Author: SABLE

Seven eager ruckers gathered at EB’s on a slightly damp June morning. Backdraft brought an FNG—Tinder, who is also his son. Welcome Tinder (fire-starter). The route for the day was a RH classic with some time spent on the red/green blaze trail of Larus Park before traversing the Chippenham tunnel to loop around Stoney Point fashion park for a brisk 3.1 mile trip. Thanks for joining.

Announcements:
Saturday, June 13th food distribution with Latino’s in VA Empowerment Center. See Slack for details and let L woods know you are interested in helping out.
Sunday, June 14th @ 3pm Family friendly OTB ruck at Sunday Park followed by a gathering at the boathouse.

Prayers: DTH took us out.

8 men and a baby met at Einstein for the most recent edition of RH. We saddled up with our rucks, a sandy (and a baby) before heading out for the hills of SP. Goal was for the man under the sandy to accumulate 40 reps (10 x squats, lunges overhead presses and upright rows or alternates) before switching out. We also attempted to move as quickly as we could at each hill we came to or changed it up with a Bernie to hit the quads a little differently. DTH was briefly excited as we came to a dead end street that looked like an entry way into the woods. Next time.

Announcements: Farewell bash for the NTBs at DTH’s Casa Saturday 4pm.

Flatlines Q and Bon Iron to take place at Dogpile this Saturday @ 6am.

Latinos in VA Empowerment Center: food distribution and community resources Saturday, June 13 10am-1pm. See slack for additional details.

Prayer requests: Rodeo Clown’s friend recently passed away in a climbing accident in Nepal. She will be missed by friends and family, but was “doing what she loved” RIP.

6 men met to traverse some of the less explored terrain of Bon-Airs streets. No trespassing, and no bundu bashing (look it up) occurred. Sometimes its good to just stick to the roads well traveled, though that was questionable too. Great to connect over a soggy trek on what seemed like an unusually warm morning. We did add in a quicker section to give everyone a sense of what dealer has in store for the Frozen Triangle this Saturday. Get ready!

See everyone at Dogpile on Saturday at 0600.

8 of the pax came out for the final edition of RH for the year. The gander through the woods went a little long but it was worth it. Great 2nd F as always, thanks for the company on this frosty morning. Heres to the new year and reaching all those goals. SYITG!

Announcements: Convergence at Dogpile @ 7am.

NMS: As always, i felt so invigorated after spending the start of the morning with the fellas. Reflecting on fatherhood, the challenges of the last year and looking forward to whats next. In the past few years I have come across the idea of the past year review. Popularized by Tim Ferris, it suggests an alternative to the typical new years resolutions that we are all too familiar with. Instead, review your past year week by week, month by month and put everything you did, people you engaged with and anything else that you experienced in either a good column or a negative column. Summarize the top positive items/events/company and start planning more of them in your new year. Trips, people who you enjoyed being around, anything that was positive, then as much as possible avoid “signing up” for the negative ones out of obligation or FOMO. I am just really thankful for the opportunity to spend so much time with the brothers of the F3 community. More to come. Have a great, safe end to 2025.

Twas a merry Christmas eve morning that saw 5 of the pax assemble for a walk down some of Stony Point’s well illuminated streets. Nothing fancy today though we did tackle a few hills. Thanks for coming out this morning and here’s to a great festive season.

Announcements: New Years Day convergence at Dogpile.

3…no 4… actually 5 of RH’s usual suspects came out for the Christmassy vibes on hand on this snowy and icy morning. With a fresh breeze on hand we did a parking lot lap to wait for stragglers before heading for the woods. Good thing everyone is sporting the bright orange beanies of late. A traverse across Larus Park was followed by a Stony Point FP stretch that saw most of us get to practice some of our balance skills while under weight. As always good banter and convo to cover the miles. Thanks for coming out lads. A great start to the day.

On this potentially wet morning we had 8 of our RH regulars join for a brief venture into the woods of Larus. We kept the pace comfortable given our men returning from GrowRUCK this weekend.

Coffeeteria was focused on the building of awareness of our daily habits (Chapter 4 of Atomic Habits). The challenge has been set to identify a habit that we would like to change….permanently and not just fleetingly, a change that will get us closer to being the person we aspire to be. As always some solid humor and good banter was appreciated. Thanks for joining.

Announcements/Prayers: Congrats to L Woods, NTB and Pad Thai on completing the GrowRUCK this past weekend. By all accounts they represented F3RVA excellently. Prayers for L Woods and the family as his old man deals with a cancer diagnosis.

10 of F3RVAs men gathered at Einsteins Bagels for this weeks edition of RH. Weather was perfect and after the usual welcome slagging off from the crusher of oranges, we were off. We began on the red trail, linked to green and then slipped under Chippenham parkway for the Stony Point sections. We passed around a very light 60lb sand bag for some extra fun and covered just over 3 miles this morning. As always the conversation was great and our follow up coffeeteria was full of humor. Good discussion on how identity drives our habits and vice versa. Thanks for joining lads!

Numbers, Names, Announcements, NTB took us out.

• CSAUP this Friday the 26th September starting at the Alamo @8pm, check Slack for details.
• Nancy Lopez is collecting shoes till the end of the month and any donations to cover costs of shipping. QR code on Slack.