Tag: Spider Run

10 Titans descended upon UR to experience a new route now hereby dubbed “Singer’s Toe”… affectionately named after Wedding Singer’s sore piggy:

All: Run to Robbins Parking Lot and spill out onto College

4’s: Take College up to Westham Parkway. Head south towards River Rd

5’s: Take Lakewood to Wood to Baldwin. Take left onto Westham Parkway from Baldwin…head South toward River Road

6’s: Take Lakewood to Wood to Waveny. Turn left onto Westham Parkway. Take to River Road. (Follow instructions below, then add an up-and-down on Panorama after climbing Highland)

All: Take Westham Parkway to River. Cross at River to Country Squire then left onto South Ridge. Take down to Westham Station. Take first left up Old Bridge then turn a quick right onto Highland and keep climbing. Turn around when you reach River Rd and head back down to Westham Station. Head toward shopping center and then take the bat cave home.

Saab Abides

A fearsome fourteen descended upon Spider Run not expecting the unexpected.

They say, keep your friends close but enemies closer. Same goes for intervals – which YHC despises. Yet they are a necessary evil.

Route: PAX stays together and conducts several climbs up various hills surrounding UR…1 minute up then mosey back down. The PAX climbed more hills this morning than most conventional runners do in a week.

Saab Abides

Three fearsome fellows, and one knucklehead, decided to run in the midst of a tropical storm.

NMS

In the interest of safety YHC abandoned his original plans and chose a safer “figure 8” loop that remained on the well-lit – yet flooded campus….

All finished Safe, Sound, and Saturated.

Saab abides

Fourteen on time runners, one with cat in tow, and a very late runner embraced both heat and humidity for this week’s edition of Spider Run.

The Route

Embark on Gateway and immediately take the paved path through the woods and pick up Roselawn for the steep climb up the hill. Just embrace it and go. Take a right on Toanna and a right on the Three Chopt access road. A left on Grove and a left on Libbie.

4s take a left on Patterson, a left on St Chris, a right on the Three Chopt access road and drop down Toanna to Campus to Gateway.

5s and 6s continue down Libbie, taking a left on the access road in front of St Mary’s, a left on Bremo, a left on Maple, and a right on Patterson.

5s turn on Honaker to Boatwright, with a left on Campus and a right on Gateway.

6s head west on Patterson to Westham Pkwy. A left on Baldwin and pop through the fraternity hole to come around the baseball field parking lot to the lake.

Marv took us out.

This route shall be called the Drunken Cat.

Lockjaw

11 rose from their sacks and posted for a new(ish) route.

From the pre-blast:

Everyone Start: bat cave, across bridge, head east/downriver to trail head entrance 100 yards from bridge on left

4 milers: Take the trail straight towards the river (see map below where it’s labeled Richmond, VA 23235), turn left at the intersection on the trails and follow the trail under the bridge over to the Huguenot Flatwater parking lot. Exit onto street at far end of the parking lot away from the river, turn left on road and the next left will send you back home on the bridge.

5 milers: before taking the trail head entrance, turn right up Oxford and then veer right onto Arrowhead up to Cherokee. Return back down to Riverside and the trail head entrance is on your right across the street. See 4 mile finish above.

6 milers: complete 5 mile route up above Oxford and Arrowhead to Cherokee before coming back down to take the trail entrance. Run the trail as described in the 4 mile route, and then upon exiting the Huguenot Flatwater parking Lot continue heading upriver/west on Riverside Drive to Waumsetta, turn around at Waumsetta and head home.

Great job, thanks for enduring a new path. Seemed it worked for everyone, no injuries and perhaps only one mistaken turn by Swiper down a plank road (literally planks next to the road). Will explore again when we all have headlamps attached. YHC appreciates Splinter and Pucker urging me to take the Q, and Saab with the route updates.

Condolences to Bleeder’s and Best Shot’s families. Our prayers are with you.

Bleeder, way to push that first mile, thought you were running with the 5s today! TYA congrats on completing the TN race.

-Singer

UPDATED: Sharing this route early so planned runners can review prior to the wee morning hours. Routes below with a few map pictures. It should be light enough to run the trail, which is about 1/2 a mile in total. The trail has recently been leveled nicely with fill so it shouldn’t be a danger to anyone, and provides a route I can’t recall us running to date.

Everyone Start: bat cave, across bridge, head east/downriver to trail head entrance 100 yards from bridge on left

4 milers: Take the trail straight towards the river (see map below where it’s labeled Richmond, VA 23235), turn left at the intersection on the trails and follow the trail under the bridge over to the Huguenot Flatwater parking lot. Exit onto street at far end of the parking lot away from the river, turn left on road and the next left will send you back home on the bridge.

5 milers: before taking the trail head entrance, turn right up Oxford and then veer right onto Arrowhead up to Cherokee. Return back down to Riverside and the trail head entrance is on your right across the street. See 4 mile finish above.

6 milers: complete 5 mile route up above Oxford and Arrowhead to Cherokee before coming back down to take the trail entrance. Run the trail as described in the 4 mile route, and then upon exiting the Huguenot Flatwater parking Lot continue heading upriver/west on Riverside Drive to Waumsetta, turn around at Waumsetta and head home.

Trail portion of route where everyone finishes:

5s and 6s, before taking the trail entrance, take a right on Oxford and then Arrowhead up to Cherokee and return back down to the trail entrance across Riverside.

6s: After exiting the trail, take a right on Riverside and run to Waumsetta, return back to bridge and home

-Singer

The Hateful 8 descended upon UR Commons and its signature goose-poop. Since it is all about personal choice, varying routes and distances were had.

Announcements:

• TYA is officially sick of running

Saab abides

Twelve Tuesday regulars socially distanced themselves using goose droppings as markings. Instructions were given to head up by the football stadium, left on Campus, cross College and through the woods via the immaculate path, then huddle up for today’s festivities.

Interval time. Gardiner was the first challenge. 1 minute up at about 80% and 1:45 recovery back down. After the first interval we collected the 4 milers that got lost and continued with 2 additional reps up Gardiner. One opted to bypass intervals and just run near us.

Continue up Gardiner then left on Chandler and collect at the base. 3 more intervals up Chandler with the final at about 90% effort.

Mosey back down Ridge Top paying homage to Toga then settle at the bottom of Waveny for 3 more intervals. Final interval at max effort, whatever was left.

Take the most direct route back to the VSF via fraternity row and the baseball field. Circle up for numbers, names, and YHC took us out with the maintenance crew offering respect.

Moleskin
Classic late June morning with 98% humidity and foggy. Apologies to the 4 milers as my instructions to the rallying point were not as clear as necessary. Thanks to Garbage Plate who performed his scout duties today and collected the lost goslings.

Highlights of the morning included the individual at the bottom at Gardiner who must have known intervals were on the docket as he joined us in walking up and down Gardiner while we stormed the path.

The second set of intervals saw Garbage Plate make it all the way to the end and Hitchhiker find his second, third, fourth, and fifth gears to motor all the way to the top. Kudos to those guys for pushing it hard on a not so easy day.

The final set of intervals commenced with what can best described as “Bodo’s Rallying Cry”. Make sure you ask him to reproduce that experience next time you see him.

Glad to hear that Hitchhiker’s family survived the storm yesterday evening. Hopefully your car can be salvaged.

There was a Saab sighting by many this AM. Perhaps he got lost on the way to the commons or just decided to do his own intervals elsewhere.

Great job today fellas.