get done for Skull Crushers

Mudface Gets the Q

Thunderstruck Merkins

PAX planks up and at each Thunder in Thunderstruck they begin or end a merkins holding it until the next thunder

Thunderstruck Boat/Canoe

Swtich from boat to canoe and back holding until the next thunder

Merkin Ring of Fire to eat up time

Numberama

Namearama

Opus took us out

NMS

YHC thought that he had signed up to solo Q today, but had instead signed up for next week. Before he knew it he was the last man on a Q threesome, having forgot about the trap that he had set for Opus weeks ago (the last person to Q has to write the back blast) YHC agreed.

Some of the PAX need think about what they are eating the night before workout. The 4th F was in excess this morning, and with the lack of wind it made for an interesting environment.

Fun was had, Jokes were made and sweat was dripped. Good work this morning

Thanks for letting us lead

 

 

 

 

 

14 troopers (including four 2.0s) landed at The Creek and went to work this morning…

Mosey around the church building and circle up.

COP – All IC

30 SSHs, 10 merkins, 20 copperhead squats, 10 merkins, 15 crab cakes, 10 merkins, 20 crab cakes, 10 don quixotes, 10 merkins, arm circles, 10 merkins

Mosey to the corner of the church building.

4 Corners – Bear crawl the length of the church building, 10 burpees, run to next corner, 20 two-count mountain climbers, run backwards to next corner, 30 heels to heaven, crab crawl the length of the church building, 40 LBCs.

4 Corners – Lunge the length of the church building, 10 burpees, run to next corner, 20 two-count mountain climbers, run backwards to next corner, 30 heels to heaven, lunge the length of the church building, 40 LBCs.

Mosey to the flag

Modified Ring of Fire – everyone plank, one person leaped over each member of the PAX, each person did 5 merkins after they were leaped (like a KANGAROO) over… continue around the whole circles.

20 two-counter american hammers, 20 flutter kicks, superman.

Numberama, Namerama, Tea Party took us out.

Moleskin

YHC had some unanticipated delays and barely showed up on time. Opus and YHC rolled into the parking lot at 5:29 am and saw Spit eyeing his watch.

The PAX aggressively tackled the pair of Four Corners exercises. The highlight of the morning was the Ring of Fire where everyone had a turn with leaping over all the others around the circle. Mudface made it particularly difficult for us to leap over him. He tried to flip his 2.0s when they tried to leap him. Tea Party showed us how to do it though when he jumped like a KANGAROO all around the circle. Very impressive.

Thanks for letting me Q another ridiculously fun workout!

 

8 faithful awoke from their Turkey comas and post at The Creek for a Black Friday special. The shovel flag was planted and the PAX got to work.

This is how it when down

Mosey one loop around the church

COP (All IC)

• Arm Circles
• DQ (Abe Vigoda Style)
• Helicopters

THANG

The Beast – Black Friday Style

Instructions were given to stop at each median on side for church. 3 times down and 3 times back. The PAX then headed out to pick up their Black Friday items.

First Item at Target – Beats Headphones on sale $97
-97 Carolina Dry Dock (16 at each median)

Second Item at Target – XBOX One on sale $249.99
-250 Merkins (41 at each median)
-$40 Target card give at the register (40 SSH)

Third Item at Kohl’s – Fitbit Blaze on sale $149.99
-150 AL Prom Date (25 at each median)

Forth Item at Kohl’s – DJI Drone on sale $399.99 with a $120 instant savings
-280 LBC’s (46 at each median)

Fifth Item at Amazon – Echo Plus on sale $199.99
-200 American Hammers (34 at each median)

Sixth item at Toys-R-Us – Hello Kitty Cafe on sale $2.99
-43 Jump Squats (7 at each median)

Mosey back to the SF for Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out. 

MOLESKIN

The tradition is now in place for The Creek to host the ultimate Beast workout on every black Friday.  The PAX crushed YHC themed workout today with enthusiasm..

For the first ever the 2.0’s outnumbered the adults (5 2.0’s and 3 adults). It is truly a honor to have these kids join us every week. Not all of 2.0’s wanted all the items on the list. BB commented halfway through the merkins, she didn’t wait a XBOX One anymore

Welcome to Indy! Silently you crush your first workout.

The sweat on YHC back was so much that is left a imprint on the asphalt (picture below)

YHC is thankful this year for F3RVA. Through the support of all his F3 brother, YHC was able complete things he couldn’t have imagine!

SPIT ON THAT!!

17 Hardcorp Creeksters met at the Church for the Beatdown.  It must be cold in the mornings because everyone arrived within 4 minutes of the start time!

The Pain was brought in the following fashion:

Mosey 2 laps around the Church to COP

COP:

10 arm circles small, 5 big  (all three count) reverso

20 (3 count) Hillbillys that Q accidentally called imperial walkers.

20 (3 count) Imperial walkers that the Q properly called imperial walkers

20 (3 count) LBCs

Mosey 2 more laps around church.

Broken Wheelbarrows, each Creekster had to do 2 lengths from lightpost to lightpost in both barrow and pusher position.

Hold plank until all done with BW’s

20 (3 count) Carolina Drydocks

DORA OF DEATH:  100 burpees, 200 crabcakes, 300 dwight howards.

We had to stop at 0613 hours because we just couldn’t make it all fit except maybe OPUS and his Partner…who was that?  Teaparty?  So we had to get back to the Shovel Flag, numberama 17!!! and namarama…..announcements…. I forgot, so if you remember, put ’em in the comments please.  The Carpenter took us out with prayer.

Sorry, we couldn’t extend gentlemen, I had Guantanamo and Fire Drill planned but we just didn’t get to them!!!  Next Time!  Everyone worked hard….good to see people sweating in the cold!!!!

Thanks for letting me Q again.

 

10 Warriors joined YHC this morning for some pre half-marathon festivities.

This is how it went down:

Slaughter Start with a twist

13 merkins OYO, Mosey around the church
13 merkins OYO (Al Gore for the six), Mosey backwards around the church
13 merkins OYO (Al Gore for the six), Karaoke around the church
13 merkins OYO (Al Gore for the six)

COP 

SSH x13, (13 Merkins OYO)
DQ x 13, (13 Merkins OYO)
Helicopters x 13, (13 Merkins OYO)
LBFC (Little Baby Flutter Crunch) x 13 ,  (13 Merkins OYO)
Crab Cake x13, (13 Merkins OYO)
Arm Cirlces x8 small x5 big and reverso, (13 Merkins OYO)

Mosey to the Pavilion 

Bruce Lee (Marathon Repeats)

A set consisting of 6 ab exercises:

13 American Hammers
13 Leg raises
13 LBC’s
13 Heel Touches
13 Crunchy Frog
13 100’s.

Rinse and Repeat  total of 3 sets with additional sets of 26 and 8. Al Gore-a-rama between sets

Mosey back to the parking lot

WMD Crawl

Starting at the curb, Bear Crawl executed by doing 13 Werkins and crawling 13 steps with hands set out wide followed by 13 Merkins and crawling 13 steps with hands at normal position followed by 13 Diamond Merkins and crawling 13 steps with hands set in close. Rinse and Repeat back to the curb

Thunderstuck

YHC played “Thunderstruck” by ACDC. PAX complete 1 standard Merkin for every “thunder!” that is heard in the song. Plank during the rest of the song. LBC’s were mixed in during long breaks as well

Mosey back to the SF for  Numberama, Namerama, Chowdah took us out. 

MOLESKIN

Since tomorrow will be YHC’s first ever Half-Marathon only seemed fitting to theme today workout with all reps being 13. (or if you are Carpenter completing 13.1 not show how you do 0.1 Merkin). Tapering was taken to a new level with focusing mainly on core exercises today.

The 2.0 were close to outnumbing the old men today (4:7 ratio). Way to bring it everything week fellas!

T-Claps to our Veteran Rounders. Thank you for your service!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Good Luck to everyone in F3RVA running in either the Half or Full Marathon tomorrow
• Hampton Roads 1 year anniversary is tomorrow! See preblast  if you are planning on attending

 

 

15 PAX members showed up to take on a Wilt and Opus designed beat down.

Black Snake Weave around big Field.

COP
SSH
Alternating Shoulder Taps
Scissor Kicks
Flutter Kicks
Smurf Jacks
American Hammers
Freddie Mercuries

BUTKUS — 1 minute of toe tapping delight on the curb, 30 second breather
1 minute of toe tapping delight on curb, 20 second breather
1 minute of toe tapping delight on the curb, 10 second breather
1 minute of toe tapping delight

4 CORNERS
#1 — 40 WW2 Situps
#2 — 30 Mountain Climbers
#3 — 20 Merkins
#4 — 10 Burpees
then, we reversed the order and did Burpees, Merkins, Mountain Climbers and Situps

TO THE PAVILION for some AIKEN LEGS
20 Squats
20 Box Jumps onto picnic tables
20 Lunges
20 Split Jacks
Repeato with only 15 the next go round.

Inspired by Mudface’s slow mo workout a few weeks back at the Creek, we did 10 slow dips and 10 slow derkins off the benches.  Ouch.

Back to flag for 5 merkins all around.

Announcements –
Turn clock back 1 hr Saturday night!

Fun workout this morning.  YHC is super proud of his progeny for stepping up and helping to create the workout and helping to Q as well!  Aiken Legs are no joke.

14 members (including one young lady) of the Mechanicsville Davillians put on their uniforms and tall sports shoe to participate in a F3 version of the World Series

This is how it went down:

Mosey around the church for our traditional warm up lap

COP

• 30 – SSH (for the 30 MLB teams)
• 10 – Cherry Pickers (for the 10 playoff teams)
• 8 – Crab Cakes (for the 8 teams in the divisional series)
• 4 – OYO Merkins (for the 4 teams in the league championship series)

Mosey to the pavilion and the picnic benches

• 2 mintues of step ups (for the 2 teams in the World Series)
• 1 OYO Burpee

World Series Trivia

The PAX answered a series of questions about WS history and facts. If the PAX got the questions right everyone did one Burpee. If they got it wrong, the PAX would have to run to the opposite end of the parking lot and back then complete 5 Burpees. Questions were as follows:

1. Won has won the most World Series titles and how many?
2. Who has the 2nd most titles?
3. What year was the first series held and who won it?
4. What team was accused of throwing the series in 1919?
5. In what year did an earthquake accrue during the series?
6. Which two teams have never made it to the World Series?

Mosey to the field

Break up into teams of three or fours (one 2.0 per group) total of four groups.

Field of Dreams

1s start at First Base (1st cone) do AMRAP Squats until relieved. 2s at Second Base (2nd cone) do AMRAP Merkins until relieved. 3s at Third Base (3rd cone) do AMRAP LBC’s until relieved. 4s at Home Plate (4th cone) will perform 15 Burpees then run to First, relieving the Pax there. Continue until all Pax have done the Burpees.

F3 Baseball

Staying in the same groups, teams must complete a cumulative number of reps of different exercise at each base. 112 team merkins (for the number of WS that have been held) at first, 112 team squats at second, 112 team crab cakes at 3rd, 25 team burpees at home. Each time a team passes the base it started on, it gets a point. Team with the most points after 10 minutes wins. (Since the teams were uneven we didn’t keep count)

Mosey back to the SF for Ring of Fire, Numberama, Namerama, Wheelie took us out. 

MOLESKIN

YHC is a big fan of baseball and couldn’t pass up a WS theme. Since winning the WS is a team effort most exercises today were done as a team.

Things got started for the normal pre game mumble chatter including Emjoi asking YHC if he had slept in the AO last night and wondering if we final have The Carpenter join us this week.

Highlighters from today:

• Emoji showed up in a different vehicle everything day this week
• Despite the cooler weather, we had 5 2.0’s show up this morning
• The PAX needs to brush up on their WS trivia since they only got 2 out of 6 correct
• Wheelie was unsuccessful in completing a “Who on first” sketch (could have used some help for No Idea)
• Spike was a beast at F3 baseball since he had 2 2.0’s on his team

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

• Hampton Roads 1 year anniversary coming up on Nov 11th. See preblast
• All men’s 4 miler in C-Ville on Nov 12th. Here is the link to learn more: https://www.mensfourmiler.com/

SPIT ON THAT!!