Tag: Timberwolf

At Timberwolf today the temperatures were 70 degrees and sunny as per usual. There was complaining, but at this point there would be great concern if there was no mumble chatter from the PAX. POG rolled in hot at 5:30am and we were off!

Mosey around full front parking lot and back to the start for a little:

COP

• Invisible Jump Rope
• Hillbillies
• Arm Circles
• Circle Arms
• Collard Pickers
• Dead man hang (both legs)
• Hand Release Merkins
• Reverse Crunches
• Freddy Mercury’s

Mosey to bus lot because:

Chuck Yeager was a true American hero who carried himself with dignity and achieved much. He did it without calling attention to himself or seeking glory. He started his military career as a fighter pilot in World War II. During the war he shot down at least 5 Nazi aircraft.

5 burpees OYO.

Mosey back around the school to the basketball courts because:

On October 14th, 1947 Chuck Yeager, piloting the X-1, became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound. Ergo:

The THANG #1 (four corners)

• 10 burpees
• 14 WWIIs
• 19 Plank Jacks
• 47 Shoulder Taps

The day before he fell off a horse and broke two ribs. So lets do it again. Repeato

The THANG #2 (100s)

The speed he reached on that flight was approximately 700 miles an hour, so we are going to do 100s seven times to reach that number. PAX took turns choosing the exercise and they included:

• LBCs (Boberry)
• SSHs (POG)
• Squats (Florence)
• Merkins (Nancy Lopez)
• Rosalitas (Wilson)
• Monkey Humpers (Boberry)
• American Hammers (Tobit)

Mosey around track and back to the side of school for alternating People’s Chair and 10x Donkey Kicks (3 rounds)

Mosey to side of school. One sprint behind the school. Then mosey back doing Bernie Sanders, Carioca, Lead off Hops, and a recovery run back to the flag.

Numbers, Names, Prayer Requests, Announcements (see below), Florence took us out.

NMM

Thank you for the opportunity to lead. It is an honor to be a member of this group. Glad to share a little bit of Chuck Yeager’s story with everyone. Have a great day! Be a positive influence on the world!

8 Brave would hit the pavement this morning in the cold at Timberwolf. Partner work ensued!

COP:

SSHs

DQs

Helicopters

Deadman Hang

Rosalitas

Hello Dolly

Jazzercize

Mosey to picnic tables:

Dora #1- Runner, 100 Dips, 200 Incline Merkins, 300 LBCS

Mosey to back Lot

Dora #2 with new partner – Runner stop do 50 toe touches – 100 Merkins, 200 WWIIs, 300 Squats

Mosey to basketball court

Dora #3 – New Partner, runner of suicides, hold 6inces, each PAX does 3 suicides.

Mosey to wall – wall sit 3 burpee countdown

Back to the flag

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out

Magnum PI Sat, 3rd F Zoom call on Tuesday- Bowery Q

Prayers for Rosetta’s friend who lost a child and POGs sister in law going through chemo.

NMS

What a great morning, I still think we could’ve done some more WWIIs! Appreciate this group, way to work in the cold this morning fellas!

Duke

YHC picked up the Q on the fly yesterday and had nothing planned. Half wa through DK said I can’t wait to see the BB. You gonna remember all this? THe answer – NOPE.

Did COP, parking lot tracers, triple check, large parking lot tracers (with exercises), Bob & weave and a few minutes of mary.

TYA is doing his Turkey Day education session one week from today – dont miss it. NM won’t! Friday some runners are going in circles. Don’t recall all details as YHC typically shuts down during that announcement.

YHC took us out.

2 dudes arose from the sack and defied all odds to post in the rain alone. It was wet and it was warm just the way we like it. With no Q on the sign up and just us at 530 we were off for a Hot Pot.

There was a COP warmup with the typical COP stuff followed by track work disguised as 4 corners with 20/30/40/50 merkins, mosey on the straights, side shuffle on the corners. It was followed by 20 mountain climbers, 30 squats, 40 of something and 50 Carolina Dry Docks with mosey on the straights, bernie on the corners. We did another round and the only thing I can recall is that it was wet. Beavis lead a few DORA type double checks in between rounds with multiple exercises which YHC can’t recall all of – there were no surrenders, shoulder taps, LBCs. It was wet.

We bailed on the track and took a mosey to the tennis courts. There I introduced Beavis to our local prostitute. She consisted of 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 LBCs, and 40 SSHs. With her taken care of time was up.

Prayers to our Good Good Father and a good beatdown under our belt. On the ride home we decided that the theme of the day would be forgiveness. “For if you forgive people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6:14-15

A lucky 7 PAX broke free and started their chilly morning off with a bowl of Gumbo. It has been a minute since Gumbo has been spotted on the menu at Timberwolf. It was good to be back. 0530 time to mosey…

Mosey to the front parking lot for COP (you will notice a theme today), including:

1. SSHs IC, then 1 merkin OYO
2. DQs IC, then 2 merkins OYO
3. Imperial walkers IC, then 3 merkins OYO
4. Russian Soldiers IC, then 4 merkins OYO
5. Copperhead Squats IC, then 5 merkins OYO
6. Helicopters IC, then 6 merkins OYO
7. LBCs IC, then 7 merkins OYO
8. Freddie mercuries IC, then 8 merkins OYO
9. [something else] IC, then 9 merkins OYO
10. Alternating Shoulder Taps IC, then 10 merkins OYO

THE THANG

11s – mosey over to the large parking lot and start at lightpole 1 with 10 merkins and 1 jump squat. Run to lightpole 2, 9 and 2. Run to lightpole 3, 8 and 3….continue around the lot until the 10th lightpole where you do 1 and 10.

Wall time – mosey over to the school and find some wall. 3 rounds as follows:

1. 10 donkey kicks; bear crawl to the curb; 10 burpees
2. 20 donkey kicks; bear crawl to the curb; 20 2 count flutter kicks
3. 30 donkey kicks; bear crawl to the curb; 30 APDs

Lightpole Alley – mosey to the beginning of lightpole alley. There are 10 lightpoles. Starting at lightpole 1, do 10 merkins OYO, run to lightpole 10 and do 1 burpee, then run back to lightpole 2 and do 10 merkins OYO and Al Gore for the Six. Continue this pattern all the way to lightpole 10 always with 10 merkins to begin and 10 merkins to end. Exercises in the middle included various counts of: box cutters, SSHs, American hammers, hello dollies, rosalitas, crab cakes, WWIIs, and others.

Mary – with 1 minute left, flutter kicks in cadence.

COT, Number-rama, Name-a-rama and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• Thanksgiving convergence at Mary
• Black Friday Run-a-thon at the market at Batteau – see TYA for details
• The merkin challenge is on, get on board – 300 merkins today at Timberwolf all in increments of 10. Large things done in small batches!
• Prayers for Tobit’s grandmother and family, for Marmaduke’s MIL and family and for Boberry’s brother-in-law and family.

NMS:

There was little nip in the air, but Wilson did not sport the Bills Starter Jacket. He is saving it for the Super Bowl!

Great being back out at Timberwolf. Great PAX – lots of mumblechatter – and even some talking. Most of the mumblechatter came in the form of noxious fumes from Wilson…powerful stuff!

Line O’ the Day (and title) came during the 11s. As Tobit and Nancy and I were at about lightpole 8 or 9 doing jump squats, Tobit says “man, these jump squats hurt.” And, Nancy immediately responds: “yeah, that’s because you are doing them correctly”. Hysterical! Gotta know when to modify gentlemen!

Way to work and thanks for coming out.

No More Gumbo For You!

Warmarama :

10 four count SSH

10 four count Don Quixote’s

10 four count Russian Soldiers

10 four count cherry pickers

10 four count Merkins

The Thang : 

Fartlek run around the entire campus and track (long distance run with multiple stops for PT)

1st stop : 25 two count Ball Dippers

2nd stop : 50 Merkins

3rd stop : 40 four count flutters

4th stop : 25 two count Ball Dippers (again)

5th stop : 25 burpees

6th stop : 40 four count American Hammers

7th stop : 25 two count ball dippers (third time’s a charm)

8th stop : 50 four count Mountain Climbers

9th stop : 50 WWII’s

10th stop : Wilson called 20 four count monkey humpers

11th stop : 30 dips on bench then 30 incline merkins on bench 

Mosey back to flag 

DONE 

COT :

We need PAX to step up to lead Q’s at Timberwolf and Satan’s Hill. I know some of the regulars are training for an upcoming marathon but we shouldn’t be reliant on just those HIM to lead Q’s at these AO’s. Sign up on Q sheet in advance if you’re interested. 

You’ll notice I did Ball Dippers as an exercise 3 different times during this Q. That wasn’t by accident. I suck at that exercise and need to build up my leg strength. “Choose the harder route”. “Get comfortable being uncomfortable”. 

Wilson and Rosetta reminded us to lift up students and teachers in prayer 

Prayer :

YHC

Warmarama :

10 four count SSH

10 four count Don Quixote’s

10 four count Russian Soldiers

10 four count cherry pickers

10 four count Merkins

The Thang : 

Mosey to football field and line up on goal line. Each of the following movements was performed to the 50 yard line then sprint back to the goal line for the next movement :

1st movement – Broad jumps with a burpee at the end of each jump 

2nd movement – Joe Hendrix Aka backwards bear crawl

3rd movement – regular bear crawls

4th movement – kangaroo hops

5th movement – front facing crab walk

6th movement – backwards crab walk

7th movement – lunges

Line up on goal line. QIC leads PAX in a combination of the following football drills :

Chop your feet , Move left, Move Right, Hit the Ground, get up, Roll Right, Roll Left, Sprint to 50 yard line

Line up on track 6 feet apart in single file line for shake n bake aka Indian run aka indigenous run. After each lap, stop for an exercise :

1st exercise – 50 Merkins

2nd exercise – 30 four count flutters

3rd exercise and 4th exercise done without a lap in between – 50 WWII’s then 30 four count American hammers

Mosey back to flag 

DONE 

COT :

Need someone to take the Breaking Bread Q for Saturday November 28 at 5:30 pm. Sign up on Q sheet. Make dinner for 10-15 people. Message Upchuck for any details if you can’t find them on F3RVA’s posts online or on slack. 

Great to see Spit again as he makes his rounds to hit every available AO in Richmond (30 total!). So far he’s hit 15. Awesome to see that. 

It was brought up in mumble chatter that Timberwolf and Satan’s Hill could use more PAX to lead Q’s at those AO’s. Sign up on Q sheet in advance if you’re interested. 

Remember to lift up the teachers, students and frontline workers in your prayers as they deal with the complexity and difficulty of navigating COVID

Nancy Lopez is traveling to Emerald Isle for a weekend getaway 

Prayer :

YHC

5 Distinguished gentleman of the 0 dark hundred clan stumbled upon a vicious beast known as timberwolf. After an extra minute was given for one of the PAX (this important detail will play out later on). we were off.

COP: SSH, Jazzersise, Helicopters, dead man hang, hamstring stretches, merkins, Freddy Mercury.

The Thang: HIIT Style 4 exercises (shuffle squat, high knees, burpees, and SSH) are done back to back with 30 seconds rest between sets. First set each exercise was 60sec, next set 50, next 40, then lastly 30sec. Once the heart rate was up we moved on to a triple check; jerkins, curb triceps dips and run) Last up was a few rounds of Hundreds in the school bus parking lot. starting with 100WW2 which was then modified to 75 (PAX was threatening to throw some throat punches). Next round 50 Merkins (Q is a quick learner), 50 Carolina dry docks, 100 Alabama prom dates, last up was 20 Merkins. about halfway through some of the PAX walked off as it was 6:15. This brings up one of the great philosophical questions; is the workout over after 45 minutes? Or is the workout over at the prescribed end time? I look to the great philosophers of all time and come up with my conclusion that the workout is over when the workout is over.

COT, numberama, nameorama, thoughts prayers for Dukes in laws, and Florence’s family member all who are dealing with Covid.

Focker OUT…

Warmarama :

10 F3 count SSH

10 F3 count Don Quixote’s

10 F3 count Imperial Walkers

10 F3 count Cherry Pickers

The Thang : 

Mosey to track

All PAX together as one group perform Shake n Bake aka Indian Run aka Indigenous Run around track for as many laps as possible (at the end of each lap, perform an exercise)

Lap 1 exercise :  100 merkins

Lap 2 exercise : 100 squats 

Lap 3 exercise : 100 WWII’s

Lap 4 exercise :  50 Merkins

Lap 5 exercise :  50 four count Mountain Climbers 

Lap 6 exercise :  50 four count plank jacks 

Lap 7 exercise : 25 Merkins

DONE

I had planned on 2 more rounds of the following but time expired :

Lap 8 exercise : 25 jump squats 

Lap 9 exercise : 25 F3 count flutters

COT :

All PAX are doing well and glad to join their brothers in the gloom 

Prayer :

Herme

Pledge of Allegiance

5 gloom warriors defeated the fartsack and came to Timberwolf. They may have been in search of the answers to life’s greatest questions. Unfortunately all they found was a beatdown. According to the confused school employees, it went something like this:

Mosey around the front of the school for welcome to F3, disclaimer and:

COP

SSH, Jazzercise, Hillbillies, Don Quixote, Pretzel Twists, Freddie Mercurys, HRMs, mosey to the basketball courts for:

THE THANG #1

7 of Diamonds called, PAX choose their poison with # of reps done at each of the four corners of the diamond. Exercises included 7 WW2s, 14 Jump Squats, 21 Monkey Humpers, 28 Plank Jacks, 21 Apollo Onos, 14 Merkins, 7 Hand Release Merkins.

Mosey all the way around the school with an Indigenous People run wherein PAX at the end does 1 burpee before catching up. At the end stop and circle up for:

THE THANG #2

Set of Captain Thors: start with 1 WW2 and 4 American Hammers, made it all the way to 10 WW2s and 40 American hammers. Stay in circle for Part Deaux:

Set of Merkin Jacks: Start with 1 Merkins and 4 Plank Jacks, made it up to 7 Merkins and 28 Plank Jacks. Then 1 lap around school and time was called!

Numbers, Names, Announcements (See Below), YHC took us out

NMM

• Some excellent mumble chatter about American Football today. Including COVID, the Washington Professional Football Team, DeAngelo Hall (former Falcon AND Raider), Rosetta’s knowledge of NFL history, and how we all agree that the Jets are terrible.
• The run around the school was called as an Indigenous People run. Someone talked about a PAX being a “fast injun” (names shall not be named), so the name changed mid-run to Mosey Around The School In A Line Interrupted By Burpees. The naming committee tried to make it as generic and literal as possible.
• Excellent to have a good showing at Timberwolf. This is the favorite AO of Nancy Lopez and YHC. Numbers have been a little thin since YHC starting coming back out in person. Have a great day gentlemen!