Author: Wedding Singer

  • A Man May Be Killed

    Hot potato Q today as 1/2 the PAX set off to run clad in yellow and the other 1/2 to bootcamp clad in black and one expletive PAX member in a hoodie.

    Runners – ran somewhere and returned in 45 minutes.

    Bootcamp:

    Doozy acknowledging it was a hot potato Q took the lead and off we moseyed towards the front parking lot for warmups: Don Q, helicopter, merkins, LBC. Tracers on parking lines.

    Q to Duke. Mosey to corner of school. Bear crawls, lunges, something else, bear crawls and then sprint to bottom of hill. Partner for several rounds of wall squats and 55 of something. Flutters were in there somewhere. 20 merkins in between rounds.

    Q to Honeymoon. Bleacher corners. 5 merkins run up and over, around and back down. Repeat and add exercise, head back same way. Repeat and add exercise each time – 10 squats, 15 dry docks, 20 arm circles, 3 burpees, 25 ab somethings, 30 leg lifts.

    Q to Singer – triple check. wall squats. WWIIs. Run up hill.

    Return to flag.

    Moleskin: The Q was hot today. Seemed to fit a lot in (that’s what she said). Title from Bullseye warning Doozy not to do Mankillers out of the gate. YHC apologies for missing a few exercises, when one isn’t the designated Q these things tend to happen in the fog. Congrats to Doozy for 20 years of marriage.

    -Singer

  • Roll Your Own II

    Six runners tested the roads and departed the AO for a morning run.

    TYA and Swirl took the long route.

    Saab may have taken the scheduled Lockjaw route – Commonwealth, Monument west, Chantilly, Patterson east, Willow Lawn, Grove home (or something like that)

    Corned Beef, Singer and Hash ran the YoYo route with a few added measures to total 4 and a quarter.

    Roads were fine, but there were several significant weather related incidents during the run – downed tree/large branch falling on or near Grove, and a transformer or two blowing up to light up the sky and echo across the otherwise soundless landscape.

    Apologies to Lockjaw but only the 5 mile route was conveyed to Saab so YHC, knowing he wouldn’t be running with Saab and had to mathematically deduce the 4 mile route, opted for a known commodity closer to the AO. Good chatting with Beef and Hash.

    Saab took us out with a thoughtful reminder that we have the choice to suffer in these colder conditions, but others do not.

    (Saab, were you the Q or me?)

  • Tres Amigos

    Three typical suspects arrived, close enough to the start time and commenced.

    Mosey to school – warm up: SSH, Don Q, Squats, Russian Soldier, Hand release merkins, Freddie mercury

    Mosey to far parking lot loop – infinity loops (figure 8 between two parking lot loops) with increasing merkins beginning with 1 per loop, increasing by 1 up to 21.

    Blimp – 5 burpee broad jumps, 10 lunges, 15 imperial squat walker, 20 polar bear -across another bus loop.

    triple check – peoples chair,reverse crunch, run around bus loop

    Blimp – repeat above across to other bus loop.

    triple check – backwards run bus loop, SSH, WWII situps

    Sprint to flag – 2 minutes of Mary.

    Numbers greatly reduced from previous weeks, perhaps it’s the cold, perhaps it’s the raging pandemic. YHC had another workout in mind, but kept it on the shelf due to the low numbers and just winged it. Still, maintaining social distancing was to be observed and preserved.

    Fresh Prince relayed his morning routine per YHC’s request, he’s nothing short of consistent with his arrival time 2 minutes beyond 5:30.

    Doozy is selling squares for the Superbowl to help raise money for hid kid’s Cooperstown baseball trip this summer. Let’s support the man.

    -Singer

  • R.U.D.

    16 or so early morning risers arose.

    Short run: Monument to Grove rectangle. 4s turn at Arthur Ashe, 5s around Allison, 6s were absent.

    Long: Top Golf route

    Bikes: out and around.

    Felt like a good morning to take in the Monument Christmas lights, so off the four of us went. Great job everyone. YHC had a good conversation with Pucker, where I learned a new acronym today – R.U.D. (rapid unscheduled disassembly). The context was the Space X test run this week which appeared to go well other than an RUD ending.

    Bodos’ version of a rectangle has more sides than most of ours, but he made it back no problem. He also says to check out The Sound of Metal on Amazon Prime for those interested in a good flick this weekend.

    -Singer

  • Snake Tongue

    14 arose and conquered.

    Short run – snake tongue route. Left on Grove, left on Granite, across Cary down Kennondale. 4s return the way you came. 5s do Tempsford and return home. No 6s. Oyster ran the Oyster route.

    Long run did the reverse Carillon.

    Great job men. Only a few of us on the short run today but it was a good morning to be out nonetheless. Hard pressed to find a longer hill than Kennondale from RAMM, perhaps YHC shouldn’t announce such a challenge.

    Thanks to Shiplap for keeping our average age down.

  • Data Bump – RAMM

    16 boys came to the yard at recess and went their own ways.

    Choices – ride a bike, run a long ways, or run a shorter than long ways (reverse Carillon).

    Pullout’s pullout game is still strong.

    Good job men. Stay safe, prayers to Kubota on a swift recovery, and hope he didn’t get everyone sick at Saab’s birthday outing. We can all blame Saab right?

    -Singer

  • Who is Alex Trebek

    Larger than usual number of runners including one historian downranger from Baton Rouge (maybe) attended Spider Run for a celebration of life.

    Categories: Route

    What is all runners head out the bat cave, across the river and head west/up river on Riverside.

    4s: What is turn at Huguenot Flats and return home.

    5s: What is turn at Hickory and return home.

    6s. What is take Hickory over Cherokee up the hill to Old Holly and return home.

    Category: Chatter

    What is call your mother today in honor of those who have passed. She’ll appreciate it.

    What is congrats to Ollie running 100 miles.

    What is celebrating a class act and mainstay of game shows on national televisions since 1984 – Alex Trebek. We’ve all found ourselves watching Jeopardy waiting for that 8:00 PM TV show to start.

    Final Jeopardy: The first Thanksgiving took place here, attended by 100 people or so as confirmed by Edward Winslow who sailed from England aboard the Mayflower in 1620*.

    • – History.com

    In honor of Alex Trebek AND Sean Connery, YHC gives you the SNL spoof for the ages.

  • De Facto Q

    Bunch of warriors came out and exercised. Early runners with Bone Thugs putting in just shy of 8, late runners getting some reverse Carillon with a twist start error by the Q but all worked out well, and the cyclists did some longs and shorts as well.

    Great job men! Got to run but getting in big data before I close the computer for the day. Thanks to Bodos for the title.

  • Serpentine Returns

    17ish PAX departed from Mary for their various sets of exercise.

    YHC offered up a Lab Rat special – Serpentine. Everyone start east on Grove, north on Hamilton, east on Hanover until it dead ends, right to Stuart, take Stuart all the way back to Hamilton. Left on Hamilton and left on Kensington.

    4s – turn left up Bunting and left on Grove home.

    5s – Take Kensington until it dead ends. turn right and head back east on the gravel road until you hop onto Leonard. Right on Commonwealth home.

    6s – Take Kensington all the way back to Hamilton, right on Hamilton, right on Grove home.

    The cyclists cycled, the long runners ran perhaps with Bone Thugs, perhaps not.

    Thankfully Marv knew it and took the lead with the 6s. Bodos was the sole 5 and with a quick tutorial out of the gate by YHC, he was off. Nice flat run with little to no traffic on the roads.

    Good luck to those running the Monument 10K this weekend, which is taking place at several different courses or OYO Friday through Sunday.

    Marv took us out.

    -Singer

  • The Rat Pack

    A smooth 20 hit various runs and cycling routes to kickoff the holiday weekend.

    Runners: Commonwealth north to Monument, head east. 4s turn at Arthur Ashe, 5s at or around Strawberry, and 6s can go F yourself, head back on Grove. Just kidding I don’t think there were any 6s today except GP who I believe ran with the 5s.

    Cyclists did their thing. Heard the Potterfield Bridge was included per Pullout.

    Long run – 8ish via Carillon route.

    Great job men! Apparently Bodos and the 5s were attacked by a rat who was confused by the speed at which they ran. In other news, Corned Beef thought YHC had an actual wedding singer career, and inquired whether jobs were picking up later this year. Also Swirly got a haircut.

    Bodos took us out.

    Labor Day convergence at Grid Iron – 7:00 AM.

    -Singer