Tag: The FORGE

A trio of trios emerged from the swampy gloom to see what was in store at The Forge. Rumors were abound for a variety of cultured games including Croquet, Red Rover and Duck Duck Goose. YHC would have no such shenanigans on his watch. Here is what really occurred as far as I can tell.

Mosey down to the turnabout. On the way stopping at each light for 5 merkins to get the blood pumping. Introductions, disclaimers and salutations followed by warm ups that included SSH’s, Arm Circles, Dead Man Hang, Jazzercise, Heels to Heaven, LBC’s and Suzanne Summers. All seems good in the world, let us begin.

Perfect conditions for a triple check. Mosey over to the visiting locker room wall. Donkey Kicks, Hoedowns while timer runs to the driveway and returns.

Back to the base of the sac for 11’s. 10 jump squats, 1 WWII at the 1st lightpole, 9/2 at the 2nd…..Plank for the 6 at the final light pole.

Mosey to the ticket booth. Unfortunately no rear entry access to the fields this morning, so we modify. Triple Check it is. Dips, American Hammers, timer runs up the stairs and around.

Slow walk up the stairs then partner up for love hill w/o the hill. Bear Crawl, Lunge, Broad Jump. Partner runs to the flag poles and returns. Carpenter won the partner challenge as Snuff was to the flag poles before many of the running PAX.

BTTF for merkin ring of fire. Time still on the clock for a brief Shavasana to slow the heart beat and breathing. Numbers, Names Announcements, Prayers. YHC took us out.

Announcements: Oysters Paying: Lunch next Thursday. McRib is jamming tonight at Hurleys Tavern.

Prayers: Snuffs friend (and DTH’s neighbor) has some serious health concerns. Take care of yourself fellas. Listen to your check engine light.

NMS: Great numbers for the Forge this morning. YHC tried to lead an extended version of SSH in honor of Carpenter’s return but did not have the endurance. Carpenter is really growing the New Jersey F3 chapter. Hopefully they will find a challenger for Hardywoods 100,000 merkins in a month, Good luck. Good to see Opus and Oyster punch their summer tour passports. Mumble chatter is always strong with this group and always welcome on these sticky mornings. Great work this morning. Enjoy the corn.

YHC rolled into the Forge to find Tuckahoe clown cars erupting with First Watch maniacs (all proudly wearing their nonsense shirts …you have to be one to understand), including Kubota who claimed a virgin attendance at the AO – well that changes everything! Scrapped the planned field trip for a caber beatdown to run a tour of the Forge favorites. Here we go! 

The THANG:

WARMERAMA: 

• Mosey loop around the top lot and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

COP #1:

• KNOLLS TRIPLE NICKLE
• x5 Jump Squats at the bottom
• Bear crawl to the top
• x5 Groiners
• Run back down to the bottom
• x5 Sets total

COP #2:

• Moseyrama around the bus loop with karaoke, bernie, high knees, butt kickers, low shuffle
• ECHO CHAMBER
• Line up in People’s Chair
• Hoedown’s x10 IC
• BTTW for Hip Slappers x10 IC
• Dirty Hookup’s x10 IC each side
• Donkey Kickoffs up to 20

COP #3:

• Mosey around to the Amphitheater
• TRIPLE CHECK
• P1 – Flutters
• P2 – Merkins
• P3 – Box jump steps up and down

COP #4:

• Mosey back around to the grassy slope
• CLOCKFACE WWII’s
• PAX on their Six on the grassy slope
• x3 WWII’s at each hour of the clock

COP #5:

• Mosey over to the small loop
• INDIGENOUS CURB CRAWL
• PAX lines up in carousel plank while last man does x3 Burpees and runs to the front

COP #6:

• Mosey around the school and down to the handicap rails
• AWKWARD PARTNER RAILWORK
• P1 holds legs while P2 completes:
• Jerkins x10
• Cliffhanger Merkins x10
• Dips x10
• Each Partner completes x3 Rounds of each set of exercises

COP #7:

• MOUNT CHAPLAIN
• Mosey up to the top of the Knolls stopping for reps at each level
• x5 Burpees
• x10 Merkins
• x15 Ball Dippers 2-ct
• x20 American Hammers 2-ct
• x25 Mtn Climbers 2-ct
• x30 Sunrise Sump Squats – stopped early since overtime

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 11
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  What a pleasure to have the summer tour in force at the Forge today – you can always count on some hilarious mumble chatter from the First Watch gang. The Forge tour ended up producing a wonderful well rounded sweatfest, and everyone was in agreement that it was better than the caber alternative. Also enjoyed the iced coffeerama afterwards. SYITG, DTH

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• Tomorrow! Friday 7/14 SOJ HAPPY HOUR at Diamond Billiards after work, roughly 5-8pm.
• 7/20 McRib playing music at Innsbrook After Hours

Backblast (better late than never?)

Title: NTB should have bought the road hazard coverage

Date: 2023-06-22

AO: #ao-forge

Q: @Greenbow

PAX: @Don Draper @Dr TryHard @Machismo @NTB @Dealer @Greenbow (did I miss anyone? I swore I had a video of nameorama..)

FNGs: none

Count: 5

Moleskine: GQ (Greenbow Q) as it’s not my first but also it hasn’t happened in a while. We sprinted. Maybe too quickly. NTB blew out a tire on the 2nd lap. Was great to get out there the week before I traveled to India

WARMUP: Running approximately .25 miles. Not quite enough to get the youngins’ warmed up, apparently.

THE THANG: Starting with the Q, a pax member calls out an exercise. Sprint to a place. However many finish after that pax, the exercise called x7 is performed. I believe we started with 21 burpees? Also did others as called. (NTB only) Pop a hammy on the 2nd sprint. Mosey down stairs to the top concrete overlooking the field. Prostitute with WW2s, Merkins, dips. Make fun of Huguenot High for having a mascot other than a Hawk. Some more running.

MARY: stretching the hamstrings, Rosalitas, leg lifts, etc

ANNOUNCEMENTS: breaking bread The Bridge – contact Upchuck

COT: prayers and out.

The Macheesman was ready to skip and start work early but opted for a slutterstart at the Forge instead. The pax not warned nor prepared started with a pole to pole American Burpee Bigmac. 3 burpees 10 American hammers repeato to the primary school. Warmarama included: Ukrainians, Merkins, imperialists, Rosalitas, Don Qs, Freddie’s, it was a Star studded line up. On to a Dora while admiring the sunrise with 100 dips, 200 LBCs, 300 flutters.

Echo chamber for dirty hookups.

Eye of the hurricane 10 burpees middle with 20S hammers, WW2, CDD, SHOULDER TAPS,

Back to the echo chamber for how downs.

merkin ring of fire to finish.

If the fart sack is calling sometimes the best thing is just a little Machismo.

The Forge welcomed 13 stallions of the gloom for a hearty game of Ultimate Frisbee on the best turf field in RVA – here are the highlights:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA: 

• Mosey to the end of the parking lot and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom, and to pick up any LIFO’s (lookin at you McRib!)

Mosey down to Snuff’s Back Gate (always open to a group of studly men) to access the perfectly mowed turf football field. Cleats on, cones placed, and Bodos got the teams divided up 6v7.

The light shirts fortified with cleat-adorned Bodos and DTH made quick work to achieve a 5-2 winning streak – with much respect to the fast hands of OC, Fudd, and Last Call to take it down the field. Snuff and his all-blacks were surely disadvantaged by having an extra player and it was clear by the way Machismo was playing an aggressive handsy/footsy defense we needed to make an adjustment. Fudd defected to the all-blacks while the lighter 6-pack acquired the ever-stealthy Bennie. Seems that Fudd was the secret weapon Snuff needed and the score was quickly evened up to 5-5. YHC was feeling a whooooole lot of quality defense pressure unable to shake Dealer and NTB. It seemed we couldn’t put anything together, but then stealthy Bennie snagged a TD standing in the right place. This was then quickly answered with another TD by the all-blacks who were finding a great rhythm. Score tied again, 6-6. Now only a few minutes left on the clock, all the PAX moving like cold molasses, and a long shot was sent down range to where Snuff had an easy grab for the win… but he “lost focus” and fumbled it. Last play of the game Bodos gives the nod to his compadre in cleats and launches a missile to the other end of the field – YHC found that extra gear and made the winning catch. 7-6 good guys for the win. Boom. 

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 13
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  The pearl of the day was derived from our very own man of the cloth. It followed Fudd handing a borrowed sweaty black shirt back to YHC, whereupon YHC appeared reviled by the degree of foul sweat the shirt contained. The good Pastor Bodos then declared something to the effect of “It’s interesting a man doesn’t mind his own putrid sweat/BO/farts but takes such great offense at another man’s stench”…to which YHC replied “now THAT can preach!” In other words, we are too quick to judge another person’s shortcomings or sin while ignoring or brushing off our own. 

Jesus said these words in Luke 6:41-42

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

May we each today humble ourselves before God to repent, to be sanctified by the Spirit, and to receive His gifts of faith, hope, and love (read 1 Corinthians 13) — that every encounter we have with others produces fruit that will last, and not judgement that divides. 

Prayer Requests:

• Machismo requesting prayer for wisdom and peace in running his business and hiring the right people
• House Party taking his grandchildren back to their parents in Florida after a long 8 months of caring for them
• Safety for everyone traveling this weekend

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• Every Monday, 3rd F Share&Prayer, at Starbucks off Huguenot&Robius
• Next Tue, July 4th, Convergence 7am at Dogpile
• Next Sat (7/8) DTH on Q for 7-8am Rock&Roll men’s bootcamp followed by a kid-friendly School of Rock bootcamp. Bring your kids! Watermelon and Cookies on the playground after. 
• 2nd Friday Happy Hour at Diamond Billiards

A PAX of 10 hit up The Forge this morning. According to the nearby news crew, it went something like this…

Mosey by the news crew so Snuff can get a shout out and circle up in front of the school for COP:

SSHs, IWs, DQs, Cherry Pickers, Jazzercise, Merkins, Tricep Extensions, LBCs, Flutter Kicks

Mosey to the amphitheater for 11’s:

WWIIs and Lt. Dans, box jump up the amphitheater steps in between.

Head around the corner and grab some wall for Jack Ass Webbs:

1 burpee, 2 donkey kicks; 2 burpees, 4 donkey kicks; all the way up to 10 burpees, 20 donkey kicks.

Attempt to head around the back of the school via the tennis courts. Locked. Oh well…no other choice than to scale a wall to jump over a fence.

At the walkway up to the football stadium, partner up for 10 jerkins and 10 derkins each.

Mosey to the base of Mt. Chaplain. What ab exercise should we do while scaling the mountain? Dealer called WWIIs and WWIIs it is (5 at each stop along the way).

BTTF for 1 MOM: Dollies and American Hammers

Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests, Last Call took us out.

Announcements:

SOJ Takeover week continues for one more day.

2nd F lunch, 6/22, 11:45 at Torchy’s Tacos on Huguenot Road

SOT/MOT pre-order open until 6/27…. https://f3.mudgear.com/products/f3-source-of-truth-pre-order-june-2023

NMS: Beautiful morning to be out at the Forge. YHC hasn’t posted at SOJ’s northernmost AO in a little while…and was glad to be back out there. Great to have Heist and Swoop visiting from Deep South SOJ…and to see Fresh Prince back in action (that dude can box jump like no other). Apologies to the rest of the PAX for thinking we could easily mosey around the back of Huguenot High School. With locked tennis courts, Machismo decided that the only way out was a quick wall climb to get over the fence. At least one PAX member got in an earlier than planned vasectomy while getting over the fence.

Enjoy your Thursday fellas! Peace!

6 is the perfect number unless we had 10 then that’d be perfect too.

Starting with a working memorial to the fallen we did 36 ssh then 18 imperial squat walkers. LBCs, obliques L and R, rosalita whips.

Huguenot High Rollers Bear crawl up slope crab walk down.

Tpole burpees 1 per to the end of grade school.

looped around and hit the @lastcall gate to the field.

1st and and 10 11s with a twost 10 burpees 1 WW2 sprint to the touchdown rinse back to the 20 for 2 and 9 repeat down the field.

do what you have with what you have where you are. Random dip jerkin aparatus found on our way out. For triple check with runner up the ramp.

BTTF DQs, LBCs, Obliques, Stretches

announcements; oysters paying today, diamond billiards 3f tomorrow at 530.

reflecting on the sacredness of life today. We were created with a purpose. YHC took some time to remember this impacted by the tragedy this week. Working out at the football field felt sacred like we shouldnt be at the field because of what happened. The reality is we need to do the opposite we need show up, engage others more, we need to redeem these spaces with our sweat.

7 students at Huguenot High said their farewells to another school year to the tunes of the Dazed and Confused soundtrack. Alright alright alright.

Mosey to the flags, warmarama at speed. SSHs, DQs, helicopters, imperial walkers, copperhead squats, mirkins, stretches, LBCs, Rosalita whips (the slightly more kinky version of Rosalita dips).

Mosey to the amphitheater for a triple check – timer goes up and around, hand release mirkins, flutter kicks.

Box jumps with ascending squats all the way up. Going back down the steps with ascending dips x 3 (3, 6, 9 all the way to 21). Since it wasn’t enough of a burnout according to DTH we did box jumps with ascending Lieutenant Dans. Back down the steps with descending incline mirkins x3.

Mosey to the baseball field to see if there is a back path down to the lower cul de sac to satisfy curiousity. Nope, there’s no way around the back.

Mosey all the way past the baseball field and up the road, around the front and back towards the flag.

Parking space lunge walk with ascending squats. Elbow plank for the last minute.

Thanks for coming out – prayers for all those carrying the burden of a difficult job. It is never easy to lead. To work hard and make hard decisions. To show up every day head held high and do it all over again. If F3 taught me anything, it’s that we’re all capable of doing exactly that, and it starts in the gloom.

10 SOJ studs posted to The Forge including one daring FNG, and DTH provided the following beach season readiness program:

WARMERAMA:

• Slaughter Start with BEARPEES to the end of the lot and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom
• Between usual warm-up reps, PAX directed to get up&down the nearby grassy knoll with variable movements (bear crawl up then crawl bear down, inchworm up then jog down, bernie up then jog down)

THE THANG:

• Mosey down to find access declined to the turf football field …audible called to continue on to the culdesac
• REVERSO DIME POUNDER:
• Run 100 yards, complete x100 reps LBC’s then Bernie Back to start
• Run 90 yards, x90 Calf-raises, Bernie
• … x80 Flutters (2-ct)
• … x70 Shoulder Taps
• … x60 Sumo Squats
• … x50 Crunchy Frogs
• … x40 Ball-Dippers (2-ct)
• … x30 WWII’s
• … x20 DiveBombers
• … x10 Burpees

BTTF:

• En route stop for PAX to complete x10 DR.W’s in cadence (you’re welcome Last Call)
• Front runners on stink hill circle back on the six
• Circle up for Opus x10 IC, Boat/Canoe variations, and close out time with Am.Ham’s

COT:

• Counterama # 10
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Awesome group of Forge regulars this morning started the sarcastic grumble chatter early with the slaughter start Bearpees, but settled in quickly to the “more than just a warm-up” warmerama. FNG Nick Holmstedt from DTH’s church did a solid job keeping up and even held back the merlot at the end! He’s a software developer, so welcome Malware! Always a pleasure to lead the the finest PAX in all RVA. SYITG! ~DTH

Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

• TODAY at Rusty Taco in Midlo we have a 2nd F SOJ Lunch starting around 11:45
• TOMORROW at Satan’s Hill, Purple Rain os hosting his VQ 
• MONDAY come out for the Convergence, 7-8am at Tredagger
• Next TUE we have Rosie serving coffee after NoToll
• Sign up for SOJ Takeover
• Summer Tour

Prayer Requests:

• Rosie’s father-in-law, recovering from various ailments in the hospital

7 HIM came out for a House Party Q. This is how it went…

COP

20 x SSH

10 x Don Quixote

10 x Ukrainian Soldiers

10 x Copperhead Squats

10 x Tempo merkins

10 x LBC’s

To the top of the hill…

We ran down the hill stopping at each light pole to do 5 WW2’s for a total of 75.

Dora at the bottom of the hill…

100 x Merkins

200 x squats

300 x LBC’s

400 x toe taps

Back to the top of the hill…

Ran up the hill stopping at each light pole to do 2 burpees for a total of 30.

Finished with just enough time for a round of suicides and flutter kicks.

YHC took us out in prayer.

It was great being out in the gloom this morning and seeing the fellas. Thanks for letting me lead today.

House Party