Ten plump turkeys strutted their way over to the parking lot for this week’s iteration of Hoedown. Nary a mention of the Redskins today so off we mosey’d to the front of the school, passing the neon ladies, for something that went like this. COPHigh Knees x15Butt Kickers x15Speed Skaters x10Don Quixotes x10Flutter Kicks x20Mountain Climbers x10HRMs x10 The ThangMosey back over to the blacktop for Lindsays. Squats and straight up merkins. Run the distance of the blacktop between sets. Scurry over to Linsday Ct for repeating iterations of catch me if you can. Partner up with one partner doing…
2-PACs sallied forth into the evening Gloom for some fellowship and a good meal. COP (FYI: this means “Circle of Pain,” as in, the PAX has to circle up, which the PAX did – Vers thought this was weird.): YHC failed to read all of the instructions while starting to cook bar-b-que. YHC asked for advice from a more experienced member of the PAX, who suggested that a quick flip of the Q to her (YHC’s M) would help, and things were quickly straightened out. With that and a ton of advice, she re-earned her FO3 designation. Someone give the…
They came, they saw, they conquered the run
21 of RVA’s finest came out and humored YHC is his efforts to try something new at Dogpile. This is how it went down Circle up around the SF for the disclaimer and the plan for the day COP replaced with the Cotton-eyed Joe – Cotton Eyed Joe by Rednex (3:14) Start with SSH to music when singing starts. When Banjo (as well as the fiddle) solo starts switch to Hillbillies, then music changes and woman sings, switch to merkins, Then switch back to Side Straddle Hops when man sings again. Rinse & Repeat: Man singing: SSH / Banjo solo:…
11 rugged warrior prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday with a strong Gridiron beatdown. Despite cold temps and sluggish energy, the PAX persevered and conquered the morning. Here is how it went down: Parking lot tracersCOP40 SSH15 DQ10 Russian soldiers15 helicopters25 HRM10 2x Suzanne Somers, each leg50 2x LBC25 2x APDMosey through the woods to the softball field for a modified arch loader, which included bear crawls, crab walks, duck walks, bunny hops and crawl bears with 125 WWII sit-ups, 55 crab cakes and 55 pickle pounders10 Bernies with 2x 20 PLTsMosey to the football field for a triple check with…
Six intrepid men arose to meet a decently warm November morn, enough that some bare legs were present. Here is how it went down. Mosey to blacktop for COP: SSH, LBC’s, DQ, arm circles, helicopters. Mosey to end of field for some run and fun. Run 100% of field, 100 LBC’s, return to start, 20 HRM. Run 75% of field, 75 plank jacks, return, 20 HRM. Run 50% of field, 50 SSH, return, 20 HRM. Run 25% of field, 25 2 count flutter kicks, return, 20 HRM. Run 10% of field, 10 merkins, return, 20 HRM, Al Gore for the…
Eleven runners plus four on rubber didn’t really gather at 530 and everyone did a variety of things. Due to limited numbers at 530, YHC called the negative split route up Commonwealth and east on Monument. Turning around at 23 minutes and getting back in 22. The original intent was to do Fartleks. Sippy showed up right at 530 and YHC was able to convince him that Fartleks were the way to go. So, 15 minute warm up followed by ten 1 minute pickups. 1 minute hot at a faster than 5k pace followed by 30 second recovery. Do this…
AMRAP for 45 minutes 10 of each MerkinsDiamond MerkinsMerkinsWerkinsMerkinsIncline MerkinsMerkinsStaggered Merkins – one wayMerkinsStaggered Merkins – other way Numberama Namearama YHC took us out NMS YHC and some of the other Da’Ville PAX wanted to go to DTH’s Most Merkin Challenge, but with morning duties and the distance it did not look it would happen. So a challenge was issued to the Forge and YHC took the Q for the Anvil. Strong work was put in by all men involved. It was an horror to lead Results Trout – 720 Corned Beef – 820 Opus – 810 Beulah – 400…
The studliest and craziest eight gloom warriors in all the land posted to The Forge this morning to win back the Most Merkin Banner. With a minimum of 860 to beat the Mary boys, and the pressure of Mudface and his Anvil men competing this AM for the same honor, DTH felt compelled to pull out all stops… as follows: The THANG: Light Pole Warmerama Mosey toward school, completing x10 merkins at each light poleRunning total = 80 Seven of Diamonds Stop in bus loop to complete merkins at each corner of the Diamond1 Round completed (7/14/21/28/21/14/7)Running total = 192…
A mighty 10 strong showed up on bitter cold (Cerano’s car showed 29 degrees) beat down at Timberwolf. The weightmen challenge was on the menu. To make a long store short when YHC was in track the weightmen (shot put/discus) men would challenge the 4×400 relay team (They had to do exercise during relay while we just ran) to relay and if we won we got to run in the meet. This was a twist as in true F3 fashion we all did exercises (see below). Can you guess if I was a weightmen? 5:30 time to Mosey and get…