The plan was for ~6 mile jaunt along the access road. Somehow, that turned into 9 miles. PAX went every which way on Belle Isle, crossed T-Pot in the thunderstorm, and came back Riverside.
It was great to have Lola back out, with his new ride. Mumblechatter was solid – we couldn’t have fit it all in with just 6 miles.
At the end TYA pulled ahead of the PAX and left them in the dust. Not sure what that other backblast is about…. Perhaps it was a birthday boost.
3 regulars secured the AO-K for a Sunday Funday, afternoon edition, run to celebrate TYA’s 58th birthday. Temps were (actually) sunny and 70 (or perhaps a little higher). According to the FSB agents posing as dog walkers, here was our route, more or less:
Hepler, Paris, Forest, University, Glendale to Ridge (left), then Ridge to Zion Town, University, and Ralston. Left on Rose Hill. Kingston, Gaymont, University, cross Ridge, and continue on University. Left on Wood to Lakewood, right on Wood, and left on Beechwood, to West Drive Circle to Lindsay and BTT VSF.
Announcements: nada.
NMS: Candidly, it was not our best run. Miserable. Never good. Only got worse. Perhaps an unconscious ode to TYA’s slow pace, you know, the glacial one. Perhaps it was the humidity, which was downright summer-like. That’s 4.5 miles in the books. Good chatter and good company. Lots of training to go to be ready for BRR.
UpChuck spits the bit.
The Spring weather brought out a whopping 18 men (1 of whom was a FNG) this morning and many questioned if we were having a convergence. After a brief warm-up we moseyed over to Burpee Hill for, you guessed it, our first exercise 10 mins of burpees. Fortunately the Pax didn’t revolt so we moseyed to chin-up bars for a modified 11’s of pull-ups and step-ups (just did odd numbers after that first exercise of 10 mins of burpees).
Striker Park’s soft, comfortable, dry, turf field was in use so we moseyed to the wet, muddy, smelly Grid Iron for an all ab workout delivered in the format of a Beast (36 WW II’s, 36 LBCs, 36 Heels to Heaven, 36 Flutter Kicks, 36 Side Crunches, and 36 American Hammers. Finished off with a Triple Check (Balls to the Wall, more WW II’s, and a mosey around the loop). As we circled up before numberama, we were able to squeeze in just a handful more burpees because…why not?
Great day with the Pax. Good to see long lost brothers like Feather, who posted after a year plus, and brought out FNG (Nathan Jr).
A fan favorite of the mighty First Watch, the Green Pill was passed around at DogPile and the PAX went off on a magical trip.
Here’s what allegedly transpired:
Mosey to the amphitheater.
COP
Mosey to the stage and retrieve a block and mosey to the Bermuda Triangle
Endless Escalator De-Escalator– Exercise 1, Run a lap around the triangle, Exercise 1 + 2, Run a lap, Exercise 1+2+3, Run…..Exercise 1-10 and Run a Lap (20 reps of each exercise)
Numberama, Nameorama, COT
MOLESKIN
YHC came up with this lil thing last fall. The PAX of First Watch love-hate it so much, seemed only appropriate to share with the rest of the PAX. Great as always to have Guinness from out of town. Handshake dropped numerous four-letter words when he saw the old Green Pill board awaiting the PAX upon arrival at the Triangle. Music to YHC’s ears. Phonics set the pace, only slowed down slightly by Block Thrusters. Mr. Rogers was right on his heels. Police made an appearance when they heard someone was doling out pills. Perhaps they came to chase off the predators lying in wait. YHC saw the white van, but didn’t see the driver of the car, though UpChuck says their appearance would certainly lead one to believe you’d find them on a particular registry. Maybe someone reported the unidentified flying object. YHC suspects that was a group we shall call Meal Cream trying to steal the Green Pill and charge fifty bucks a pop for it.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Freed to Bleed – See Boberry
BRR – See TYA
DaVille Relay – See Spit
Nothing much to see here, just 3 dudes appropriately dressed running 3 to 4 miles and one guy dressed to venture North of the Wall. Some good conversation along the way. YHC learned today that Gomer was once known as Rock and the true freaks meet at 0545 near Maymont to ruck around town.
4 faithful took advantage of the perfect temps at Twin Team. The rain held off but the PAX found plenty of mud. We did:
COP in front of stadium: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, LBCs. Over to covered area benches. Partner up: One pax runs parking lot length & back while other does: Box Jumps, Dips, Donkey Kicks.
Mosey over to stadium for catch me if you can: Bear Crawl & 10 HRMs, Lunge & Jump squats, Crab Walk & 2 burpees. Backwards run & 10 HRMs. Stop for some mary then over to BWES playground. 5 sets of: 6 Pullups & 12 Squats. Over to mini-blacktop for karaoke & burpees. start at 2 then increase by 2 up to 10. Back over to front of BW for Peoples chair & 20 merkins. Finish back at flag with Pickle Pounders.
NMS: Before the beatdown Doozy shared that he was worried about being late this morning but still was the first at the AO. Doozy and Swirly both take securing the AO seriously. Not a ton of mumblechatter this morning, all just enjoying the perfect 62 degree weather. Safe travels for Doozy to SC. On the partner work somehow the 2 speedsters Tobit and Doozy ended up together.
Announcements: Blood Drive 5/1. DaVille relay coming up.
A solid Eight mighty men arose for a sultry workout on Satan’s Hill. The ground was damp but the energy was high. According to the white Tesla here is what went down.
COP: 25 SSH, 10 each: DQ’s, cherry pickers, Helicopters, Jazzercise, Imperial walkers, Russian soldiers, Merkins.
The Thang: Run to corners and cul-de-sac’s. Use Dawgpounds exercise dice to roll for exercises. 14 total stops. Exercises were: 40 mountain climbers, 30 SSH, 10 merkins, 20 butt kickers, 20 Carolina Drydocks, 30 flutters, 30 dollies, and several were repeato with some one minute planks and AG’s worked in. Return to parking lot. PArtner up. Partner one rotate 10 curls and 10 presses with coupon while runner runs and does 10 jerkins. Repeato with 10 rock copters and 10 bent presses. BTF for 4 minutes of mary. Dealers choice of 10. LBC’s, Susanne summers, cross leg lifts, crunchy frogs, box cutters, dollies. Time was called.
Announcements: F3 Richmond is looking to get teams together for BRR, Race is in October!
Prayer requests: none
YHC took us out. Thank your neighbors who are there for you to lend a hand or just to share a beverage. Thank them. Reach out to those neighbors and friends you have not heard from in a while just to do a check in and make sure all is well. Make today awesome!
14 runners and several bikers assembled for some miles on the road. Here is what happened, more or less.
West on Grove turning right on the access road in front of St Stephens. A right on York and a left on Maple. 4s turn right on Patterson and home via Westmoreland. 5s/6s continue on until Monument and turn right. 5s turn on Westmoreland and 6s on Lafayette to return home.
Flatline took us out today.
Moleskin
Ample conversation today about a variety of topics. Mumble chatter is always strong on the runs.
Announcements
4 men braved a little rain to throw around some kettlebells. This is how the beatdown went…
Notes:
I was glad to see 3 others show up this morning, I was worried the rain was going to keep everyone away. As usual the conversation was very entertaining, thus the title of the back blast. Great effort was put in by all. Thank you for letting me lead.
The PAX from the neno region of DaVille (aka The North) would like to invite the men of the south to a Ragnar type of relay next month.
Date: Saturday April 24th
Location: Rutland Clubhouse (Location for Tomato Run on Thursdays)
Time: 5:00am to Finish (around noon)
Team: 4 Runners
Distance: Each runner will run 3 loops for a total of 13.75 miles
Cost: About $25 for a custom F3 shirt (logo above)
If interested, reach out to Spit (The Event Q) with your team name, runners for the event, and t-shirt sizes.
Contact Info for Spit: 804-347-9857 or email mrbeach85@gmail.com
Please respond by April 5th in order to receive a T-shirt (additional shirts maybe order afterward) or if you simply wish to just run please respond by April 16th.
SYITG and happy running!!
SPIT ON THAT!!