Two BRR trainees met for hill repeats up Twin Team. Five repeats, 4.62 miles and 652 feet of elevation gain.
Author: Swiper
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Two Run River Run
We run for the joy. Some say it's a waste of time; We must pity them. -
Meteors & Running
Cold clear winter mornings make the stars stand out, and this morning they were enhanced by the last straggling meteors of the Leonids. Since WaThoHuk is a run focused bootcamp (minimum of three miles) YHC decided to combine laps around the track with exercises emphasizing running form and injury prevention. These included: side straddle hops, copperhead squats, superman planks, side planks with leg lifts, lying leg lifts and kick backs, standing leg lifts and deadlifts, and merkins. During the laps we also included carioca, bounding, and skipping. Distance covered was 3.2 miles
YHC led us out.
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Hill repeats at RAMM
A small group showed up to enjoy YHC’s planned hill repeats for RAMM . Route was Munford to Oak, south on Oak and over Cary to Hillcrest. From Munford to the split in Hillcrest is one mile. Loop around Hillcrest, adding the Hillwood spur to make each loop one mile. Four-milers were to run two loops, five-miles were to do three loops, and six-milers four loops. Back to the start. Alterations were made as needed. TYA, Kubota, and Swirly started early and did their own thing.
Thoughts for TYA’s brother who is in a bad way. This lead to a discussion of friends and family who have had recent heart and circulation problems, including several who did not appear to be likely candidates for complications. Greenbow mentioned that St. Mary’s offers heart scans.
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Quiet Sunday
YHC and Bootleg pulled into the Pump House parking lot at 7:02 with nary a disappearing pax member in sight. We assumed the crowd had already made off into the woods; however, since no one has posted a backblast for Sunday Funday, it appears that we were the pax.
Turning around at downtown, YHC put in 8 miles. Bootleg was aiming for a personal half-marathon.
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Lab Rat’s washing machine
It was sunny and the river sparkled, but the wind nearly blew us off the Potterfield Bridge during our lunchtime run. YHC’s Garmin, source of all truth, logged 4.5 miles.
Apparently part of Lab Rat’s job is to keep a washing machine running. Doesn’t sound like much until you find out it would cost more to replace than the cost of the median house price in Richmond. YHC learned far more about industrial washing machines than he ever thought possible.
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First Wednesday Downtown Run of the Year
Three downtown runners assembled at lunch for a quick run. Lab Rat was held up by work awhile, so YHC and Shakedown ran several laps before picking up Lab Rat. Route was our standard path…down to the 9th Street Bridge from the Capital, across and then along the river, back across the Potterfield Bridge and up to the Capital. Lab Rat put in about 3.5 miles, Shakedown 4.5 miles and YHC 7 miles.
Come join us if you are downtown and available Wednesdays at lunch.
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Sometimes all you have to do is ask (Healing Place Training Team)
For a number of years the Healing Place, a residential program for men in recovery from addiction, has had a training team for the Monument Avenue 10k. This year they are trying a team for the 8k race that is attached to the Richmond Marathon. They started on Saturday, but only six of the twelve residents who had signed up showed up. Yesterday I went to their all-hands-on-deck community meeting to try to recruit a few new men and remind the others about accountability. I told them to let me know if there was anything holding them back and we would find a solution. Afterwards two men said they were interested but didn’t have shoes. “Just show up” I said, knowing I had two days to figure something out and that F3 would be the first place to turn.
This morning I made a request for shoes at 45 Minutes of Mary hoping to score some used but still usable donations. Who else but Hardywood offers a full carton of returned shoes that have been hardly been used. All those men had to do was ask, and all I had to do was broadcast that request. T-claps for Hardywood.
If you are interested in running with the guys, the runs are on Saturdays through November 3rd at 7:30 AM. The Healing Place is on Dinwidde Ave south of downtown in the Blackwell/Manchester area. With the team so small and other running volunteers from the community, we don’t need more than three or four F3ers.
There were also some men who wanted to know if it was possible to put together an evening run. Let me know if you are interested.
To summarize:
- I think we are good on shoes
- I’ll find out if there is a need for clothing (shorts, sweats, etc.)
- Reply in the comments if you are interested in running after work during the week, and which evenings/times you are available
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River Raging
Remainders of storm
Water rushing down the James
No pipeline today
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Noonday Heat
Heat, like a black hole,
sucked in all our energy.
We ran and sought shade.