Author: Gypsy

  • Accountability Partners

    when it’s 19 degrees outside and snowing..for many of us, it all comes down to those accountability partners expecting to see you in the Gloom. For me, with out them, anything below 42 and I will use my Joker to make up any reason to not get out of bed at 5am. Like: I’ll do it later, I have a gym for a reason, I need a rest day. Etc. I just ended 9 months of run training and wrapped up the race season this past Saturday. I knew this week would be rough staying motivated to get up with nothing scheduled. So in comes the accountability part. Sign up to Q and offer a ride to a pax. Now, not only would I catch grief for bailing on a Q.. but would also screw over a shield lock brother if I didn’t pick him up. Neither is a valid option.

    0530 at Pocahontas Middle school and snow is falling. I brief request by the PAX to drive over to parking deck. Vetoed by the Q. We have window shopping to do at Short Pump mall. Exit school to right on 3chopt. Right on Pump. Right into Dog park. Some dynamic stretching. Then off to Short Pump Mall

    The Thang: Window Shopping

    run the 1 mile around short pump Town center circle stopping at each stop sign to alternate between 10 jump squats or 10 Merkins. Easy enough. Now run back to AO.

    3.8 miles some stretching. Some Merkins, some Squats. No WW2 or LBC because YHC didn’t want to roll around in snow when it’s 19 outside. 🙂

    had fun running in the snow with my Accountability partners. See you next time.

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Forgot the Backblast

    no surprise to the regulars. I forgot to post the back blast. Gotta make sure Handshake gets his Big data point. 🙂

    10 pax and 2 dogs took on Currahee. Temps were nice Fog was high. 2 routes. 3 groups and 2 solo. All math checked out by Lighthouse over coffee after Sunday 7@7.

    enjoy the Coffee and Donuts.

    prays for everyone.

  • Hyperinflation, fartsack, overthrown dictatorship

    10 men joined together at Currahee on a cool fall morning to take on the streets of West end. The conversations were excellent, the dogs were amazing, and route was just far enough. Mobile COT as always. You have to show to know.

    SYITG!!

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Beneath the Trees

    0530 AM in Westhoe on a Friday only means 1 thing. Lace up boys Currahee is calling and we have miles to put in. Hope you remembered a headlamp because we are headed deep into Deep Run park.

    This is the 1st time I tried to navigate Gomer Pyle’s “get everyone lost” route through Deep Run so we will see how it goes. Pigskin was smart and said he would head another direction and Gomer is holding down the Broke Dick brigade. With 2 crotch sniffers and 6 pax set for the route we all head out. I think the entire run can be summed up b the King of Mubblechatter (Handshake) “I love running in Deep Run park. Just hate running to it and running back to the AO.”

    We all made it back, but had 5 mins of extra credit. Conversation was great along the way until Lighthouse decided to toss out a pace challenge on Brookmont and we stepped it up a bit.

    In all, the pax hit between 3.5 and 5.5 miles. Not bad for a park run.

    SYITG!!

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • 10K for 10 years

    4 took the call to put in a Kilometer for each year of RVA’s birthday and prerun 6.2 miles before main event.

    Great pace kept us at a conversational with and a little push to make it back in time. Many topics covered today from Toddler’s eating to Splinter’s long legs. But as always on a run, the conversation is a mobile COT. So what is shared amongst the pax remains with pax. You have to show to know.

    Happy Birthday RVA!!

    Looking forward to the next 10 years.

    SYITG

  • No title just numbers

    Rolled my ankle last week and bailed 1 mile in. Guys had the route and I hobbled back.

    No COT or announcements since I wasn’t there.

  • Warm moist air on the #$%

    Life is good. made it to another Curahee BroCode run. The regular cast of characters were in attendance with a few out on a Ghost Flag mission. Was good to have Splinter back in the crew. Gomer was out as well trying to brush off some of the injured knee blues.
    There are some places and time that warm moist air is not expected, and Gomer was the recipient of the receiving end of that today. One big 4 mile square of COT. Have to show to know more.

    Have to go back to work. Budgets are due by COB today.
    SYITG!!

  • Yogi and a picnic basket

    Hey Boo Boo…whatcha got in that pick-ah-nik basket..

    Gosh Yogi.. just some Surf and Turf and Trout.

    That sounds ike a perfect mixture for a relaxing summer morning breakfast, did you bring the honey.. oh wait..who is this coming? Ranger Rick.. .. that’s not Ranger Rick.. crap it’s Gypsy.

    Let’s mosey guys

    Circle up for SSH, Ukraine soldiers, Merkins, peanut pickers. (We are aren’t pick no dang cherries off the ground)

    4 corners: perform called exercise 10 reps at the corner return to center and do 2 burpees go next corner back to center for 2 burpees and continue until done.

    • Round one: Upper body. Merkins, wide arm Merkins, narrow Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks.
    • Round 2: Core. WW2, LBC, Heels to heaven, reverse crunch.
    • Round 3: Legs. Squats, Twist and Shout, Jump Squats, Lunges
    • Round 4: the natural. Merkins, WW2, Squats, Burpees

    To the wall.

    • In people’s Chair 20 air press the 2 merkins
    • In people’s Chair 20 air press the 3 merkins
    • In people’s Chair 20 air press the 4 merkins
    • In people’s Chair 20 air press the 5 merkins
    • In people’s Chair 20 air press the 6 merkins

    lost a pax to a code Brown. 💩

    Mini-Dora for 3 remaining (50 Merkins,100 Squats, 150 LBCs)

    5 mins of Mary. American Hammers, Lolitas, Freddy Mercury, LBCs

    Done. Thanks for having me out to the Creek!

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Does it count??

    Not sure if the Westhoe take over of Tomato Run counts when the locals Q-jack the route.

    YHC spent a good amount of time mapping out a 5 mile route in the Rutland area making sure to memorize each turn and distance between..

    Soooooooo when I got the AO and informed the locals, they all agreed: NOPE. That route will get you Run over.

    There for… we followed Phonics on a Dora run that includes paths not on RunJoy mapping app. He did run me down to one of the roads on my map.. yup. Sure enough. Good call not running that road.

    ok.. so anyway.. I don’t have a clue what roads we ran. But we ran and a backblast is posted. Some pax further than others and some Rucked. NO one was run over. The end.

  • The 3 Amigos

    Dusty Bottoms, Lucky Day, and Ned Nederlander met up at the Ponderosa just before dawn after getting the call from Carmman to take on El Guapo. The plan was easy: run down the center of town on Colina de la Arboleda.. then encircle his troops 4 times that were encamped at Loch Lothian. Set the gang of Angry Cobra Chicken loose on them and then run away with the money back to the Ponderosa… at least we thought it was a simple plan… we didn’t expect that the humidity was going to more like the jungles of Brazil and that the Angry Cobra Chicken may turn on us instead… but to know what happened next, you needed to show up.

    Until next time:

    • Wherever there is injustice, you will find us.
    • Wherever there is suffering, we’ll be there.
    • Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find…

    The 3 Amigos!!!