Tag: Spider Run

YHC doesn’t know who was there, but this was the route. Lockjaw was the Q. If you can dig up your stats from 11/5/2019, let me know and I’ll add your name. I’m guessing Saab ran to vote, but who knows?

Happy Birthday Wedding Singer??? Wedding Singer + 21 of his 0530 friends met in the sunken parking lot that we call Spider Run launch. We ran the following, then heard Singer subtly say his name + age. No one called him out on it, until now.

The Routes

4s:  https://onthegomap.com/s/r5ad1ckj
5s:  https://onthegomap.com/s/vf9gb3md
6s:  https://onthegomap.com/s/pk2unnhj

Numbers, names, announcements, YHC took us out.

Moleskin

The PAX hit some different roads today, or at least made different turns to get to similar roads. Due to the need to test one’s will by running past a scary house, these extreme reaches of the AO are lightly traveled. That resulted in all the 5s screwing up. Well done. Hutton said he had it, clearly he didn’t. Apparently, Fudd tried to tell everyone but no one listened.

Great group of 22 today. The 6s saw Saab traveling away from the prescribed route as we were finishing our lollipop. He must have needed a direct route home.

Keep planting flags Flatline!

Happy Birthday Wedding Singer

Splinter

Fifteen runners and walkers rolled in just in time for the route instructions. It seems this route closely resembled one Gomer Pyle did last week. We went over the river and through the woods and back.

Great mumble chatter with the pack YHC was running with. Always a good time!

YHC took us out.

8 fearless men met on a nearly perfect running morning for a little out and back. According to the SOJ Barred Owl that loudly expressed his consternation on missing Saab this morning. This was the route: out 23 min back 22 min. Bleeder rucked the fun part of this route.

Faceplant took us out. Prayers for Splinters Aunt.

Announcements

• Monument 10k 4/22
• Bluegrass Festival James River High School 4/22
• Gomer 6 year aniversary at DogPile 4/22
• Carytown 10k in Carytown, 4/30. Its a 10k run that starts and ends in Carytown.
• CSAUP 5/6 at Currahee. Ruck, Bootcamp, Run

NMS – YHC loves this route, almost as much as Mount Henrico. Downside is the traffic across Hugenot bridge. The Saabski would be up there if the pax could run it without getting lost. Next Qs are:

• Firstwatch
• 45MOM
• Currahee
• DogPile

Apparently Faceplant is building a new Starbucks location in the old bank at the intersection of River and Cary. Drive through already in place. Hope they open early enough.

15 runners -or at least we started with 15 runners – embraced the pollen and cooler temps for some miles.

Off we went around the lake, over the trail and ascending University Dr. A quick turn on the parkway and an immediate exit on Lakewood takes us to Ziontown. We then connected with University again to Gaymont and survey the First Watch AO. All was well.

4s head back on Westham to Glen to College to the trail/lake combo. 5s/6s drop down to Westham Station and the bat cave with 6s taking a detour down and up Ross.

Bodos took us out.

To celebrate TYA’s double respect the PAX ran his favorite route, Grooooooove. During the COT, our honored leader talked about being grateful for many things and prayed to be a better man, father, friend, etc. Notably absent, a better and more reliable backblast writer.

9 hard rockers charged up their metal for the latest edition of The Spider Run. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the dog walkers at the first exchange zone, the following might have happened.

All runners, leave parking lot, turn left towards UR student center, bearing right up the hill on Richmond Way. Left onto Campus. Left onto College, keeping football stadium to your left down the hill.

Follow College and take a right onto University. Up the hill staying on University to Ridge. 4s turn around at Ridge, and return by the same route.

5/6s stay on University, do the quick right/left at Ralston to stay on University, and right onto Ziontown.

5s: turn around at Holmes and return by the same route BTTVSF.

6s: continue on Ziontown to Ridge. Right on Ridge, then right again at Walgreen’s to stay on Ridge and continue to Holmes. Turn around at Holmes and reverse your route BTTVSF.

Numbers, names, and Saab took the cold call to take us out. Today is the day to make a difference.

Announcements:

Humpday Happy Hour manana at The Grill on Patterson and Libbie at 5:30. See Gomer for details.

May 6, CSAUUP (Completely Stupid and Utterly Under Publicized) at Godwin. Boot Camp, then Ruck, then team track meet. Team must have one IR person. Details on how to find IR guys…see Gomer.

How’s your bracket looking? No, not your men’s bracket. Your women’s NCAA bracket.

To honor the other March Madness Tournament (quick factoid…did you know that this is the first year the women have used March Madness for marketing their tournament? Depending on what half hearted internet research you do, you may find that the women originally didn’t want the phrase…that they wanted to do their own thing. That’s changed in recent years and now it’s all under one big March Madness Umbrella).

Anyway, to honor that bracket, we figured we’d all run through the women’s college part of the Westham neighborhood (although I don’t believe any of these colleges are playing this weekend in the D1 WBB Tournament).

The Thang…

Head towards the baseball parking lot and get to college (street number one with college ties). Take a right on University (street #2). Take University to Westham Parkway (street #3…West Ham College of Technology is in London).

From there…hang a right on Baldwin (Street #4).

4s–Right on Rock Creek (not a college). Right on Sweet Briar (Street #5), right on Woodberry (Street with college ties #6). Take that to Horsepen. Horsepen to Devon. Devon to Ridge Top. Left on Chandler. Right on Gardiner. Gardiner more or less dumps you out on the trail connecting to College. Head south on College through the baseball parking lot and back to the flag.

5s–The head to Hollins (Street #7). Right on Hollins, right on Woodberry, right on Sweet Briar back to Baldwin. Baldwin to Brookside (probably a college somewhere, right? #8). Brookside to Bryn Mawr (definitely a college #9). Bryn Mawr to Woodberry. Woodberry to Horsepen. Horsepen South all the way to the dorm cut through…back to the flag from college.

6s–Same as the 5s but then left on Devon, right on RTop…left on Chandler. Up Chandler. Back down Chandler. Left on Gardiner. Gardiner to College from the trail…from there, we were supposed to go up Boatwright…instead we just went to Towana and came back to the flag that way.

Lots of Hills. Go Baldwin!!

A dirty dozen came to run or walk this morning. The route was out the batcave to Westham Station, ascend the hill to River to pick up Westham Pkwy. A right on Glen Pkwy to Keller and then pick up Westhampton Way and UR Drive to the AO. That takes you to 3.12 miles, which is close enough for this group to π.

6s do that route a second time. 4s/5s do the ascent up to the main entrance and down the other side and back to the AO. 4s do it once. 5s do it twice.

YHC took us out.

A dozen showed at varying times to run a variety of routes – including Mt Henrico and the one shown below.

Bone Thugs completed his first run that involved following the prescribed route. Whitesnake studied hard and by all accounts did not get lost.

Never too late to train for the Bear Creek 10M this weekend. Best wishes to the ~14 gents who will be running and consuming hot chicken soup.

Saab abides

https://onthegomap.com/s/s5a5e2va

4 milers proceed straight through University to Westham. 5 milers take Wood to Lakewood, then to Westham.