Author: THE Yankee Aggressor

  • A great 5.5, a good 7

    2 warriors posted for a hill run, launching from the pump house.

    The Thang: Buttermilk to T. Pottersfield to North Bank

    NMM:  Weather turned and the outside temp was perfect for a run.  The negative on the higher temps was that all the snow and ice melted leaving the trails pretty difficult. Probably shouldn’t have run on the trails today…but once we were in, we were committed.

    The first 5.5 miles were awesome despite the sloppy trails.  We had a good pace and kept the pace hight.  Once the sun set and Swirly’s IT band tightened up, the pace slowed a bit.  Despite Swirly’s pleas that we take a shortcut, we resisted the temptation and did the whole 7 miles. Since Swirly is gonna stay off the trails for a little while, I would appreciate any Weds afternoon company.

    TYA OUT

     

     

  • Lonely Wed afternoon run

    TYA posted on a cold Wed for a solo trail run.  7 miles put in.

    TYA OUT

  • A couple of Paul’s and a LIFO John

    3 regulars emerged from the fartsack on the last day of 2017 for a morning beatdown….weather was 70 and sunny.

    Northbank to southbank back to the flag

    NMM:

    Small crowd on a beautiful morning to close out the year.  Temperature gauge on my car read 21 at the start of the run, but we it felt perfect outside.  Run outbound with wind at our backs was nice. (Saab caught offshore and I about 2 miles in)  Things started to turn around when we crossed the bridge to the southside.  The wind started to pick up a bit and made things a little bit chilly.  When we hit the last bridge (nickel bridge), it was downright brutal.  Wind was howling across the bridge and my face froze within 30 seconds.  I tried stopping once to see if i could get my face to the downside of the wind, but to no avail.  Best approach was to run your ass off and get the hell out of the cold as quickly as possible.

    Great 2nd F at ET’s afterwards.

    Happy New year to all.

    TYA OUT

  • Bleeder, leave me alone

    8 studs emerged from the fartsack on this fine December morning.

    The Thang:

    Up the hills to Three Chopt, right on 3 Chopt, left off Grove, right on Oak, six milers take a loop in Hillcrest, return to the lake.

    NMM:

    No Big Blue in the parking lot this morning.  Weird to see, but good job laying off the knee for a day (I do know that you were at a bootcamp, but that is better than a full out run).  No Saab today either.  I kept looking across the lake to see when he would emerge, but alas, another regular not in the gloom this morning.

    Sippy and Splinter ran together for the most part today.  The caught me coming down the hill back to the lack.  They got ahead and I was trying to keep them in striking distance, which I was semi successful at, when they took a right hand turn up a steep hill.  Since they were now in the lead, they decided to tackle on last hill to finish up their run.  Awesome job guys….just another benefit of running with others,

    Bleeder is now completely in my head.  For the past month or so, he has been tracking me down on these Spider runs on a regular basis.  Going up the first hill, I was almost certain he was going to catch me, but he didn’t.  I saw him after the turnaround, and had a good lead, but still did not feel safe.  The whole way back, especially going down the last hill, I was completely paranoid that he was going to suddenly sneak up and pass me at the last minute.  I survived today, but appreciated the motivation that his months worth of work has given me.

    Announcements

    HDHH and birthday bash tomorrow, I think. I know that HDHH is at The Answer brew pub.  Come one, come all, we can no longer Hate honeyed.

     

  • Quiet morning on the trails

    3 stalwarts posted for a Sunday morning run.

    The Thang:  Buttermilk to T. Pottersfield to North Bank and back to Pump House

    NMM:

    Shakedown and Hardywood took the lead today.  TYA was pseudo tapering so took it slow and easy on the trails today.  Nice and quiet out there on the trails today.  Weather was awesome, high 40’s by the end and YHC was shedding layers.  Good 2nd F with Hardywood at Crossroads post workout.  Great to catch up with a great guy.

    TYA OUT

    Happy hour Weds at 705 Baldwin Road

  • 396 or 398 years later

    38 determined redwoods posted on a perfect Thanksgiving morning.  Q declared right off the bat that the weather was 70 and sunny.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to side of school.  SSH x16, LBC x 19, Arm circle x16, Don Quixote’s x 6, Merkins x 10.  Mosey to front fields for suicide 11’s, first exercise is WWII setups, second is Merkins.  Mosey to tennis courts for four corners first corner is jump squats, second Lt. Dan’s, third is monkey jumpers, 4th is Merkins.  5 sets.  16x Rosalitas, 21 x LBC. Carpenter leads us in a prayer of thanks.  Mosey to side of school for double triple check.  Peoples chair, Carolina dry docks, run to the fence, first round 16 merkins, second 21 LBC,s each person do 6 runs.  Ring of fire – 4 way, Vee ups are the exercise.  Mosey or sprint back to shovel flag and close out.

    NMM

    All week long there has been an onslaught of information flowing about the first Thanksgiving in the United States.  Honestly, when YHC moved to the commonwealth of VA from the great commonwealth of Massachusetts, I had no idea there was any sort of controversy around this.  Well, after living in VA for 33 years, I am more than aware that the majority of folks in VA think that the first Thanksgiving was in VA.

    I have done my research, looked at all the information, run the appropriate regression models and determined with statistical certainty that the answer does not really matter.  What matters is the act of giving thanks and looking around yourself and realizing how truly blessed we are.  It is easy in this current environment and culture to look at what we don’t have and take for granted what we do have.  I had the unique opportunity this year to travel to a part of the world (Ghana in Africa) that shines a spotlight on what little things we have that are taken for granted (clean water, sanitations systems, roads, etc).

    (if you want to know what the rest of the country thinks about Giving, ask Alexa (thanks Marmaduke))

    Lots of mumble chatter around the circle today. As the Q of a group of 38 people, it is very difficult to follow the discourse.  Chime in below if anything was said that needs to be shared.

    Great to see folks from all around the RVA out there today.  One of the negative implications of our growth in RVA is that its now nearly impossible (see Upchuck, Lab Rat, and others who are hitting every AO) to hit every AO and to see all our brothers .

    Big thanks today to Hardwood who provided the refreshments post work out.  Tclaps brother.

    Good luck to all that are running Thanksgiving runs today.

    Announcements

    Hardywood is leading Sundays Breaking Bread.  The more the merrier

    HDHH next Wednesday at 705 Baldwin Road.  M’s and 2.0s welcome.  Come help bring some life to Marv’s new house.

  • HDHH Weds after TGiving

    Party at Marv’s House.  Well, not really, it will still be TYA’s house.  Next Wednesday 5 – ?

    Beers and light snacks provided by Lally Construction. M’s and 2.0s are welcome.  Address is 705 Baldwin Road, RVA 23229.

    TYA OUT.

  • Windy Sunday Morning

    5 faithful posted for a Sunday morning jaunt around the James.

    The Thang:

    Northbank, across T. Pottersfield, Buttermilk back to Pump House. 2 opted for an additional run around Forest Hill park.

    NMM

    Beautiful morning for a run in November.  Temp was hovering around 60 degrees at the launch.  Temp dropped during the run, but only a few degrees.  By the time we ended it was mid fifties and still quite nice.  Only weather issue was the wind…it was quite breezy out there this morning.  Only place it really affected us was coming back over the Nickel Bridge.  When Saab and I returned, the wind was howling and it was hard to keep forward progress rolling.  Also beins (a tribute Circle K there) that we were at the end of the run, we were sweaty and the cold wind was really cold.

    Ran into Hardwood and Flashdance on the trails this morning.  They were returning from a 3 mile run on the south side heading into Forest Hill.  Great to run into F3 brothers out there, and both were more than happy to see the PAX.

    Today Saab was leading the way throughout followed by Lab Rat and Shakedown.  YHC and Wedding Singer were battling for the last spot in the line.  I think I was able to be slower than him on a majority of the run. Trails are nice and quiet in the winter/late fall.  We probably saw a dozen people this morning with only 1 or 2 other souls seen in Forest Hill.

    Announcements

    Thx giving workout 6-7 on Thursday.  It is sure to be a beatdown and to be educational.

    TYA OUT

  • Weds hill run on trails

    Gents, tomorrow’s hill run has been relocated to the pump house and will commence at 5p.  We will do the buttermilk northbank loop.

    TYA OUT

  • Hutton’s Dong

    19 dedicated souls emerged from the fart sack for a morning of fun and frolics.

    The Thang:

    Mosey 2 feet to the field, 15x arm circles, 15 x helicopters, 43x LBC, 15 x Don Quixote.  Mosey around school, into Windsor Farms and to the Baptist Church field (a total of 1.02 miles according to Garmin).  7-11’s in the field.  7’s on short way of field with Burpees and Merkins, 11’s on the long way of the field with WWII Situps and Lt Dan’s  Mosey to Windsor road entrance and stop halfway down.  Pair up for Love Hill special.  Run to cary an back, partner does lunges, polar bears, and broad jump burpees, switch until all PAX at Cary.  Carefully mosey back to the shovel flag and finish up.

    NMM

    Happy Birthday (yesterday) to Mr. Dance.  He turned and even (maybe odd) 43 yesterday.  Such a young pup.  Great to have Prohibition in from out of town.  Always good to have a guest for a beatdown.  Hopefully we gave him and appropriate workout and he will post next time he is in town.

    During the 7-11’s the PAX was given YHC a hard time.  A hard time for my usage of “thats what she said”.  Please people, that is an appropriate response to just about anything.  You just have to have a little bit of an imagination and it fits with almost any comment.  I can’t remember the context today, but I am sure it worked despite indications otherwise from the PAX.  Since YHC was the Q, I took the opportunity to stop the harassment by calling for 5 burpees.  It works everytime.

    So, going over to Windsor Farms is fun, but it does have its hazards.  On the way over, the PAX got split up because of traffic on Cary.  I decided to take another route back, knowing it would be a little riskier.  I urged all to run on the sidewalk, which was safer, kinda.  The sidewalk in that area is ridiculous.  The pavers are all messed up because of the big tree routes making running a difficult task. All survived, mostly.  On the way back, Saab relayed to YHC that EF Hutton had run into  a street sign and then in the description murmured something about a dong.  Saab was trying to describe the sound made when Hutton hit the sign, I interpreted it a little bit different and was trying to figure out how a sign had collided with that part of Hutton…after my conversations with Hutton, I realized it was just a sound that the sign made.  One request from Hutton.  He does not want avoiding a sign to be called out as a “Hutton” (ala Goldberg and curbs) in the future.  I am sure we will all be respectful of his wishes.

    2.0 and double dip opportunities this weekend at Dogpile

    Hampton roads anniversary on the 11th, Cville 4 milers on the 12th.

    TYA Out