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Pigskin is a menace. He thinks he is slow so wants to leave early. I tell him left on Pump. When the group leaves, Gaudi and I see what looks to be him going left on John Rolfe. Not totally sure, I sprint to catch up. Thankfully it is him and now I am exhausted. The group thankfully follows and we go right onto Pump and get to my intended destination, the North Gayton Baptist Church, the long way.

Somehow, Pigskin is behind us again so we do WW2 until he arrives. “I thought it was on the left?” he jokes. We then do Heals to heaven and reverse crunches before some arm circles and helicopters. Then we do a triple check where the timing runs the horseshoe parking lot and the partners to HRM and Jump Squats. When done, we head back home with a detour through Short Pump Park with instructions to do 5 burpees before the path to the woods.

While half way through the woods, I circle back for Pigskin. I have no idea where he is. Thinking he went home a shorter way, I head back to the flag. Then here comes Lighthouse, Banjo and Mr. Rogers headed back for the six. “Have you seen Pigskin?” I ask and they say “No” and they head further back for him. Eventually they give up and meet the rest of the group at the flag. Where is Pigskin? He is running the bus loop with Gypsy, who headed back with Pigskin via Three Chopt.

Did Pigskin do his 5 burpees? Of course not, so we all did 5 burpees (including him) as penalty. He’s a menace to society. But thankfully he is an F3 menace. 3.1 miles total and we did not lose Pigskin. Another successful Wednesday!

Great turn out this morning for WTH Cul-De-Sac run. We had a solid group come out to enjoy the summer like warmth. Here is the thang :10 cul de sacs: 15 merkins 15 LBCs in each. Made it back a little early so ran the bus loop, another round of merkins & LBCs, 11 rounds completed! 3.8 miles covered 165 merkins and 165 LBCs, good work from the pax. Check slack for happenings around the area. Prayers for those who are struggling in life both emotionally and physically. Happy Birthday to Saltlick tomorrow! Thanks for letting me lead

Seven showed up on a warm spring morning for a mix of running and bootcamp. We ran about a mile to the parking lot next to the pool, warmed up, and then knocked out Elevens with Merkins at one end and Jump Squats at the other. After finishing that, we took a “break” with 20 Burpees before heading back to the flag. We got back a little early, so we wrapped things up with a couple of minutes of plank holds. Overall, we covered 3.8 miles. Great work, everyone!

Sometimes you can Q with one idea. After we sprinted to the Roger Roger pad and did some warmups, I brought us to the park path entrance for some 11’s. We did jump squats and merkins between the path entrance and the end of the woods. After a few rounds and realizing 6 miles would take too long, I changed the distance to be between the pavilion and the end of the woods. With an on the fly modification to finish the final ten merkins back at the entrance, we then moseyed back home. Total 3.5 miles.

We also had two ruckers who went West on Three Chopt and back.

It is still dark out so good to have some headlamps, reflective vests and Salt Licks crotch to show us the way.

Nice to have a warm morning again for a little exercise and fellowship. A little smaller crowd than usual for our Wednesday workout, but we made the best of it. Here’s what the melting ice saw take place. Moseyed over to the gazebo at West Broad Village for a little warm-up. Side straddle hops Don Qs , Ukrainian soldiers, Merkens, and LBC‘s helped to get our muscles into the right elasticity. We then headed out from there over towards golf galaxy and the little townhouse community hidden at the end of the parking lots. We found two extremely expensive and small houses had been recently built there. Whitesnake quizzed us on what we anticipated the pricing to be, and all of us were surprised at the million dollar price tag. We did three loops around the circle and at the end of each loop we did 20 exercises, first Merkens second World War II’s third jump squats. We did that two times and then moseyed over to REI. We took advantage of their sturdy benches and did two rounds of 20 dips and 20 derkens. We headed from there over to ACAC, we did 20 World War II’s and then our favorite F3 salute of 20 monkey humpers in a line saying good morning to the treadmill runners on the second floor watching us. We moved to the end of the street by Dave & Buster’s did a little more ab work this time with 20 LBC‘s in 20-2 count penguins. We headed back to the flag from there the long way with a little bit of time left and needing a little more distance. We circled the bus loop twice to hit our 3 miles, ended at the flag with a minute left so we knocked out another 20 merkins. Several of our regular were out today, numbers and names, we closed in prayer of Thanksgiving for a beautiful morning and prayers for those who are sick or traveling. Until our next meeting, Peace

Ten brave souls converged in the dark and discovered it was much warmer than anyone would expect in the middle of February. Instead of heading to the parking deck (as we did the last two weeks), we tested the roads to see whether they were finally clear of ice, and overall conditions were pretty good—we only hit one patch we couldn’t avoid. After a warm-up, we knocked out a Four Corners with 20 Merkins, 20 Squat Jumps, 20 Heels to Heaven, and 20 Hand-Release Merkins. Then we ran around West Broad Village, stopping at every corner for rotating sets of Merkins, leg work, and ab work. Total distance was a little over 3 miles. Great work, everyone!

Another 70 and sunny day in Richmond, complete with snow piled deep on the sidewalk. We decided that the Dave and Buster’s parking deck needed some company.
After disclaimer and warm up, we did the following cycle together. Run to the last covered level of the deck, over to the stairwell, down to the bottom, all the way back to the top of the stairwell. To avoid the ice and snow on the top level, we went down one flight and across to the other level, up to the top of the stairwell and then to the bottom. 20 Merkins, 20 Crunch Frogs and 20 Carolina Dry Docks.
After this, everyone was on their own. I completed almost 6 cycles before time was up.
Honorable mention goes to Wally, Mr. Rogers’ faithful dog who showed up once again for another workout. He’s got to be close to qualifying for one of the 1,000+ post workout shirts.
Announcements:
This Saturday Frozen Triangle. Gridiron is available if you would like a lighter workout.
Tuesday, February 10. 2nd Tuesday, 2nd F at Firehouse Subs in Innsbrook at noon.
COT
FYI: Title for this Backblast is inspired by “Endless Summer” an album of the Beach Boys ‘Greatest Hits’ released in 1974.
Banjo, Borat, Fortran, Lighthouse, Mr. Rogers, Pinto, Pigskin

It was sunny and 70, so I was told, but the frozen snow everywhere must have been a figment of my imagination.
Borat and I met at Pocahontas. At 5:30, we drove over to the Parking Deck at Buster and Dave’s. We did five ‘cycles’ of the following: run up the ramps to the level where the ice starts, over to the 1st stairwell, down to the bottom and back all the way to the top, down one level and across the deck to the other stairwell, up to the top and then down to the bottom, 20 merkins and 20 crunchy frogs.
Finished with a few stretches.

Seven brave souls and a lean looking Wally went hunting for Huntwick. Similar to being cuckoo for Cocoa puffs.

We first needed to hit the ATM so we went to Wells Fargo and did some warmups.

We then went down Park Terrace and took the second left into the Huntwick neighborhood. We split into two groups for some triple checks. Each group went a different direction to run a different circle. First triple check was merkins and WW2, timer ran the circle. Groups then switched sides and we got a little more than 2/3’s of the way through a another triple check of jump squats and flutters.

Time to head home. Actually, left two minutes late. Got 2.8 miles in. Seems like all we did was run but somehow ended up a bit short. Too many warmup exercises? I will do better next time. No one circles the Wally’s like the WTH crew.

Get to the Bridge this weekend before the snow comes and ruins everything! Pigskin is leading so reach out to him.

Frozen Triangle on Feb 7th may be the next time you can leave your house after this storm so plan on being there!

Gumbo leading Circus tomorrow. Coffee and Gumbo always a great combination. Hope to see you there!

today fell on Pinto to take the reigns, after a week away eating and drinking with 6 -20 something aged kids I was ill prepared to take the lead. Cul-De-Sacs we went running to. We did 10 of them with 10 merkins, 15 LBCs then stopped 2 more times for 12 rounds. 3.6 miles covered, extra time allowed for Mary with Fredy mercuries, American hammers and WW2s to close us out.
good mumble chatter about little kids with inquiring minds , sibling dynamics and pecking order. Always great to be out with our Brothers.

the bridge coming up on 27th and frozen triangle on Feb 7th