Tag: Currahee

3rd F (Faith)

• Thank you Pigskin for taking us out today in prayer.
• Starting thinking about your gently used shoes and mens business attire that you can donate in December. YHC will buy a pair of socks for each pair of shoes donated.

2nd F (Fellowship)

• Lots if pax in RVA are running in the Richmond half and full marathon. It will be a great opportunity to come out and cheer on your brothers of the gloom.

1st F (Fitness)

The Thang: Last Friday Bro-code run

Typically this means the same 4 mile loop that we do every Friday.. but Handshake wanted to do it backwards.. no harm there lets do it. The only issue is YHC can get lost on a one way road with no turns.. i stead of right hand turns around the 4 mile block it would be left.. yup. I had no idea where the turn points would be. Sooooooooo we ran for 2 miles in the ran and turned around to head back. Route was supposed to be:

• Right out of Godwin on to Pump
• Left onto Church
• Left on to Copperas
• Left on to Ridgefied
• Right on to Pump
• Left into AO

what it was

• Right out of Godwin on to Pump
• Pass John Rolfe turn around right on to John Rolfe because it look right.
• Down John Rolfe until we realized we are not go to find copperas.. turn at 2 mile mark..
• Back to AO.

glad we didn’t get lost on this 2 road bro code route. ?

no NMS today.. doing BB on my cell phone and wordpress is a pain enough on a computer.

Thank you following me in the rain

v/r

John Gypsy Boles

5 pax joined in for a little mosey around the Western West end… AKA Short Pump.

We went with the Handshake route to give options for all to get anywhere from 4 to 5.5 miles.

Right out of Godwin on Pump.
Left on to Pump
Right onto Three Chop
Right onto John Rolfe
left into the AO.

YHC ran with Handshake this day. Some good Mubblechatter along the route. He just got back from his 15yr anniversary reunion of VMI. I appreciate him taking the time to find my 2.0 on campus and imparting some knowledge on him. We all know we can tell our 2.0s stuff all day long and they look at us like we have 3 heads.. but if someone else tells them the same thing its the wisest thing they have ever heard. Roger Roger, Whitesnake and Honey Do ran as pack as well.

No new announcements mentioned this day. Check Slack or Twitter for new items.

DM PigSkin to help with the FreeToBleed this month
We will be starting the RVA show Drive on December 1st.. so start saving those gently used shoes now.

Thank you for allowing me to lead the run.

v/r
John (Gypsy) Boles

Four fleet footed horsemen fought the fartsack and found a respite from the pandemi-pocolypse and met the start of fall’s cooler weather.

Bro Code route was south on Pump with a dogleg though some new neighborhoods and then return on raintree to start.

Pinto took us out. Prayers for young people as they mature as well as those working though sickness or loss of their loved ones.

NMS – Great to see folks out today. YHC is looking forward to getting fully healthy and back in the saddle. Working on a Currahee shirt after Spider Run is complete. Find a friend that needs F3 and invite them along.

Get some.

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