4 strong started at 5 for some hill repeats (Every hill in TYA’s neighborhood) 2 times up and back except for the biggest hill Charmian 3 times on that sucker – 5 miles ! 3 started at 5:30 and knocked some hills out – 3 miles ! It sure was a hot one way to work guys. TYA good call on the hill repeats that was tough…. Couple weeks out till BRR so – great training ! See y’all in the gloom…
A notorious nine gathered in the gloom for 45 minutes of Mary beatdown. Well, um, one of the nine forgot to bring his shoes, so he had to run home and then came back to join us about 10 minutes later. So 9, then 8, then 9 again. Here’s what happened: Mosey west on Grove, hang a left on Luck Lane, Circle up in the First Pres parking lot. COP: Deadman hang // Helicopters // DQs // Cherry pickers // Imperial Walkers // Russian Soldiers // APDs // LBCs// Tempo Merkins // Plank Jacks // Pickle Pounders // SSHs 7…
6 LPGA want-to-be’s showed up to a Forge beatdown knowing not what was in store for them. According to the off color, color man this is what went down. Mosey / try to out run GP coming in hot COP – DQ’s, Helicopters, Weed Pickers, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers Mosey to the back of the school at the bottom of the steps Crab Cakes and LBC’s, Box Jump to the top Find 12 (cheep Wal Mart) Frisbees take one and write your name on the painters tape on the bottom. YHC will pick an object (as the flag) for each…
Lucky number 7 PAX posted in high humidity at Timberwolf to take on The Cooper. Here’s what transpired. Warmarama : 20 SSH IC 10 Russian Soldiers IC 10 Don Q’s IC 10 Cherry Pickers IC 10 Imperial Walkers IC 10 Merkins IC Mosey to Track THE THANG : The Cooper – Run a lap around track then do 10 burpees, 10 squats and 10 merkins. Run a lap around track then do 9 of each exercise. Repeato down to 1 rep of each exercise. Mosey back to Ole Glory COP : Each PAX calls out an ab exercise of 10…
Mea Culpa Oyster ended up missing the start of our run last week but ended up running his own route. He did meet us at the end for our COT. YHC offers humble apologies to Oyster for leaving him off the backblast from last week.
A lucky 7 turned out for a soggy hot potato Q at WDog. Despite the slop, spirits were high. Bodos grabbed the reins and here’s how it went down: COP: Mosey into the base of the amphitheater for Dead M Hang, Cherry Pickers, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers and Russian Soldiers. THE THANG: Bodos Q: Triple Check with Incline Merkins, WW2 Sit-ups and a lap around the amphitheater steps. One group of 3 and one group of 4. Hand off to BT… BT Q: Stay put in the amphitheater for a Mint Julep (5 Box Jump Burpees, run to top of steps,…
hot potato ? doozy with cop – warmups then parking lot tracer bullseye with crawl bears, bear crawls, an assortment of exercises in between with a Yukon surprised by the rinse and repeat method. Wedding singer with a 4 min all out track run, some abs kicked to yours truly to finish. I went Kung fu style with dan’s dojo. Run up the hill, many front, side and round kicks, Kung fu hustle and a Mary ring at the flag. Announcements and prayer requests, Doozy took us out with a good word. There is no finer set of gentlemen to…
The choking predawn jungle humidity of WaThoHuk cloaked four Jimmy Tango acolytes with shaking beads of sweat as the PAX embarked on another Meth-fueled journey to Bust the Fat for good. See video for context… https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/jimmy-tangos-fat-busters/2861295 WARMERAMA: Four laps around the bus loop with x10 stretch reps IC after each lap THE THANG, AKA “Ride the Snake”: Run to the neighborhood, with interval stops every 50-100 yards, completing increasing increments of variable exercises at each stop… x5 Body Builder Burpees ICRunx10 Opus Walkout Merkins ICRunx15 WWIIRunETC ETC, for a total of 20 stops, riding the neighborhood snake of fat busting glory,…
A quintet of early risers descended upon the River Road Baptist Church parking lot to see what YHC had in store. No rain, but the dewy thickness of August was certainly present. 5 am sharp and no lights needed, lets begin: Mosey to church patio for warmarama that included the following: Dead Man Hang, DQ’s, Helicopters, Plank Jacks, Heels to Heaven and the ever popular Scorpion Kicks (still not sure what this accomplishes). Everyone seemed warm, lets move. THE THANG: Mosey to church parking lot for 7 of Diamonds. 4 corners of the parking lot with the following exercises at…
Shang Chi, the new Marvel movie, debuts over Labor Day Weekend. YHC is trying to get a group together for some 2nd F to see it but wanted to get input first on location, day and time. YHC’s thought on location is CMX CinéBistro at Stony Point (9200 Stony Point Pkwy Suite 101, Richmond, VA 23235). This location is very central within the F3RVA footprint so it seems optimal but YHC is open to suggestions? The one problem with CMX CinéBistro is we’d have to wait until 1 week before the date to purchase tickets, whereas other movie theaters around…