In attendance (22!) 22 faithful and a newspaper reporter gathered on a surprisingly sunny morning for the YHCs VQ. On the agenda—trails and hills and a few merkins along the way. The THANG. COP (SLIMS) 30x SSH 25x LBCs 25x Imperial walkers 15x Merkins 25x Slow bending squats Crab-Bear-Merkins Start with feet at center of circle, 5 merkins, flip over, backwards crabwalk to edge of circle, flip over, 5 merkins, crawl bear back to center of circle. Repeat 4x. Mosey to down to the pump house Hill runs #1—the pump house Partner up. 1 partner runs up hill to the…
11 of the Faithful jumped out of the farstack on a misty/foggy Friday morning. All were rewarded with a good workout and some good fellowship The Thang: Head towards grove, all take a left. Pick your loop. 10k all the way to 3 chopt, 6 miles to St Catherine’s turnaround loop, 5 miles to Tuckahoe, 4 miles to Wisteria, turnaround, run to The Boulevard and then back to the school and shovel flag. Moleskin: Saab broke away from the pack (of two) at the end to finish the day strong. He passed YHC going up the hill at Libbie and Malvern.…
12 faithful and 2 FNGs at 45 Minutes of Mary hit the ground and did some running in the rainy gloom this morning. Deflated footballs, a yellow frisbee, and a laminated cheat sheet were also in attendance as the men in this PAX got underway to push their limits. ThE tHanG Mosey across the tomato-less basketball courts and wrap around to the far corner of the tennis courts COP Merkins x10 SSH x20 Goofball x12 Scorpion Dry Dock x15 – switching leg somewhere along the way Imperial Walkers x20 Mosey to the soccer field Tunnel of Love:…
The flame of 8 brave souls could not be put out by a little rain. (curb crawls on the other hand…) The THANG COP SSH 25x Mountain Climbers 20x Don Quixote 20x Imperial Walkers 20x Mosey to Bus Loop Curb Crawl Latter 1-7 7-1 Mosey to Basketball courts bleeder SprintS Mosey to football field Teams of 3 or 2 Triple triple check One team on the tire and rope sledgehammer the tire and jump rope Others on the line Lunge down to 50ish run back rotate Run to 50 U.S. Line 5 burpeea To the 100 5 more run back…
Another group of 13 gathered at #NoToll for a Tuesday morning beat down. Here’s how it went down. The Thang: COP: 20 SSH, 25 LBC, 4 then 11 Imperial Squat Walkers, 20 Crab Cakes, 15 Merkins Mosey to Soccer Field Modified Dora 1-2-3 Partner up: as a team, complete 100 Merkins, 200 LBCs, 300 squats; while one partner cranks through the reps, the other runs width of soccer field and back; modifcation: bear crawl or lunge first half of width. Repeat until complete. Additional 200 LBCs added as an audible. Mosey around far fields back to bleachers Lindsays 2 exercises, sets of…
Nine faithful (including a brother from F3 Columbia, SC) and two Friendly New Guys posted at this morning’s version of The Punisher. We started at our usual time which is 30 minutes earlier than another bootcamp workout group which showed at this AO this morning for their first workout. Our Thang: Short Mosey around the front parking lot and back to the west lawn for the initial COP involving – 25 x SSH, 20 x Don Quixotes, 25 x LBCs, and 20 x Imperial Walkers. Jog back to the front parking lot and split into groups taking positions in each…
9 Faithful RVA Pax & 2 very welcome guests gathered at Byrd Park this morning to greet a sunny day with some hard work. Here’s how it went down: COP: 25 SSH, 15 Merkins, 25 Hillbillies, 25 Slow Bending Squats, 25 LBCs Mosey to Vita Loop for Vita Burp Loop: full loop with set of burpees at every turn that was larger than 90 degrees. First stop: 1 burpee, 2nd stop: 2 burpees, etc…up to 5…then back down to 1 Quick COP: 25 Box Cutters Vita Lt. Dan Half Loop: same as Vita Burp Loop but performing sets of “real”…
Our circles were triangles this morning with 3 of the Faithful posting for a rugged ground-based workout at the #GridIron. The triangles were strong … THANG: Mosey to the Pillars with X25 SSHs, X25 Imperial Walkers, and X25 Don Quixotes in transit. COP: 10 Minutes of Burpees: X25 Partner Leg Tosses, X25 Deep Squats, X25 PLTs, X25 DSs, X25 PLTs, X25 DSs, X25 PLTs, and X25 DSs Mosey through Pillars with 2 one minute People’s Chairs Work the Pillars — man up to the Pillars for ground work (few of exercises are “best recollection” and order slightly off but sequence…
2 Runners going for extra credit, and 12 others followed at the normal appointed time. THE THANG Run to Grove turn Right, run to The Boulevard, turn around, run to Three Chopt turn around, and then run back to the Shovel Flag. Shorter distances prevailed because of time constraints. Sweaty COT Moleskin Lug Nut and YHC left a note on YHC’s car with the directions, and CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. We were going for 10K this am. We did make it, Sippy, Marv, and Saab all managed to catch us. Both Marv and Sippy ran back home. Sippy lives…
A lucky 13 posted for the morning ritual at Mary Munford. Treats were promised and treats there were, in the form of hand made bricks from the 1900’s. Two per PAX to accompany them on their beatdown journey today. The Thang: Mosey to field for warm up COP, welcome a disclaimer. All in cadence. 20x SSH, 15x merkins (on bricks), 20x Dying Cochroaches, 25x Imperial Walkers. Mosey to line of 11 Trees for …. you guessed it 11’s. Start with 10 Lt. Dan’s and 1 Squat Jump with bricks. When you complete the 11’s do Brick Burpees until all PAX…