Tag: WaThoHuk

Just like Magellan, Leif Erikson, & James Cook before us, the WTH group of three went on a dangerous expedition. This one was to find the rumored Wellesley tunnel. After almost a mile and half of running, we discovered an unusual entrance hidden beneath the roots of an ancient oak tree. The entrance, covered by invisible thick vines and moss, seemed to lead to an underground tunnel. Unable to resist the allure of the unknown, the trio decided to explore. Descending into the mysterious tunnel, we found ourselves in a dimly lit passage adorned with symbols and carvings, hinting at a rich history. The air was cool, and the echo of their footsteps filled the chamber as we delved deeper into the hidden world beneath their feet.

At the other end was what looked like a weird assembly of four fenced in prison camps. They were empty, minus some netting and brooms that must be from some ancient torture. Feeling like we were being watched, we did some warmups of Helicopters, Don Quixote’s, Ukrainian Soldiers and Cherry Pickers. Then, to confuse the locals, we ran up and down the outside of the fences, forming an “H” and did a total of 100 WWIIs, 100 Squats and 25 burpees. Worried about whether we could find our way back alive, we ran back through the cold tunnel and made a brief short cut. We ran back and totaled 3.3 miles. We finished with 25 Flutters and 25 Hand Release Merkins before departing in our shuttles back home. Another successful WTH mission.

Three heroes braved the elements on a very cold morning. Wise people said that parking deck is warmer, so this is where we went. First round we did 5 Burpies on every turn and went all the way up. But the outside level was icy, so on the next round we decided to stay inside. On other rounds we did 25 Merkins, 25 Squats and 25 American Hammers. Back to the Flag got us to 3.5 miles. It is good to know that it will get warmer… eventually.

P.S. My usual apologies for being late with Backblast. White Snake: Thank you for motivation!

Three of the most dedicated WTH models and YHC got together this morning in Short Pump for some fun and to perfect the Blue Steel pose. I wore my new shirt yesterday but everyone else wore them today. Lighthouse was wearing his new orange F3 shirt and apologized “I’m sorry that good looking people like us made you throw up and feel bad about yourself.” Pinto, with his new shirt, gave us some backstory: “Well I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking “wow, you’re ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career.”

We took off for Short Pump Park and the Pavilion for some warmups. After that we did some AMRAPs as the timer ran the loop. We did squats, step ups, SSH, Dips, American Hammers, LBCs, Dolly’s and HRM. After we were done, we did them all again as a group (ten count) so everyone got to do all the exercises. We then ran up Pump and across to the Nissan lot. In the lot we ran up and down the lot a couple times and did a total of 20 Burpees.

We then ran back to Pocahontas middle and hit the track for one lap before getting back to the start. 2.9 miles total. Not hitting 3 miles made everyone upset. If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it’s that a male model’s life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn’t mean that we too can’t ruin our day by not hitting 3 miles at WTH.

As we broke off, Pigskin, wearing his new shirt for the second day in a row, was off to a morning of volunteering and left us with these important words: “At the Pigskin Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, we teach you that there’s more to life than just being really, really, really good looking.” Wise words indeed.

I need to write a backblast for yesterday’s workout.

At 5:30, somebody nose what we are going to do today. It turned out to be YHC. We decided to follow our knows to the Dave & Buster parking deck for stairclimbing. I sniffed out a shorter distance so that I would get there about the same time as Lighthouse, Pinto and Whitesnake. Actually, I got there slightly before they did and kept running in their direction. Right at the corner of the parking deck, we bumped noses. I no, running that close to the corner was poor judgement on my part.

The gameplan; start at the bottom of one stairwell, run to the top level, run across the top level over to the other stairwell, run to the bottom, turn around and run back to the top level, return across the top level to the first stairwell, run to the bottom and do 20 merkins. Now that everyone nose what to do, we repeated this evolution. I did 6 times and the others did 1 more than I did. I think I did 6 times, but nobody nose for sure.

From here, Whitesnake and I followed our knows back to Pocahontas parking lot the most direct way. Pinto and Lighthouse no a longer way and so met us about 1 minute after we got back.

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Announcements:

2^nd F at noon on the 2^nd Tuesday at Firehouse Subs in Innsbrook (January 9).

If you are wearing gloves and want to unlock your phone, there is a way to do so without taking off your gloves. Use your nose.

Takeout: Life doesn’t allow us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow us to liver each day better than our last.

We arrived at Pocahontas at 5:27. It was raining. At 5:30, it was still raining. So we took a vote. Pig, Skin and Pigskin were all in favor of staying dry. We voted to drive to the Dave and Buster Parking Deck. For the third week in a row, we ran up the stairs in the stairwell, across the parking deck to the other stairwell, down to the bottom of the other stairwell, returned to the starting place and did 20 merkins. There was one slight revision. After running to the top of the stairs, we ran back down 1 level so we could avoid the top level and the rain. Total of 9 cycles, I think. After 9 cycles, it was about 6:15 so we did a few stretching exercises.  Numberama, Namerama. No announcements. Takeout by Piggy. Pigskin was awarded the coveted War Baby award.

No Lighthouse. He’s in Costa Rica. So Whitesnake and YHC more or less recycled last week’s workout. We run to the Dave and Buster’s parking deck. We went out the school to the left and cut thru West Broad Village. Once we got to the parking deck, we went up the stairs, across the top level, down the stairway, did 20 merkins and came back to the start. I think we did this 7x. Then we returned to Pocahontas the same way we came and had about 5 minutes left for some ab exercises.

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Matthew 6: Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Whitesnake brought 2 right gloves to the workout. Fortunately, I have a collection of gloves to choose from. The four of us ran to the parking deck with Dave and Buster’s. From there, we ran up one set of steps to the top, then ran over to the other set of steps and down to the bottom and then returned to the start. Upon returning, we did 20 merkins. I got 6 rounds in. The rest got 7 rounds in. Then we returned to Pocahontas. I took a short cut.

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Genesis: Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” This is the basis for the novel by Steinbeck, “East of Eden”. Is the message of God to Cain, a message of hope? Is sin something you can overcome?

3 made their way out into the gloom on this cold wet morning

The thang: Pigskin did his usual workout lapping the school doing dips and merkins while we headed out to the comfort of the parking decks at West Broad Village. We stopped at our West broad warm up and did 10 Don Qs, 10 Ukrainian soldiers, 10 Imperial walkers and 10 merkins all in cadence. Mosey to the parking decks. Start our climb up running and at each level, 15 merkins and 15 WWIIs, at the top we ran down stairscase to bottom, ran across to other staircase, ran to top and then ran back to bottom. 2nd deck climb consisted of 15 squats and 15 side straddle hops at each level. we ran back to bottom and headed out to pavilion at lake. we did 3 sets of 15 dips, 15 derkins and 15 LBCs mosey back to flag by long way around lake. Came in a few minutes past the buzzer with a total of 3.66 miles covered. YHL closed in prayer.

Three gloom warriors showed up this morning. Pigskin reported coming up with cold (we were not sure if he is coming up with cold, or just complaining that it is cold), we missed him. Whitesnake got injured his rib playing flag football with 10-year olds. We tried not to make too many jokes.

Pinto suggested that Parking deck is warmer, so this is where we went. Here is what happened: we stopped for a warm up and some stretching on the way. First round we did 20 Merkins at every turn for a total of 120. Second round, we did 20 American Hammers at every turn. Then, we went to the lake stopping for 20 Bolgarians, 20 Dips, and 20 Derkins. After that, we went back to the Flag, with few minutes on the clock did more Hammers and the time was up. Overall, great if chilly morning with 3.5 miles of running.

Four regulars showed up and were thankful for no rain . Pigskin stayed back to circle and protect Pocahontas while the three runners took a new WTH path. A left on John Rolfe had them venture South and then back North on Pump until they got to North Gayton Baptist. As they began a 4 corners of 10 Merkins, 20 WWIIs, 30 Hammers and 40 Squats, they heard some recognizable mumble chatter from behind and then were confronted by Gypsy and Mr. Rogers (and dog) running ON THEIR OWN!!

Gypsy helped start WTH many years ago and Mr. Rogers had been a recent recurring attendee. And now they go off on their own!?! Our new route clearly caught them by surprise. I can hear the excuses now: “I am prepping for some silly race and sub 4 minute miles”, “My hair is too cool for WTH”, “I am too busy preparing for an Apocalypse that also involves lots of flowers”, “My dog does not do merkins”, etc.

That’s OK. The three loyalists continued on and did a triple check at the park with dips, incline merkins and running a lap for the timer. We did this twice and were running against time. We ran back to the start and did ten burpees for fun. We got 3.5 miles in plus the exercises and then caught up with Pigskin for some announcements and prayers. Prayers for Pinto and Lighthouse as they have some I-95 fun. Pigskin and I should be at the Convergence tomorrow. Gypsy and Mr. Rogers are welcomed back to WTH anytime, after they each write “WTH is my home” five hundred times on the blackboard.