Tag: Breakfast Club

7 circled the wagons for Breakfast Club. Temps were sunny and 70. Route was ET’s down Cary to Robinson, through the park to the Police Memorial, and past the campers into Dogpile.

Reverse route (for YHC and Kubota) was Park through Carytown, then left on Ellwood (Main), and onto ET’s.

2 miles down, 2 miles back.

NMS:

YHC rose early today in order to start a trifecta of posts. Pulling into Dogpile, a figure arose through The Gloom…”Is that Kubota?” Yep…already running through the park. Kubota, headed to an early workday, was kind enough to wait while YHC parked, stretched, and caught up. Great to have someone to run with, even better to catch up with Kubota. Thank you, my friend. That made the start of a long morning for YHC fly by.

Breakfast Club was post #10 for YHC this week (including Breaking Bread). Counting Dogpile and Gridiron, the total rose to 12 by the end of the morning. The genesis for this personal CSAUP idea came up on Tuesday while YHC was running with EF Hutton. After consulting Hutton’s accounting skills, it was determined that YHC could hit 12 AO’s in a week…hey, it’s as pointless as any other mission. Let’s do this!

YHC tried not to mention it much this week, generally to avoid the possibility of anyone realizing in case YHC didn’t make it. By chance, Handshake mentioned it on Wednesday morning. By today, YHC had it in the bag and couldn’t stop talking about it (anyone surprised that YHC couldn’t stop talking? Don’t answer that…it’s a rhetorical question).

Ironically, a couple of years ago, YHC was with Hutton and the twosome decided on another run to visit every AO by the end of the year. (Memo to self: when in need of a solid CSAUP inspiration, run with Hutton).

11 strong hits the streets of Carytown in order to make their way to Dogpile and made their way back in order to earn breakfast. 2 miles out and 1.5 miles in. Kind of chilly this morning which equals great running weather. YHC took us out.

Helix was feeling it this morning! Led the way there. Totally destroyed Dogpile and led the way back. Saab told us about a new show “I’m Sorry.” Interesting sounding show to say the least. Nice showing from all nano-regions this morning.

SYITG!

Kubota

10 joined us for an all natural breakfast club run on 4/20. Phonics found us on the run.

YHC took us out.

Breakfast Club quote of today:
Andrew: Yo wastoid, you’re not gonna blaze up in here.

Nice run gents!

8 swamp rats shucked off the dry, warm Fartsack in favor of an a full-on deluge. So much for Weather.com. We’ll call it sunny and 70 above the cloud line. Weather.com sent YHC an alert at 5:09 that a shower would start at 5:21. The rain would be light (or, because it’s 2019, lite). Here’s how the worms crawling on the asphalt tell the story:

5:25 emerge from cars

Rain

5:28 Three Early Risers emerge from The Gloom.

5:29 TYA appeared. Then, he left to run elsewhere.

5:30 Let’s mosey. Flag left warm and dry in the car.

5:31 Rain

5:32 Rain

5:33 Rain

5:34 Rain, growing to a downpour.

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Cary to Robinson to Lakeview to Trafford to Park to Dogpile. The PAX alternated running, fording, swimming, and dog paddling along the route.

Some of the Early Risers ignored the Q, turned right early and appeared later. YHC presumes they pulled a Rosie Ruiz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Ruiz).

Reverso, sort of, on the return. Dogpile to Park to Sheppard to Cary to Thomson. 8 PAX out, 5 PAX back.

NMS:

Good run, fellas. YHC tips his hat to Swirly, Handshake, Rosie and Hutton on the return run today…fastest return run YHC has been a part of yet. Way to push.

14 stallions gathered in The Gloom for today’s rendition of The Breakfast Club. Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy all opted for the Fart Sack even though temps were sunny and 70. Their loss. Old Glory flew proudly down Cary to Robinson to the park to the Police Memorial, then left on Park until the Shovel Flag was planted. More or less reverso on the way back with a slightly shorter route of Park to Shepard to Cary to S. Thompson and ET’s. Call it 4+ miles.

Number-am-a, name-a-ram-a, YHC took us out. Let’s keep The Hammer and his family in our prayers. Too young.

NMS:

Another perfect weather day in the RVA today for a mosey through Carytown, home to the longest French Film Festival in the world. This thing may never end.

Good mumble chatter all around. YHC thanks the PAX for today’s omage to YHC’s father’s driving as he grew older – speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down. Toss in that the PAX doesn’t signal lane changes and has repeated discussions about the route, and YHC expected dear-old-Dad to be right there running stop signs with the PAX.

8-Ball thanks all who helped rummage around for a lost GrowRuck patch. Sorry to come up empty.

Fifteen of RVAs finest shook off the fartsack from a late night of watching basketball and came out for some fun and a few miles pre and post workout.

We were met with a few questionable looks on the way to Dogpile and one irate car traveling at a high velocity, but Carytown was somewhat dormant at the time. The lap around the lake was nice.

Coming home we had the early morning crowd giving a few salutes as the Flag made its way back to ET.

Announcements

See preblast for this Wednesday’s HDHH at Palani Drive following the Roller Coaster run. Kubota is on point.

Great run men.

Lockjaw

At least 27 strong arrived at Elwood Thompson’s parking lot for a different kind of beatdown. Some arrived at 0530, some at 0600 and some at 0630. At 0600, this is what went down:

Kubota Q:

COP in front of The Hall Tree which is closing shop:

Helicopters x 15

Don Quixotes x 10

Cherry Pickers x 10

Russian Soldiers x 15

Progressive 4 Corners (Bro-Code Style) in the parking lot:

Corner 1 – 10 Merkins

Corner 2 – 10 Merkins, 20 Monkey Humpers

Corner 3 – 10 Merkins, 20 Monkey Humpers, 30 LBC’s

Corner 4 – 10 Merkins, 20 Monkey Humpers, 30 LBC’s, 40 SSH’s

Upchuck Q:

Some kind of parking space “hop, scotch” exercise that was audibled to 10 Burpees OYO. Circle up and Upchuck led us in a quick prayer for God to officially quash the “hop, scotch” exercise.

Bleeder Q:

Find your own parking space and plank up at the top line of the space. Plank walk and trace the lines to the left and 5 merkins at end of the line. Plank walk back and 5 merkins. Plank walk to the right and 5 merkins at end of line. Plank walk back and 5 merkins.

Hardywood Q:

Parking Lot Suicides: Running using first 5 lines. Bear Crawl light pole to light pole. Crawl Bear light pole to light pole. Lunge light pole to light pole.

Swirly Q:

Grab your own parking space at 3 rounds of the following:

10 Incline Merkins on parking stop thing

10 Decline Merkins on parking stop thing

10 Dips on parking lot stop thing

Al Gore-o-rama and Plank-o-rama

End of Bootcamp

Gather everyone up with Shovel Flags ready and at 0632, begin the 2 mile Glory Run. Cary Street East to Boulevard. Boulevard South to Columbus Statue. Take Group photos. Run down by lake and make a quick loop to kill time. Gather up forces and commence to Dogpile. Arrive at Dogpile parking lot at 0655 and plant flags.

NMS: It has been decided by many that Breakfast Club will became an official AO soon. It is 45 minutes long. 30 minute run to Dogpile and 15 minute run back to ET’s after Dogpile. Good way to loosen up for Dogpile festivities and to earn your bacon and eggs.

What a nice crowd this morning! Lots of mumblechatter and lots of pictures and videos taken. Running with your brothers and with Old Glory just makes everything seem right. Big Black F3 Flag and Ghost Flag were also hoisted this morning. F3 Flag is a beast. Running with that will give you a good workout. Enjoy your day men!

Kubota