Tag: Currahee

  • Warm moist air on the #$%

    Life is good. made it to another Curahee BroCode run. The regular cast of characters were in attendance with a few out on a Ghost Flag mission. Was good to have Splinter back in the crew. Gomer was out as well trying to brush off some of the injured knee blues.
    There are some places and time that warm moist air is not expected, and Gomer was the recipient of the receiving end of that today. One big 4 mile square of COT. Have to show to know more.

    Have to go back to work. Budgets are due by COB today.
    SYITG!!

  • Senior Sunrise

    6 men and a couple of pups are off on YHC’s favorite route—the out-and-back. Let’s go!”

    Warmarama: Mosey to Pump Road

    The Thang:
    4s – Right on Pump, 2 miles to Three Chopt. Run it back.
    5s – Right on Pump, 2.5 miles to Broad St. Run it back.

    BTTF
    Numberama: Namerama
    Announcements – Labor Day and the upcoming 10yr. See slack.

    Moleskin: Not much to see here—it was dark. The Seniors were rolling in quite early this morning, and I later found out why. Today is Senior Sunrise, a tradition where the graduating class gathers at their school to watch the sunrise together, marking the beginning of their final year of high school. It’s a moment of reflection, excitement, and anticipation for what lies ahead. Oh, to be young again! Wishing them all a fantastic year!

    Well done today boys. YHC was a bit ambitious with the running Qs this week. River Run on Monday, WaThoHuk on Wed and Currahee on Friday. We got it though! Let’s go!”

    Oyster

  • Holding in a shart

    That was me for 4.5 miles. Proof that you can achieve anything you set your mind to!

    The other seven also ran or rucked their way with the main route being Pump to Church and then down and up three neighborhoods: Sterlingwood, Chapelwood and Lake Lorraine. This route proved that Church Road is the high point as all three neighborhoods, 2 on 1 side of Church and 1 on the other, started downhill and of course, ended uphill.

    I successfully raced home while most everyone else did coffee and donuts at Dunkin.

  • I Hate That Route

    As the slogan goes, when EF speaks people listen.

    Here’s where we went:

    • R on Pump
    • R on Ridgefield
    • L on Cox
    • L on Spinning Wheel
    • R on Persimmon
    • L on Brookmont
    • R on Crowncrest
    • R on Pump
    • L on John Rolfe
    • L on Glen Eagles (hit a couple of side streets if you’re nasty)
    • L on Old Prescott (quick dip on Old P Court)
    • Back to VSF

    MOLESKIN

    No Q on the sheet, Pinto suggested Figure 8, YHC shot it down.  I believe Lighthouse suggested Copperas, YHC shot it down.  Pigskin suggested a Hot Potato, YHC again shot it down.  YHC suggested the covered bridge, no one shot it down.  No canine companions today.  Some brilliant ideas for the Pickleball Tourney prize were contemplated.  Happy Friday.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • 2nd F WestHoe lunch Tuesday – Firehouse Subs
    • Pickleball Tourney

  • Hot and humid

    Four gathered on Friday morning for running or walking. Our route took us up Pump, then onto Three Chopt, before looping back to Pump. Blue Moon was pacing himself, still in recovery mode, while Doozy was conserving energy for tomorrow’s Homegrown Half. Pig Skin, fresh from his vacation, joined us feeling rested and full of stories, including a few grumbles about European parking. SYITG.

  • What’s Left of July

    What’s Left of July you ask? No more Fridays so the Bro Code run was the call of the day for Currahee. Since a fast four showed up to this running AO, the usual route was extended to Gayton ES. And because Doozy runs like a freakin’ Kenyan, he extended it a bit beyond that.

    Today, I discovered that I was surrounded by greatness. Doozy ran a 6 something pace at one point today. I wondered what that would be like. I don’t know and probably never will. He shared that in HS, he set records in Michigan and hit a 4:45 pace. Good Gawd! If you didn’t know, Lighthouse is a tenured professor, which means he has published research. To the degree that the latest iteration of Chat GPT knows his name. Whoa! But apparently b/c of F3, Chat GPT knows all of us (Honeydo was the example given, maybe Chat GPT 8.0 will know about Hornydo). Freaky. And another member of our gang this morning, Whitesnake, beats the skins for Richmond’s preeminent boy band (man band?), Left of July. And his daughter was just hired by Duke University.

    Great to know you High Impact Men!

    It was another week without Pigskin and I know I’m looking forward to his return and to hear all about Spain and Portugal.

    Hope to see the other regulars that didn’t make it out today soon.

    COT. Announcements: Ultimate and Pickleball tournaments in Aug. DD’s Homegrown 1/2 on 8/3. And watch out SOJ, coming to an AO near you – Westhoe Takeover starts next week!

    Continued prayers for Whitesnake’s FIL who is in decline. Prayers of gratitude for the wild abundance that we have, from cars to jobs to family. We all have so much. Take some of what overflows your cup and go give it to someone who needs it. Do it today, for free and for fun. You’ll both be rewarded.

    And for the Dry July crew, hang tough men. There’s only only a little Left of July.

    Happy Friday y’all! : -)

  • BRR Prep

    Today’s installment of Currahee was good BRR prep, but no one attending today is attending BRR ’24. We hit the hills of Westhoe nonetheless. After deciding against New Prescott, we headed down Old Prescott, turned onto Glen Eagles (hit all the cul-de-sacs on the left after Oakhampton), left on John Ralph, left on Ridgefield, jumped back on Old Prescott and rode it all the way BTTF.

    A work friend of Posh joined us today, without Posh. Impressive first post: running AO, on a humid day, without the gent that EH’ed him. This FNG is from Pittsburgh and a Steelers fan. When contemplating their rival Ravens, it wasn’t long before we landed on Poe for a nickname. Pax welcome Poe, the father of 5 and the knower of smart computer stuff. Hope we see him come out again.

    Big shout-out to Gypsy who left no man behind and got in some sort of workout w/ Poe closer to Godwin. Respect!

    Wasn’t quite the same without Pigskin. May he and his M travel safely in Spain and Portugal for a couple of weeks.

    Announcements: Ultimate at Grid Iron (20th) and Heartbreak (23rd). Go have fun, but watch out for injuries. Pickle Ball and Ultimate tournament on, I believe, 8/17.

    Prayers for those dealing with injuries (Whitesnake’s back, Doozy’s hip, and many others). Prayers for healing of body and heart. Prayers for 2.0s just starting professional jobs and those still on the hunt.

    Some final thoughts: This week on a podcast, I heard a man say, “The path to meaning is service to others without the expectation of anything in return.” Hmm.

    Look out for our newest member, Poe. Enjoy this Friday. Go do something for someone else. And do it for free and for fun!

  • ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA Select Start

    30 lives started to wake up this morning to run the famous Contra route of Currahee. The threat of rain and a Ghost Flag take over in SOJ quickly took out most of the lives, but the core crew remained and was able to defeat the Boss.
    Not really much to write about in a Running AO. We ran.. then we turned at the corner and ran some more. Mr. Rogers and Wally demonstrated the laws of physics on how when one force runs into an immovable object results in an explosive immediate stop. Handshake asked for prayers of wisdom at Squirrel stadium to help them understand the beer is 1) priced to high and 2) Lemon Shandy is not a beer. YHC saw Pigskin at the end of the route but he was running the wrong way. Whitesnake was promised rain and yet it did not happen and Lighthouse had some enlightening topics but YHC was struggling to keep up this morning so i missed most of his guidance on how he has teamed up with Taylor Swift to end world hunger.

    Lunch break over. Have to get back to work.
    v/r
    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • 100% Suck

    Against better judgement, YHC brought back a route from a few months ago that was pretty awful even in cool temps.  Here’s where:

    The Route

    • R on Pump
    • R on Ridgefield
    • R on Raintree
    • R on Cherrywood
    • L on Cedarbluff
    • L on Waltham
    • Bear R to stay on Waltham
    • Continue on Clearwood
    • L on Gayton
    • L on Gayton again
    • R on Raintree
    • L on Maremont or Falconbridge/Hickoryridge and back to the Shovel Flag

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    That route in 100% humidity 100% sucks.  That is all.  Next time Gypsy can have it.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Prayers for Lab Rat’s daughter’s boyfriend
    • Westhoe lunch on Tuesday

  • Evenly Apply Your Sun Screen

    Today’s edition of Currahee called for a bro Code run. Everyone wore yellow except for Doozy. Then everyone ran the bro Code route except for Doozy. But when a HIM takes the lead (for those that don’t know, Doozy runs like the dang wind yall), he pushes everyone to new heights. The entire crew pushed past our turn at Copperas, caught up to Doozy and ran behind Gayton ES, continued on through the mean streets of the FWE (mostly Poplar Forest Dr.), taking a left on Ridgefield and back to the Tamper Flag.

    Pigskin hung back at Godwin HS to walk with kettle bells while throwing in about 200 merkins and 1000 other forms of self flagellation.

    Names, numbers.

    Announcements: July 4th at Forest Hill Park (Batteau/Stone House for Field Day activities), Dry July, Don Draper’s Homegrown Half on Aug 3, and look out for more details about the WE setting up a traveling evening AO. The mission is to get some Sad Clown and turn them into HIMs.

    Prayers for the men of F3 to find men that need what we have so freely been given. If you know a man that could use F3, tell him about it. Don’t just invite him to a workout. Tell him you’ll pick him up. If he says 5:30am is too early – find out about these evening AOs and get him there.

    Missed a lot of regulars today. Hope to see y’all soon!

    Do something good for someone else today. And remember to evenly apply your sun screen. Happy Friday gang!