Tag: WaThoHuk

only 2 of us for WaThoHuk Wednesday. We ran a big square from the school, to around the lake, around the new condominiums, to Broad Street to Pump Road to Three Chopt and back to the school. We still had time left, so we did 20 Merkins, 20 Dollies, 20 Merkins and 20 Dollies. Then to the track. I managed 3 laps and a little more. Lighthouse did more of course, including merkins and dollies. Back to the flag.

3rd F (Faith)
Thank you for taking us out Lighthouse. I hope your cousin’s travels to the US are safe and she makes it here soon.

2nd F (Fellowship)

• BRR teams need drivers … See Slack BRR channel if you can help out
• 2nd Tuesday 2nd F lunch is next week on the 9th in Short pump/Innsbrook area
• The Crucible launch this Saturday at 730 .. come out and support the men at Healing Hands.

1st F: (Fitness)
4 Pax this morning as we joined together to take on the day from Pocahontas Middle school. Nothing complex today.. no crazy rules or burpees for running guys over.
Warm up run as we ran over to Short Pump Station ( 3/4 mile)
Some quick stretching
Three sets of Four corners around the Short Pump Station. Each time around we added an exercise.
(Each lap was 1KM)
1st round 20 LBCs at the corners
2nd round 20 LBCs and 20 Flutters each corner
3rd round 20 LBCs, 20 Flutters, 20 reverse crunches each corner

Follow Pigskin back to the AO since he had to depart early.

On to the Track.
Sprint the curves and walk the straights. a Few laps around until we were out of time.

Over all 3.5 miles today 240 LBCs, 160 flutters, 80 reverse crunches 400m of sprints.

NMS: I hope all is well with each of you. Lots of Covid case in the pax right now.. many needed prayers for family and personal well-being..
call a pax and go meet him for lunch.. learn something new about someone you share time with in the gloom.

To much to write about, but work is wearing me out this week so i have to drop.

v/r
Gypsy

We did about 3.2 miles from the flag to Short Pump park, at the park we did a warmaramma, ran in some circles doing abs exercises (LBC, WWII, Flutters), did some triple checks with dips and step ups and more running and got rained on. Add a COT and all before you need to click to

Arrived at the AO at Zero Dark Thirty to see tres amigos (Pigskin, Whitesnake, and Lighthouse) already milling about. At 530, Whitesnake said something to the effect of: “well, I guess we don’t have a Q.”. Having now been in RVA for 7 months, and becoming an almost weekly regular at WTH, I quickly volunteered to run point for the morning. Only problem was, I had no plan. No issue, as I’ve been here before and as per one of my favorite songs, we made it up as we went along.

Workout went something like this:

• Head out from the AO and run to Windsor Place/Thamesford Way neighborhood
• Halt at the small cul-de-sac right off Thamesford for the disclaimer and a brief warm up: side-shuffle hops (shout-out F3 Churham/NC), alternating shoulder taps, merkins
• Drafting off Whitesnake’s Q from last week, we then headed to the parking lot at Church Run Community Pool for Elevens, consisting of squat jumps and merkins
• After Elevens, caught our breath with a smattering of Mary exercises
• Departed the parking lot, back to the cul-de-sac for 6-count burpees
• Continued the run, back across Three Chopt, around the lake to the gazebo for dips/derkins
• Run back to the shovel flag for more Mary and a few stretches
• 3.1 miles per YHC’s watch

No announcements or prayer requests. Appreciate the opportunity to lead!

Gypsy reminded some and informed others of the origination of the WaThoHuk name. I did a little research to add to the story. It was Jim Thorpe’s name from being a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and is translated as “Bright Path”. Jim Thorpe is one of the greatest athletes ever, second to Pigskin. When looking for a new name of this AO, that is located at Pocahontas Middle School, a Native American name was desired and no better athlete for some inspiration than Jim Thorpe. He is also a good lesson for all of us as he struggled a lot after his athletic career with alcoholism, money, finding work and cancer. Being a good or great athlete is not the ultimate goal.

We leaned some of this from Gypsy while running into the Windsor Place West neighborhood. We then stopped at the little cul-de-sac for some warmaramma of SSH, Cherry/Strawberry Pickers, Merkins and Arm Circles. We then ran down to the Church Run pool parking lot where some coupons magically appeared. Coupons at WTH may be a first.

We did 5 coupon exercises of ten reps each and in between ran to the other end of the lot and did a ladder of burpees (starting at 5 and going down to 1). Exercises were Overhead press, Curls, Merkins with hands on Coupon, Flutter Kicks while holding up Coupon and Triceps. Had time for one more and Brick voted for Merkins again so we ran to the end of the lot, did 5 more burpees and then back for Merkins.

Back to Thamesford Way and went up and down the hill 3 times doing 20 LBCs at the top. Started back and did 5 squats at each recycling bin (4 or 5 bins total) then moseyed back to the flag. Ran 3.5 miles total. Coupons are behind the dumpsters in the back of the pool parking lot for the future.

Always an honor and pleasure to host my favorite AO.

3 enjoyed some running in the morning. We stopped for three rounds of 20 decline Merkings, 20 dips, and 20 LBCs. After that ran some more, stopping at a football field for a ladder of Burpees starting at one and ending at ten. Finished with more running.

Three esteemed colleagues gathered at the 2022 WTH Accounting and Economics conference to debate the recession, housing market and burpees.

Required Session 1: Are we in a Recession? We ran West on Three Chopt and determined the answer. It is only available to paying attendees.

Required Session 2: Icebreaker/Parking lot warm-up. Speakers included Side Straddle Hops, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers & Ukrainian Soldiers. Ended with everyone’s favorite speaker, 10 burpees OYO.

Required Session 11’s: Counted the 10 burpees as the beginning and then ran up the lot to meet the engaging presenter, Jump Squats and then back and forth doing 11’s. Pigskin maintained the T-account to keep track of how many were left.

Break: Run up Westgate behind Panera and then behind Dunkin, up to Broad, down Pump to SPES and down to the football field. Discussions may have included new Rev Rec rules and Deferred Taxes.

Required Session 4: “How has Accounting and Economics changed since WWII?” To find the answer we ran back and forth behind the goalposts, doing ten incline WWIIs 6 times. The main lesson was that it was really wet. This session will not be available for replay on youtube.

Final Session: Back to the Flag.

Ended up with 3.5 miles running and some other exercises. CPE Certificates will be mailed shortly.

Hard to believe, but it was 70 and sunny. 5 enjoyed the perfect weather by running cul-de-sacs and doing 10 hand-release Merkins, 20 WWII, and 30 SSH at each cul-de-sacs.

It was great to see Gypsy (and his dog) walking the bus loop while the rest of us ran 4.25 miles and did some other exercises to slow us down. We missed a WTH regular in Pigskin but I am confident he and Mickey Mouse were doing burpees while we did our thing. Here is how it went:

The group ran to West Broad Village and around the lake before cutting over to Thamesford Way. We then ran to the end and cut over to the Church Run pool parking lot. After some warmups of Imperial Walkers, Don Quixote and Freddie Mercury’s, we tackled some 7’s of WWIIs and Burpees, running back and forth between parking lot islands in between.

While I considered running to Gomer Pyle’s house, I forgot the TP so instead we ran back to Thamesford and hit every cul-de-sac on the left and alternated between 20 LBCs (3 times) and 10 Merkins (2 times). We then went back to the West Broad Village lake and ran to the Gazebo. There we did 20 dips and 10 Derkins. From there we look the long way back to the flag and met back up with Gypsy.

Announcements: Convergence on Monday at 7AM, park near Tredegar/Belle Island. Bridge on 6/4. Next 2nd Tuesday West End 2nd F lunch on 6/14.

Prayers for Gypsy, Pinto, my friend Ryan, and all the Texas families impacted by the terrible tragedy yesterday.

Thanks for letting me Q this morning. Always a pleasure.