Tag: Currahee

Some times its the accountability partner that gets you out of bed to go post. This morning was one of those times.. when you hear the wind howling and its raining at 430 am, all YHC wants to do is go back to bed.. but after texting with Roger Roger last night and him saying he was going to be there.. welp, then you cant just not show up.

0530 AM… YHC is sitting in the AO parking lot alone. ?
about to head back to the house had this nagging feeling to go check the back parking lot where Currahee use to meet. Sure enough there was Roger Roger’s car…. but no Roger Roger. Let the hunt begin.

Once found (He was running circles on his own in the student parking lot) we decided on slow Bro-Code 4 miler.. 2 miles out to Three Chopt rd and back. Some good 2nd F conversations and great accountability partnership.

COT was one-on-one. Announcements are found in Slack.

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John (Gypsy) Boles

8 men lept from the fartsack and into the gloom for a rain. We finished in a downpour. HOOah.

4 milers – Old Prescott, Glen Eagles, JRP, Ridgefield, Pump

5 milers – Old Prescott, Glen Eagles, JRP, Gayton, Turnbridge, Weather Vane, Green Mount/Oakney/Clarisbrook, Pump

NMS – shoes and clothes got a good washing today. Nothing better than that. Route planning at Curahee is a bit challenging because unlike RAMM, where you can just extend or shorten a block to get a precise distance, small changes can swing the distance by 1/2 mile. Missed turns create chaos – like drivers backing down the Jersey Turnpike, if you dont go back you could be going 10 min out of the way. YHC has to admit to second guessing a planned turn that shortened the planned route by .2 miles. This is a good thing because now we have a solid 5 mile loop. YHC favorite occurrence, after coming out of warren den of a neighborhood, is hearing the PAX (Handshake ?) saying something like “Oh THATs Pump”. Its even better when just moments before you can pick up side comments like “where the f*$k are we”. Temporarily misguided on a blue moon, but never in doubt. Thats the way to do it.

Looking forward to the track opening up.

Announcements

• CSAUP 10/23 – need 2 more for a pan Richmond team
• Shoe drive – gently used shoes for men and boys
• Beer(x4) mile(x1) at the Carillon 10/17

Get Some!

Five runners came out to Currahee to see what route YHC had in store. All opted for 5 with minor variations:

Left on Pump, Left on Falconbridge and stay on all the way until Ridgefield then over to Deep Run park. Choose your own distance when to turnaround in the park. Head back same route.

Announcements: Several pairs of shoes collected this week in West end. Nice work, keep those shoes coming! Prayers for Upchuck family especially his M and MIL.

NMS: Beautiful morning for a run. Falconbridge has no traffic and wide roads so YHC wanted to spend some feature that route. Only drawback is that entire section and then Deep Run are completely dark. Handshake was stuck running with YHC since his light was out of battery. Upchuck and Gomer pulled ahead and almost reeled in Handshake, Greenbow, and YHC upon the return in to GHS. YHC offers up this route name of: Falcon Smash.

3rd F (Faith)

• Thank you Greenbow for the powerful words to take us out this morning.
• Next Virtual 3rd F will be hosted by BoBerry on Tuesday October 13th. Mark it on your calendar now so you don’t have any reason to not be there.

2nd F (Fellowship)

• Lots going on right now (See Slack for more details on the below)
  • Sit and Sip men’s retreat this weekend in Amelia Courthouse
  • 100 mile RVA relay run
  • October RVA shoe drive
  • Apparently everyone is looking for junior size golf clubs too??
• If you are not on slack DM your email and i can send you a link to join

1st F (Fitness)

Currahee is a running AO so its pretty easy to plan but much harder to execute. Today’s route was a big figure 8 for 5.5 miles that allowed for a cut of to drop miles if needed. As the Q, you spend a lot of time ping-ponging back and forth to make sure the front crew knows the next turn and the back crew is hanging in there.
Mubblechatter was ample this morning with discussions ranging from needing to get rid of excess CO2 to why Karens blow there horns at you in the morning while you are running to pax members looking to step up across the region to begin working out a SLT in RVA with a growth plan and regional focus.

I look forward to seeing many of you this weekend.
Friday is calling.. gotta go.
SYITG!!!

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John (Gypsy) Boles

6 of RVA’s finest posted at Currahee on a beautiful Friday morning for a brisk jog (pronounced “yogg”)

4/5 miles, bro-code style. Up Pump Road from the school, left as Pump Road changes and continue to Broad Street, hang a right and over to John Rolfe and another right and back to Pump and down to Godwin. Honeydo and Greenbow took a shortcut through Short Pump Park. 4.5 and 5.3 miles respectively for the group.

Announcements: F3 Offsite Convergence (not “retreat” according to Gomer Pyle” Gypsy has the 3rd F Q this week.

NMS: It was a nice morning with the crew. We talked about Gypsy being a lightweight and loving White Claws. Gomer commented about us running too slow. Spit was the Visitor of the Week and told us about the Daville Relay (congrats to that crew). Backblast title comes from a comment from Gomer Pyle about YHC and others parking in the “wrong spot” of the newly re-located meetup location at the Godwin parking lot. YHC parked where he saw other cars. It worked out too, Greenbow and Honeydo chatted with the other guys we saw in the parking lot on the run back, apparently they meet on Fridays to run. Hopefully Greenbow and Honeydo will be able will be able to EH the rando’s.

YHC is really enjoying the mix of larger “more established” AO’s as well as the smaller tighter-knit AO’s. This has been a really good 6 months for YHC. It took a long time for YHC to fully meld into this crew, and YHC enjoys random texts and shit talking in group messages. Thank you all for the opportunity to lead.

6 hunters ran off into the gloom to find some trail magic on a perfect cool morning. Easy bro code run 5.4mi. Handshake took us out.

Old Prescott, Glen Eagles, Shire, Old Pump, Sunrise, Clary Preston, Church, JRP, Ridgefield.

For you future Qs: Cut out all the loops and this is a good base route for 3 mile challenges as well – easy extensions to 4, 5, 6, 7, etc. No traffic on Old Prescott and Glen Eagles. Also all routes are posted in the BB. Excuses.

NMS – we created some new suburban dictionary entries today but found no trail magic, heavy balance of flora v fauna today. Not enough obstacles for Bodo’s’s taste on this route, but ideas are flowing.

Currahee!

At 5:30 I was solo and I wanted to recon the west side of the AO a bit more. Old Prescott, Glen Eagles, JRP, Ridgefield with some detours to see how it might work for shorter distance loops.

Some decent short runs / hills on this route on a wide road with no traffic on Glen Eagles. Also plenty of ambient light in that neighborhood for winter runs. Still it is just dark enough and there is just enough traffic that a headlamp is a really good idea for this AO.

NMS – 9/11 nineteen years ago. YHC was on a business trip at our R&D HQ outside of Minneapolis and was rushing to breakfast at the Hampton Inn when one of my work colleagues told me a plane crashed into the WTC. In the prior weeks there were some light / prop planes that were going too close to cities – cant remember where, maybe DC and NYC – my first that is that this was just a over-hyped news report like we had at the time. Then er watched the second plane as it plowed into the tower. We went over to the office and turned the news on and saw the first tower collapse. What chaos.

Apart from the tragic circumstances, this set in motion some incredible logistical challenges for people to return to their families. As the Tech Lead running a development project at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, my team was on site. Most of the team were in more reasonable driving distances in DC and Raleigh, but one team member lived in Rochester MN and was trying to figure out how to get home. Since we were really flip flopping locations and could give each other updates on what it looked like. He ended up starting Wednesday to make the 21 hour drive – one way in a rental. While planning on doing the drive in the opposite direction, Thursday around noon flights slowly opened back up and I decided to stick with flying. MSP was chaos, and after switching fights ten times due to reroutes, and delays, I finally got back to RIC. And in the weird way the world works, despite all different flight numbers and routes, I only got home 30 minutes later than originally planned. I was just happy to be back with my family – and clearly we would never view the world the same.

We did the 6.5 route again. Great mix of hills.

Like 1LT Sobel says: “3 miles up and 3 miles down”. Not quite a mountain, but its what we have. Get some!

Prayers for patience with our macro situation: school reopen, virus response, and impacted attitudes, There are lessons to find here. Prayers for F3 hurricane response team – best of luck brothers!

Currahee!

New route today. Old Prescott, Glen Eagles, JRP, Shire, old Pump, Pump, Dog Park trail, JRP, Pump.

NMS. No mumblechatter, just focus. At dog park YHC saw a ton of cars but nobody actually in the dog park with their four-legged friends. Perplexing. Then on the trail, a stream of seal team pax appeared from the gloom and it all came together. John McGuire is looking good. Meeting a former fellow operator with a white headlamp in the dark is a little embarrassing. But this is from experience: it’s dark running at BMNT, and a broken foot will keep you from running for a while. Regardless as we are growing to know, the best routes at Currahee require headlamps.

Get some.

After Mister Rogers appeared in the gloom at BMNT we agreed to run at least 6.2 in honor of our downtown brothers.

NMS – The route was a new one with a little of this and a little of that. I knew it was going to be a smidgen long, but also know that Mister Rogers is up for anything. We were with you in spirit.

Congrats Bone Thugs!

Currahee!