27 lovers, muggers, and thieves sallied forth to love the dirty water at today’s version of The Dogpile.  Weather forecast was light rain and 50 on the outside, sunny and 70 on the inside. Pre-Workout: Wilson: “Hey, UpChuck, you’re going to keep us dry today, right?” YHC: “You bet, pal.” Mile Mosey to the Far Traffic Circle: During the run, YHC said to Swirly: “Hey, Swirly, where can we stay warm and dry?”  After some consideration about how few options there are at Dogpile, one place came to mind: at home, in bed. Swirly’s response: “I can’t do that.”  Bam.  Let’s…

37 Gladiators of the Gloom faced cold weather and certain beat down for the following, more or less. Mosey to the first traffic circle for COP: Helicopters Don Quixote HRM Crab Cakes SSH Over to the amphitheater: Descending count of Monkey Humpers – start with 18 At the bottom, partner up for 3×20 Wilson’s Boxing Cockroaches Ascending count of Box Cutters and end at 18 Jog on back to the Rusty Cage.  5 Pullups, 10 Dips, run to the fire hydrant and do 20 scissor kicks.  Three times through. Partner up for Jerkins – 4 sets of 7. Over to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR9WJToFsTs 31 fired up men posted to Dogpile to start their weekend off the only way us F3 men know how…with a beatdown that went like this: Start with a few pre-launch STACHE photos of YHC and Vinny looking strong with their Magnum PI shirts and dirty upper lips.  Glorious.  0530, ok, let’s roll… Mosey to the circle in front of the amphitheater and around then circle up for a S.T.A.C.H.E. COP, including: SSHs x12 Tempo Merkins x11 APDs x19 Copperhead Squats x80…in theory…no idea how many were actually done (NOTE to future Qs, don’t announce a number of exercises,…

When YHC was a boy, there was a story told of brave men who battled the cold, fartsack and sad clowns to save the day.  This morning that vision was birthed into reality au naturel.  Once we cut the chord, here’s how it went down. COP: SSH X 10, SSHRL X 10, SSHLL X 10, WWII X 20, FC X 20, M X 10, MRL, X 10, MLL X 10, Arm Circle X 2 Mosey to the bottom of the hill. Hill Work:  One partner runs to the top of the hill and back down.  The other partner exercises making progress up the hill,…

27 came out on a frost morning with FNGs and out of town visitors we had a lot of ground to cover: COP –  Imaginary Jumprope, Don Qs, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Imperial Walkers Head to Carillon field – Bear craw width, 20 merkins, crawl back then 10 more.  Crab Walk across, 15 WWIIs, then back and 10 more WWIIs.  Wheelbarrow across, switch partner and back.  Head over to the Rusty Cage for: 5-10-15-20.  5 Pullups, 10 Jerkins, 15 Dips, 20 Jump Squats.  5 Rounds through. Then head down Pipeloop with just enough sunlight to allow for:  Triple Check – Run loop,…

Little did Lab Rat know, but today was the Marine Corps birthday.  Seems only fitting that a squid should take the Q to talk about how awesome vets are on a day to celebrate the Corps.  Luckily, 1 marine and 18 others came out to join him. COP-  Run around the circle and do some karaoke plus backwards run.  To loosen you up, Spit!  Then a bunch of the usual stuff.  If you’ve seen one LR COP, you’ve seen them all. THANG- -Give me 5:  Mosey up the long awaited open carillon steps and circle up.  All Vets (even Marines)…

25 band members, including 3 FNGs, plus one conductor posted for the Lawrence Welk Show revival tour, RVA edition.  During the next pledge driver, PBS will rebroadcast the show, in black-and-white, this way: Warm-up Act: Mosey to the near traffic circle: Invisible jump rope, IWs, SSHs, Hillbillies, LBCs, flutter kicks, HRMs and fire hydrants…each x16 For our First Number…Mosey to the Carillon.  Partner up…Wheelbarrow across the bricks the “long way.”  At the end of each turn, add Shoulder Presses.  First round 10, 2nd round 15, 3rd round 16. For our Second Number…Mosey to the field behind the Carillon for Touch-a-Tree. …

19 inspired, hardcore mofo’s arrived this morning to Dogpile hoping that the weather, specifically rain, would ease up slightly (3 PAX members rucking)……0600 and it was time. Slow mosey around the Carillon to COP. And yes, YHC had worked on his cadence. And the COP went a little something like this……X 10 Don Quixote’s, x 50 Imperial Walkers, x 10 Invisible Jump Ropes, x 25 Flutter Kicks, x 15 Freddie Mercuries, x 15 LBC’s, and x 25 SSH.  That was enough and mumble chatter was light. Mosey down the road toward the pipeline except Upchuck and YHC traded paint there…

A mighty 17 braved the rain to make their day count.  Here is how we did it: Warm up COP The Bronson:  48 of the following exercises, followed by a 100 yard sprint, a 10 yard army crawl, and a recovery run back to the start:  SSH’s, merkins, burpees, LBC’s, and jump squats. Add One:  4 teams of 4.  Line up so that 2 teams face each other.  A pax number says an exercise and both teams do one.  Another pax number says another exercise, then all pax does both.  Keep adding an exercise until two pax on a team…

33 Warriors posted to Dogpile to celebrate another glorious day on this earth as well as a last Fudd Dogpile Q….for a while at least.  Here’s how it went down: Mosey to the Ampitheater for COP: SSH x 30 Don Quixote x 10 Merican x 15 Freddie Mercury x 20 Crunchy Frog x 15 Arm Circles forward then back, x 10 small & 5 big Mosey to bottom level of Amphitheater for ascending 1472’s:  while ascending the amphitheater levels from the bottom, do the following on each step…..1 burpee, 4 incline merkins, 7 Tron squats, and 2 decline merkins.  Repeato…