Tag: Currahee

With a combined 115 years of life experience, these 2 F3ers knew that on the day after Thanksgiving you gotta fight the good fight against the ever-present Jester, jump out of the Fart Sack, get out and get back to it. We did just that. With the spirit of Currahee’s end-of-the-month Bro Code in mind, we did enough laps around Godwin HS to wear some grooves into the ground. Pigskin saved his hip some pounding by mixing in a few V-Ups and Merkins, and perhaps some other gems from his deep bag of tricks. Speaking of Pigskin’s tricks, during COT I learned a few of Pigskin’s secrets for maintaining a long life of mobility, flexibility, strength and a healthy weight. I’d share here, but it looks like some of the folks reading this need some extra motivation to get after it. If you don’t post, you don’t know.

Pigskin took us out.

Moleskin: After all the dishes from yesterday have been done and put away, my hope is that I take with me, into the coming year, an undying focus on all the many blessings I do have in my life. Despite my tendency to notice the few things not going so well at any given time, when I give it just a few moments of consideration, there are constantly an almost-infinite number of reasons for gratitude. I’m grateful for all of you guys. SYITG!

Seven men considered dispersing in separate directions but opted to join up and see where the wind took them.  The wind did the following:

The Route

• R on Pump
• L on Old Prescott
• L on Millington Dr
• R on Millington Ln to dead-end
• R on Millington Ct to dead-end
• R on Millington Ln
• L on Millington Dr
• L on Old Prescott
• R on Glen Eagles
• L on Ridgefield
• R on John Rolfe
• R on Glen Eagles (include some of the cul-de-sacs for the faster guys)
• L on Old Prescott
• R on Pump
• Back to SF

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

YHC started it off, Handshake took it very briefly, Lighthouse followed up, maybe more PAX contributed.  YHC suggests a run with a shared Q should have its own name, perhaps a Hot Croissant in honor of the delicious croissants available 1 mile from the AO, not 8,000 miles away as Gomer would claim.  Great Friday for a run, if running didn’t suck. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Shoe drive in progress
• Turkey Trot Tuesday at SpiderRun

NIce taper run for the Currahee crew… YHC looked for the fastest route possible for the area and came up with a 4 miler. 10 pax and three 4 legged crotch sniffers took to the route. Anyone that know me, knows I can’t tell you a single road name that we ran, but everyone enjoyed a route that wasn’t in Raintree and didn’t run towards Broad. Lighthouse and Tonka can tell you the road names since it was their neighborhood.

Thank you for running with me guys. Had a great 1/2 marathon today and beat the goal by 4 mins.

SYITG!

v/r

John (Gypsy) Boles

Ten showed up on a cold morning and split up into three groups. Pigskin and Tonka ran around the school and did 200 merkins and likely dips, squats and other fun. A locked down track forced Gypsy, Gomer and Blue Moon to do a mix of running and walking around the parking lots. The remaining five “healthy” ones of me, Hutton, Handshake, Lighthouse & Mr. Rogers (and two dogs) did 5 miles that included Ridgefield to John Rolfe to Pump to Church to Lake Lorraine and back down Pump to Godwin. On the way up John Rolfe, we passed many quick female runners and the darkness had us assume they were all attractive. Hopefully, they assumed the same for us.

A good group of 8 for coffeteria at Dunkin followed.

5 Currahee stalwarts gathered for another Brocode run in reverse order on a warm day.

Pigskin took us out.  Prayers for healing.

Five super studs met on a warm fall morning to avoid Gypsys threat of interval training, and see what Gomer Pyle had in store.

The route was the reverse brookmont, which caused some consternation as it’s never been named before.

PAX quickly understood the route and we were on the go. Some rabbits forgot the name of some critical streets (which happens often among the twisty streets in the West End). We accomplished the route with minimal difficulty. Our fast runners actually found time to put on a lot of extra distance which set Lighthouse up for a very fast run on Saturday. Lighthouse is now one of our second 6 mile runners (during a work out).

Pigskin took us out. Coffeeteria at Dunkin’.

Reading the new post by Kabota on what’s happening this week and remembered I forgot to write the Currahee BB.

While a few core Currahee pax went SOJ to capture the flag, 6 held the line back home. No Q Hilly route impromptu 5 miler was called.

South on Pump over Gayton left on Waltham. Follow Waltham around and cross back over Gayton onto Raintree. Run entirety of Raintree to Ridgefield. Left and up that damn hill.. right on Eagle View.. left on Glenn Eagles. Left on Old Prescott. Cross over to Godwin H.S.

5 miles 255 ft elevation gain.

Announcement in Slack

TAP for Homer’s mother that is currently in the hospital.

v/r

John (Gypsy) Boles

Seven of YHC’s brothers from other mothers hit the streets of Raintree.  Here’s where they went:

The Route

• L on Pump
• L on Falconbridge
• R on Raintree
• Circle pond behind Raintree Swim and Racquet Club
• Continue on Raintree to Gayton
• Reverso and repeato pond loop
• L on Maremont
• Back to SF

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Strong work by all.  Wally was not a fan of the route or maybe the weather, or maybe both. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Prayers for the struggles men face
• Shoe drive coming

Eight bionic men assembled for the latest edition of Currahee. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the other two guys who run from Currahee at 5:30, the following might have happened.

Bro-Code, both a route and a style. Or, more specifically, reverse bro-code with, apparently, a missed turn. Who knows.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out with a reminder that stress in life can produce unnecessary tension. When under stress, intentionally increase patience and understanding.

NMS: Lulu was in full stride today, as was Wally, whose first name is actually William, but the nickname comes from his second name, Wallace. Ah. Last name, Parker. Fierce beasts all around.

Good to have lots of guys back. Nice to see Handshake post at Currahee. New guys always welcome, eh Fudd?

8 Redwoods gathered in the gloom for a dark run in the park for the Brookmont run: .
5 milers head out or the batcave, Left on Raintree, right on Falconbridge, around the park to the right, exit thru turtlecreek, right on Cox, left on Brookmont, right at crowncrest and left on pump. 4 milers go left on Cox, right on ridgefield, and back thru the batcave.

EF Hutton took us out. Prayers for healing and reminder to reach out to check on your brothers.   Coffeeteria at Dunkin’

9 year convergence Sat at Crucible  Sit N Sip cancelled

NMS – what a great route – with a headlamp, tough to keep your speed up when you cannot see.  Pigskin regained us in what the world looked like in black and white. Handshake realized that everyone older than him is not a Boomer.