6 Windy warriors came out to see Machismos part deux. As Snuff’s Forgecast predicted: “Machismo pushes the cold air out of town with a high pressure system bringing heat, humidity and high impact. SYITG” with high pressure came lots of wind as the pack quickly mosied to find the cover of the amphitheater. Warmarama in quick succession included SSH, UkS, Merkins, Sholder Taps, Peter Parkers (great combo), LBC, American Hammer, Freddie’s, Rosalitas, DQs, and arm circles forward and reverse. With 2 triples the pax partnered for a triple check. Part one was PLTs with the runner circling the amphitheater. Part…

10 PAX tackled the Forge with grit, from warmups to the Thunderstruck plank challenge. A morning of sweat, strength, and unrelenting energy! Rolling hills to start out, bear crawling up the side of the hills. Warmups: Side straddle hops; Imperial Walkers; Don quixotes; arm circles; lbcs; alabama prom dates COP 1 : Musicrama Thunderstruck: The Q plays “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC. PAX complete one standard merkin for every “thunder!” heard in the song and hold a plank during the rest of the song. “Bring sally up” stay in squat position throughout song- squat up on “bring sally up”, squat down “on…

YHC arrived early for an EC pre-run with a downranger and planted the SOJ Ghost Flag. Apparently no one noticed the black flag at the AO entrance and Chaplain was surprised to have his half marathon taper plans upended. In respect the taper, as Lockjaw would approve, we went easy on the legs but heavier on shoulders. Mosey to the cul-de-sac with a stop to wait for Snuff. Various Warm-up exercises with an RVA special – Jazzercise – thrown in for the out of town guest. Make our way back up the road with a stop at the first 8…

An unorganized group of ghouls enjoyed the ideal conditions for a numberless beatdown with plenty of good mumble chatter. Here is how things went down according to Bobby. Mosey to the bus loop for introductions and disclaimers. YHC announces that no numbers will be used in todays beatdown. Warmarama all in conversation, shout out to the Lounge, which included DQ’s, Helis, Dead Man Hang, Ukrainian Soldiers, Heals to Heaven and Merkins. All seemed loose and limber, so lets get this thing going… Triple Check: Timer runs a variety of loops routes without repeating (Big bus loop, small bus loop, around…

HOT Potato Q all the way. Machismo warmed us up with some slow dawg DQs and some arm circles much to Last Calls’s delight. I’m really invested here writing this. Then Machismo made us do various movements between light poles all the way down the hill including high knees, butt kicks, Bernies, murder gorillas, crab walks, lunges, you name it. Then Belay made us run to light posts, Bernie back one, and hit some Mercans all the way back up the hill. Then I had the last 5 minutes which is how I got stuck with writing this. Made the…

After a waiting for Snuff an uninvited guest showed up. Bobby director of facility services ushered 11 men off of school premises on a hunt for their good Dr. While the intent of this Q was to explore the vast reaches of the Forge to prove to Handshake that it wasn’t a boring AO, alas, Machismo, under Bobby’s direction was forced to play chicken with cars under the light poles of Stratford Hills. Warmarama under light pole: DQs, Merkins, X Cross Situps, APD, Arm Circles. 1: Triple check. Run to the next light pole. ISWs, and X cross situps. 2:…

12 men gathered for this weeks episode of The Forge. The Pax was expecting to make good use of the giant AO but YHC had alternate plans… We began with a mosey around the parking lot to see if Snuffleupagus would make an appearance, however he did not. We circled up for various exercises. Count off in 3’s to get in groups of 4. YHC knew we had 12 Pax members. Each group gets 1 micro-coupon from ‘Lil Blue.Mosey up to Forest Hill Avenue and turn left and head up the sidewalk to Stratford, turn left on Stratford and mosey…