Tag: Spider Run

….and they cannot lie.

A glorious 17 beat the weather for some of the Spider Run’s best miles. Take the bat cave and across the bridge to head upstream. 4s turn at Butte and return. 5s take a left on Waumsetta, a left on Old Spring, and a left on Butte to return. 6s continue to Hickory, a left on Cherokee, a left on Waumsetta, a right on Old Spring, and a left on Butte to return.

TYA took us out.

Announcements:

• Breaking Bread Challenge: Sign up for breaking bread for a date during your birthday month. Oyster will not wish you a Happy Birthday without seeing you signed up.
• Bootleg is a trail speed demon crushing the Snowy Owl 10 Miler.
• GrowRuck – The Spider Run crew is a tough crowd, but this week we have a couple of maybe’s. I will count that as incremental progress. See slack or ask YHC for more info. Better yet, come out on Sunday and see for yourself.
• HDHH on January 17.

Twelve stallions of the new year started their running resolutions on the right foot. After Fudd recalibrated his internal compass based on the local beer shop as a reference point, off we went.

Along the lake, across the parking lot and up Boatwright. Take Edgehill to Three Chopt and continue North. A left on Horsepen and a right on Normandy put us in new territory to be boldly explored.

Upon Normandy’s intersection with Patterson, cross and veer right onto Sweetbriar. 4s take a left on Woodberry to Horsepen and through the fraternity gate to return to the lake.

5s and 6s continue down Sweetbriar to Rock Creek, a left on Baldwin and a right on Westham Pkwy. 5s turn on Lakewood and 6s on club Vista both leveraging College to return to the baseball field entrance. A quick route around the lake and the course was covered.

Announcements:

• Sign up for GrowRuck. Do it. It’s going to be transformational!
• If you want to borrow rucking gear, see Rosie by COB Tuesday before he places the order.
• Happy Hour on Thursday – See Slack.
• HDHH on 1/17 – More info to come.

Fudd took us out.

Five post xmas spider run stallwarts stared at each other for a bit before instructions were shared and off we went. One did his own thing whereas the others did the prescribed 5 mile route.

The Route

• By the lake, over the pavilion, right through the path
• University to Ralston to River
• River to Glenbrooke
• Up Summit
• Right on Glenbrooke to finish the loop
• Back the way we came

Numbers, names, YHC took us out

Moleskin

Not a lot of takers for runners this AM. YHC thought there may be a few more that wanted to burn off some xmas calories. Extra dose of hills this AM. Job well done to those who posted.

Five milers had christmas storytime of yesteryear. Storytime was going great until YHCs story of shutting the door on a new puppy’s tail when YHC was 10 or 11. Luckily for the dog, just the tip was caught, requiring a half dozen stitches. Apparently Saab didn’t appreciate the story as his dinner almost resurfaced.

Great to catch up with Boberry and to hear of the number of hams he basted and baked this year. Livin’ high on the hog!

Have a great day gentlemen.

Splinter out.

10 regulars arrived in various modes of transportation for a painful but spirited Spider Run. YHC posted the routes on slack, essentially 4s and 5s run up four different hills to Three Chopt and the 6s take one next 4 other hills, add a thumb with the bat cave and you’ve got yourself a Menorah run. Agreed, this makes no sense at all. But we ran a bunch of difficult hills and it was good. Fight me.

Prayers to our brother Pucker and the Gorman family as they celebrates the life of his mother.

Merry Christmas! There I said it!

Seriously though T-claps to the 6s for tackling those hills, praise Jesus.

Sixteen spiderlings gathered on campus, wondering if there was still time to sign up for F3 secret Santa. The route was tried and true… Spider Run’s version of Grooooooooove.

The Route

• Through the bat cave, across the bridge, and head upriver
• 4s turn around at Rivercrest (a little heavy)
• 5s turn around at Cherokee (a little heavy)
• 6s go up Rustic, left on Oakleaf, left on Elm, left on Hickory, back down to the river

Numbers, names, announcements, YHC took us out.

Moleskin

Apparently every time Shakedown comes back from an extended Spider Run break, he walks into intervals. Sorry to disappoint today! As Pucker said it, it’s about as flat as you can get at Spider Run.

Welcome back to Moon Pie after a one year hiatus. Turns out he came back out because he found running by himself near St. Chris to be too scary for him. An owl dive bombed him a few weeks back and he just knew he needed to find a group to run with. Never fear Moon Pie, the owls clearly are scared of us!

Everyone loves running across the river. The traffic was loud and plentiful today, otherwise it was an enjoyable run. Thanks to all you guys for showing up every week, even if it’s becoming arctic-like.

Announcements

• Last day to sign up for F3 secret santa is today
• 12 days of xmas at No Toll next Tuesday. Let’s try to do something special at Spider Run next Tuesday to honor the tradition. Sign up!
• Watch out for those potholes on Hickory!

15 runners and two canines launched promptly, on time, and without any questions except one existential query.

Up the hill to campus and take a left to the main entrance and a right up Boatwright knocking out many of the hills up front. Take the sassafras cut through and pick up Three Chopt taking a left on Patterson.

Begin the tour de Westham meandering through the rolling hills. 4s turn left on University to return around the lake. 5s pick up Ridge to Country Squire and back to University to return around the lake. 6s pick up Westham Station (plus Overlook) and return via bat cave.

Prayers to Fudd’s friend and Pucker.

Hitchhiker took us out.

Fourteen Beaver Moon gazers gathered to share Thanksgiving driving stories as a means to delay launch this AM. Launch was not delayed. Instructions were shared and off we went for:

The Route

Everyone did the following loop, depicted in the attached map: https://onthegomap.com/s/mrjrduro

• Batcave
• Right on Westham Station
• 6s only: Up Highland to River and back
• Right up South Ridge
• 5s & 6s: Left on Ross to the bottom and back
• Continue on to Westham
• Right on University
• Left on College
• Right on Campus
• Right into the college
• Take the right loop by the football stadium BTTVSF

Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.

Announcements

• Great year for Breaking Bread. Thanks to Oyster for coordinating and all the people who volunteered. 2024 slots are open.
• HDHH on 12/6 @ the wonderfully smelling Final Gravity @ 6PM. Lockjaw will be there.

Moleskin

Mumblechatter was at a minimum until everyone warmed up this AM. As the 5s emerged from the cave, stories started about the power of breathing. Bodos may not be our resident pulmonary specialist; however, he has studied a lot about breathing. Singular takeaway from this AM, don’t breathe too much.

Many a comment about the November Full Moon, a.k.a. The Full Beaver Moon. No beaver sightings this morning but we were all looking!

For all y’all holiday travelers. Make sure you double strap your roof torpedo before heading out on the road!

See ya!

Splinter

For the first time since the dog days of summer someone other than Lockjaw or Splinter showed up at Spider Run with a route to run. YHC joined twelve guys at the lowest point in the Tuckahoe Area (not an official measurement) to run around the hills of Westham on a beautifully cool and crisp morning.

The Thang–

Everyone to College Road via the baseball field parking lot. Right on Lakewood and left on Wood. This should all be very familiar. From there, Aha!, it takes a bit of a change…instead of the normal right on Baldwin, everyone went left…and we took that to Woodberry. Left on Woodberry.

The 4s-Take a left on Sweet Briar…to Stuart Hall. Left on Stuart Hall and a left on Baldwin. Baldwin to Westham, to Baldwin…right on Wood, left on Lakewood…then back to the flag.

The 5s…They went Woodberry to Hollins. Left on Hollins then right on Baldwin to the top up to Patterson. Back down Baldwin to Westham. Westham to University to College to the parking lot…back to the flag.

The 6s…They went left on Baldwin after Hollins…right on Rock Creek…left on Forest and then right on Spottswood. There’s a loop on Spottswood to take that more or less dumps you back out on Forest. Left on Forest, right on Rock Creek…right on Baldwin. Then pick up the 5s trail on the way back to the flag.

Full disclosure…I think YHC days of running 6 in 45 minutes are pretty much over. The crew had a brisk pace this morning and I wasn’t really close to running 7:30s. Anyway, I think 6 mile routes are worth brining up…but know there may be an extra minute or two at the end that you wait for YHC to come trundling in.

Fourteen astute listeners gathered for a pre-published but somewhat complicated Spider Run today. The route included the last half of the turkey trot route in 2 weeks. Something like this (read in micro-machines format)

The Route

• Up around the baseball field then left on College
• Right on Lakewood
• 4s left on Westham
• 5/6 right on Wood to Waveny
• 5s left on Westham
• 6s right on Westham, left on Woodberry, left on Sweet Briar, left on Baldwin, right on Westham
• Everyone south on Westham to left on Club Vista
• Left on College
• Right on Westhampton which turns into Keller if you go straight
• Right on Westhampton
• Right on UR
• Right on Crenshaw
• Uturn at Modlin parking lot
• Left on UR
• Counterclockwise loop on the big hill for a downhill finish

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Moleskin

Everyone has been thrilled with the ample turns the past few weeks. YHC is sure you have them all memorized for 2 weeks from now.

Announcements

• Dogpile needs a Q this weekend for those not running Richmond
• Richmond marathon this weekend for some
• Tuckaruck Friday 11/17. See Lockjaw/slack for details
• 11/21 10k @ Spider Run. Arrive as early as necessary to finish a 10k by 615. Route is here.

See ya’ll.