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A PAX of three* attacked Twin Team Hill with gusto for another episode of The Sisyphus. For a brief few minutes, three was four, but Nature called Doozy away and brought LIFO to new levels…hope you made it back in time!

For those not privy to The Sisyphus, here’s what happens:

Mosey to the summit of Twin Team, dropping flower pots/cones as place markers along the way. For each round, the PAX runs from the summit, performs the prescribed exercise, then returns to the summit. Repeat for each marker until the bottom.

1: bear crawl back to summit
2: 30 uphill-facing WWIIs
3: 30 derkins
4: one team runs to previous cone & back, while the others perform mt. climbers, then switch. Repeat for LBCs, then for alternating merkin/plank for 5.
5: 10 burpees

The final flower pot was placed tantalizingly close to the bottom of Twin Team, and YHC spent a good bit of the final ascent to the summit trying to justify cutting it short (you know, “in the interest of time” and all that). But here’s to mental fortitude, built over a long stretch of gloomy mornings!

Well done today – Sisyphus will rest for a while, but he’ll be back.

YNWA

The title says it all really…Holland, out.

 

 

(ok fine…)

A seven-strong PAX lit up Twin Team this morning with an exploratory worthy of (stolen from?) River Run, with added benefits! It went down like this:

The run route went up Twin Team, through Tarrington, eventually back to Bettie (just over 3 miles in all). Meanwhile, the Q had a 5-minute timer going, and each time it ran out, the PAX had 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs, and 30 mountain climbers before continuing on. It took the whole time, and it was decent.

YHC continues to experiment with time-based beatdowns, and needs to run more. Shout out to Pew, guest starring from way down in Mobile, AL where he’s just started a new F3 community!

YNWA

YHC arrived obscenely early (5:28) to find a lone Rosie Mobile waiting in the Bettie Weaver lot. On the mark, a PAX of two set off to wage a battle of Mind vs Minutes. The idea is simple: run for five minutes, stop and do things for five minutes, then repeat. Here’s how it went:

Mosey up Twin Team Hill (got about 3/4 to summit). Stop for COP: SSH (sideways on hill), DQ, Russian Soldiers, uphill WWIIs, derkins, lunge uphill until time. It was here that Doozy found us and the PAX became three.

Mosey back to Bettie’s Bus Loop. One man posted on each end of the straightaway doing LBCs and squats, respectively, while 3rd man bear crawls the length (and what a length it was…). Swap out when the bear reaches you until time.

Mosey behind JRHS to the tires. Flip a tire for five minutes.

Mosey the long way back to Bettie for regular ol’ triple check: one merkin followed by a 5-count (and repeat), WWIIs, and run the front circle.

6:15 waits for no man, so from there it was numbers, names, ‘nouncements.

MOLESKIN

YHC has a much easier time mentally regulating a set number of exercises, and a time with an indefinite rep count messes with my head…which was the point. From the first running set, it was clear that five minutes is a much longer time than expected. YHC is becoming more interested in the sorts of exercise routines that challenge the mind as much as the body.

Kudos to Doozy for finding us in the dark! Rosie had just commented on the animals who were likely watching our Russian Soldiers with interest from the woods, when from below a light came bobbing up Twin Team. The hill truly did have eyes this morning.

YNWA

The morning started with a few question marks…What to do with the beatdown, how many would actually post, would there be any out of town visitors, and how much rain/wind would there be?  The 6 strong that posted had all the answers plus some at the end of the beatdown.  A potential visitor that reached out for a down range beatdown didn’t post but Wedding Singer brought his nephew from Wilmington whose family is sheltering with the Singer’s to ride out the storm.

With all 6 ready to go and a few headlamps distributed the PAX headed off together down James River Road.  After confirming that the Egg can hear but not repeat any foul language heard, he’s 14 of course he’s heard it all,  a brief recap of the JITFO acronym was laid out.  Follow that up with some high knees, butt kickers, slide left and slide right to loosen the legs.  Stop at the intersection of Riverton Ridge to loosen the arms. Arm Circles, odd numbers (more than 10 small/5 big) were used.  YHC was questioned whether the use of additional arm circles was Corporate approved, always.  Enough with the warm up.

Run up Riverton Ridge to the first intersection, 100 SSH.  Run to the median split, 75 Mtn. climbers, run to the roundabout, 50 2ct flutter kicks, run up the hill to the right, 25 merkins, Run up the hill to the Ashwell intersection 5 burpees.  Back down, stopping at each spot with 25 werkins, 50 Freddie Mercuries, 75 Alternating shoulder taps, 100 squats.  Run around the back of the school, stopping for Dollies along the way.  Find the pull up bar.  5 pull ups, go across the monkey bars.  5 more pull ups.  Past the stadium to the parking lot for Mary.  5 burpees, sprint across the parking lot.  Back to the flag for a Ring of Fire, significant flair with Tobit and Egg that started the trend of clap merkins around the circle.

NMM

First off prayers for those in the path of the hurricane.  There could be a significant amount of damage and hopefully the advance warnings have gotten most of the people out of the area.  Glad Egg could make it out but his brother Chicken was nursing an injury and didn’t get to experience the beatdown.  Great work Egg, he provided some comic relief in namearama when Singer told him what to say and he was self proclaimed “scrambled”.  Apparently the beatdown scrambled whatever it was in his stomach this morning.

Tclaps to Gumbo for running 2 miles to and from the AO with knowledge that YHC was going to try to get him some miles during the beatdown.  The “campus” of Twin Team is so big, it is not necessary to go off campus but heading up the road on a string of pearls with some hills added to the fun.  Tobit was flying around in the lead and seems to be in top running form.  A brief bout of heavier wind and rain died down and the PAX was left with a light mist and breeze through the morning.  Congrats to Mr. Roper and condolences to his M on his purchase of a new pair of Crocs.  His deteriorated a few months ago so who knows what he was walking around in since then.  He will stop at nothing to get a new pair, even sneaking into Bass Pro after hours.

Apologies to Singer’s nephew and his sister-in-law for pushing Egg to the limit, although part of me thinks his father, a Marine, would be proud of his 2.0s effort this morning.

Great work today men, stay dry.

Announcements:

• 9/22 – 4 year F3RVA anniversary convergence  Dogpile, 6 am beatdown, 7 am running
• 9/29 – Puppy Pile
• 10/20 – CSAUP on the trails

10pm Thursday night, Twin Team had no Q. This time one week ago, YHC knew exactly what to do, and Sisyphus dominated the hill. This time both Mr. Holland and Sisyphus stayed on the sideline, and a 3-man PAX ended up with a hot potato.

TOBIT: YHC gave Tobit the first leg, offering an avenue out of Twin Team Hill. Given that we had an AO newbie, Tobit wanted to introduce him to the namesake nonetheless. After a brief (and apparently forgettable) COP, we attempted a Hill Beast. Tobit prescribed 4×9 rather than 6×6 per round, and we embarked on a dark and daunting endeavour. After two rounds (merkins, then WWIIs), Tobit realized we’d not finish, and relinquished the Q to YHC.

HOLLAND: In order to prove to Rosie that the PAX can hit both the Hill and JRHS in one morning, we moseyed over to the tire pit. By then, we had about five minutes, so each man grabbed a tire and flipped it for five minutes. At the timer, mosey back, a quick Mary, then out with numbers, names, and ‘nouncements.

Shoutout to the BRR crew – we did our best to run in the dark and do unpleasant things in your honor! Also, Mr. Holland thought this was potentially Tobit’s unintentional VQ, and had composed the backbone of a brilliant backblast accordingly before finding out he’s Q’d several times before. YHC is not one to waste good material, however; so below you’ll find a piece of fan fiction, what would have formed part of Tobit’s VQ, had that happened today:

It’s a tale as old as time: friends meet in the dark, their roles unclear. After a bit of awkward back-and-forth, Tobit takes the lead, and the friends head off to see what they can find. They begin to fumble around in the dark, spurring one another on along the way. Tobit stumbles from time to time, but that’s how these things always go. Time passes – more time than anyone realizes, and everyone gets invested in what’s going on. Before anyone really understands what’s happened, Tobit’s had his first time.

Suddenly, the outside world comes calling. Each one remembers his commitments in life, and has to exit the world they’ve just created. Tobit emerges, proud of what happened, but also wishing it could have been as he’d imagined it before. Everyone leaves a bit wiser, and contemplating their role in life.

 

 

YNWA

(10pm Thursday) Mr. Holland: “I wonder who has the Q at Twin Team…”

Y’all know what that means at this point. At the first sight of YHC with cones and flower pots, Gumbo could hardly contain his enthusiasm. A PAX five strong moseyed on over to Twin Team Hill for the Sisyphus.

COP: SSH, DQ, Russian Soldiers, hand-release merkins, Freddie Mercury

Sisyphus goes about like this: mosey to the top, dropping five markers along the way. Run down to each marker, perform the exercise, and return to the summit.

• bear crawl back to summit
• 25 decline merkins
• 30 uphill WWIIs
• 5-man triple check (2x only). Two pairs plus one solo on each station: mountain climbers, alternate 10 merkins and holding plank for 10 count, run to previous cone and back.
• 20 burpees

MOLESKIN

If the effectiveness of a beatdown is measured by the grumbling and cursing of the PAX, this is a good one. Glad to have the PAX there to push me along – no way I’d put myself through this nonsense alone!

The cones and flower pots have been placed in a Witness Protection program after receiving multiple credible threats to their well-being.

YNWA

 

Nine stalwarts and Lab Rat posted for one final summer activity. Darkness be damned. Here we go:

COP: Willie Mays Hayes x 10 / Helicopters 10 / 5 burpees OYO/ Dead (Dying) Cockroaches 15 / LBCs 20

THANG: Cleveland Indians Run around bus circle and over to baseball field.

Baseball Workout – Part I: 1st Base: 10 burpees 2nd Base: 20 merkins 3rd Base: 30 American Hammers (2-count – is there any other kind) Home Plate: 40 WWIIs

Start at HP – 1 burpee. Run to 1st. 10 burpees. Back to Home Plate. 1 burpee. Run back to 1st. 10 burpees. Run to 2nd. 20 merkins. Repeato until all bases are touched.

Baseball Workout – Part II: Home Plate: Hold Plank (3 minutes) Crabwalk to 1st base. 1st Base: Dollies (3 minutes). Lunges to 2nd base. 2nd Base: Arm Claps (3 minutes). Bear crawl to 3rd base. 3rd Base: High knees (3 minutes).

Baseball Workout – Part III: Wiffle Ball: Each person sees six pitches (in theory. More on that in a minute). After six swings, batter calls out an exercises x 6. Mostly burpees ensued. Lab Rat was happy.

Back to the Flag / Mary: Merkins Ring of Fire (5). Werkins. HR Merkins. Merkins. Wider Werkins. One arm Merkins. Knuckle Merkins. Diamond Merkins. Diamond Knuckle Merkins.

YHC took us out.

Announcements: Puppy Pile tomorrow 7:05. Breaking Bread Sunday – see Gumbo to assist. Convergence Labor Day 3 Lakes Park. 7:00. Four year F3RVA Dogpile – 9/22

NMS: YHC decided to try the baseball workout one more time before it got dark. Fail – sorta. When I pulled into BW at 5:10, it was flat out dark. Stars were everywhere. Cones were planted in what YHC hoped was close to a regular field configuration. 5:29 all but one were ready to get beat. 5:30.30 – a DK sighting. Don’t mind the handicapped space, it’s early. No problem. Some thought they were there to play wiffle ball – apologies to Lab Rat. Not at all. Others knew what was happening. They’d done it before yet still came back.

Lots of mumble chatter to start the day. Zippy during the main course. WARNING: core muscle exercises invite extra barking spiders. Stay low. Hope it wafts over you.

Once the bases emptied, it was time for some modified wiffle ball. YHC had Buttermaker go first. What a gracious host. The man was an FNG yesterday, posted again today, and had to hit in absolute dark. Way to be a team player, and way to post back to back to start off your F3 career.

As always, Lab Rat has comments, and Gumbo hits dingers. Oh, and DK left early to make up for arriving late. The rarely seen double LIFO. Think grainy Big Foot photos. Supposedly we did 105 burpees. Solid.

-Res Ipsa Loquitur, The Beatdown Speaks for Itself

 

 

Two seasoned veterans did their best to defeat Twin Team Hill, with none but Persephone to witness this Sisyphean task.

Gumbo expected a leisurely solo run down by the river, until YHC rolled in at the stroke of 5:30 with the Q and a handful of cones & flower pots. We ran to the top of Twin Team, dropping markers along the way, and had a quick COP at the summit: SSH, DQ, Russian Soldiers, Freddie Mercury, hand-release merkins

Then, the latest installment in hills & soul-crushing futility.

Run to each cone/pot, perform the prescribed exercise, then return to the top of Twin Team. The five markers went something like this:

• Bear Crawl back to summit
• 25 derkins, run to top
• 30 uphill WWIIs, run to top
• 2 Man Triple Check: one man runs to previous cone & back, while the other performs an exercise (run to top @end)
  • mountain climbers
  • LBCs
  • alternate 10 merkins & hold plank for 10-count
• 20 burpees, run to top

Return to Bettie for numberama, name-o-rama, ‘nouce-a-rama.

MOLESKIN: This is the third iteration of Sisyphus at Twin Team, and I think, the best one yet. The third time running on the triple check leg, knowing I was only coming down in order to go back up again, really drove home the mental element of this workout. Great to force yourself to dig a bit deeper when you think the well’s dry. Sisyphus will definitely make his return, and share with more of the PAX.

YNWA

Three studs posted at Twin Team this morning in order to make themselves even better studs!  Here is what we did:

COP:

Arm Circles x 15 forward and x 15 backward (big and small)

Cotton Pickers x 15

Copperhead Squats x 15

Box Cutters x 15

Mountain Climbers x 10

Don Quixotes x 10

mosey to James River Drive for:

 

Lindsey’s (40’s):

Carolina Dry Docks/LBC’s

30/10, mosey 100 yards, 25/15, mosey 100 yards, 20/20, mosey 100 yards, 15/25, mosey 100 yards, 10/30, mosey 100 yards, 40/0, mosey 100 yards, 0/40 mosey 100 yards.

continue down JR Drive doing the following:

lunges, high knees, butt kickers, Russian soldiers, Imperial Walkers, carioke left, carioke right, backwards run, skipping, bear crawl, crawl bear.

grab part of the wooden guard rail for:

 

11’s:

Incline Merkins on the rail/Dips on the rail

 

mosey down to the river bank and grab a picnic table or bench and do:

20 step ups left leg first/20 right leg first

10 skull crushes left/10 skull crushers right

5 box jumps

mosey to kayak landing and forward run down and up the steps three times.  Backward run down and up steps once(not smart!)

mosey away from the landing and grab a post for:

10 each of pole smokers/rosalitas/hello dollies/heels to heaven/reverse crunches/left cross leg lifts/right cross leg lifts/6 inches for 10 count/pole smokers

mosey back up the deceiving hill toward JRHS and stop at a nice green hill near a baseball field.  With 12 o’clock being uphill, perform clockwork merkins on the odd hours.

mosey back to BWES and 15 seconds of Burpees.

time up!

COT, Numberama, Namearama and YHC took us out!

 

Announcements:

Ghost Flag will be on display and up for grabs at DogPile tomorrow!!

YHC has the F3 Carterico Q in Emerald Isle on August 22.  It is YHC’s birthday and YHC feels like dishing out a beatdown to the local F3 guys there for his birthday present.  If you need another Kubota Q in your life, make the trip down.  It’s only 4 hours.

PuppyPile is August 25th right after DogPile

Breaking Bread still needs a Q for August

Labor Day Convergence is on Labor Day.  See Spit’s preblast

 

NMS:

YHC pulled in to BWES around 5:10am thinking that he may possibly be the only one posting today(damn! are the tired of me already?!)  Thankfully Gumbo arrived a few minutes later and then Tobit came in with 5 minutes to spare.  The three of us then wondered if Mr. Holland was going to make his last minute arrival.  A few cars turned in our direction of off Robious with 30 seconds to spare, but none were Mr. Holland.  We were looking for you!

YHC took his last Q he did at Twin Team a few weeks ago and tweaked it some because he likes going down to the River there.  YHC has still not ever stepped foot on Twin Team hill, but YHC has to post at River Run this coming up Monday for the Summer Tour, so we will see what Gumbo has in store.

Way to work this morning men!  Lots of abs, because YHC is getting ready for the beach!  The early part of the sunrise was pretty looking down river while we were working out on the benches.  Just a great morning all around and YHC is glad it is Friday!

Have a great one all!

Kubota

keep posting!

A prime number of PAX headed out across the fields to the James River parking lot and got through 1 warmup exercise before 2 more showed up to make a perfect group for triple checks.  We rolled through a few other warmup exercises of YHC’s choice, mainly easy stretching exercises since 4 straight days of Qing has taken it’s toll on these old muscles and joints.  After that we moseyed past the pull up bars , across the paved field event areas, behind the stadium, over the stream and through the woods to Tire Town.  YHC noticed this area months ago on a run but haven’t had a Q that took me back there.  The PAX was treated to a plethora of tires of all sizes, monkey bars, dip/jerkin bars, pull up bar and a concrete wall.  Since we had perfect triple check numbers group up for triple checks – Round 1 – Tire Flips, Jerkins, Spotting; Round 2 – Run, tire flips, Monkey Bar crossing.  Everyone grabbed their own tire, flip across the field while 2 PAX rotated through 5 pull ups each – 2 rounds.  Once more across the monkey bars.  To the bus parking lot for a Touch a Bus Triple Check – Touch 4/5/6 buses, flutter kicks, lunges.  Roll back to the flag for a double ring of fire with Al Gore and planks.  There we were treated to the low slow tones of Rosco’s own improvised Twin Team version of Ring of Fire.  He crushed it, need to get him in front of a mike somewhere.

Great to finish out a stretch of 5 days of Q but really the backblasts, that may be the hardest part of Qing multiple days in a row.  Tire Town was great and we’ll be back, next time with a crow bar to pry the large tires from their rain induced suction to the ground.  I refuse to believe that they were too heavy for 3-4 of us to move.

Prayers for Fudd’s sister who is undergoing surgery today.

Amateur RAMM Gears next Friday 8/3 – let someone know if you need a bike.

Happy hour tonight a Wood and Iron.