Tag: Currahee

Four scholarly gentlemen gathered at Currahee wondering who had the Q. YHC had a plan so off we went.

The Route

• Around the school and through the woods towards Raintree drive
• Right on Raintree
• 15 minute warm up
• 10 – 1 minute fartleks with a 30 second recovery
• Turn around after 5 reps
• 15 minute cool down

Numbers, names, light announcements before YHC took us out.

Moleskin

Great camaraderie this morning for another soupy run. Thanks for the positive attitude for something different this morning. Great catching up with the crew. See everyone soon.

Curahee route:

Four Pax members showed up to take on this run I like to call Rolfes run as we embarked on a series of elevation gains to reach 233 ft up and 172 feet down with an average pace of 8:28 a mile and 170 SPM. The rolling hills definitely add a challenge to this route.

All Pax members opted out of the 4 mile loop for the longer distance 5.3. It was a good time!

4 mile route will be right turn pump rd. Left ridgefield, right copperas ln, right Little league drive into the parking lot and the reverse back to the flag.

5.3 mile route on the way back will turn left onto John Rolfe, Right Turn on Ridgefield green way cross onto Rolfield, RT Colonist, Left Rolfe way, RT John Rolfe, Rt Ridgefield, Rt Pump and back to the Curahee.

Thanks for letting me host today pax.

SYITG

Roger Roger

Four of the finest you will ever meet at 530am gathered in the eagles parking lot for today’s Currahee. Pinto dusted off the headlamp and vest for today but was told they wouldn’t be needed. 0530 abruptly hit and off we went.

• Loop around the school and shimmy through the fence by the track
• One lap around the track to continue to warm up as it was needed today
• 200m repeats with 100m recovery
• Repeat x10
• Mosey down Old Prescott and another long loop around the school and we called it a day

Numbers, names, some light “stretching” before YHC took us out.

Moleskin

Great morning guys. It’s been probably 3 years once I’ve done track work like that today and I’m sure I’ll feel it the rest of the day. Really enjoyed the fellowship while in the track. Let’s do it again sometime.

Hoedown Monday at 7am followed by coffeeteria. Hope to see you there!

Hot and humid. 5.68 miles to WTH duck pond and back.

Two stalwarts held down the fort to get in a nice 6mile run this morning. It was nice sweltering morning in the gloom, starting out at 78 deg and 95% humidity, and we got it done.

NMS – whats great about Lighthouse is that he is up for anything. He has come a long way since he started running for real last year. As we started out, our five mile route turned into a solid six and this is a great route with challenges at the right time. While someone needs to hold down the fort, we missed the summer tour crew and are looking forward to having them back,

Prayers for those with anxiety, awaiting test results. Prayers for students going back to school

Announcements –

• BRR 9/10, prep at Vinny’s 8/28 – see preblast
• FVA annual sit n sip / retreat 9/25 – Amelia courthouse area – see preblast

WAKE UP!! PEOPLE ARE RUNNING HERE!!

Last Friday of the month at Currahee always means one thing… Bro-Code.

That means anybody but Gomer Pyle is allowed to take the Q. cuz we all know that Gitty Up on a 4 mile run means you are getting lost in some back neighborhood as we turn 4 miles into 5.5 or 6. trying to figure out if he went left or right at that dead end road. Ha!!! jokes on you.. he also knows all the off road paths to connect roads and he went straight. 🙂 Just Kidding with you GP.. although you do know all the hidden paths around the Short Pump area for some reason???

Bro-Code has become a regular 4 mile route that all pax can run and get anywhere between 4 and 6+ miles in 45 mins. It is basically a big square so at the turns you circle back to the 6 then continue on to the next turn. (you can do a 11:15 min mile pace to a 7:30 pace or more and all still be roughly together) once we hit the 4th corner we all return to the AO together at a Bro-Code pace.

The route.
Right out of Godwin HS.
Left onto Ridgefield
Right onto Copperas
Right onto Church
Right onto Pump
one last turn back at the corner of Pump and Ridgefield for the 6.

Great work by all … mileage ranged from 4.1 to 5.3 miles .. not bad for 145 on the wet bulb scale.

Free to Lead men. Be a disrupter of the status quo..

SYITG

Gypsy

Corned Beef and Hash came over to the west side from the wall this morning looking for a Friday run with Gomer Pyle’s help on the route we were able to get in some running for both paces. Light house and Hash ran at a faster pace and logged about 5.5 miles while the remaining pax ran 4.5 miles and as a special bonus (thank you GP) an additional .5 miles around the school to log in about 5 and 6 miles respectively. The 4.5 mile route is below, Hash and Lighthouse ran further down Pump then returned and caught up to the Pax to come into the school parking lot.

Lot’s of mumble chatter about everything under the sun, and great to visit this AO.

See route below:

Numberama, namerama, Handshake took us out in prayer this morning.

Have a great day Gents…SYITG….Cheers…CB!

The last will be 1st: Matthew 20:16

3rd F: Faith

• Thank you Gomer Pyle for taking us out today.
• Unspoken TAP for our brother Johnsonville
• Homer and YHC are co-Qing 3rd F on the 20th. Open discussion on the similarities and differences of Buddhism and Christianity with regard to after life.

2nd F: Fellowship

• 7/17: Hitchhiker cook out. see slack for location and details
• 7/27 Home run derby at 0530 Tuckahoe Little League see EF Hutton for details
• 7/31: Richmond Flyers baseball game. See Bone Thugs for details

1st F: Fitness

Currahee brought out 10 pax this morning to enjoy a beautiful 70 and sunny workout. A simple plan but made sure everyone that wanted to push themselves was given the opportunity and yet we all still stayed together.
Warm up was 1.5 miles: Right out of Godwin, Left onto John Rolfe, Left onto Glen Eagle cross over Ridge Field and assemble at the cul-de-sac of Old Prescott.
The THANG: 5K race pace (or all you got) from the end of Old Prescott to Pump rd. (.42 miles)
Recover back for the 6 then all recover back to the cul-de-sac.
Rinse and repeat until 6:10.

Most of us landed somewhere between 4.5 and 5.2 miles today. Lots of hard work put in and lots of pounds lost in sweat. (unless you are Bluemoon who just seems to make it all look easy)

NMS:
The PAX did well today. Many of which are preparing for a Marathon or 1/2 Marathon in the coming months.
Stay hydrated during this heat guys. YHC posted an article in SLACK about the impacts of the weather on your training.

The Summer tour continues: many are unofficially hitting other AOs as others are signed up on the Monthly challenge. YHC will have the patches for those pax that signed up.

Gomer Pyle: I hope you start felling better brother. RICE

Looking forward to hitting the streets of SOJ on Sunday with the OTB crew. Sounded like Roger Roger might be interested in joining in as well.

I appreciate you guys running with me this morning and i cant wait to SYITG!!

AS always: Call a PAX you have not seen in a while. it might be just what he needed to make through the day.
v/r
John (Gypsy) Boles

Three titans emerged from the gloom to enjoy a moist and cooler morning run though the neighborhoods of the West End. 5.25 mile route through Whittaker Woods, Canterbury and Raintree included our favorite Raintree hill – both a fitness test and a man maker. Fireman Ed had it right: that hill is deceiving (YHC did build it up a bit). Some mumble chatter as we started to run started to fade as the heart rate got up. We talked a lot about the commitment of folks to show up early in the morning and how that mentally blocks perspective FNGs. Pinto did have to endure Fireman Ed and YHC replaying some of the conversation last night but he knows he is a better man for it. Great to see Fireman Ed out again.

Currahee!