Author: Rosie

  • Holiday Spirit

    30 spirited men traveled from near and far to participate in a yearly tradition almost as popular as the classic “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”. EF Hutton wins the Holiday Spirit award showing up dressed as a present and everyone else gets a gold star for participating in the sing-along. I thought about making some changes to the program but realized I knew it too well and might confuse myself so we stuck to the same order, much to the PAX dismay, especially when we got to 12.

    A short little COP to introduce the day with SSH, Helicopters, and IW, then onto the main event.

    • 1 – Dozen LBCs
    • 2 – Sprints across the field
    • 3 – Diamond Merkins
    • 4 – Imperial Squat Walkers
    • 5 – Burpees
    • 6 – Dips
    • 7 – 2-count lunges
    • 8 – Decline merkins
    • 9 – American Hammers IC
    • 10 – Flutter Kicks – IC
    • 11 – Crunchy Frogs – IC
    • 12 – Broad Jump Burpees

    The PAX crushed it with enough time leftover for a big ring of fire.

    Another year, another great turnout for the 12 days of Christmas. A big Thank You to all for coming out and letting me lead you this morning. Great times as always, only a few have posted every year and for some this was a first. Hardywood was sharing secrets on how he finished each round so fast, I think I heard him say “It’s genetic and unattainable” but maybe I was just hearing things. Great to have a few guys from the other side of the river, Hitchhiker, Garbage Plate, LinkedIn and EF Hutton join us for the festivities.

    Reminder that we have a great thing with F3, Viral shared info about a viral video on linked in that a UK man made in which he admitted to having no friends. Link here Reach out to someone that hasn’t been out in a while or is a FNG and don’t give up easy, the EH takes time and we know how important it can be.

    Announcements:

    Winter Tour – See Oyster’s pre-blast and the sign up sheet

    DTH is going to be setting up the sale of “your name” shirts early next year

    Christmas Day workout – Upchuck has WDog

    New Years Day – ? TBD

  • HDHH SOJ style

    HDHH SOJ style

    The SOJ crew has decided plant a HDHH on this side of the river to see if anyone is willing to cross it to join us for a drink or two. Late notice but I think word has leaked out over the past few weeks. No pre-run or workout, just straight to the bar on Wednesday

    This Wednesday 12/11 – 5:30ish – ?? at the new O’Tooles in Midlothian, 13919 Midlothian Turnpike

  • Twin Team claims another

    No Q, no problem. We haven’t reversed the OG in a while so YHC spent some time trying to explain the route to the PAX. Apparently the area around the Tarrington clubhouse is more confusing than I realized. Go around the school before heading up Twin Team and then down through Tarrington.

    Good to have Long Pole out for his first F3 morning run, YHC led him on a little extra through Powderham after Twin Team had it’s way with him. OC and Honeymoon cruised along until Lugnut sped up to join them after his headlamp died. Apologies to the 4 milers, the route didn’t quite hit the mark so they had to add a little extra to get it right.

    Announcements:

    Thanksgiving – 6am workout at 45MOM, 1 hour, TYA will retell the story of the first Thanksgiving in VA

    Friday 11/29 – Forest Hill Park – run loops every hour on the hour

    HDHH – 12/11 at the new O’Tooles on Midlothian Turnpike 5:30ish start – no running beforehand, straight to the bar

  • Recall picks up the pace

    Everyone that showed up this early Sunday to run was dressed for winter except one. We’ll let you guess who that was. No one was sure which direction we were going when we headed out but we adjusted on the fly and were all back to the starting point an hour later. Recall has been consistently posting and running his own pace but today kept up Honeymoon and I company as Annie pulled us along. Ceranno kept us in his sights and pulled out a solid 6+ miles.

    All good stuff to get us primed for New Market football watching in Duke’s garage.

  • 10 days on Tinder

    8 PAX ran through Midlothian at varying speeds and distances. Highlights were the 2nd F where one PAX member regaled us with stories of the terrifying and sometimes wonderful 10 days he spent on Tinder.

  • Where’d he go

    05:29:30 and no one has called out a route yet so YHC stepped up and called it. Up Twin Team, right on Brigstock, out 23, back 22. Running as a pack up Twin Team everyone fell into their pace at the top. Gumbo had to cut out early. OC decided to go rogue and make the full loop coming down Winterfield to Robious for just under 6 miles. As he pulled away on his own he mentioned it to a couple people but no one was exactly sure where he went, we had to circle up without him but he made it back before we left the AO.

    Tclaps to Lug for crushing a 10 miler this weekend. Hammers and Ales was a success. Only a couple more days to donate to Gumbo and Vinny to get them to wear a stache for a month+.

  • More than he wanted

    YHC was not planning to put up a back blast for OTB this week since I thought it might be just me and Honeymoon but when 8 guys post and get some solid 2nd F time in it’s worth it. Marmaduke wanted 5ish so we decided to show him the Salisbury route and cut it a little short. He and Recall got more than 5 but still came in before UF opened the doors. OC hung with Honeymoon, Annie and I until Honeymoon hill. Aisle 5, Hermie and Wilson did some slower paced stuff but were able to solve the world’s problem so we’re happy about that. Good times gentlemen.

  • I guess we’re on our own

    Despite various arrival times there was a nice round PAX of 6 waiting for the Q to show up at 0530. No Wojo so YHC took the potato and ran the crew behind the school for a warm up that included EFH’s Jazzercize along with some various planking and other stuff.

    6 pack of Pullups and Derkins at the playground

    Doozy – To the parking lot for touch a pole – Partner up. 1 up to 5 poles, while partner does squats, then flutters, then American Hammers. Getting to 15 without repeating took some running and some planning ahead. PeeDee finally caught on after 3 rounds or so.

    Loose Goose – More 4 corners, this time in the big parking lot – 15 merkins, 20 WWII, 25 Squats, 30 LBC. No time for a second round so he found some spots for us to repeat all of the above on the way back to the flag.

    YHC checked the Q sheet earlier this week but Wojo had it locked down so no worries right. Not so fast, apparently with UNC playing VT this weekend he must have been afraid the Hokie presence would be too strong. That is was with Radar, Loose Goose and I holding down the AO for the Hokies. With the size of the AO we recommend getting there before 0530 as Sonic found out. He searched some previous haunting grounds but we may have circled each other because he only found us at the end. Tclaps for sticking around and getting some miles in.

    Thanks for chipping in with the potato Goose and Doozy. PeeDee, BoBerry and Radar be prepared, the next potato could come your way. Excellent way to start a Friday.

  • 5 Fingers – 4 paws

    6 runners and a 4 legged friend met up to do some early morning running to start the week. I’ve been wanting to bring this one back since we did it before BRR since it includes 2 of the hill running faves of Twin Team and Queens Grant. 3 other smaller hills mixed in. POG and Honeymoon were pulled along by Annie while Lugnut found a hill that was not on the menu but was equal to the others. Doozy, still recovering opted for flatter terrain down by the river. Thanks to Swiper for keeping me company with a solid pace up and down the hills.

    Great way way to kick off a Monday, feeling good. Do something to make yourself better today.

  • F3 run

    New route and plan on the books for the 3 runners that hit the mean Midlothian streets this morning. A Fartlek style group run in and out of the local neighborhoods was called as we left the parking lot.

    Mile or so warm up then pick up the pace for varying distances and elevations throughout the route. YHC found a new route that roughly drew the F3 logo. This will be known as the F3 route and I fully expect people to get lost trying to follow it if it is called again. I’ll try to post a screen shot of the route but my tech skills are limited.

    Great to have Draper out on a run, he mentioned that he wants to get back to hitting the running AOs a little more. Fartlek runs are harder when you are consistently going up and down hills. Way to push guys.