Author: Wedding Singer

  • The Way of Our Other Fathers

    Sorry PAX, I typed up and published the normal backblast but upon review later on all I see if the a black and white American Flag and no backblast. So here it is in full-

    16 strong arrived and departed RAMM for their desired morning exercise.

    Long run – Patterson(ish)
    Short Run – east on Grove, 4s turn at Malvern, 5s turn at Roseneath, and 6s we don’t care, there were none today. Everyone return past the point of beginning and west up to Three Chopt, return to point of beginning.
    Cyclists – everywhere for 45 minutes.

    Way to go PAX. Welcome Will for his first outing, Bodos head locked him from church. YHC noticed the foreign tags looking lost trying to find our parking lot. The run today was a simple one, the way of our other fathers who ran east on Grove to a specific spot of mileage and then all touching Three Chopt. YHC can recall being a common run back in the day, which as a Friday in case you were wondering which day that was. Something easy for a new guy who likely would be running faster than myself.

    FNG Will was tentatively titled Red River for his Oklahoma ties. Hardywood would like to voice some late recommendations with some I just don’t see fitting a nice fella like Will – Noodler, Fister and Pig Shop (yikes!). Mr. Wood’s other consideration is Noodles which sounds a little more appropriate. All proposed names are tied Oklahoma’s title of being the capital of Noodling. So YHC would open up to see if Noodles is preferred over Red River, otherwise Red River it is. Comment in the comment section for further consideration.

    Juneteenth on the calendar today, hope everyone enjoys the new holiday. Thanks to Bodos for taking us out.

    Time to pullout.

    -Singer

  • Fudd’s Going Away Party #42

    Runners, bikers and one fishing mother F’er commenced for the exercise of their choice.

    4, 5 and 6 mile Running route – reverse Carillon.

    F3 RVA’s prodigal son returns. Good to see you back Fudd, enjoy the vacation. We’ll throw you another going away party upon your return. Better yet, let’s get Toga back and have Fudd throw him another going away party. It’s the gift that keeps on giving Clark.

    Way to work men. With no Q on the sheet, reverse Carillon it is.

    -Singer

  • Monumental Run

    15 strong came out to endure some early summer heat and exercise.

    Short route – negative splits. East on Grove, north on Arthur Ashe, east on Monument. Turn at 23 minutes, back in 22.

    Long route – heard a couple different versions, TYA didn’t want to think so he went east and came back west. Swirly and BT ran the long Carillon route YHC believes.

    Gears – somewhere and return.

    Today’s route was designed to obtain some peaceful reflection on the events of the past week or two while visiting a few of the sites the way F3 does it, with vigor and purpose. Hope everyone enjoyed their morning exercise.

    Congrats to Bleeder for completing 100 miles in a month, and for TYA, Lug and others making their way across Tennessee. Impressive.

    -Singer

  • Phase I Commence: Serpentine

    12 runners braved the heat and beat the pavement.

    Serpentine route:

    Everyone – Right on Grove, left on Hamilton, left on Hanover, run to the road ends (D street maybe). Take a right and next right on Stuart, run until it deadends at Hamilton. Take a left on Hamilton and left on Kensington.

    4s – turn left back up Commonwealth to the school.

    5s – take Kensington until it deadends again, turn right up and run up the little alleyway until it turns to Leonard (?) and right on Commonwealth back to the school.

    Long run Pax- TBD.

    Felt like the heat of summer today boys. Hopefully we get a few cooler days before this becomes the normal. Good to see some of the regulars back out after a long absence – Lab Rat, Lug Nut, Shakedown.

    Prayers to Shake as he heads off to surgery Monday.

    Tclaps for TYA’s sister who survived the Rona at 103 and slugged back a cold one to celebrate. And yes, of course she’s a Masshole.

    Jennie Stejna

    -Singer

  • Privilege

    11 posted for a wet one.

    Long distance runners – Patterson route.

    Short distance – Commonwealth to Monument, head east on Monument. Take a right up to Grove depending on your chosen distance, return Grove to Commonwealth.

    Great job men, nice warm wet morning for a run. Thanks to Pucker for keeping YHC’s speed up. Welcome Swipe Right, or as us more cynical folks call Stalker.

    TYA took us out with an inspiring adage that we are privileged to do what we do, and not merely forced to or have to. That led us to a discussion on Yankee Johnson from UT, more commonly known as Inky Johnson. Check out the video.

    Memorial Day MURPHs at Dogpile, Twin Team, and Hoedown. 6:00 AM start, see various backblasts for more information.

    -Singer

  • Even Oaks Must Bend

    9 OGs took a page out of TYA’s workout manual for the Spider Run this morning.

    Route – run up past the Robins School to Camps Drive up the hill of Towana, across Three Chopt to the access road. Left on Grove.

    4s – Singer and Pucker turned just shy of Oak and return to point of beginning.

    5s – Turn right on Oak up to Cary and return to point of beginning.

    6s – continue past Oak to Mumford and return to point of beginning.

    Where’s Saab? Oh he started at 3:00, he’s still running. I must say well played Swirly throwing the numberama ‘1’ out there without a Q on the page. TYA getting his extra in to Malvern. Bleeder working through some back pain. Hitch burning it up. Hutton your Q next week, I heard you call it.

    Great morning for a run, barely a car in sight. Love the downhill ending, almost makes up for the uphill start!

    -Singer

  • Case of the Mondays

    Pax of one for River Run. With rain in the forecast for the third straight week it may have been another no-show but YHC decided to make sure that streak ended.

    4ish milers – head south on Robious, left at shopping center towards Independence Golf Course. Left and loop around neighborhood. Return by the high school with some added bonus areas.

    5 and 6 mile routes – negative captain.

  • Psych

    Three PAX joined up to embrace a Friday morning workout at Twin Team. Here’s how it went:

    One mile mosey around high school across Robious and up the path to the turnaround below Twin Team. COP – Don Q, SSH, squats, merkins, LBCs, flutters.

    Mosey back to elementary school, locate hill (thanks Doozy), jacobs ladder – bear crawl up hill and burpees up to 6.

    Mosey to bus loop – 11s. WWIIs and merkins.

    Circle up for ab work – reverse crunches, rosalitas, dolly P, plank dips.

    Great job guys, good to get the blood flowing this morning. Title was derived after a plan to run the Jacobs ladder up Twin Team, being YHC’s first Q at Twin Team, but instead departing the area after the COP. Stories were heralded of previous workouts utilizing the hill – suicides and Sisyphuses. Not today men. Appreciate the PAX following YHC around as I familiarized myself with various areas at the school.

    Prayers and thoughts to Doozy’s family and MIL.

    -Singer

  • The War of Art

    The War of Art

    Dissimilar to the title of this workout, the path was anything but an inner, creative battle. Did we win though? Yes, obviously. A group of 10 PAX plus one additional PAX member ran the ways of our fathers. See Marv’s backblast from a few months back for details, remain on Grove at all costs. Never saw the Gears folks again so hope they’re okay. Good job men.

    Also, Bleeder has goats.

    -Singer

  • By the Dawn’s Early Light

    Party of 1 at River Run. No complaints, easy to accomplish physical distancing

    Path – run 4 miles while returning to the place of beginning.

    -Singer