Mary Munford Elementary
Many Pax by foot and bike welcomed Fall weather to the RVA. Despite Marv’s constant pleading to run the Carillon route, we elected a new Lockjaw route of a trapezoidal nature with several dog leg turns.
It was great running with EF Hutton and Phonics – good company, conversation, and pace.
Puppy Pile tomorrow – 7:05 – Carillon. See Marv for details. Bring your kids.
Time to Taper,
Lockjaw
24 descended upon Mary to see where their legs and wheels would carry them. After Splinter provided a quick translation of the Belizeian word for “Hello”, we were off. Runners covered distances ranging from 4 to 8 miles, and every distance in between. Bikers covered all that is RVA.
YHC’s Lab Rat-esque apology goes to the 4 and 5 milers, who got slightly lost – but gained extra distance – thanks to poor instructions from the Q.
Announcements:
Saab Abides
13 of RVA’s finest posted this morning by foot or pedal. Here is what happened, more or less.
The Routes:
East on Grove and north on Malvern. Take Broad St east. 4s take Belmont south, 5s take Davis, and 6s take Lombardy; all southbound to Grove. West on Grove the the VSF.
Swirly took us out.
With Lockjaw’s summer tour closed out, it was a welcome return to the Friday RAMM. YHC wanted a nice and simple route and upon delivery of instructions, not a single question. Mission accomplished.
Broad St is under development with the new Pulse bus line and an ever evolving Scott’s Addition. As one runs this route, you see people living on the streets with their possessions close by and sleeping when/where they can.
Go forward today mindful of all that you have. For many of the Pax, your problems are insignificant in contrast to those of others’.
Time to Taper,
Lockjaw
Fifteen on foot and fifteen* on wheels posted at Mary this morning in between raindrops. A couple few 2.0’s made it out despite the early hour, and two FNG’s got named.
The cycling went a little something like this:
Out the back and down Cary. Dive into Windsah Fahms, and out via Portland. Douglasdale. Hang a right and boogie down to Byrd Park for a lap around and between the lakes. Get rained on like a champ. Over to, and around the lake with the fountain in it. Climb up to Boulevard and roll, en masse, respectfully following all prescribed traffic laws. Left and down Ellwood, disregarding said laws. Back to Mary via Grove.
Some things of note: Firstly: high marks to first-timers, children, and otherwise fit dudes who just don’t spend time on bikes. Thank you for coming out, because riding bikes is rad but riding bikes with other people is way, way radder. Secondly: high marks to ALL riders for their adherence to Rule #9** — riding a bike in foul weather means you’re a badass. It poured for a little while, but the stalwart and stoic PAX honey-badgered through it. I didn’t see that coming, but am glad ain’t nobody noped out because of weather. Finally: extra high marks to Kabota for bringing out the sled with the kiddie seat on the back. If you take your little one out on that thing, you’re a good dad, dude.
I’m going to suggest that this sort of thing happen more often, if for no other reason that it was a lot of fun. While the RAMM Gears Faithful always get in a good workout when we’re all spandex-and-Strava’ed-up, there should be more to Friday morning than that. Maybe once a month would suffice, maybe even just once a quarter? Just again, though, please. I hope others feel the same.
Before I forget, from what I heard at the coffee pot this morning, the runners did “the Carollon Route”, whatever that is. TYA and Swirly did “Patterson backwards” and Bleeder tried to kill LugNut but thankfully didn’t succeed.
Please remember that all PAX have a standing invitation to get bikes dialed in at No Tools’ Coffee Emporium & Bike Shop. Rates are reasonable (IPA) and hours are by appointment (don’t forget the IPA). Find me at @bvay on Twitter.
Announcements: Humpday Happy Hour is coming up… Roller Coaster Run & Kubu Kuba Dos. Lab Rat says listen to Soundcloud this afternoon. Dirt Church is Sunday before 8am at Courthouse Church of Christ (will be all gravel this week). BT will be racing Bleeder on jet skis next week. Maybe there’ll be video?
* Shout out to the brother who posted with the little 2.0 on the bmx bike. Things weren’t shaping up as planned and they waved off on Cary before Malvern. Anyone catch his name?
** see here for The Rules but don’t take ’em too seriously.
9 studs posted on a Friday morning for normal F3 activities, running and biking. There were 5 runners and 4 bikers. Routes varied, but lots of hard work was put in. Swirly and TYA went for an 8 mile jaunt through windsor farms and by the carillon. Bootleg, Lug Nut and Pullout meandered through the west end neighborhoods to log their miles. The normal bikers were accompanied by Wedding Singer today who was a hitting RAMM gears as part of the summer tour. Not sure what kind of bike he had, but I am envisioning a tricycle with big wheels. Great to have Clavin back and the Profit continues to post for the friday morning spins…No tools is a machine.
TYA OUT
24 – Now that has to be a record of sorts. Great weather brings out great runners.
YHC went over the routes a couple of times with a mixed degree of reception from the Pax. It turned out to be effective as no one was lost.
To put all route questions to rest, here is a picture of the six mile route. 5s turned at Broad St and 4s at Monument.
Fudd took us out.
NMS
YHC wanted to revisit Broad Street, but after a show last night at Agecroft, Windsor Farms was calling as well. Here is a route to do both!
It was great to run with Fireman Ed and Ponch as it was Ponch’s first RAMM and Ed’s return after some time away from the roads.
Announcements:
Always Be Tapering,
Lockjaw
0513 and YHC arrived to RAMM with Big Blue present and several RAMM Gear gents doing warm up laps. Conversation prior to 0530-what time do you wake up and why? Before 0530, YHC had directions but thought it easier to state, Reverse Carillon! Saab was pointing in a direction that confused YHC but there was a 4, 5, and 6 mile group who all understood where to run, so it worked for YHC.
4 mile group….Pucker, Bleeder, Lug Nuts. 5 mile group…..Swirly, Flatline. 6 mile group…..Phonics, Sippy Cup, Marv, Saab
6 mile group took off but in a different direction than 4 and 5 milers. 4 and 5 milers went down Grove, R on Malvern, L on Cary, R on Banbury, L on Tomacee, R on Portland Place, L on Douglasdale Rd and from here 4 milers were on there own. YHC and Swirly went up Douglasdale Rd and R on Boulevard with a lap around Carillon and back down Boulevard to Grove. 6 milers seen by 5 milers across the lawn at The Carillon so they were on the route. L on Grove back to The Flag. 6 milers caught up to YHC and Swirly near Mary and 4 milers were waiting at The Flag. RAMM Gears finished at 0615 too.
Number-ama, Name-r-ama, Announcements: Reese Strong is on hold this year, per Phonics. Puppy Pile next Saturday at Dogpile starting 0705.
YHC took us out!
NMS- Prior to 0530, the conversation at the gloom was about what time do you wake up or maybe, how often do you wake up at night, and why? Saab was upset he awoke 1 hour prior than needed. YHC awoke at 0440 for the bathroom and realized going back to sleep was not needed. Yesterday, Bleeder forgot to set his alarm but awoke at 0449, in time for 45MOM!! Swirly has been waking often and no alarm clock needed! Anway, conversations that occur prior to workouts are often spontaneous and hilarious!
Swirly, thank you for the pace this morning.
Welcome, FNG, The Profit, with RAMM Gears! No Tools EH’d so welcome!!!
This mornings run was greatly needed and being part of this group starts my day! I am blessed!
Only those who post understand!
Loud and Proud,
Flatline
6 runners scoffed at 6 bikers this morning for an epic showdown of pedal power versus foot power!
Not really.
Bikers did an awesome trip around the bike loop that the pipeline is a part of in the dark. It was way cool. Unfortunately, our FNG did not get the memo that is was MTB day and brought a road bike. He broke off of the group at the Carillon and No Tools gave him a route. He did not return to get a name.
Runners did old school on Grove. No idea what happened.
Lab Rat apologizes…
22 strong (7 on two wheels and 15 on two legs) attacked RAMM and RAMM Gears this morning. 5:26am and directions were given. 5:30am and BOOM! off we go!
THANG
Multiple distances were covered today including:
4.2 mile route: Grove West to Tuckahoe Blvd to Granite to Cary to Tempsford. Go down and up the Two Hills of No Mercy! Return the way you came.
4.9 mile route: 4.2 mile route but run to Malvern and back to Mary first.
5.7 mile route: 4.2 mile route but run to Thompson and back to Mary first
8.?? mile route: ?
Multiple miles for Gears: ?
3 Minutes of Mary at the Shovel Flag for those that finish early including Box Cutters, LBC’s and Flutter Kicks.
COT, Numberama, Namearama and YHC took us out
Announcements:
July 4th Convergence coming up on Wednesday. 7am at Tredegar/Belle Isle Parking Lot. Hot Potato Q. YHC will start and then toss it. Have some ideas ready! Breakfast/Coffeteria/Jump in the River immediately following.
Gumbo will be leading Dogpile tomorrow. He will absent for a month after that so if you need to get your fill of Gumbo in, show up! Have a safe trip, Gumbo and family!
Lab Rat is leading Dogpile next Saturday. (Just throwing that tidbit out there so he will be happy)
Summer challenge is moving right along. Will anyone catch Vinny while he is on vacation? The ever-elusive Gridiron post is the only one he needs!!
Pick 2 and Fiancee are leading The Creek next Friday for his Wedding Rehearsal Day. Nuptials the next day. Congrats in advance!
Shakedown and Rosie are about to attack a 50k on Saturday. Shoot them a text and cheer them on! They GOT THIS!
NMM:
YHC sent a Pre-Blast out for RAMM yesterday but he had to call an audible at 5:25am this morning because it was not enough numbers. So normal run it was. The Challenge/Competition will have to wait for another time. YHC’s routes were long for the 4’s and short for the 5’s and 6’s. YHC apologizes, but everyone finished right around 6:15am so it worked out. YHC took the Snake River route that Lockjaw devised in May (when it was flooded) and tweaked it some. YHC wanted everyone to experience both Tempsford and Kennondale. In YHC’s opinion, Kennondale may be more of a pain than Charmian. Kennondale after Tempsford is just plain harsh! Either way, hills were attacked after a nice flat warm-up jaunt and then a nice flat recovery run on the way back in.
Welcome to my friend and FNG Re-Run (Clint). Re-Run is an avid runner and decided to join us this morning after he ran the same two hills yesterday morning. He must love those hills! Lab Rat gets credit for the FNG naming since that is his new thing.
YHC is not sure what the cyclists did, but it was great to see a large group of them out this morning.
Swirly and TYA crushed the early-bird long distance route. Great job!
Have a great Friday all!
Kubota
keep posting
Fifteen of our finest stallions tackled today’s workout by foot and pedal with all distances covered.
Reverse Carillon route was called and off we went. The water was thick in the air and deep on the ground and the pace was cruising.
We ran into the seals at the Carillon doing crabwalks and being instructed to keep moving by someone who was not moving. Huh.
The backblast title comes from a critter that Labrat saw who gave him a salute with an opposable digit. Labrat thinks it was a thumbs up while I think he was flippin the bird. Regardless, that’s what made him awesome.
Loose Goose took us out.
Announcements:
Time to Taper,
Lockjaw