Tag: RAMM

An un-claimed Q-sheet brought a handful of guys to the land of Mary Munford and really no direction.

Which brings up this question….do you have direction in your life right now? A vision? A goal? We should all have visions and goals of some sort…for us on this particular Friday morning we needed more direction and it came in this form.

YHC told everyone to head north on Commonwealth and get to Monument…to run 22.5 minutes and to run back to the flag via a south on a street and Grove.

Funny couple exchanges as welcome FNG Ridge (his real name, his F3 name is Body Armor, based on the fact that Ridge went to St. Johns and the dude that is funding Rick Pitino’s team is the same guy who created and sold Body Armor)….anyway, Ridge is introduced to Garbage Plate and immediately says “Are you from Rochester?” And, of course, GP is from Rochester. Small world. I also think there was another Rochester connection in there somewhere, maybe By-Product’s wife’s family(?), can’t really remember.

Beautiful weather and a wonderful trip around the near west end of RVA…not a bad way to start the Friday.

One rucker and the rest runners; off we went on our routes. All distances were covered.

A hearty crew of 11 showed up on Friday the 11th for a crisp morning trundle around the near west end.

For the record…The Carrillon is finally open (that was news to me) and we got to run up the stairs for the first time since pre-COVID. Better late than never, huh?

Also, for the record…the 4 mile Carrillon run looks like this…

Out on Grove to Arthur Ashe.

Right on Arthur Ashe (south) and that takes you to Idlewood.

Right on Idlewood. Right on McCoy. Take McCoy to Cary St. Left on Cary St.

Cary goes to Malvern. Right on Malvern, left on Grove and go to West Moreland and double back to Commonwealth.

And that’s the 4 mile Carrilon route.

Good to have Frozone at the Q from the great city of Savannah, GA. He and his family were heading up to DC with a stopover here in RVA.

Age is relative, sometimes you’re feeling young and sometimes you’re feeling old, and sometimes you’re old and then TYA shows up and then you’re young again. The PAX was greeted by the local RAMM gears biker gang. The Bloods and Crips have red and blue respectively, while this particular gang had their hi-vis yellow. As the bikes circled ominously the pax stood their ground.

when it came to routes, there was none, no one had picked up the Q, but YHC was feeling inspired and wanted to do the route of our grandfather’s as I believe Marv had put it. So it was out and back on Grove. Some rain, some walked some rain really fast some walked really fast and there was even a lone rucker out there.

Moleskin: YHC enjoyed running for the first part with bootleg, and caught up on all things, travel and mental health related, including an in-depth conversation about coffee and caffeine. On the way back YHC was able to run part of the way with an old familiar face, LugNut. YHC got to catch up on all things car racing related, and learned why younger car racers are better than older car racers, my theory was that an older car racer would be better because they have more experience – but experience also comes with caution, so a younger car racer is more likely to be more daring, and that’s what may win the race.

announcements:

See OBT for information on a panel he’s moderating and the screening of an inspiring movie.

Go to the bridge, check it out. It’s really worth it. Such an awesome experience.

century classic is coming up the weekend of May 2nd. See EF Hutton if you want to join a team of reigning champions.

YHC took us out

With a ratio of 3 to 1, a nonsensical nine chose to walk:run around Mary’s outer quarter.

With age and injury, running may be less of a thing. Despite that, a route was offered to the few who were willing and able.

https://onthegomap.com/s/fhk6n1ne

All:  Head West.  Take Seneca to Tuckahoe loop, then Paxton to Ampthill loop….

4’s return on Grove after completing aforementioned…
5’s :  Repeat Seneca/Tuckahoe loop then return on Grove.  Reverso is suggested.
6’s: Also repeat Paxton/Ampthill loop before returning on Grove. Note early cutover before hitting bottom of Paxton

Saab abides…

Nine Mary nincompoops gathered for a potential duel that was eagerly anticipated. After YHC signed up in a blank cell last night and created a route, Saab also signed up in a blank cell last night and created a route. After some threatening text messages back and forth, it was established that it would be figured out in the AM. Under a haze of disappointment, it turns out there was no duel. Bodos had studied YHCs route and was planning on running that. Saab wanted hills and was planning on running his route. So it was left to YHC, as others were either walking or had no clue what was going on. 0530 arrived and after some studder stepping in each direction, YHC’s route was chosen. Off we went, for a flat, somewhat of a double lollipop kind of route. Turns out Bodos didn’t study it enough.

The Route

• East on Grove
• North on Nansemond
• West on Patterson
• North on Spokane (who knows why there is a Spokane in RVA)
• Jog over to east on Monument
• 4s turn at Commonwealth, 5s at Hamilton, 6s at Tilden
• West on Grove

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Saab hasn’t yet signed up for 3/21 but promised he would. Someone needs to check their internet connection b/c one of us was wrong last night.

Title was stolen from Saab’s comment that the route apparently passed by each of his youngin’s homes.

Splinter out.

All good things must come to an end.

We’ve had a pretty good record in recent weeks doing the VCU Basketball Jericho Run around the Siegel Center.

Quick refresher–If at all possible, I like to run around the arenas that the Rams are playing on my gameday runs. For home games in Richmond, that is the Siegel Center, which is about 3.3 miles, give or take from the Flag.

With the influx of Friday night games, we’ve done it a few times this year…and Sippy has joined me on a Saturday or two for an un-authorized run. We also did it a few weeks ago around the Robins Center prior to the Rams road games at UofR.

All runs have been fruitful as VCU hadn’t lost a home game all season.

That came to an end on Friday as later that night a Max Shulga 3ptr clanked off the back iron and the Rams fell to Dayton by 3. Tough way to end the season as it quelled the momentum VCU had getting an at large bid. Nevertheless….a terrific season.

A bunch of walkers headed out to do what they normally do. It’s good seeing those guys.

The 5s and 6s headed towards the Stu, kind of meandering our way through the fan…ending up on Ryland and dumping out across the street from 1200 West Broad. A lap around the arena (we’ve been doing two laps…maybe that was the issue) and back from Broad to Lombardy to Monument. Then weaving our way through the boucolic streets of the nearer west end.

Hope everyone pulls for the Rams in DC this weekend.

Seven runners and ruckers went their own way after the pull of a Seigel Center run enticed folks to keep the winning streak alive. Others did recon elsewhere in the city, but we can’t talk about that.

A mix of runners and walkers took to the streets of the Near West End and the Fan for this week’s edition of RAMM. Despite readings in our cars saying otherwise, conditions were sunny and 70.

Routes

4s: https://onthegomap.com/s/0caeo22f
5s: https://onthegomap.com/s/0fr5ag4r
6s: https://onthegomap.com/s/k65hv5g6

Numbers, Names and YHC took us out.

NMS: YHC always walks away from a morning run happy that he got out of the fartsack and showed up. Today was no exception. All were in good spirits before, during and and after. Thank you to each of you for showing up and making it a good morning.