We were moving mountains on a glorious Tuesday morning in the lower Tuckahoe Area. Normally, a trip up Mt. Henrico includes a jaunt up Julian to what is the highest point in Henrico County…the intersection of Julian and Parham.
But not today.
It’s been a good 7 years or so that we’ve been meeting every Tuesday to run around the leafy hoods of Henrico County’s west end, and we’ve never gone down Ridge Road. This is partly because, for a long time, it was pretty darn dangerous. Like, “hey, I’m Lockjaw, let’s run on that dangerous two lane road this morning” type dangerous.
However, the Board Supervisors of Henrico, who we all voted for, have installed some pretty substantial bike lanes on Ridge heading down to Forest, so we figured we’d make that run for the first time.
And it was glorious. I guess. I mean, it was fine…nice little diversion from Mt. Henrico.
The Thang…
The 4s ran the normal Mt. Henrico out 22.5 minutes and back. Pretty standard.
5s and 6s did their normal Mt. Henrico out but ran past the right on Glendale (where the AZ Cardinals play) and continued on University which eventually turns into Glendale heading towards Ridge. It’s a pretty steep hill.
Take a left on Ridge and head to Forest.
The 5s cut through Bodo’s church lot to Lakewood and then back to the flag.
The 6s took a right on Ziontown and then took a left on Holmes (Near Kanawha). Ending up on Sunset to Lakewood and then a lap around the lake…just shy of 6 miles but right at 45:00.
Marv took us out.
