Tag: The Deep

Nuckols Farm Elementary

  • F3 RVA Ghost Flag On the Move

    10 HIMs came out on this Monday morning expecting the start of Whitesnake’s Birthday Week of Qs, however Q number 1 was stifled by the F3 RVA Ghost Flag that was in possession of YHC. Here is how it went down:

    Warm up mosey around parking lot, followed by various IC exercises – SSH, Deadman hang, Copperhead Squats, Ukranian Soldiers, Merkins, LBC’s and Flutter Kicks

    COP 1: Parking Spot GHOSTS: Start at the island on one end of the parking lot and bear crawl across until you reach the 1st parking spot. Exercises performed x 10 and continue bear crawl to the next spot for a total of 5 parking spots across the lot. Exercises included: (G)lute Side Steps, (H)and Release Merkins, (O)ne Legged Squats (S)ide Straddle Hops, (T)uck Jumps. Performed x 3 with bear crawl as MOT and x 2 with lunges as MOT.

    COP 2: Mosey over to the bus loop for a triple check with Curb Dips, Carolina Dry Docks and a run around the bus loop

    COP 3: Mosey to the hill on the left side of the school for a Dora with 100 Merkins, 200 Squats and 300 Double Count Flutter Kicks while partner Bernies up the hill and runs back down.

    COP 4: With 5 minutes left, stayed at the bottom of the hill for 1 minute Wall Sit, 10 Donkey Kicks OYO, 1 minute Wall Sit, 10 Donkey Kicks OYO. Moseyed back to the flag for 5 burpees OYO to close out the time.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements – F3 Daddy/Daughter Dance, SOJ Chili Cook Off Nov 24, See slack for others, Prayers – Fudd’s Sister, Faceplant’s Wife, Fireman Ed, Dental Hygienist to fall into place for Seymore.

    Thanks to Whitesnake for being such a good sport and allowing me to steal the Q and for The Deep to lose its virginity to the Ghost Flag. Happy Birthday to Whitesnake on 10/31! It was a pleasure leading you fellas today! Get out there today be a positive light in someone’s life!

  • A Deep Monday

    The DEEP gloom of a Monday greeted 8 noble warriors.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • Suzanne Somers
      • Merkins
      • LBC
    • 11s on the endless hill with Mike Tysons and WWI sit-ups
    • Mosey to the picnic tables behind the school for a Lindsay – dips and step-ups
    • Mosey to the playground for a 3x check
      • Run
      • Swing pumps
      • FM
    • Mosey back to the flag for COT with YHC taking us out

    Great to see a steady, consistent crowd developing for our newest AO.  Not a lot of running today but still good cardio. 

    Continued prayers for Fireman Ed and Fudd.

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Eight Stirrups Deep

    Eight was enough this morning at the Deep. We ventured north to Green Gate and according to the lady in the mural, we did the following:

    Moseyed to the front of the first office building and circled up at the circle for some warmups of SSH, DQ, UW, Helicopters, arm circles, merkins and lbcs.

    Partnered up in the well lit parking lot for a mini-Dora of 50 merkins, 100 squats and 150 WWII. We then celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day with a run weaving around the parking lot until we caught up with Gomer at the unlit Stranges lot.

    We then did a Strange parking lot routine of bear crawling 2 spaces and then 5 merkins and repeated 5-6 times.
    Now find a new partner to mix running to the front entrance and back with misc exercises to help us focus on the stars and this beautiful morning: heals to heaven, American hammers, reverse crunches, lbcs and the holding your feet 6 inches (3x Attila’s junk) off the ground.
    We then did another tribute to Indigenous People with a run to the end of the lot with the man in the back doing 2 burpees before catching up. That did not work so well as we got to the end and three of us had to do burpees to catch up.

    Crossing the street we took a visit to the Women’s Center. We started with the low stirrups and did Hello Dollies in cadence and then got into the high stirrups with Rosalitas in cadence. After Gomer shouted “what are you putting up there!”, we got up, faced the road and did 20 Monkey Humpers OYO. Probably best to avoid this lot for a couple weeks…

    We headed back to the school and did 11s on the hill (aka the Hairy Nuckol) of HRMs and Heals to Heaven. Went a minute over but got a nice tour in and never lost Gomer.

    Prayers for Fudd’s sister and family and for Fireman Ed.

    Thanks for letting me lead.

    And I’ve made up my mind
    I ain’t wasting no more time

  • No more daylight?

    On this beautiful fall like and dark morning 7 warriors descended on the peaceful fields of The Deep. According to 2 lady’s looking for a quiet place to do their workout, this is what might have happened:

    COP:
    Mosey to the back of school for F3 Mission, introductions and disclaimers.
    SSH, DMH, DQ’s, IW, Helis, Merkins, LBC

    The Thang:
    Mosey to bus loop for

    Millennium Dora (Basically a Dora 1-2-3 plus adding a 4th for a total of 1000 reps):

    • 100 merkins
    • 200 APD
    • 300 LBC
    • 400 Squats
    • Partner runs bus loop – wait for the six before starting each new exercise – Al Gore/Planks

    2 rounds of pole smokers, last person runs to front

    Mosey to front of School – 11’s with V-Ups at the bottom and Merkins at (about) the crest of the hill

    BTTF – Numberama, Namerama

    ANNOUNCEMENT 

    • Tuesday Firehouse Insbrook at noon
    • Saturday Whitesnakes band at Kindred Spirit Satellite 1626 Ownby Ln.

    PRAYER REQUESTS

    • Healing for Fudd’s Sister
    • EF Hutton recovery (back/hip)
    • and all others battling injuries and other struggle

    Take a moment this week to reach out to someone you have not heard from or seen in a while!

    We still do not know if Pigskin can count higher then 3 in German as YHC as the Q only gets to count to 3…
    @Whitesnake: “we no longer have any daylight at the end of our 5:30 workout” – YHC: “DST is ending soon!”

  • 3:30am Wake Up

    Many of us had that 3:30am wake up call of heavy rain, but four men still posted this morning at The Deep. Warm up included a brief mosey, typical stretches, and 42 Side Straddle Hops in honor of The Redskins (I mean Commanders) putting up 42 points. Then we were off for:

    Hill- 7’s of Carolina Dry Docks and WWIIs

    Grinder- (Kudos for Pigskin for this idea). Heel Raises, Squats and Runs. Three sets while running across playground.

    Jerkins- Decreasing step downs from 10

    Another Hill- 10 Bear Crawls up, slap the fence, Crawl Bear back and add a Burpee

    Colonnade for abs and stretching- 42 count flutter kicks, 10 Pole Smokers, 20 Boxing Cockroaches, 10 Pole Smokers, 20 Boxing Cockroaches, 20 Side Leg Crunches, and 42 America Hammers

  • Gomer is Just Too Sexy

    Seven noble warriors went Deep today for a pre-dawn beat-down.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • Suzanne Somers
      • Merkins
      • LBC
    • Curb crawl at the bus loop with ascending to 6 merkins and back down
    • 25 pole smokers
    • Mosey to the picnic tables behind the school for a Lindsay with dips and monkey humpers
    • 25 PLTs
    • Mosey to the swing set for a 3x check
      • Run the loop
      • FM
      • Swing thrusters – knees to chest with feet on swing in plank
    • Mosey to the include for bernies up the slope with 4, then 8, then 12, then 16 then 20 HRM
    • Mosey back to the parking lot for some Mary
      • One-legged crunches – each side
      • APDs
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Great work from the PAX today.  Extra credit for Splinter for the pre-run.  Gomer never fails to disappoint.  During the swing thrusts, we got a little Right Said Fred karaoke from the prince of sexiness himself.  Well played.

    Prayers up for Fudd’s sister. 

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Deeper Than Ever Before

    With emotional support Handshake along side, YHC went Deeper than ever before.

    Here’s what transpired:

    Mosey out and over to the bus loop and behind the school, careful not to disturb the Tomatoes.

    COP

    • Don Quixotes
    • Imperial Walkers
    • Helicopters
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Plankorama
    • Hand Release Merkins
    • Mountain Climbers
    • Shoulder Taps
    • Flutter Kicks
    • Oblique LBCs (R/L Leg out)

    Jack Webb Legs (1:4 Ratio up to 10:40 – Jump Squats/ Monkey Humpers)

    Mosey up to the Swings

    Triangulated Conveyor (3 Rounds)

    • Station 1 – Knees to chest with feet on swing in plank
    • Station 2 – Pull ups
    • Station 3 – Lap of Track

    Mosey across blacktop to picnic area

    • 2 Sets each of L/R Step Ups, Dips

    Mosey around to the Entrance of Nuckols Deep

    Triple Check

    • People’s Chair w or w/o Milkers
    • Freddie Mercurys
    • Run the loop

    Mosey to the grass

    Mary

    • American Hammers
    • Heels to Heaven

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    YHC wonders when the jokes about going deep at The Deep will subside.  No time soon I would suspect.  T-shirt design may even make First Watch blush.  Great to lead this new AO.  EH anyone you may know in the far west end.  Let’s go deeper!  And of course, that’s what she said.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • 10 Year Anniversary – Happy Hour, Convergence, Awards, Picnic (sign up to bring food)
    • Prayers for Fudd’s Sister
  • The Deep from start to finish

    I never thought “The Deep” would refer to the pre-AO pile made near a tree or the trouble Handshake’s shorts were in during the 5 minutes of Mary.

    Between the two events, ten warriors helped kick off the new AO on a beautiful cool Monday morning. We met in the front lot and then moseyed to the bus loop. We did half a lap and then circled up in the middle to the loop. After the typical “the grass is wet” bitching, we warmed up with SSH, Ukrainian Soldiers, IW, Copperhead Squats, Helicopters and then we got on our six and then got up again (groans) and moseyed to your mom’s favorite part: lots of thick polls. We had fun with poll smokers while the first smoker did bear crawls past the next nine smokers. There were enough polls for everyone to do bear crawls twice. That was fun?

    We then ran past the front of the school to the far corner and did 11’s on the hill: HRM and Jump squats, starting with ten HRM at the bottom and then jump squats at the sidewalk at the end of the hill. There is a small obstacle in the middle of the hill that we learned to run around.

    It was then time for a history lesson. We ran past the front of the school, took a left on Gayton Hills and found the original Nuckols Farm site. Formerly known as Locust Grove, the property was home to the Nuckols family from 1849 to 1972. While surrounded by newer neighborhoods, the county has made this a protected park. Hard to see it all in the darkness but we explored it with a triple check of WWII, Burpees and touch a tree. While the grass had some dips and branches, we all survived.

    We then moseyed back to the flag for 5 minutes of Mary: flutters, freddies, lbcs, hammers and crunchy frogs. Handshake then sprinted to his car which added to the 1.7 miles of territory we covered this morning.

    Thanks for coming out for the first 5:30AM workout at the Deep. Hope to see you again in the future.

    Announcements:

    10 year on 20th/21st. Events Friday night (Snuffs) and Saturday. See slack for details.

    Breaking Bread has an opening this month. Talk to Oyster to help out.

    Tomorrow 9/10, lunch at Fireman Ed’s (Firehouse Subs). A Jets victory night will make Fireman Ed happier than he was after the Spiders football no-show on Saturday.

    Heist is leading at the Bridge this weekend. 6AM clown car at the Westchester Commons Wawa. Reach out to him if you can make it.

  • Blame Splinter

    Blame Splinter

    On my 3rd year anniversary, I took the start to Splinter’s Q from Labor Day 2021 and gave these 55 great men and 2.0s the same experience.  We also had one FNG today (Mountie) and hopefully he makes it back like I did.

    We first moseyed to the back playground lot to start the morning.  After some poor disclaimers and then with the Q help of Heist and Tater, we warmed up with something like the following: 20 SSH in Cadence and then one Burpee OYO, 10 Imperial Walkers in Cadence and two Burpees OYO and continued all the way to ten Burpees OYO with 10 Ukrainian Solders and three Burpees, 10 Copperhead Squats and four Burpees, 10 Merkins and five Burpees, 15 Arm Circles and six Burpees, 25 LBC and seven Burpees, 10 WWII and eight Burpees,10 Freddies and nine Burpees and Dead Man Hang and ten Burpees.

    Many were ready for the Q to rotate but instead we partnered up and did a DORA of 100 HRM, 200 Squats and 300 LBCs, running the short length of the playground lot.  This was the end of the “Blame Splinter” section.

    After that we broke up into 3 groups.  Tater took his group to a fun hill on the West side of the school with an Ab focused workout.  Started with 25 Crunchy Frogs, 25 Freddie Mercury, 25 Mercury Freddies and 25 WWII.  Then did 7s of Get Up and Squats using the hill.  They finished with 25 side crunches each side, 20 V ups, 25 American Hammers and some stretching.

    Heist stayed at the playground lot.  They started with 11s using the hill next to the playground with Squats and WW2 with Bear Crawls up the hill and jogging down.  Then he found the pullup bars and benches and did a Triple check of Pullups, Dips and Timer fan to the middle of the soccer field and back.  They finished off with 4 corners prostitute style with 10 ww2, 20 merkins, 30 squats and 40 SSH.

    My lucky group went to the bus loop.  We started with a triple check of jump squats, merkins and the timer running to the end of the school and back.  When then did 4 corners around the school.  Started with 20 Flutters and then Bernie’d to the end of the school.  There we did 20 WII and then ran to the top of the hill at the other end of the school.  Here we did 20 Crunchy Frogs and then did some more when the walkers arrived.  Forgetting to get my phone from my car, we ran back to my car (to the joy and confusion of many) and then ran to the last corner of the school.  We took 3 trips up the hill (same hill used by Heist) via Bear Crawl and Crawl Bear back then ran or bear crawled the fourth time to be back on the playground lot.

    We joined in with Heists Four Corners for the 40 SSH, Tater’s group came flying in and soon we were all back together for some Mary.  We did some combination of American Hammers, LBCs, WWI, Flutters and who knows what else.  Numerama and Names, then I almost skipped Announcements, and Attila took us out.

    FNG Mountie used to work with Gomer and they reconnected recently.  He is from Canada (as you may guess) and lives nearby at West Broad Village.  Welcome Mountie!

    It was an honor to lead this morning.  Big thanks to Gomer for the invitation 3 years ago and to Splinter for unsuccessfully trying to kill me that day.  F3 has been a blessing mainly because I have been able to meet and get to know many of you.  Coffeteria today was great as always.

    What a fantastic way to christen The Deep which will be at Nuckols Farm every Monday at 5:30AM. Please help us get this rolling and join in over the next month.  Next week we will be two Nuckols at the Deep.

    F3 RVA Ten Year Anniversary celebration starts the evening of the 20th social with the 21st having a Convergence, Awards and a Family BBQ.  See Slack for all the details and signups.  Also, see Bodo’s Slack post on a 5K-The Lara Teague Curry Memorial.

    Have a great rest of your long weekend.