Mid-seventies and muggy – perfect ingredients for another DTH sweatfest. No cards, no cabers, just pure ground & pound perfection. Fourteen veteran fartsack escapees woke up with a fever, and since DTH forgot his cowbell, the only prescription was more pain! The THANG: Partner Up – Partner Carry (alternate as needed) to COP #1 in the Parking Lot: SSH, Imp Walkers, Russian Soldiers, DQ’s, Ball Dippers, Cherry Pickersx15 reps for each exercise, all IC Mosey around Field 1 and end up at bleachers for COP #2: Partner up for 11’s Counting up with Box JumpsCounting down with BropeesWheelbarrow between sides (much…
Mosey about 10 feet for COP. SSH, Helicopters, DQs all IC Mosey to the Soccer field behind AHS for Jack Webb abs. 1 WWII followed by 4 reverse crunches. 2 WWII followed by 8 reverse crunches. All the way up to 10 WWII followed by 40 reverse crunches. (The PAX can thank Chum for that one) Mosey to corner of soccer field for for corners. Corner 1=10 burpees. Corner 2=10 burpees, 20 LBCs. Corner 3=10 burpees, 20 LBCs, 30 merkins. Corner 4=10 burpees, 20 LBCs, 30 merkins and 40 squats. Mosey to BBALL courts for suicides. Regular and Reverse with…
A six PAX posted at Heartbreak Ridge for 70 and sunny summer fun: Mosey to left field of the baseball field for COP: SSH, Hillbillies, Don Quixotes, Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks, Freddie Mercurys, Scorpion Kicks IC. Mosey to right field for Sally, first introduced to the PAX by Rosie. During Moby’s song Flower, hold plank and go down to 6 inches on “bring Sally down” and back up on “bring Sally up”. Mosey to the softball field for Frogger: Split into two teams. One team lines up on the first base path and the other on the third base path.…
19 runners posted to Spider Run, including many summer tourists. The clock struck 0530 and off we went with the New Market crew and others filing in the back door. 4-mile route was out Westhampton Way and UR Drive to River Road, across the shopping center parking lot and across the bridge. Turnaround at the end of the bridge (no ramps) and retrace your steps and finish with a lap around the lake. 5-milers – across the lake and down the trail to Campus Drive and across and up University. Left on Westham Pkwy and across River to Country Squire.…
A PAX of six posted for the last spring Punisher faced a game time temperature of 91 degrees. YHC brought a Trader Joe’s bag with a couple of props with hopes of an even number of attendees. Offshore broke through the hedge row with a couple of minutes to spare giving us six. At 6 PM sharp we moseyed to the shaded school yard and started with a running warm up across the front of the school gym including 2 x High Knees, 2 x Butt Kickers, 2 x Karaoke, a 66% run, and a 90% finisher. Move SSW into…
9 Monday Runners including one 2.0, got their week started with some miles. YHC had warned the PAX on FB the night before that we would be running the Rutland Loop. Down Atlee Rd, turn at the Bojangles ( Hustler met us there and Bulkhead was shortly after since the live in Rutland), then head onto Rutlandshire Dr then on the main road Combs Dr. 4 milers went to the end of Combs then back the same way. 5 milers turned into Cool Spring Forest where there was a Spike sighting. Cross over Cool Spring Rd into Cool Spring West…
3 SOJ vets and a summer tourist hit the mean streets of northwestern Chesterfield County for a ride on the roller coaster. Around the school, down Robious, into River Downs, up Queens Grant hill and back toward Gumbo’s abode. Cut through into Cross Creek added for close to 3 miles out and reverso. Phonics informed YHC that he would be visiting RiverRun today and since he had experienced Twin Team before we showed him what the roller coaster is all about. This is a one of a kind ride that hits some good hills on the out and the back.…
11 (including 2 FNGs) started and LabRat joined LIFO to give us an even dozen for a good old sweaty hoedown. It went like this: Mosey a lap around the parking lot and over to what I assume is the faculty lot for COP, including the following (all IC): DQsHelicoptersSSHsCopperhead SquatsTempo MerkinsLBCsFlutter Kicks THE THANG: Short Compounding 4 Corners – Staying in the faculty lot for a compounding 4 corners (waiting for LR) as follows: Corner 1 = 10 merkins, run to corner 2Corner 2 = 10 merkins, 20 jump squats, lunge to corner 3 (LR ARRIVED)Corner 3 = 10…
Five gentlemen qualifiers posted for opening rounds of The Championships: Forest Hill Park. Brackets were drawn and opening volleys commenced. Warm-Ups: Helicopters x 10. Imperial Walkers x 10. Invisible Jump Ropes x 20. LBCs x 15. Lawn Angels x 10. First Set: Partner up. Partner Leg Throws (not tosses). YHC sees to many PAX tossing legs like a Brit. Today’s challenge was to throw the legs down hard. Ground PAX was to try and let his legs all the way down to six inches without hitting the ground. 25 x 4 sets each. Second Set (on the tennis courts): Stefan…
Nine noble warriors (many completing the summer challenge) fought the Father’s Day weekend fartsack to see what ByProduct had up his sleeve on this fine morning. Abbreviated COP all IC: 15 SSHs 10 Helicopters Arm Circles 5 Big, 10 Small, Reverse Mosey down to the wooded foot bridge, behind the pickle ball courts and along the forest until we reached the last volleyball court. The Thang: In spirit of the US Open, today’s workout was going to be a friendly best ball tournament – Gridiron Style! The Pax was divided into two teams by randomly selecting a color coded golfball…