Forest Hill Park
8 strong posted this humid morning @ Forest Hill park for a Hot Potato Q. Bleeder : SSH’s , Windmills, LBC’s Run around the lake – 10 merkins – run up the hill to second light and back down. Singer : run around the lake – @ each light pole 10 merkins. Swirly : Run up the steps – 20 dips on the benches – run up the steps – 15 hand release merkins – run to the tennis court – polar bears to the fence – 10 donkey kicks – lunge back – planks. Polar bear to the fence…
9 warriors rose to great the dawn of a new day for an epic beatdown. According the legend, it went a little something like this. Swirly – COP IC: SSH, DQ, Helicopters, Flutter Kicks, Merkins 3 Rounds: 20 dips, 10 decline merkins, run up to the top of the Hill of Ill Repute for 15 more merkins. Sippy Cup – Grab a Rock and head over to the Suffer Loop. Take your rock down to the bottom and complete 16 crossover merkins (hand alternating on the rock). Run with rock along the service road to stairs and complete 15 Goblet…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PYyEDl1bJk Four ball boys showed up at Batteau Lawn and Tennis to meet Andy Murphy. Credentials were checked, uniforms were issued, and off we went. ANDY MURPHY (The THANG): Mosey to lower tennis courts. NO COP. Run 5 laps around two courts. 5 burpees OYO. Run 5 laps reverso around same two courts. 5 burpees OYO. 10 crab cakes – single count / 20 merkins / tennis court line tracers out and back. REPEATO x 10 Bonus round for such quality ball boy performances. WWIIs until the PAX finished the bonus round. 5 laps around the two courts. 5 burpess OYO.…
https://youtu.be/Xf3mRZ7SHu0 According to Phineas and Ferb, there are 104 days of summer. What a better way to spend the summer than challenging yourself to visit all 24 F3 RVA AOs. Although procrastinators can wait as late as August 6 to start, it would be best to spread this challenge out over the entire summer. Once you complete the tour, you will have done the following: 14 bootcamps 7 runs including a trail run and evening run 2 Kettle Bell workouts 1 bike ride Don’t let not having a kettle bell or bike prevent you from participating in this challenge. Borrow…
5 warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day. According to legend the hot potato Q went a little something like this. Swirly COP: Don Quiote, helicopters, flutter kicks, merkins, copperhead squats Lunge and Then Some Line up the the bottom of the hill for what seems like an impossible task. With the trees on your left, lunge between each tree. When you get to a tree, complete 5 hand release merkins. Repeato until the top. Pass to Upchuck Some Kind of Pentagon: Break into groups of 5 with each man at a station. Station 1 stairs, Station 2…
Six regulars and one FNG gathered at Batteau this morning for coffee, bagels, and Hot Potatoes. 5:30 sharp, time to mosey. YHC took us to the far side of the field to see what the neighbors on Forest Hill Avenue were having for breakfast. COP: Arm Circles (10) SSHs (20) DQs (11 – not sure why). Shut it down. NOTE: YHC hasn’t practiced much with cadence, so I wanted to get some in today. Unanimously confimed, I’m terrible at it. Come bust my chops tomorrow at Heartbreak Ridge for my Q. THANG: Clockwork Merkins – OYO. 5 at midnight / 3 o’clock / 6…
Four studs attacked a Monday morning and here is how it went down. Hot Potato : Hardywood – COP : SSH’s Helicopters. Windmills, IW’s. Flutter Kicks., Freddy Mercury’s . Hand release merkins . Tree to tree – 5 merkins run to bottom of hill 5 squats run to top of hill 5 WW 11’s – repeat 4 times. Swirly : 10 dips 10 decline merkiins bear crawl to pull up bars 5 pullups bear crawl back repeat 3 times. Bootleg : 11’s : Burpees and LBC’s Sippy : Zig Zag : Partner runs across field to tree and back to…
Eight warriors boarded up the windows of the fart sack shack (say it 3 times fast) and got their respective middle aged keesters out of bed and set tone for complete and total domination this week. COP – Swirly IC: SSH, Don Quiote, Helicopter, Merkins, Flutter Kicks, LBC Mosey to the mouth of hell otherwise known as the stairs to the duck pond and grab a boulder. 3 Rounds of the following (hit the benches on the way up and down) At the top: 10 curls, 10 overhead presses, run down the steps to the benches At the benches: 20…
Four tree huggers brought their gardening gloves and shovels to Forest Hill Park in honor of Earth Day 2018, and it went something like this: Mosey to the planning area to establish the day’s activities and celebrations. YHC was so excited to be one with mother earth, that he may not recall all that we did, but here is what YHC recalls: SSHs / Helicopters / DQs / Imperial Walkers. Mosey to the Playground: pull-ups (5) / Derkins (10) / Incline Merkins (15) / Dips (20) / LBCs (25) x 3 Mosey down the hill, grab rocks, mosey back up…
Five suitors showed up for Vinny’s VQ. It went like this: Happy Hour & Icebreakers. DQs (15)/ Arm Circles (10 and 5) each arm/ Invisible jump ropes (15)/ Helicopters (15). Speed dating at Love Hill. Partner up: Crawl bears, Backwards lunges, Triple Jump Copperhead Squats (2) to the top of the hill while partner runs (and switch). If they came back, it was meant to be. Dinner date by candle (street) light. New partners: Line tracers at the tennis courts while remaining suitors ate crab cakes (100), flutter kicks (200), SSH (300). Team numbers to completion of the date. Palate…