Five young bucks and multiple deer celebrated Bastille Day in the RVAs earliest AO. Kubota commended the out of town Pax about finding us in the gloom and off we went. Over to the triangle park field for COP. The usual stuff: Don Quixote, Helicopters, Hill Billies, and Cherry Pickers. Line up on the long end of the park and face the point for Red Barchetta. 10% of the way down for 10 Burpees25% for 25 Merkins50% for 50 Mountain Climbers75% for 75 LBCs100% for 100 Monkey Humpers But wait, there is more! Let’s complete a pyramid and come on…

Three warriors of the gloom arose to tackle F3RVA’s earliest AO and a hot potato was called. With a nice breeze in the air we were off with perfect numbers for the triple checks. Kubota took the lead the for a nice mosey to the front of the church for COP: Deadman Hang, Stretch it up on toes, Don Quixotes, Crab Cakes and tempo Merkins. Kubota Q: Time for a Triple Check at front of the church. Partner leg tosses while time bear crawl crawl bear, lunge and reverse, and bunny hop. Hotpotato passed to Pucker. Pucker Q: Mosey to…

A lucky 7 rose for this week’s addition of First Watch. After brief discussion about the necessity of headlamps, off we went to the triangle park. COP – Helicopters, Don Quixote, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Scorpions, LBCs. Partner up for a Triple Check around the triangle park. Partner 1 runs the perimeter, Partner 2 performs elbow planks, and Partner 3 does Monkey Humpers. Mosey back to the parking lot and pick up a coupon. Circle up for strength work. Rotating through the circuit perform tricep extensions, curls, overhead press, 60 flutter kicks, squats, bench, and swings with the flutter kicks…

5 wanna-be crew team members and 1 actual former crew team Number 1 or “Bow”, flopped their boats on the warm waters of King James I River at Huguenot Flatwater. At 0458, all were safely in the water, paddles ready. Here is what happened for the next hour+: Paddle over to the reduced-in-size sandbar from last year while fighting an unpredictable current that seemed to turn the boats at a second’s notice. After landing on the sandbar and securing the boats, circle up for: COP: Dead-Man Hang, Helicopters, DQ’s, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, American Hammers Staying in circle, 10 x Overhead…

Six strong hit the asphalt this morning for the earliest and hardest Wednesday, at least 3.0 miles, running boot camp. Here is what went down: Mosey over to tiny park for COP: Deadman Hang, Sky Reaches, DQ’s and IW’s. Short and sweet, gotta go! Mosey toward Westhampton Lake and complete a running Lindsay along the way at different stopping points. Carolina Dry Docks and Squats. Meander around the Southwest side of the lake trail and stop at the straight-a-way at The Commons. Partner up for a Modified DORA: 100 x Merkins, 100 x Jump Squats, 100 x 2-ct Flutter Kicks.…

An elite 8 clocked for a beatdown idea that looked much better on paper. Light mumble chatter as the clock neared 0500 with a pair rolling in right at the top of the hour. Quick circle up to grab a coupon and mosey half way down Ridge for COP. Exercise I: Coupon Dora quick COP to get a taste of the humidity; partner up for Dora runners to and from the triangle parklet on ridge and back to down to Country Squire. exercises were 100 alternating merkins on the coupon, 200 coupon presses (bench or push) and 300 200 coupon…

On a nice mild morning, 7 studs and Fireman Ed went out on a tour of the local neighborhoods. Unfortunately we only covered about 2 miles but we did get to do some burpees. COP: DQs, CPs, merkins, Freddie Mercuries, Scorpion kicks and arm circles Exercise: I brought a deck of cards. Clubs were hand release merkins, diamonds were jump squats, spades except Ace of Spades are Carolina Dry docks, hearts are heels to heaven. Ace of Spades is 20 marvelous burpees. We would mosey for about a block and then have 3 cards pulled. We covered south on Ridge…

5 HIMs set out to beat the sunrise at this week’s version of First Watch. As a WELCOME BACK to First Watch stalwart, EF Hutton, the PAX set off for a session featuring far less less running than Handshake’s field trip test run yesterday at HBR. 0500 means it’s go time. COP Mosey to the First Baptist main parking lot, circle up for SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, DQs, Scorpion Kicks, Merkins, and Arm Circles …. all in cadence The Thang Exercise I: Phil Ford’s Four Corners utiltizing the corners of the parking lot bear crawl on the shorter runs…

A ferocious foursome rose from the weary druthers of the fart sack to tackle the early morning AO. A late tap out on the eve meant a potato audible was called of the luke warm variety. According to the 5.30 bike messenger this is what was rumored to have occurred: Kubota Q: Warmarama with Deadman Hang, DQ’s, Helis, LBC’s, SSH’s and possibly others. Short Mosey to church parking lot. Partner up for Dora. 100 merkins, 200 jump squats, 300 flutter kicks (2 count) – runner to the buses and return. Some light Broga followed by the passing to… Bacon Bits…

A lucky 7 poker studs arrived early to the tables of First Watch to see what the dealer had up his sleeve. Weather was a breezy sunny and 70. Clock strikes 5, off we mosey to the smallest park in Henrico. Warmarama included SSH, Cherry Pickers, DQ, Arm Circles, Plank Merkins & One legged Merkins. Everyone looked warm lets stay where we are. The Thang: Borrowing from Zamboni of Jacksonville, YHC started things off with a bang with Burpee Apocalypse. 10 Burpees, OYO followed by 9, 8, 7 & 6. After 6 we take a break and mosey to the…