Author: Lab Rat

  • If a tree falls in the gloom and there are pax members there to hear it…?

    Umm, no. 8 versus 8 showed up anyways to do their best! That’s right, 16 pax to DaVille during the Home Run Derby south of the river. Color me impressed!

    So, while Pick2, Marco Polo and I are sitting there at 5 until go-time wondering where everybody is….thinking this is about to be a very uninteresting game of frisbee….we hear a crack, followed by more cracking and we turn around to watch a tree in the front lawn come crashing down. No joke, that happened this morning. Right after that, Atlee high school filled up with cars, as everybody must have got stuck behind Phonics on the way to the AO (he drives slow).

    At 0530, we did a slow mosey to the field and divvied up in to people that brought white shirts and those that didnt….then 2 people with both switched up. Between the multitude of horrible throws and even worse flat out drops…along with some rules violations (I blame Lab Rat for not teaching everybody the rules of the friggin game he told everybody they were going to play ahead of time), there were some really great plays made! Marco Polo had a layout grab for a point, and Spike plays defense like a boss. In the end, like always, it all comes down to the final point. Both teams gave up possesions, until finally team white got the game winner. Groans were heard on the mosey back to the flag, which means a little competition can make you push outside your comfort zone.

    Welcome to Buzz Bait! A friend and fellow runner of Evil Twin’s. Glad to have you out! Now, get your dad to come next time.

    Apology of the week goes out to Phonics for cutting off his annual special events breakdown this morning. Dogs and kids, homie….dogs and kids.

    Announcements:

    -Summertime tour continues. Plenty of time to jump in on the action! Signup here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L8e9W24ygnU0suaGyKxzi1PgPqY1CBd57hLrKTZI-g/edit?ts=563e70a3#gid=1083932325

    -Puppy pile after Dogpile final Saturday of the month. MARV has the Q.

    -4th of July workout is at Tredegar parking lot, 0700. If you are in town, come on out!

    -A bunch of stuff happening in September. See Phonics for the breakdown. He will gladly list all of them.

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • “I am not an amateur” -Wheelie

    A massive crowd of beach cruisers, dirt bikes, and steel framed roadies “older than me” descended upon Mary Munford this morning (38 in total). A couple ran, most rode. Directions were given to Wedding Singer, who was the most seasoned F3 vet at the time that there was in fact no runner Q and that they would be on their own for routes this morning. I laid out the route to the hoards of cyclists that we would be heading down to the Carillon in the safest way I could think of for a lap or two around the lake and return the same way. Of course, it wouldnt be an amateur day if we didnt get lost in Windsor farms…so we did that twice! All in all, it was huge fun (unless you were the Q, then it was a panic attack) and everybody presumably made it back to the starting point. No cars were left in the parking lot, anyways.

    BB title comes from a conversation I had with Wheelie when he showed up to run with his 2.0 on amateur bike day, and that was his response. Touche’, my man.

    A huge shout out to our two FNG’s, LoLo and C-Note….a father daughter duo friends of the Mudd family. I hope they had fun and will come back out soon….maybe we can convince C-Note to keep that hundo a month he pays to fuel the Seal Team Hummers, and buy us lunch with it instead! Here’s to hoping, anyways! Glad you came out, I hope to see you again soon.

    I’ll go ahead and throw Wedding Singer the apology of the week for dumping the runner Q on him at 0527. I assume it went well.

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • ROCK that Scoober!

    22 game changers showed up for the ULTIMATE in fun workouts! 11 per team, with each team broken up mainly in those that listened to directions and brought a white and black shirt, and those that just showed up with standard issue dark shirts. So I dont sound like a complete racist going forward, teams will be called Noon for the white shirts and Midnight for the dark shirts (I was called out a couple times this morning).

    Midnight quickly jumped out to an early lead, and it was 4-1 before most of the Noon players realized that maybe the guy named “Scoober” might know what’s up with this game. Dr. Tryhard with the neon cletes showed off some speed, and there was some good defense out of EF Hutton, taking one in the gut. Play to your strength, Hutton.

    Noon made a comeback, however, led mostly by the disc handling of Viral and the genetic gift of speed that Phonics….passed on to his 2.0, Evil Twin. ET found the back of the endzone several times. Gumbo and Loose Goose showed some gamesmanship, and Lab Rat was there to complain about rules violations and in general just make enough noise to cause a disruption. Suck it, Flipper!

    “Last point wins” was convieniently called by the Q with Noon knocking on the doorstep after a botched play by Midnight, which they completely screwed up. Midnight drove down the field a bit, then turned it back over….and Noon gave it right back. Final play was a huge Scoober thrown by….er….Scoober to the back of the end zone to a wide open EF Hutton(?) for a well deserved victory.

    Well played game all around, and no major injuries were had. Suffice to say, we will NOT be putting together a competitive team any time soon out of all the dropped passes and bad plays. But hey, we had a blast, right?!?

    Apology of the week goes out to Midnight for calling you “a bunch of bitches”. I was caught up in the moment.

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • Hopkins Branch Way

    2 Monday warriors rolled into the mist this morning to make Tomato run a thing after staying up to watch the Mother of Dragons drop the hammer down. Plan was an out and back 4 miles, but Lab Rat still cant find Hopkins Branch Way in the light so we ran an extra half mile. Bro code run was awesome with Hustler, and if he tells me 4 more times, maybe I can remember all three of the places he has lived.

    Travel safe, Huslter, we’ll see you on Saturday.

    Apology of the week goes to the people of King’s Landing, because holy shit…

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • The Floor is Lava

    16 pax decided to follow Lab Rat and jump up on the sofa to protect their precious feet from the burning lava below. With no mothers to yell at them to get off the furniture, they proceeded as follows:

    • Warmup COT to keep from pulling anything.
    • Balance lap around the loop staying on the curb. Everything not curb is lava.
    • Run along the curb when available to the rusty cage.
    • Get to Higher Ground:
      • Partner assisted muscle ups X5: Pullup, then keep going until you are above the bar with arms straight.
      • Partner assisted bar swings X2?: Pullup, then swing your feet above the bar so you are inverted. With stomach on the bar, swing up to the top of the bar. This was hard.
      • Over to the parallel bars, hang underneath by hands and feet, traverse the length of the bar. Ground is lava, obviously. X2.
    • Leap of Faith: At amphitheater, starting at the bottom, leap from one level to the next alternating legs. The grass is lava. Go back down bunny hopping. The rocks are lava back down.
    • Human Steeplechase: Run out 10 feet and plank. Next guy runs out and jumps plankers +10 feet then planks. Continue until the end of the lawn. On the way back, crawl underneath plankers.

    NMS:

    Credit or blame of this workout goes to Hardywood for lending me the book, “Natural Born Heroes” by Christopher McDougall. It’s a mixed up story about parkour, alternative dieting, Greek mythology and a badass group of Cretan rebels and British archaeologists turned war heroes during World War 2. Hard to get going because he jumps around characters a bit much, but the message is a good one. What are we built to do as humans? Hunt, gather, escape danger, protect the tribe, and share information. This morning was an attempt to share information about escaping danger. What better way to test our capabilities then the game everybody probably played as a kid, “the floor is lava”? I seriously thought it would be an easier workout overall with 0 merkins (not a single merkin) or situps, but by the end, there was lots of red mud and sweat, mixed in with a bit of blood for good measure. IF you DID NOT feel like you got your money’s worth out of the workout this morning, the good news is that you can attend several boot camps tomorrow to get your fill of the usual exercises. I had fun…I especially liked the assisted muscle ups. That might be a personal challenge going forward, to be able to do 1 unassisted. We’ll see.

    Apology of the week goes out to Bodos for ripping off his callous (ouch!!!) Let me know if I can buy you a pair of gloves.

  • It Has Come to My Attention that We Aren’t Running Enough…

    17 track stars, including 1 FNG ACTUAL track star converged on the Carillon in this truly gloomy morning full of April Showers. Only the Q brought an umbrella….weird. Seeing that everybody was already wet, we might as well enjoy the morning and find ALL the puddles to run thru:

    -COP in the field next to the police officer memorial

    • SSH
    • 10 Richard Kimbles OYO
    • Imperial Walker
    • Saab’s iteration…arm circles and Don Quixote
    • Merkin

    Burpee Lake- 3 burpees at each light pole around the lake. Lunge up and down the hill for the six.

    Orangutan- At Rusty Cage, start at the bottom and climb up the bars as far as you can. Repeat times 3. 20 jerkins OYO

    Legs and abs Yoga- 10 minutes of some yoga concentrating on legs and abs. Yup.

    4 minutes of Mary.

    NMS

    With so much extracurricular running going on pre-Dogpile these days, I decided to give everybody more of what they are craving….running. It’s a long ways to and from burpee lake, and all the way back to rusty cage. I was really surprised to see Breakfast Club show up with 15 minutes to spare before Dogpile start at 0600….with the deluge going on, I would have thought you would want to keep moving. I shared an umbrella with Emoji and Shakedown. Rosie wanted to sit in the truck, which I told him he is welcome to if he could produce a dry towel. He could not.

    Once we got going, it became evident that Handshake was going to steal the show with his impressive 4th F game. He claims that it was from spaghetti, but I would venture there might have been low levels of rat poison involved as well.

    Apology of the week goes to FNG Tadpole, for the attempted disclaimer. I did my best to get thru it but was CONSTANTLY interrupted. I pleaded my case at Elwood Thompson’s that mumblechatter should have been out of bounds during the disclaimer, but was told from MULTIPLE sources (read as: everybody at the table) that I got exactly what I deserved. And for that,

    Lab Rat Apologizes…

  • Non-Trail Trail Day

    Trails were still muddy proven by some early warriors, so we hit the access road. Some did more than others, all did good stuff.

    Lab Rat apologizes..

  • Touch ‘Em All

    7 Northeasters eased into the gloom for a full body workout. This is how that happened:

    Warmup with parking lot tracers and a pretty standard COP. Warmup them muscles, then start using them.

    Legs: Mosey over to benches in front of CMS. Step ups, X10 each leg. Jump ups, X20. Happy Feet for 1 minute. Partner up for calf raises….X25. 1 legged calf raises X10 each leg. Deep slow squat for a 10 count down, then 10 count back up.

    Arms: Mosey to field at CSES. 11’s with dips on the bench and good form merkins on the other side of the field. X10 pullups for everybody.

    Abs: Mosey to big tire. X25 situps with feet on the tire…try to touch your elevated toes. Back to flag for Mary: Freddie Mercury’s, hip raises (both sides), heels to heaven, and 6 inches.

    NMS: Glad Emoji made it out, as he was travelling until late last night. He claims he came out just because I had the Q, but I think he was just being nice. Big PROPS to Bulkhead for running the mile and change to and from the AO this morning….something he laughed off doing not even a month ago when Spike invited him to join. Keep coming out, and watch yourself change. The legs concentration had at least a few of us feeling it! Proof you dont need to do huge reps if you concentrate on doing good form. Plan on seeing something similar to that again real soon. Im talking to you, Dogpile.

    Apology of the week goes out to Spit for flying by him on the way to RAMM last Friday. Sorry I drive better.

    Lab Rat Apologizes…

  • Perfect for Trails

    3 pax opted to spend their Sunday morning enjoying a peaceful run on the trails. The route was North Bank across Belle Isle and Buttermilk including the Lariat. 7.0 miles were run, numerous topics discussed. Perfect.

    Lab Rat Apologizes…

  • You Are too Slow/You Go First

    A lucky 7 showed up for the first TRAILZZZZ DAY we have had in a while. We all took full advantage of the dry trails by doing whatever we wanted. Lug Nut busted down the OG Loop, while TYA came in and went right back out for another. The rest of the pax enjoyed Forest Hill.

    Title comes from running in front of then behind then in front of then behind, etc. Sally on the bridge coming back across. Finally, Offshore said enough is enough and sit/stayed long enough to get me across.

    Beautiful morning for the trails again, they have been missed.