Author: Whitesnake

  • Brunch: An Origination Story

    We ran 3.7 miles and talked of fruit trees, knee pain and other nonsense.

    Why should you come to Brunch: Wiki says the term Brunch was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for “Saturday-night carousers”:

    “…brunch would make life brighter for Saturday-night carousers. It would promote human happiness in other ways as well.

    “Brunch is cheerful, sociable and inciting”, Beringer wrote. “It is talk-compelling. It puts you in a good temper, it makes you satisfied with yourself and your fellow beings, it sweeps away the worries and cobwebs of the week.”

    — William Grimes, “At Brunch, the More Bizarre the Better” New York Times, 1998

    —Whitesnake, Brunch post, F3rva.org, 2023

  • This is how you do a write-up

    This is how you do it
    It’s after Tuesday night, and I feel alright
    The party is here on the West Side
    So I reach for my 40 yr old friends and we run it up
    Designated runner, hide the keys to my truck
    Go back to the Poca’ cause I’m faded
    Honies in the street say, “Whitesnake, yo, we made it!”
    It feels so good in my hood tonight
    Run a double quarter pounder with the guys in Kani
    All the other gangbangers forgot about the AO drive-by
    You gotta get your shuttle runs in, before you go get paid
    So tip up your cup, do an indian run
    And let me hear the Pax say

    I’m kinda tired after 3.1 miles (This is how you do it)
    Three Chopt does it like nobody does (This is how you do it)
    To all my neighbors, you got much flavor (This is how you do it)
    Brick and Roger Roger, bring the old school writeup back (this is how we do it)

  • I just can’t get enough

    Polly was in a weird mood and sang to me the entire 3 1/2 miles:

    We run together
    We’re running down the street
    And I just can’t get enough
    And I just can’t get enough
    Every time I think of Brunch Club
    I know we have to run
    And I just can’t get enough
    And I just can’t get enough

    Must have been from the Depeche Mode cover band he saw Friday night. It also prepared us for Attilla at Gridiron:

    So we’re different colours and we’re different creeds
    And different people have different needs
    It’s obvious Attilla hates us, though we’ve done nothing wrong
    Even though he knows us, what could we have done?

  • If you’re in the mood for an early run on Saturday’s, I have just the place for you. Richmond’s new hot club is…

    BRUNCH!

    Club promoter Gay Liotta is back, and this time he’s… gone… crazy. This place has everything. Full moons, key fobs, pretending your car is secure, and the debut of DJ Whitespace.

    Located in the clogged heart of the Broad Street. This gang ridden coffee spot was the ceremony spot for Pigskins 1982 wedding. This place has everything. Peeps, ted talks, someone complaining about his shoes, Kain road, Kane from WWE and Senator Kaine, all holding hands. And be sure to hit the dance floor and do a jig with COVID’s hottest hyped up Polly Pocket dancers.

    Pax: Wait. What’s that?

    It’s that thing when Polly runs into Starbucks to get a shot of expresso to help his run.  And before you get to Grid Iron for some white lines, you can party with a broken almost pregnant Ukrainian Lighthouse.  And before you ask, it’s that thing of when Lighthouse is almost late and does not have a light.

    After getting crazy high on cocaine at Grid Iron, Brunch Club travels back down Pouncey Track to see and hear the other Pax play with their horns, do some Frogger, hear more hit tunes from Whitespace and prove the answer to the Gridiron pax question “You’re running back to Starbucks?!?” is “Yes!” unless you jumped in a car filled with Johnson’s.

  • Curra-what?

    With some perfect weather, five men did the Reverse Loreine while two did the Godwin circle merkdip. Maybe next time we can do the reverse merkloreinedip.

    Prayers for Attila and his family and for Pigskin and Bluemoon to feel better soon.

    Everyone should go clubbing tomorrow: breakfast or brunch. Whitespace will be there.

  • Sold out!

    Eight great men came to the big sale and the free 20 minutes of bootcamp was the clear promotion winner. 7 ran off to short pump park while Pigskin did his Pocahontas workout solo. The lucky seven did some warmups of DQ, Helicopters, Moroccans & Ukranian Soldiers and then did elevens of dips and merkins and ran the park circle for about a mile total.

    The lucky seven eventually found a street in the Village and did some Bear Crawls one way and WWIIs the other and ran back to find Pigskin. Total mileage of 3.4.

    Pigskin was feeling better today and ran around Pocahontas for 45 minutes and stopped for merkins and dips. Basically, we all ran in circles and did merkins and dips.

    We all joined together for a minute of Freddie Mercuries.

    Announcements:

    Brunch Club run this Sat at 6:30 before Gridiron at the Starbucks across from the mall. Frozen Triangle 1/21. Amazon merchandise sorting and loading/unloading MLK day. Happy Hour tonight with the Daville crew. See Slack for all the details of these and more.

    Great turnout today and thankful I got to lead a little.

  • Two runners and a Pigskin

    Two runners got in 4.2 miles, 55 hand release merkins, 55 squats, 30 dips, 30 step ups and some thorns while Pigskin did 200 merkins and 200 dips with some walking. Where were you?

  • Bla-brocode-ck Friday

    Five of the best from the far west end met to work off some of yesterday’s overeating. EF Hutton and Pigskin did a walk with 200 merkins (made 10 stops with 20 at each) while Lighthouse, Johnsonville and Whitesnake did the regular brocode route (Pump to Church to Copperass to Ridgefield to Pump). Whitesnake and Lighthouse joined Hutton and Pigskin for the final 40 merkins while Johnsonville ended up 25 pounds lighter after his run.

    Pigskin took us out. Good luck to Johnsonville and other on the loops today!

  • White Deer’s Detachable Penis

    White Deer agreed to lead the 2022 Thanksgiving Kettle Bell “Convergence” as long as I wrote it up. Conversations included bulging and detachable body parts, slow firing neurons, not missing Attila’s gas and Johnsonville reminiscing of the early days of this AO.

    Since White Deer thinks Slack is only something he does not give to anyone, I will mostly make up the rest since he will never read this (but he will still tell me I did it wrong).

    Warmups included White Deer SSH (moving one leg at a time), arm circles, APDs, DQ and probably something else.

    We then did a Beast that included Curls, Overhead presses, Overhead Triceps, Sit and Presses, High Pulls and Squats (not in that order).

    Runners then did 2 laps of the circle and walkers walked less.

    We ended with 20 reps of Curb Pulls and then Floor Presses and then repeat.

    White Deer led us in a round of thanks. I’m thankful for anyone who got his far in my write-up.

  • Whoa, take ‘er easy there, pilgrim

    The morning started off with Offshore being so excited for his FNG (Yoda) to show up that he locked his keys in his car. And it ended with him racing off in Pinto’s car which surprisingly outran my CRV.

    In between, a stretching Pigskin sensed the following:

    A 3 mile run interrupted by warmups of Helicopters, cherry pickers, imperial walkers, dolly’s, suzanne somers. Then we did P.I.L.G.R.I.M.S. in between runs:

    P: 16 Plank jacks

    I: 21 Iron Mike

    L: 16 Lt. Dans (1 squat, 4 (2 count) lunges)

    G: 21 Groiners

    R: 16 Reverse Crunches

    I: 21 Imperial Squat Walkers

    M: 16 Merkins

    S: 21 Singlet Merkins (stopped early due to time, not because I could not do anymore …)

    My counting today was poor and only my instructions were worse. But the 6 runners did great and hopefully Pigskin’s stretching gives him some comfort today.

    Our FNG, now known as Yoda, was the Rev. Hung Su Lim. He is a Star Wars fan and a preacher so Yoda fit. He toughed it out today and hope we get to see him again soon. Offshore brought him out and he also knows Gomer who we theorized had too much to drink at Hardywood last night to come to WTH.

    Prayers for all who travel and for those with nowhere to go. Have a great Thanksgiving and either join a Mary Munford bootcamp crew at 6 or a White Deer led Kettlebell crew at 5:30. Or try to double-dip if looking to improve your 2022 data count.