Tag: Miles of Truth

Midlothian Middle

  • We’re not going fast today

    7 dudes in search of a Wednesday cruise found it! Nice meandering route around the pond, under the road and avoiding the big hills. Approx 4 miles in all. No one got lost and a good time was had by all, sharing tales of the century and upcoming graduations

  • BroCode

    CSAUP training is in full swing and for the third week in a row, MOT hosted 11 studly gentlemen through 4+ miles of brocode running. Lots of mumblechatter. Lots of fun. Thanks Gents!

  • Easy does it

    11 for an easy 4 miles of CSUAP training through Salisbury. Great to see some new faces or guys that have been absent for a bit at MOT.

    Route – Out the SOJ Bat Cave that is Salisbury Drive to Castlebridge to Oakengate, left on Engerston, Castlebridge to Elmstead to Winterfield and back on Westfield.

    You know what’s coming up, if not – see Slack

  • Preparation Day

    The bat signal was called out for runners interested in the next great F3RVA CSAUP event. These men answered the call. Plan was a 4 mile route with the faster runners coming back for the six at each intersection. We got a nice cruise in with some guys pushing the pace when they felt the urge! Great work. If you are thinking about doing the century 2.0 on May 2-3 reach out to me!

  • Cookin’ with Rosie and Thaaaa Duke.

    Crisp april morning, which seemed to keep the pollen at bay. Challenging, potentially foolish run: https://tinyurl.com/Tough-run.

    I tried to maintain a lead over Rosie and The Duke, but of course Rosie defeated me by the time we arrived at the gravel road and steamed up the hill by the train tracks.

    Respect to The Duke, who has done a bootcamp, KB and a run all his first week. Enjoyed some cofferama with The Duke post run.

    Prayers for The Duke’s grandfather-in-law and Pax going through relationship struggles.

    Sign up for the May 2nd Century Run!

  • 4 hard & 1 flaccid

    A standard Wednesday run turned into 4 SOJ HC’s and 1 Soft Commit for the F3RVA Century on May 2nd-3rd.

    The route took us through Walton Park, The Grove, and eventually back up Mt Midlo. We had a set of 4-milers and Three (almost) 5-milers.

    Prayers for BoBerry’s B.I.L., Will, and the pax on IR.

    Out.

  • Farewell again

    7 showed up at MOT with no Q but were graced with the presence of The Colonel, not the KFC one but the former RVA resident from the Unregulated Militia of South Carolina. Yes, Tobit, back for Spring Break, made an appearance to get some miles. With no plan we headed out with a classic loop at an easy conversational pace – Woolridge – Charter Colony- Mt. Pisgah. Tobit may be back briefly before a permanent departure in May but now his RVA house is sold and the family is prepping to move to Charleston. Good luck Tobit.

    Announcements:

    Century Classic CSAUP is in final planning stages, the date has been set – May 2-3. Overnight run/ruck event around the RVA AOs, teams of 6-10 but teams of more or less are welcome. More details to come soon.

  • Oh, the choices we make!!!! If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

    4 adventure ready PAX with so many choices had little to no time to put a lot of thought into what they really wanted to do. Dunkin was considered but Bullseye with pack headed off into the Gloom for a solo ruck, YHC had texted the group that Wednesday was going to be an 8-10 mile day so Doozy was left to a solo run, Don Draper and Heist moseyed off into the Gloom and got 5 in.

    YHC was struggling with a strong head wind and even if it where only a 6 mile run I doubt a 45 minute return would have been possible. Choices were made not all were the best….

  • Follow the Dark Gravel Road

    Four exceptionally talented runners showed up this morning to take on the toughest MOT had to offer, a race through Salisbury. 

    The key to success, follow the dark gravel road into Salisbury, Loop around to Oakengate and then head back on Castlebridge until Elmstead. The remainder of the run was a blur as our oxygen-deprived brains were just trying to hold on. Left onto Winterfield and again onto Winterpock. We finished with the Mt Pisgah loop and ended with 5.25 miles. Legend has it that our swift 8:45 pace could have outrun a chubby housecat, but all were sleeping on this beautiful 70&Sunny morning. 

    Namerama, then a COVID-era COT since Heists family has the stomach bug. 

    YHC took us out with prayers for Rosie’s trip to Paris this evening, HIMs who couldn’t make it out this morning, and Sad Clowns who need support from all of us. 

  • Frozen Figure 8

    6 runners took to the streets to find a few flurries, a couple small patches of ice, and some miles around Midlo. Route Midlo to Woolridge – 4 miles left on Coalfield left into the Grove – Mt. Midlo back to the flag with some extra credit around the school; 5 miles down to Charter Colony, left up Manders, through the Grove, left on Woolridge and right back home down Coalfield. Solid route with some hills – Woolridge 2x and Manders (or Mt. Midlo) made for some difficult work on the morning.

    Great to see Lugnut back out for some runs, and some solid chatter at Starbucks watching the snow come in.

    See Slack for coming info on the next CSAUP – The Century – the date is the first decision to be made and then more to come after that.

    Prayers for Draper’s friend going through a tough time and for Draper on setting boundaries for helping him out.