Another Monday in the Village

A great morning in the village! YHC rolled up at 0529:45, hopped out of the car, gave some perfunctory fist-bumps, and launched into the mission statement and core principles. We warmed up with 15 each IC of: SSH Hillbilly Mountain Climbers...

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A Sweaty Sendoff

Getting closer to that autumnal equinox, but mugginess still prevails on the asphalt of downtown Dashtown. Warmarama: SSHs,  Down/Upward Dog stretches, Abe Vigodas, Cherry Pies The Thang Mosey to bridge on Longbranch Trail.  Partner up:  Partner...

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Microwaved Potatoes

Sour Mash has some really weird friends.   BEATDOWN.   Every minute on the minute, the exercise changes.  Rest when you want to rest.  You versus you.   Mountain Climbers Curl / Press / Tricep Raise Dead Bugs Shoulder Tap Spider...

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The only guy under 60 🤘🏼

I was the first one there….for a while actually. Started getting nervous and within minutes of starting everyone showed up and I could put the idea of an early chic fil a date to rest.  Whew! So anyways we started with SSH Hillbillys Imperial...

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An Old Favorite

BEATDOWN.   There are 5 stations, each with a weighted exercise and a non-weigthed one, located on The Hill to Nowhere.  If you have the rock, do the first exercise; else, do the second exercise.   Each PAX was instructed to ascend the...

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Power Trio at The Estate

Husker Du. ZZ Top. Nirvana. Blink-182. Rush. Dinosaur Jr. Cream. Greenie, Papa Bam, and Wobey. All epic power trios. It went like this: Warm o Rama Mosey to the field. The field was super wet. Mosey to the parking area by the field.  5 merkins...

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No Trails for these Pax!

The Ragnar trails of West Virginia were missed (not a typo) this morning when I showed up at Speas and it was hot, humid, and muggy. Take me home West Virginia where we can go back to the 60s! Fall can’t get here soon enough. We did the classic...

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Ragnar salute to suck

Hey, Van Gogh and the crowd are all running around on trails proving how much they can endure suck.  Well, no sweat (or lots of) we can too.  Site Q said “hey, no one will be there and wanna Q?”.  Planned to be there anyways with an...

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Warm Smell Of Colitas

A very loose theme for this morning’s edition of Purgatory was built around the playlist of songs about Hell, Purgatory and Heaven.  First half of the workout was Hell.  Middle was Purgatory.  End was Heaven.  But it all felt pretty hellish...

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WIB Things

WIB, where we do WIB things.   We warmed up in the Food Lion parking lot with SSH, Imperial Walker, Abe Vigoda, and Whirly. Then we mosied to the corner of Magnolia and Lyndhurst. Here we did 5 Burpees, 5 Merkins, 5 Mike Tysons, and 5 Things...

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