A dozen SOJ vets RSVP’d Aye! to the Tryhard Birthday Beatdown invite. A few showed up early for a frozen yogurt (broga) appetizer, and Doublemint provided a comedy warmup leaving us all in stitches. The beats dropped at 0530, YHC grabbed the shovel flag, and the PAX tried to keep up. Here’s how we enjoyed (per Doublemint), Just The Tip: The THANG: Shovel flag planted on the field sideline, rock music thumping on the speaker, and the PAX circled up. YHC welcomed and provided the outline: To honor 39 times around the sun, the PAX would complete 39 reps of…

8 mighty men of valor made their way out of the Gloom into a somewhat less than 70 degree No Toll parking lot this morning. Snuff zipped up his cold weather blue man group suit and away we went Mosey to the parking lot for COP DQ’s, 5 Burpees OYO, Helicopters, 5 burpees OYO, Cherry Pickers, 5 Burpees OYO, Russian Soldiers, 5 Burpees OYO Mosey to front corner for four corners prostitute Corner 1 (10) Squats, Corner 2 (20) Merkins, Corner 3 (30) Jump Squats, Corner 4 (40) something DTH had in mind Mosey around the parking lot to the…

A week or so ago a fine group of gentlemen descended onto the lush fiends of NoToll for a celebratory beat down courtesy of YHC. According to the confused walkers, this is more or less how it went down. COP Various warmeramas, all ending on the 11th rep. The Thang With a choice soundtrack, we embarked upon a Triple Check with PAX picking the exercises, ended up with American Hammers and Heels to Heaven. Followed by some 11s Then some cool down Broga Ended with a merkin ring of fire, and a little Mary. Numbers, Names, Announcements NMM Awesome to…

10 studs gathered in the early morning darkness for an OC beat down. YHC has dipped his toe in the F3 waters once again as I walk down the recovery road and knew that signing up for the Q would surely get me out of the fart sack. A quick summary of the morning’s activities… Warm-a-Rama Side Straddle Hops, Don Quixote, You’re Damn Right that’s a Russian Soldier, LBC’s, Alabama Prom Date and Merkins 1st Exercise – “25’s” Starting in 1 corner of the parking lot, complete 25 merkins, run to the second corner and complete 25 air squats, run…

The SOJ PAX bravely embraced the cool Fall temps at NoToll, only to find inflation had raised the D&D Toll. In the Spirit of Voting Day, here’s how the PAX dumped the tea overboard: The THANG: COP #1: Mosey to the bridge, pay the Toll of x20 Dips & x20 DerkinsMosey to the parking lot and circle upVariable IC warmups with moving sets in between to get the blood pumping COP #2: Mosey to the BleachersTRIPLE CHECK:Big-O’s on the bleacherWWII’sRunner crosses field & backWhen TC completed, Pay Toll #2 with another x20 Dips & x20 Derkins COP #3: Mosey to…

The dark and cool gloom was conquered by 7 bearers of Light. The Journey: Q arrived about a minute late, but the PAX had already started a brief warm-up loop in the parking lot. Long mosey to the lush and very water saturated rear field of the AO. 4 Corners-esqe Leap-Style Circuit: Corner 1: PAX lines up single-file adjacent to a corner while maintaining an exercise, and last man does an exercise then runs to the front of line.Last Man: 10 Hand-release Merkins | PAX: WW2’s100x Monkey Humpers at the arrival of the next corner Corner 2: PAX lines up…

11 gathered in the cool fall morning and Oyster reminisced about my last Q: “You made us do WW2s on the concrete instead of the grass.” Little did he know, towards the top of my list of reasons to Q is ‘stay high and dry.’ 50 SSH to warm up. Mosey to the backlot. Don Quixotes, helicopters, imperial squat walkers, stretching, mirkins and some other stuff I forgot while trying to come up with a spontaneous plan. First on the docket: 11s including WW2s on the concrete plus Caroline dry docks. Next up, indigenous curb crawl around the island -…

A lucky 7 SOJ veterans fought off the warm, dry fart sack to descend onto the misty yet plush fields of No Toll this morning to see what YHC had in store. Here is what was rumored to have occurred according to the ever-present walkers surveying the property. Mosey to the parking lot with a quick buy in at the bridge – 10 dips and 10 derkins. Continue on for warmarama including SSH’s, DQ’s, Dead Man Hang, Merkins and American Hammers. THE THANG: Mosey to the far corner for 4 corners – 10 merkins, 15 jump squats, 20 WWII’s, 25…