Tag: WaThoHuk

Eight great men came to the big sale and the free 20 minutes of bootcamp was the clear promotion winner. 7 ran off to short pump park while Pigskin did his Pocahontas workout solo. The lucky seven did some warmups of DQ, Helicopters, Moroccans & Ukranian Soldiers and then did elevens of dips and merkins and ran the park circle for about a mile total.

The lucky seven eventually found a street in the Village and did some Bear Crawls one way and WWIIs the other and ran back to find Pigskin. Total mileage of 3.4.

Pigskin was feeling better today and ran around Pocahontas for 45 minutes and stopped for merkins and dips. Basically, we all ran in circles and did merkins and dips.

We all joined together for a minute of Freddie Mercuries.

Announcements:

Brunch Club run this Sat at 6:30 before Gridiron at the Starbucks across from the mall. Frozen Triangle 1/21. Amazon merchandise sorting and loading/unloading MLK day. Happy Hour tonight with the Daville crew. See Slack for all the details of these and more.

Great turnout today and thankful I got to lead a little.

With people out of town, others on the sick list and Roger Roger flying, it was just Lighthouse and me today. 6 trips at a fast walk around the school, 200 merkins and 200 dips. Discussion of coal in Ukraine and what happened when Nixon froze prices (again) in 1973.

I just remembered I never wrote up the WaThoHuk from last Wednesday. It’s because I was the only one. I know illness claimed two of the regulars. And none of the semi-regulars were there. And no one from out of town. So I did my (these days) usual. 5 times around the school, 20 merkins, 20 dips, twice each time around the school for a total of 200 merkins and 200 dips. That left me with enough time to walk around the school one more time. Merry Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten! Feliz Navidad!

A visitor from Raleigh, El Chapo, plus two local F3ers met at Pocahontas Middle School. While El Chapo and Lighthouse went running to places unknown and doing the usual WaThoHuk workout, YHC walked around the school 6 times (1 more time and the school would have fallen down) and did 200 merkins and 200 dips.

Questions were asked about how El Chapo was able to escape from confinement. That information is classified, but if you show up at WaThoHuk, we will provide some useful suggestions in case you end up confined. In the meantime, he plans to return before anyone figures out he was missing. El Chapo hates to miss his F3 workouts.

Like El Chapo, you should be equally dedicated to your F3 workouts. And unlike El Chapo, it’s easier for you to make it to a workout.

Two runners got in 4.2 miles, 55 hand release merkins, 55 squats, 30 dips, 30 step ups and some thorns while Pigskin did 200 merkins and 200 dips with some walking. Where were you?

4 regulars showed up this dark and rainy morning. Interestingly, everyone thought that no one else is going to show up. But, show up they did! Ran to a parking deck. After a usual warm-up we did sevens. First round was hand-release Merkins and two-count Freddies, second round was Burpees and American Hammers. Ran to the lake, did three rounds of 20 Dips, 10 Derkins, and 20 Squats. Ran back to the flag. Finished with 20 pole smokers. Overall, ran 3.8 miles. Great job everyone.

The morning started off with Offshore being so excited for his FNG (Yoda) to show up that he locked his keys in his car. And it ended with him racing off in Pinto’s car which surprisingly outran my CRV.

In between, a stretching Pigskin sensed the following:

A 3 mile run interrupted by warmups of Helicopters, cherry pickers, imperial walkers, dolly’s, suzanne somers. Then we did P.I.L.G.R.I.M.S. in between runs:

P: 16 Plank jacks

I: 21 Iron Mike

L: 16 Lt. Dans (1 squat, 4 (2 count) lunges)

G: 21 Groiners

R: 16 Reverse Crunches

I: 21 Imperial Squat Walkers

M: 16 Merkins

S: 21 Singlet Merkins (stopped early due to time, not because I could not do anymore …)

My counting today was poor and only my instructions were worse. But the 6 runners did great and hopefully Pigskin’s stretching gives him some comfort today.

Our FNG, now known as Yoda, was the Rev. Hung Su Lim. He is a Star Wars fan and a preacher so Yoda fit. He toughed it out today and hope we get to see him again soon. Offshore brought him out and he also knows Gomer who we theorized had too much to drink at Hardywood last night to come to WTH.

Prayers for all who travel and for those with nowhere to go. Have a great Thanksgiving and either join a Mary Munford bootcamp crew at 6 or a White Deer led Kettlebell crew at 5:30. Or try to double-dip if looking to improve your 2022 data count.

If one were to check F3RVA.Org and the WaThoHuk workout, you would see “Run focused Bootcamp”. However, rumor has it that if you check from somewhere deep in Goochland, it says otherwise.

Thanks to the deceit of the innerwebs, Tater made a special appearance. Despite the option to join a sore Pigskin to do some burpees and light running at the site of the AO, Tater instead joined the running crew through the fog. According to the bacon smell from Whole Foods, this is what happened:

Ran to the West Broad Village playground for warmups of SSH, IW, Ukrainian Soldiers, Freddies & LBCs. Continue running to the end of the village and the new row houses with the great view of the 64 exit ramp. At that parking lot, we did 5 circuits of lunges (~ 20 yards), 20 squats and 10 merkins. Ran to the diamond store and took on some Captain Thor’s. It is a Jack Webb starting with one WWII followed by four American Hammers. Worked our way to ten WWIIs and forty American Hammer. Took some breaks in the middle to stretch our backs. This set of exercises started with Tater saying something like “I’m going to steal this for Gridiron” and ended with all of us saying something like “never again” and “I hate Whitesnake”.

We then ran back to the flag. Only hit 2.8 miles total. Taking on the best Marvel has to offer comes with consequences.

Seven beautiful men ran to the newish Everleigh 55 and Over apartments to see what my future looks like in 4 years. After a quick warmup of arm circles, Suzanne Somers and helicopters, we then did the Cooper which is 10 burpees, squats and merkins followed by a lap around the Everleigh carpark (~ 200 meters), then 9 of each exercise, 8, 7, etc. down to 1. The lap included certain areas to hold your breath as either we were near some sewer gas outlet, the residents use some area of the carpark as a toilet or there is a Depends recycling bin nearby.

We then ran back to the flag. 3.9 miles total running plus 55 burpees, squats and merkins. Primo was visiting/auditing us from Charlotte and it was great to see Termite back at WTH.

All are welcome at the best AO in Richmond.

I slightly foggy morning greeted us today for a nice solid building WTH classic, The Cul-De-Sac workout, if you know, you know!

The Thing:

Good Morning No pre-volunteered Que so I grabbed it and lets go!! Mosey over to one of our favorite neighborhoods to get dogs barking early and motion lights shinning as we worked every Cul-De-Sac in the community. Run to cul-de-sac 15 Merkins, 20 LBCs and off to the next one, 9 of them in total and then Mosey back to flag with a long cut around the lake and 1 final stop at the pavilion to make the math easy, 1 more set to round our morning at 150 merkins completed, 200 LBCs done. As we made it back to flag location time allowed the bus loop lap to reach 4 miles of distance covered and we are ready for candy eating. Nice chatter about Halloween activities in todays communities and childhood memories, daylight savings times conversation….does it end or not?? I closed us in prayer and called it a wrap.