Author: THE Yankee Aggressor

  • 1 5 65

    1 runner

    5 laps

    65 dollars lost

  • Running in Circles

    26 PAX and several other M’s and family members posted for a circular run around Forest Hill park.

    Weather was perfect at the start and through out the day with lows around 38 and highs around 50. At the start, there were 18 who launched for the first loop, 8 others joined in along the way and did at least one loop. At the start of loop 3 we were down to 9 starters, at 4, 7 starters, at 5 4 starters, at 6 3 starters at 8 two starters.

    It was a great event with lots of personal bests along the way. A few notables. Crikey who had never done more than 9 miles in a day put in four strong loops and wanted to do a fifth but was vetoed by Mom. He was strong all day and did awesome. Kevin (FNG) was pumping in 40 minute laps all morning long. Since he was a new guy, I was curious about his running history. I asked what the furthest he had ever run was. His response, today. His previous furthest was a half marathon in Richmond two weeks ago. Saab spent sometime later counseling on leveraging his running skills in ultras in the future.

    We had a lot of guests for loop four. Honeydo’s 2.0s posted for the fourth loop. EF Hutton and his 2.0’s arrived and my 2.0, Herbie, joined in. All the young ones performed well finishing there loops. Carabeener, Honeydo’s daughter noted that the 4 mile loop on the trails was far harder than the UofR 10k the previous day. Only person to have difficulty navigating the trails was Herbie, she got lost on the loop twice and put in a little over 5 miles for the four mile loop.

    Final talley of laps

    1. Offshore, Sally, Honeymoon, Carabeener, Pit Stop, Wicked, Herbie, EF Hutton, BB-8, Llama, and Flipper.
    2. Bogey (chapel Hill), Hardywood, Sippy Cup, Ezer, and Lugnut
    3. Ben and Dan
    4. Honeydo, Crikey, Jeff
    5. Saab
    6. None
    7. Kevin
    8. TYA and Shakedown

    Until next year.

  • Thanksgiving day celebration

    35 Thankful posted for a pre- Thanksgiving calorie burn and history lesson.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to basketball court for COP. Mosey to field, suicide 11’s with Merkins and LBC, Mosey to side of field for triple check. Mosey to tennis courts for animal walk with merkings, stay at tennis courts for four corners. Mosey to side field for 6 minutes of Mary, to shovel flag for COT. TYA took us out.

    NMM

    Always good to have a Thanksgiving day beatdown. Perfect morning for a workout and a great pre thanksgiving day calorie burn. I spent a little time on Thanksgiving history today, but honestly, I am good with any thanksgiving day celebration. We all have so much to be thankful for that we take for granted on a daily basis, that any day that allows us to reflect on that is a good day.

    Lots of folks heading off post workout to a turkey trot. At least four races were attended by F3 folks. Several were at the traditional UofR 10k, four or five folks were at the Salisbury 5k, Bleeder and family were at the 5k at CCV and Handshake and his folks were at a neighborhood 5k. Out of town, our Swirly ran a 5k at the Homestead, not sure it was the hard way or a straight run, but i am sure he slayed it.

    Thanks to Hardywood (and Upchuck) for Coffee post workout. A great Thanksgiving day tradition that I hope will last. Folks lingered at the AO for sometime to catch up and start the day off right. One notable absentee was Circle K. If you notice in the PAX list his daughter, 7-11, posted, but CK was no where in sight. She had gotten up for the workout, but dad was still asleep, so she headed to the AO on her own. Love it.

    TYA Out

  • SAL


    Fourty six redwoods posted on a crisp fall morning.  Weather was perfect to be alive and have a morning beatdown.

    The Thang

    Mosey to upper parking lot.  20 ssh, 6, burpees on your own, 70 LBC.   Mosey to field for the Magna Carta (try saying that with a Boston Accent).  Run across the field for 12 merkins, run back and do 15 Lt. Dan’s.  Repeat x 5.  Stay on field for four corners.  The first corner is 5 burpee, second corner 18 carolina dry docks, third corner, 19 lunges and fourth corner was 32 WWII situps, repeat x 4.  Mosey to parking lot.  Four corners agains, 1 Burpee, 16 merkins, 19 lunges and 89 LBC’s.  Mosey to upper parking lot for 56 ssh, 7 burpees and 28 lbc.  Mosey to shovel Flag.  TYA took us out

    NMM

    Thanks to all the PAX for posting at Notoll this morning.  It truly meant a ton to me.  I know a lot of you missed your normal AO’s and drove way out of the way to be there.   To be surrounded by so many good friends on this day was special to me. Thank You!

    Special thanks to Lab Rat for bringing the coffee fixings from RAISE this morning.  A great treat and incentive to enjoy a little extra second F.

    Today was tribute to my Dad, Donald Vincent Salvucci – Sal.  He was born on 5/18/1932, died on 1/16/1989.  He was alive for 56 years, 7 months and 28 days or 20,670 days.  A short time to be on this earth.  Today, I turned that same age.  As such I wanted to say thanks to my father for everything he taught me.  

    I learned a ton from my father during his lifetime. Too many things to name, but a few of the most important were: A love for sports, hockey in particular, a massively competitive spirit, a strong work ethic, respect for all people on the earth regardless of how someone would like to categorize them, and a wit and sense of humor. 

    When he passed away in 1989, it came as a shock.  I had seen him the night before, and he appeared to be in good health. It took me a while to regroup and recover. Since my Dad was a teacher and dedicated to life long learning, I vowed when he passed away, that I would learn from his death. I would take the lessons of his death and change my life accordingly. 

    Since that day in 1989, I have done many things and changed a lot about how I live my life.  A few of the major things that I know I would not have done without the lessons I learned are: going to business school, adopting two children in my late 30’s, traveling to and exploring many countries, starting a business, and making sure that I took care of my body.  These are just the major things.  In everyday life, I make little decisions that are a result of that day.  I shut the TV off while I’m watching my favorite team so I can talk to my daughter or spouse, when someone asks me to go on an adventure or try a new challenge, I accept, when I am impatient or frustrated with anyone in my life, I take a few deep breaths.  What I have learned from that one day is that even in the darkest times, if you look hard enough, you can find good, and you can learn.

    Thanks Dad

  • Pre blast – Second Inaugural Loop CSAUP

    The second Inaugural CSAUP is Friday the 29th of November.  Details of the event:

    • The event is open to anyone.  You don’t have to belong to F3 or be an ultra runner to participate.  The format will allow for everyone to set and meet their own goals. Bring your M’s 2.0s or friends
    • The event will start at 7am sharp.  There will be loops for trail running, road running, mountain biking and road biking.  
    • You have one hour to finish your selected loop – trail loops are just under four miles and road running route is 5 miles on the nose.  Once finished with your loop, you can rest/relax and recover.  The next loop will start at the top of the next hour.  You can continue as long as you like, but the event will officially end at 9pm.  You can mix and match loop types as you wish.
    • The event is self supported.  Bring what you need to keep yourself hydrated and fed during the race.
    • We will have a barbecue fired up at around 11 am where folks can grill.
    • It will be run out of Shelter 1 at Forest Hill park.  All the start/finish lines for all loops will be at Shelter 1.

    Let me know below if you plan to attend.

    TYA OUT

  • A tribute to Splinter

    15 Redwoods posted on a beautiful fall morning. Weather was optimal for a run. Perfect conditions. Hill repeats was the call. Go up the hill to the main entrance of UR, take a right and make your way to intersection of 3chopt. Turn around and go back to the start. Each loop is just under 2 miles.

    NMM

    Lug is a beast. His running capability is only surpassed by his ability to drop weight. He is flying out there these days. Along the route today he passed YHC, Pucker, Shakedown and Lab Rat. He was chasing down EF Hutton at the end, but didn’t quite make it.

    Bleeder was pounding the pavement on the way back on the first lap. YHC knew he was just behind him (but of course I never glanced back), so I boogied down the hill. Bleeder caught me just as we were hitting the parking lot. A fantastic effort on the downhill and a 8:30ish mile. YHC was perplexed when bleeder stopped at the bottom of the hill. Found out later that the bathroom was calling. Not sure if the speed down the hill was a rush to get to the bathroom or his competitive spirit trying to catch me?

    TYA Out

  • New Market Takeover

    Eight strong humans and one canine posted on a Sunday morning for a jaunt on the trails. We took the north bank past the entrance to the T. Pottersfield and onto the pipe (poop) loop. We then made our way back to the parking lot via the northbank. Saab took to the streets and made his way back on the trails. Flipper posted early and got in 10 miles.

    Great to have the newmarket crew out there today. A couple folks punching the ticket for the end of the summer tour. Congrats guys. Flipper got YHC in trouble this morning, and I didn’t even cross paths with him. I was talking to Ollie and saw flips car with the license plate HNVRQT. I said the plate outloud (Hanover cuties) to Ollie and the four women (yes they were cuties) stopped talking and leered at me. The plate does not really mean hanover cuties, it was meant to read Hollands never quit. Sally went postal on Recall. Apparently Sally didn’t like the stance that Recall was in and got a bit aggressive.

    TYA OUT

  • How about some side straddle hops and WWII situps?

    20 determined alpha males posted for a mild workout on a lovely Thursday morning.

    The Thang

    Mosey to bus circle. Ascending/descending curb crawls to five. Mosey to corner, 20 SSH, 10 Don Quixotes, 20 LBC, 10 windmills, and 16 imperial walkers, Mosey down grove towards 3 chopt. Take a left into the alley behind the apartments, stopping to do some more merkins. Mosey the parking lot at First Pres Church (I can’t possibly spell presbyterian correctly). Teams of three for a triple check, run the parking lot, SSH and WWII setups. Mosey to parking spaces for a prisoner round or 4, merkins, copper head squats, jump squats and WWII situps. Mosey to other side of parking lot. Teams of two, one guy runs across the parking lot backwards both ways, other guys does monkey jumpers (thanks Splinter) . Mosey to back parking lot for a triple check. Run around the lot, WWII, and you guessed it SSH’s. Mosey to corner of Grove. 10 SSH and 10 WWII on your own. Back to the shovel flag and finish the beatdown.

    NMM

    Great work today guys. Yesterday at the BRR meeting someone mentioned I was Q’ing today and someone asked which church we were going to, Reveille or Dover Baptist. I woke up at 3am today and couldn’t fall back to stleep, so I had to find another church to go off site to. So on the way to the AO, I scouted out First Pres. Good news is there is plenty of parking lot there, bad news, there is almost no grass at all.

    Lots of mumble chatter once I got stuck on the SSH and WWII setups. Therefore, I decided that I would keep with the exercises since everyone seemed to like them. By the end some of the PAX were convinced I was trying to make some kind of point about the merkin workout last week – not true. Others, folks that I thought were veteran leader type guys (SAAB and ROSIE in particular) just wanted to complain. The complaining did nothing but make more steadfast in my commitment to these two exercises (Swirly I am sure liked the consistency and commitment).

    Great to meet Butterfly this morning. Dude had “Doctor Brooks” as a professor at VCU. He wholly endorsed “Doctor Brooks” professing skills. As such, a bunch of the PAX spent ten minutes trying to discredit “Doctor Brooks” (lots of talk about his Seinfeld shoes, upright alabama prom dates, and other of his unique approaches to exercise). Roxanne also posted for his second workout at Mary. Good to have him back out there.

    Little bit of a crisis at the end the workout as Rosie could not get his car started. We were at a little bit of a disadvantage because neither Bleeder or Lug were there to rescue the situation. Being good learners though, we did hydrate the battery and reset the ground. To no avail, Rosies vehicle would not start. Since the auto parts store opened at 7am, he was shuttled there for a new battery. His car did start and he was able to get it to a shop, but his power steering wasn’t working. It was hilarious watching him try to wrestle his car through a three point turn to get out of the parking lot.

    Great day to Everyone. TYA OUT

  • Summer tour? Where are they all???

    3 determined runners posted somewhere near launch time for a hot run. Everyone went on different jaunts, Lug put in 8.5 miles, Swirly 5.5 and TYA 4.5. Saab stopped by on his way home for a little 2nd F post run.

    Ok, so if anyone reads this post and are signed up for the summer tour, I might make them mad. I know a ton of people are on a quest to hit all the AO’s during the summer months. YHC is completely supportive of this quest and loves the opportunity to reconnect with PAX the are not typically at my usual AO’s. I think it is and awesome challenge for anyone…..but, I have posted to the Wednesday Hill run nearly every week during the summer and only encountered a handful of summer tour PAX (Offshore, EF Hutton, Opus). Where is everyone else?? I have taken a few ribbings for not signing up for the tour, but would argue that it is worse to not accomplish the challenge if you signed up than to not sign up at all.

    Come on out folks and complete your challenge. It would be great to have some more company on Wednesday night.

  • Less than 70 and sunny

    5 posted on a perfect August morning. Yes, perfect. For this time of year, the weather could not have been better. It was south of 70 degrees, lower humidity and dew point. It actually felt a little chilly when you were not running.

    Flipper and TYA launched early and did the South to North loop adding in Forrest hill for a cool 10 milers. Offshore and Flange did the South North with Swiper. Swiper was off at the end to add a few extra miles to better prepare for grandfather mountain at the BRR.

    TYA OUT