Author: Gypsy

  • We didn’t get lost

    NIce taper run for the Currahee crew… YHC looked for the fastest route possible for the area and came up with a 4 miler. 10 pax and three 4 legged crotch sniffers took to the route. Anyone that know me, knows I can’t tell you a single road name that we ran, but everyone enjoyed a route that wasn’t in Raintree and didn’t run towards Broad. Lighthouse and Tonka can tell you the road names since it was their neighborhood.

    Thank you for running with me guys. Had a great 1/2 marathon today and beat the goal by 4 mins.

    SYITG!

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Kabota’s Comz reminded me

    Reading the new post by Kabota on what’s happening this week and remembered I forgot to write the Currahee BB.

    While a few core Currahee pax went SOJ to capture the flag, 6 held the line back home. No Q Hilly route impromptu 5 miler was called.

    South on Pump over Gayton left on Waltham. Follow Waltham around and cross back over Gayton onto Raintree. Run entirety of Raintree to Ridgefield. Left and up that damn hill.. right on Eagle View.. left on Glenn Eagles. Left on Old Prescott. Cross over to Godwin H.S.

    5 miles 255 ft elevation gain.

    Announcement in Slack

    TAP for Homer’s mother that is currently in the hospital.

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Annual RVA Shoe Drive

    F3: Our mission is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

    Fall is upon us and the cold months of Winter will be setting in before you know it. For many, life is comfortable, warm, and stable, the choices we have made along the road have led us to right here where we are being called upon to lead in a world that desperately needs leaders to step up and take action in the community.

    Officially Starting November 12th and ending December 30th, the men of F3 RVA are being called upon to help those men of Richmond that are in need of a small gesture of help. Over the 7 weeks, the challenge is to collect 62 pairs of new or gently used shoes or boots that will be donated to various organizations we have partered with including Shood, The Healing Place, Habitat For Humanity, and others.. For every pair collected, YHC will buy a corresponding set of new socks to go with them.

    Track shoes, Sport cleat, and Running shoes that have 85 to 100% life left are in a huge demand for this drive. If your 2.0s have out grown or you bought a pair of running shoes the just didn’t fit right, them please send them.

    Point of Contacts (POC)s have been spread out around the region with YHC tasked with collecting from the POCs.
    SOJ: (South of the James) POC: Dr.Try Hard
    West End POC: YHC
    Da-Ville: POC: Cornbeef

    Center City: POC: Mr. ROGERS


    These #HIM will collect your donations at the weekly Saturday AOs.

    Let’s make a mountain of shoes and socks men. I know you have pairs in the back of the closet just collecting dust and your 2.0s have outgrown a few pairs as well.

    SYITG!!!
    v/r
    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Crazy 8

    Another Friday and another route out of Goodwin HS for RVAs best running AO: Currahee.

    we went for the hill at the end this time and pulled out the Crazy 8. A 5+ mile course with Glenn Eagles uphill at mile 3.5 just for fun.

    Great conversation pace and interesting topics along the way.

    see you guys next week.

    Gypsy

  • Nope.. don’t know him either

    Another month down which means last Friday Bro-code route. Good crew coalesced on a humid August morning to knock out 4 miles at a conventional pace and turn backs at the corners for the 6.

    Conversation ranged to 1st week of school to college drop offs to names of guys in the MLB.

    Conclusion… there are no current house hold MLB plays right now and Hutton named off a bunch of them. We didn’t know any of them.

    way to many announcements to remember. Gomer just kept tossing more and more of them so talk to him about sit and sip, convergence help, Crucible gathering, at 9am 5k somewhere and I think a cook out in SOJ??

    Anyway… see ya in the Gloom!

    YHC is off to VMI to drop off a 1st for his last semester.

  • Traveling COT

    it was the monthly Bro-Code run at Currahee which is a 40ish minute 4 mile route with COT conversation, catching up with pax, and just some plan ole accountability to get of the fartsack.

    The Thang: You have to show to know.

    no one leads… no one follows.. it’s bro-code. All 1 Pax (including the 2 adopted 4 legged Currahee mascots)

    have a great day.

    Welcome to Dry July for all those abstaining from libations for the next 31 day.

  • Ms. T, 2 Dicks and a Bowl cut.

    The Thang

    1 mile run at 10min pace

    Dynamic Stretching

    3x Vinyasa Flow hold intervals

    30 Seconds each:

    • Start in Full Plank
    • Move down to Chaturanga Dandasana (AKA 6 inches)
    • Move into Up dog
    • Move into Down dog
    • Walk the dog

    Tree pose 1 min each side

    1 min

    • Right arm across with left hand pulling in toward body
    • Left arm across with right hand pulling in toward body

    Mountain pose, Full fold, Half back up ,Full fold, Plank, Up dog, Down dog, Full fold, Half back up, Full Fold, Mountain

    • Right arm up over should reach back Left hand on elbow pulling back further
    • Left arm up over should reach back right hand on elbow pulling back further

    30 seconds each x2

    • Child pose
    • Frog pose
    • Lizard right leg forward
    • Warrior one pose
    • Elbow Plank

    30 seconds each x2

    • Child pose
    • Frog pose
    • Lizard Left leg forward
    • Warrior one pose
    • Elbow Plank

    On your 6

    3 min Cosmic Mind Blow for devotional.

    Devotional: https://thelife.com/devotionals/being-present-in-the-present

    Be still, and know that I am God….” Psalm 46:10

    I appreciate multi-tasking. Although it’s a recently added word to our lexicon, the feat of being able to do several things at one time didn’t begin with this generation. Millennials who text, type, and talk at the same time have nothing on the mother who balances a baby on her hip, puts in a load of wash, and instructs her 3-year-old not to run on the just-mopped floor, all while consuming a half-eaten sandwich.

    I’m afraid all the multi-tasking is making it harder to appreciate the beauty found in a singular accomplishment. It’s getting difficult to focus on the moment. What might happen if we took the time to not just hear what someone says, but pause to listen. Not methodically check items off our to-do list, but engage them. Not rush through obligatory morning devotions, but wait upon the Lord.

    No one accomplished more in his brief span on earth than Jesus. And no one was more fully present. Jesus said he did nothing but what he saw his Father doing (John 5:19). Constant communication with God taught Him how to value every single moment. He experienced no conflict between the stillness of knowing God and the efficiency of working His plan. 

    If we hope to be more present in the present, I don’t know a better place to start than through emulating Jesus’ ongoing communion with God — of letting His presence infuse our present.

    Father, forgive us for rushing through our days without pausing to invite You in. Please help us be more aware of Your presence, whether we find ourselves in the mundane or spectacular. Be with us. Amen.

    Take Action

    Right now…let’s pause…be still…know He is God…and savor it…..

    Have a great week.. and watch out for Ms T out there!!!

  • DR in Kitty Hawk

    4 pax join in to start the vacation Tuesday off right while the 2.0s fartsack with dreams of beach time and waves still rolling through their brains.

    Always good to see Banjo out of West by God Va. Gomer Pyle and Hardywood happened to be in the area as well and joined in the fun…. made it perfect for some classic F3 WIAB.

    06:30 start time at the DR AO of KDH Town Hall.

    Mosey around the fitness trail. Square up from COP..

    • Side straddle hops
    • Merkins
    • Plank
    • Mountain Climbers

    Mosey to outdoor roller hockey arena.

    Classic Dora: 100 Merkins, 200 WW2, 300 Squats.

    Modified 4 corners: Start in center of court run to corner and back. Perform 2 burpees at center and go to next corner.. 10 of called exercises in each corner.

    Round 1: Merkins, wide arm merkins, diamond merkins, Carolina Dry Docks.

    Round 2: WW2, LBC, reverse crunch, Heals to heaven.

    Round 3: Sumo Squats, Lunge, Reverse lunge, Jump Squats.

    Round 4: (The Natural) Merkins, WW2, Squats, Burpees.

    Mosey back to the AO.

    5 Mins of Mary:

    • 30 Flutters
    • 15 American Hammers
    • 30 Flutters
    • 15 LBCs
    • 30 Flutters
    • 15 Heals to Heaven
    • 30 Flutters

    Done!.

    Until next time.

    Tomorrow is Track day.. let’s get some work in before relaxing on the beach.

    v/r

    Gypsy

  • Choose your own adventure

    3rd F event Sunday at DogPile AO.. fixing up the children’s play area. Posh is leading this one. Starts at 8am.. no tools needed.

    The Thang: 8 pax started together 8 pax finished together yet one launched early and a different 1 went home early.

    • 1 pax went on a ruck
    • 1 pax did a bootcamp
    • 3 pax ran 6 miles
    • 1 pax ran 5 miles
    • 2 pax walk/ran 4 miles
    • 1 pax did??? no idea what Pigskin did today.. probably 45 mins of burpees

    Ran solo much of morning except when Doozy was passing me on his 6 miler. So not much Mubblechatter today.

    Prayers for all the travelers this weekend.

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Bro-code

    Last Friday Bro-Code..

    It was raining..

    The pax showed up..

    We ran the Bro-Code route…

    COT along the run..

    Show to know more.

    v/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles