Category: Richmond, VA

  • OTB to Timberwolf

    8 arose on an early Sunday morning to kick the day off the proper way! Route was from Urban Farmhouse out to Timberwolf and back. Awesome effort by all!

  • Fear of Missing Out

    While the rest of the trailoholics were off frolicing in the woods, I made sure that the downtown trails were secured. Picked up a Sunday semi-regular in the Gentleman Farmer (cant remember his real name) and we ran Forest Hill. It was glorious, but ET’s was lonely.

    Lab Rat Apologizes…

  • River Run in the mist!

    5 Warriors and a speedy dog hit the misty morning at River run this morning. Some got 5 plus, some got 4 plus, some got 3 plus, fun was had by all!

  • A Misty Run

    7 Davillians came out in the mist and darkness to start week off with some miles

    Route

    The King’s Charter Loop – Marco and Trout got out quick in a Sub 8 pace. YHC tried to follow behind. Lab Rat and Corned Beef set their own pace

    MudFace and No Idea did their thing and got in 3ish miles

    Macro and YHC got in 5

    Trout, Corned Beef and Lab Rat got in 4 plus

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • Breakfast Club Saturday

    5 Ran, Strong work gents!

  • Eight Men Out

    Baseball has always been an enormous part of my life. Since as long as I could remember I loved playing the game, watching the game and generally being around the game. I have no idea where the passion came from, neither my Mom or my Dad had any interest in it at all when I was growing up. I don’t remember an uncle or a friend introducing it to me. I guess I just found it when I was young, and it stuck.

    I was incredibly blessed to be born left handed. For that reason, and really that reason only, I was able to play baseball in college. Left handed pitchers are hard to come by, and I was one…and I guess, all things considered, I was good enough for some college coach to recruit me and want me to play for their team.

    Spending four years on a college baseball team was pretty much like spending four years of my life in a sitcom. It was non-stop laughter. Not stop jokes. And absolutely non-stop ball busting. I mean, Professional Ball Busting.

    Look, no doubt, we can give eachother a hard time at an AO…and it’s funny and we all get a kick out of it. But it PALES, dramatically, to somewhat intelligent baseball players in college…many of whom were from above the Mason Dixon Line.

    Not surprisingly, it took some time to get used to. Early on my freshman year…and, honestly, throughout my whole career, I was a pretty easy target. Put a non athletic left handed pitcher with a big nose on the squad with those guys and it’s like throwing chum in shark infested waters.

    I can distinctly remember calling home and lamenting to my Mom. (Who else are you going to lament to, in that case…the strength coach?) And Mom would remind me about her first job when we moved to NOVA when I was 16. Mom worked for the Fairfax Government in the adoption services division. Here she was, this distinctly southern woman working with all these government working grizzled veterans. What she would tell me is this…

    “David, you just have to keep being yourself. Keep loving on them. Keep ‘killing them with your kindness’ and they’ll soon figure out that you are genuinely that nice…and they won’t help but like you.”

    At the time, it was counter to the advice I wanted, which was “just punch them in the face”. But in the end, it was about the only way I knew how to handle the situation (do you know any un-athletic left handed pitchers who could win a fight? Me either.)

    There were times during college that I was close to pulling the rip cord and wanted to transfer. It just wasn’t worth it in the end, I thought. But I heeded Mom’s advice and did what she told me to do.

    All those guys are really good friends of mine now. Mom was exactly right. I go to football tailgates and it’s all laughs and hugs and chuckles. They still bust my balls…but usually pretty funny and well deserved. Again, Mom was exactly right.

    So here’s to you, Sandy Robinson…here’s to you bee-bopping into that 5th floor in Fairfax County with a smile on your face…just loving on those county government workers until they loved you right back. I hope you know how much I miss getting a bit of that love here on earth.

    The Thang

    Donald Quixote X12

    Helicopters X9

    Side Straddle Hops X42

    Arm Circles X15, Reverso X 15 (did this twice)

    Russian Soldiers X12

    Hillbillies X15

    Arm Circles X15, Reverso X 15 (twice)

    Mosey to the west end of the TES Blacktop for baseball-esque agilities.

    Head East at your own pace on the Blacktop. At the end do 5 burpees. Head back and do 5 mercans.

    PAX then did the following agilities Kareokes

    Ballerinas

    Straight Steal of 2nd

    Left Handed Pickoff Move Steal (Needs to be a better tutorial on this) (twice)

    Tag Up at Third

    Mosey to the Bottom of Lindsay

    Explained “Bat Pole’s” to the PAX. A Bat Pole is when you run with your hands over your head, as if you were holding a bat over your head. The Genesis of this was when our team got caught violating curfew one night and the next day we had to run with a weighted bat over our head for about 45 minutes.

    Bat Pole run halfway up Lindsay and Back

    42 Lunges to halfway up Lindsay and Bat Pole Back

    Bat Pole Arm Circles…clockwise, counter clockwise…X9

    Bat Pole run halfway up Lindsay

    Partner Up….Partner Bear Crawls while other runs to the top of Lindsay. Rotate

    Bat Pole Arm Circles, clockwise/counterclockwise…X9

    Bat Pole run to the bottom of Lindsay

    42 Lunges up Lindsay, Bat Pole run to the top

    Arm Circles X15

    Back to the Flag

  • Bear Creek 2019

    8 PAX made their way out to Cumberland county to take on the Bear Creek 10 miler. Between bonus miles, first trail race, and gender inclusive shirt logos a good time was had by all.

    THE THANG: Arrive at Bear Creek State Park in 22 degree weather. All PAX meet up and freeze up until start. All PAX complete 10 mile route, 2 PAX opted for extra loop of additional mile.

    NMS – Overall success with no runners injured or lost during the race. The several fast runners took a wrong turn in mile 2 and ended up with a mile loop. Saab and Ollie were in that group. Saab took a branch to the forehead and was sporting a nice scrape post race. Tobit stayed on the course and ran a solid race for his first time out at Bear Creek. Mouse Trap chose to pop his race cherry (he’s never even run a 5k) with a difficult 10 mile trail race. TYA was his steady self and Bootleg ran a solid race. Once the sun got up things warmed up and conditions were perfect.

    Cookout after was great as we scored the back porch of the main building. Burgers, brews, and Brunswick stew perked this PAX up. No Lab Rat Bog this year. Drive back topics included diverse topics of self-driving cars, alternative lower half CPR, and low set vaginas.

    Good time as always and great practice for spring trail races coming up.

  • 2nd Annual Magnum P.I. Day

    Thirty-Nine Tom Selleck impersonators posted at Dogpile for an ode to good deeds, our friends at Raise Coffee, and iconic 80’s TV. 06:00 (01:00 Hawaiian time), time to break out the flowery shirts and ‘staches, and usher in the trade winds with a steady mosey to the volcano (amphitheater).

    Wakeup Call: DQs (Higgins) x 12. Helicopters (T.C.s) x 12. Magnum Merkins – ‘stache touches the ground x 12. RAISE. R – Rosalitas x 12. A – APDs x 11. I – Imperial Walkers x 19. S – SSHs x 80. E – Eight Burpees. Magnum P.I. first aired on 12/11 1980.

    Touch a Palm Tree: Partner up. Touch 8 trees while partner holds coupon straight out at ‘stache level. Six trees while partner holds coupon above the head. Repeato at 4 and 2 trees.

    Volcano Beast (at Golden Triangle): S – ‘Stache: SSHs / T – Tempo Merkins IC / A – American Hammers (2-count) / C – Copperhead Squats IC / H – Hello Dollies / E – Eight Burpees.

    Tiki Bar Pub Crawl: 4-corners. First corner: Merkins x 5. Second corner: One :60 elbow plank. Third corner: Freddie Mercuries x 19. Fourth corner: LBCx x 88. Magnum P.I. went off air on 5/8 1988.

    ‘Stache Dash: Jail Break sprint BTTF.

    Announcements: Several of our guys are crushing the Bear Creek 10-miler tomorrow. We raised over $9k for Raise Coffee! T-Claps to all involved. Seriously, incredible effort.

    Hairy Chest Moleskin: Today was another awesome example of the power of this brotherhood. As Gumbo said, we issue a challenge and the response is all-out. You men are awesome! When we come together to help others and have a blast doing it, there isn’t much better.

    Welcome LinkedIn and Slim Fast. Don’t be strangers. Get back out and see us soon.

    -Gumbo/Vinny

  • No snow but down hill slalom at Twin Team

    11 skiers looking for some down hill action in the cold weather at Twin Team. Here is what went down and up and then back down again.

    Mosey to the back of the ES for COP on the basketball court

    DQ’s, Helicopters, Jazersizes, Hip stretchers, Heals to Heaven and LBC’s

    Recover to mosey and PAX notices that YHC has dropped some trinkets from his pocket. YHC may have made a remark about needing the trinkets for Twin Team. Lots of mumble chatter about how we should make a right turn and head toward the HS rather than the inevitable hill.

    Stop at the monkey bars to stretch the arms out but found the metal bars too slick to really waist our time on

    Mosey to the bottom of the circle at the hill

    A YHC favorite Man Killers to get the calves going and get the cardio ready

    To the top of the hill YHC dropping eight glow stick trinkets along the way on the left then on the right, on the left and then on the right

    At the top let the PAX know this will not be a Twin Team suicide but we will have some fun in a slalom skiing type down hill workout. Twin Team has eight letters and there are eight glow sticks on the hill. As we head down stop and do 10 sets of the exersize that fits the letter from Twin Team. T = Tempo Merkins, W = Imperial Walkers, I = Incline Merkins, N = I have Idea call it LBC’s, T = Tempo Merkins again, E = SSH’s (why not), A = (?) and M = Merkins

    YHC will do a better job planning out the letter to match the exercise next time.

    Get to the bottom, get in line and ride the chair back to the top. We couldn’t find a chair so we made our own (indigenous people run)

    Back down picking up the trinkets on the way down

    At the flag Merkin ring of fire

    Numbers / Names

    YHC took us out in a little different way asking the PAX to lay on their backs and look at the world in a different way. YHC has had a very humbling experience with low income and had to depend on the government for assistance for a little while. The reason why I did this was not to ask for help for me and my family, God has provided. Its to say low income, poverty hunger is not an intercity only problem it live near you, if you look in a different way you may find the opportunity to help.

    NMS:

    Not a lot to say, we almost had to rename Hermes and Nancy Lopez today. YHC was waiting to hear Hermes toss his Marlowe durring the run back to the top but Upchuck is already taken. Nancy Lopez could be renamed Speedy Gonzales or Stair Climber for his run from the back to the front of the line on the steepest part of Twin Team.

  • Eastbound and Down

    A Sweet Sixteen embraced cooler weather and resisted the allure of the warm cars until the last possible minute. The routes were called and off we went.

    Down Grove and North on Malvern, back on Hamilton with 5s and 6s heading west on Monument for extra miles. 5s turned on Chantily to Bunting to Grove. 6s took Willow Lawn Drive to Patterson and a right on Bunting to Grove and home.

    Swirly took us out.

    Announcement: Magnum PI day tomorrow at Dogpile. Wear your Hawaiian shirt and get an extra day of mileage out of your mustache too.

    While it was a cool morning, the company kept things warm.

    Have a great weekend,

    Lockjaw