Tag: WaThoHuk

3 of us at WTH today. Gomer did his own thing and Lighthouse and I did the following. Right on 3 Chopt Road to John Rolfe, right to Old Brick, right to the parking deck near Dave and Buster’s. A few exercises while I recovered my breath. Then up the stairs to the top of the parking deck, across the top level and down the other stairwell, 20 merkins and back up the stairs to the top level, over to the initial stairwell and down to the start. 5 times. A little stretching. Over to the little gazebo on the lake. 15 Dips in cadence, a little stretching and return around the lake back to the start. 2 or 3 times around the ‘island’ at the school. Total distance, about 3.5 miles.

Pinto will be missed for awhile. He is on rehab. Prayers that he doesn’t get too frustrated with the length of his recovery.

Announcements:

May 30 Convergence at Brown’s Island

June 4 Blood Drive at Epiphany Lutheran. Please sign up on Redcrossblood.org

June 4 The Bridge

Perfect weather and an early sunrise welcomed 5 to WaThoHuk this morning for a Garbage Plate running boot camp VQ. Here’s what went down:

Mosey to Barrington for tour de cul-de-sac: 7 spots, 10-15x HRM each stop

Cross to West Broad Village and around the lake for a stop on the grassy ridge with 25 x PLT, 25 x squats and 25 x inclined WWII.

Mosey to Liesfeld Parkway and partner up for alternating bear crawl, crab walk, lunge, burpee broad jump rotations as we moved progressively down the street with the timer running to the next brick paved area and back. We passed 6 of the 7 paver sections before time was called.

Head back to the flag for Numberama, Namerama, Announcements (blood drive June 4, upcoming 2 yr Currahee anniversary, HDHH today 5:30 at the Answer, prayers for Whitesnake neighbor) and YHC took us out.

Tuckahoe takeover continues… Favorite mumble chatter today: ”we’ve never done anything quite like this before” Great work today fellas, ~3.6 miles on my GPS and thanks for humoring a fresh Q. Until next time, GP

Wellesley 5k 

The healthy pax incurred a 3.4 mule run with bootcamp around the Wellesley lake.. 7 pax showed up on this beautiful morning and said whos the Q. Of course they stared at me and said since you been AWOL for so long. Needless to say we dove in and here’s how it went:

The Thang:

Mosey over a mile to our first stopping point down the hill and into the basketball courts near the lake. 

Warm-a-rama: 

Don Q

Helicopters

Plank

Merkins

Stretch x 3

Partner work out x 6

Partner 1 runs the hill partner 2 squats 

Second set: 

Ben Hurleys on the basketball goal while other partner runs

Quick fico score countdown to reveal we’re all approaching the 700s.

Mosey to stopping point 2

Wellesley gazebo for a scenic dip

25x dips OYO

Mosey to the flag taking the scenic route around the lake for.

Flag pole stretches followed by  American hammers and LBCs to cap the 3.4 mile trot.

Enjoyable morning gents thanks for letting me host! Felt good to be back and see everyone! also in all humility the Q fell down the massive hill climbs 3x. Always sunny and always humble! SYITG

Announcements:

Gomer Pyle Thursday extra ticket to watch an event

Jun 4 bucking ham trip leaving at 5:30 to workout with folks in Dilwyn

Blood drive see slack or reach out to pigskin 

Had a good/patient group this morning for my 3rd Q. After losing my breath 5 minutes in, Lighthouse taught me to not count every piece of the cadence. What a difference! (of course) Pigskin also counted in English more than usual to help.

From there, the mix of running and bootcamp leaned too much on the running side. Lesson learned.

Here’s what we did:

Ran to Wells Fargo. Some security camera likely caught 20 Side-straddle hops,15 Imperial Walkers, 15 Don Quixote’s and 20 Flutter kicks. And me learned to breathe while reminiscing Homer’s cadence skills.

Ran to the first parking lot on Westgate. Did a modified Dora, group of 2 sharing 50 Merkins, 100 LBCs and 150 Squats, group of 3 needing to do math and 75 Merkins, 150 LBCs and 225 Squats.

Ran behind the Panera and the smell of coffee, then ran behind the Dunkin Donuts to the entrance to the apartment complex there. Too dark to see the American Flag but it is the thought the counts. Here the Pax was super excited to do 50 WWIIs.

Went to Broad St and took a right, ran down Pump to the Softball field next to the school. Everyone went to a base. Everyone did Merkins. Home plate started with 10 then ran to relieve 1st (every base keeps doing Merkins until relieved) who then ran to relieve 2nd, and so on. Yes, that means 3rd base sucked.

Ran the pathway through the woods. Stopped for 20 seconds midway for some 3rd F. Showed the Pax the spiritual labyrinth there. Worth a visit when you have the time.

Ran back to Pocahontas. Ended up running ~3.25 miles. Will do more WWII’s next time and run less.

Announcements:
Bluegrass Jam benefit for the Fisher House, April 30 (rvabluegrassjam.com for more info)
Blood drive June 4 at Epiphany Lutheran (sign up on red cross site).

Pigskin took out us.

Looking forward to my next Q and seeing whether I did this wordpress thing right.

After a slight delay (Dingy rolling in a bit late due to high seas) the crew set off down John Rolf Pkwy for a one mile warmup followed by a run through two neighborhoods seemingly following a delivery truck (right turns only as the big brown trucks like to do) into most every cul-de-sac we were able to find.

The Thang: And here is what might have gone down – Each cul-de-sac offered a new exercise completed in cadence:

1. SSH (20)
2. DQ’s (20)
3. Helicopters (20)
4. Cherry Pickers (20)
5. 15 Burpee’s oyo
6. Freddy Mercury’s (20)
7. Merkins (15)
8. APD (20)
9. LBC (21) – we had so much fun YHC added an extra one for good measures
10. Plank Jacks (15)
11. American Hammer (25)

Cool down run back to the flag for COT Counterama (5), Namerama, Announcerama and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• 2ndF every 2nd Tuesday of every month starts up next week 4/12 in the Short Pump area. Watch for details on Slack 2nd F channel
• Pigskin is working on blood drive coming up in about 2 months – details to follow
• Tonight HDHH @The Answer brew pub – Run/Walk @5 PM (optional), 2nd F starting 5:30 PM

A decent day for a nice morning run with a mixed upper body exercise.  We ran around the pond area and started to warm up with my awesome bad cadence routine, at least 30 dips. Then we ran to the garage and add 1 burpee on every turn up to the top (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 burpees). Then ran down with 10 LBCs every turn.  2nd round with 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 burpees.  Ran down with 10 sumo-squats every turn.  The 3rd round with 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 merkins.  Wow, we have 5 minutes left.  Pinto showed us the shortcut back to the Parking lot.  What an awesome workout with great fellows who did not complain anything about my burpees.  Yippy!

3 regulars and a FNG showed to work off some March madness calories on a beautiful spring morning

The Thing,

Mosey from lot over to Wells Fargo at Pump and Three Chopt, Side Straddle Hops, Ukranian Solders, Don Q’s, Merkins, LBC for a warm up and then head back out over to Pond at Wellsley, pull up and add 3 sets of 25 merkins, 25 WW2s, and 25 Side Straddle hops, mosey to tunnel under lauderdale. 11s back and forth in tunnel Merkins and Squats, mosey by way of Lauderdale to Three chopt, stop at Credit union to deposit some sweat: 10 burpees, 25 LBCs lap around building X 3, out of time and run back to base. 3.8 miles covered. FNG shared on way back he may be young and look strong but he is out of shape, Welcome aboard, Dingy!

At WaThoHuk, we’re not afraid of a little rain and 42 degrees. OK, Lighthouse and I aren’t. We ran out of the parking lot at Pocahontas to 3 Chopt Road, took a right, another right on John Rolfe, a right on Old Brick and headed to the parking deck on the same block as Dave and Buster’s. Three trips up and down the ramps. First time, a stop at each end of the ramp for increasing flutter kicks (4, 8, 12, etc.) Ended up doing 44 flutters kicks on the last stop. Next time, Merkins (1, 2, 3, etc). Final time, squats (4, 8, etc). By that time, it was 6:10 so we headed back. Not nearly as bad as we anticipated.

 

Prayers for Lighthouse’s family in Kyiv, Ukraine and Roger Roger’s family.

3rd F (Faith)

• Thank you Pigskin for taking us out
• 3rd F last Friday on the 25th at Starbucks by 288 on Broad

2nd F (Fellowship)

• Speed For Need will be rolling again in Charlottesville on March 12 at the Haven 8K.. Aggie is the race Q
• VHBG help is on the 26th at 10am. Bring a mask and box cutter.

1st F (Fitness)

7 pax in attendance today as we start the Wednesday off right.

A little light mosey into Barrington. Wind our way to the back were there is a perfect spot for a mile of 11s. Merkins at one cul-de-sac and LBCs at the other.

Finish that up and find our way back out. Stopping at the entrance to do flutters for the 6. Cross over 3 chopt and head over to the pergola overlooking the Goose Pond. Little more work to do with 10 step ups on the benches, 10 dips, 10 Durkins. Still have about 10 minutes left… we’ll take the long way back to the AO. Rumor has it that Splinter lead a very leg heavy day at Hoedown on Monday and few pax were still sore.. So YHC opted out of the last five minutes for Mary for the pax in lieu of leg stretches.

Great work by all.. around 4 miles of running and some good bootcamp as well.

Thank you for allowing me to lead today . And as always, if you’ve made it this far down the back blast..take the next 5 minutes and text or call a brother you haven’t heard from in a while. It may be exactly what he needs today.

v/r

John (Gypsy) Boles

Lighthouse, Roger Roger and I gathered in the cold and the dark. We took off out the entrance to Pocahontas Middle School and turned right. We took a right on John Rolfe to Liesfeld and stopped for a brief warmup. Next, Roger Roger took us to Short Pump Park. We ran the ‘circuit’ four times; First time we ran a loop and did 10 Merkins, Second time, run a loop and did 10 Merkins and 20 LBCs, next 10 Merkins, 20 LBCs, 15 Dips and finally 10, 20, 15 and 25 of I forget.

Lighthouse took over. We exited Short Pump Park on Pump Road, left turn on Three Chopt and back to the school. We did 4 corners in the parking lot with 20 Hand release Merkins, 30 LBCs, 40 I forget (a popular exercise today) and 50 Pickle Pounders. Despite the cold, no pickles were harmed.

Then to the track for three rounds of 200 meters ‘fast’ and 200 slow; or in my case 200 slow and 200 meters slower.

I took over and we ran to the ‘island’. Three rounds of 15 Derkins, 15 Dips and 1 lap.

From there, we ran back to the start and met Gypsy who was in the midst of a 10 mile run.

Always great to have people to run with, especially people who will make sure you finish the route.

Busy day ahead for Roger Roger. I’m looking at my 7-month-old grandson waking up from a nap on the floor. I owe him a bottle in a half hour. Fortunately, he is very good-natured. Being a granddad is easy, at least most of the time. He’s a very charming little fellow. We have him because his daycare is closed for Covid and his mother and father both work. Earlier, he did some Little Baby Crunches. Got to get him started off right. As I told someone else, he also does deconstructed Burpees; he burps and he pees. Maybe I can get him to a workout. Sometimes, he wakes up early enough.