4 SOJ veterans, 1 SOJ FNG, and 1 Davillian awoke to the thought of a leisurely jog around the neighborhoods that surround Bettie Weaver Elementary School.  What resulted was quite a bit different. The workout Slow group jog to the football stadium for interval training.  Run an 800 fast followed by a 400 slow.  Rosie and YHC repeated this 4 times.  Gumbo, Honeymoon, Doublemint, and Lug Nut repeated 3 times.  We then took a slow jog around Robious Landing Park for the last 16 minutes of the workout.  Total distance covered was around 5.5 miles. The Thang After Circle K was…

4 River Run veterans eschewed the forecast and broke free from the comfort of the fartsack to start the work week with some hills and some miles. The suggestion was made during last week’s run and YHC decided to give it a try – the traditional River Run route backwards — left out of Bettie Weaver for a loop around by the high school across Robious and up the trail to Twin Team.  Up up up up…..up Twin Team, then down Powderham Lane and cross through the BUSH from the back side, across Robious Road and into Tarrington.  Down the…

4 runners assembled SOJ for an early morning run that went exactly like this: Thang Repeato from last week: We came. We saw. We ran 4.8 Boom! COT – Gumbo took us out NM This was YHC’s first run since running to the 3 AOs just after the election. That’s way too long to go inbetween. YHC knew the only way to get back out there was to sign up to Q a run, an oxymoron in YHC’s book. Cheers to the PAX for circling back. This was the first Q for YHC that did not involve a raccoon, though…

A fearless 5 broke the strangle hold of the fartsack this Monday morning to enjoy the cool breeze and to slay some hills SOJ to kickstart their week.  We welcomed Flatline to his virgin River Run experience and that called for the old faithful – Left our of Bettie Weaver down James River Road past the high school.  Right onto Riverton Ridge to get into Tarrington.  Left at the round-a-bout onto Welby Drive.  Right only Sherfield Drive past the pool.  Left onto Ashwell and then downhill around the loop (the calm before the storm?) and uphill all the way to…

As the calendar turned to May, 6 redwoods, including a RiverRun virgin posted to kick off what could be the official start of BRR training. Start out with minimal warm up Twin Twin Team Lane and onto Brigstock into Salisbury.  4+ mile route straight to Ellesmere and down Ashwell through Tarrington.  5 milers take the Mt. Hill loop and follow the same route down Ashwell.  Back to the school up James River Road (that is a nice slow incline to close out the run). THANG Great to see Upchuck out at RiverRun this morning.  YHC had thoughts of avoiding the…

One car with two PAX showed up to River Run on a cool wet Monday morning to throw down a few miles and being thankful the rain held off! Once we figured it was only us we decided the route from last week was the way to go. We logged just over 3 miles! While the rain was not coming down on us, we found new ways to leave the workout just as wet as if it had been raining! Yup. The puddles in the dark got out little piggies cold and wet! Honeymoon has decided to convert all his…

4 SOJ stalwarts posted to River Run on this beautiful, maybe a little hot, post-Easter morning to start the week off with a little run to lighten our load after the Easter feast…some of us took that literally.  Wilson greeted YHC with “Dogs and Kids” as he was already in a hurry, so quick instructions and we took off.  YHC decided to forgo the mountainous hills around River Run for a new route, it went a little something like this: From BWES head towards Robious Road and across to the sidewalk near Twin Team.  Take a right on the sidewalk and follow…

3 stalwarts broke the hold of the fartsack on this glorious Monday morning and posted at River Run to log some miles and climb some hills.  The route today started with a nice mosey down to the high school and around by the baseball fields, then we headed West on 711 and turned left into River Downs to tackle the Queens Grant hill.  When we descended the back side on Royal Crest Drive, rather than turn around and repeat the hills in reverse to complete the River Downs Roller Coaster, we took a right on Riverdowns South and made our…

4 of the RiverRun faithful showed up for the return of the run.  Nothing new or out of the ordinary for the run today, just the classic.  Down James River Road and into Tarrington, around the Ashwell Loop and up the hill to Robious.  Head first into the bush and down Twin Team.  Circle the schools to round out the 5 miles. NMM The group stayed together today after what seemed to be a tiring weekend for those in attendance.  Wilson bailed early this morning with a #runningsucks text in the early hours to Honeymoon.  The hills are still alive…

Seven of the faithful stayed huddled in their cars until 5:29:58, then jumped out ready to make a downpainment. Johnsonville (YHC) took the Q, and, after a brief but thorough disclaimer, this is what went down: THANG Warmup with SSH, don quiote, merkins, scissor kicks, etc. Longish Indian Run out past JR High School and around to football stadium. Fourties with merkins and mt. climbers. Run up stadium stairs to the top, across, and back down between each exercise. 3x 440m repeats on track at target pace of 1:30 (alternative exercise for 75x LBCs). Repeat Indian Run back to VSF.…