Tag: Spider Run

Only 5 takers for Spider Run this morning. One launched early and YHC arrived to nary a soul. Tricklers arrived, first 1-800, then Chippendale, followed by a Hitchhiker in need of some solo meditation. Route was shared and off we went:

The Route

https://onthegomap.com/s/ca703s9b

Numbers, names, and announcements where Hitchhiker unknowingly took us out.

Announcements

• Practice patience, kindness, and gratitude with your family

Moleskine

Hitchhiker had no time for instructions this morning and went on his merry way. Sometime solitary time is good for the soul and today was Hitch’s opportunity for reflection.

1-800 seemed to be back in top gear today, powering up those hills with blatant disregard for the humidity in the air. Even with Chippendale and YHC reminding of an impossible pace, he carried on. Thanks for pulling us along today.

Saab was poked by a bear and decided to launch early and run extra. Even an offer of a ride home was stiff-armed. Must have been still bitter about those two extra fingers at the end.

Enjoy the day fellas. Splinter out.

There were eight today, for our weekly gathering near the pond scum of lake Westhampton. Routes were posted early, countryside lollipops, and a non-enthusiastic Q talked through directions before we embarked on our journey.

Routes

• 6s: no takers
• 5s: big loop of countryside to ruggles
• 4s: small loop of april to melwood
• All came back via the park.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Announcements

• Hitch has extra tickets to Some like it Hot tonight. If you like it hot, even somewhat, reach out to Hitch to grab his tickets.
• Pickleball has started and only surface wounds from yesterday. Mondays at Batteau through the summer.

Moleskine

Who has ever heard of asking permission for your future bride in marriage and being denied? Well, apparently it does happen and it wasn’t even on a Lifetime movie. Glad things worked out in the end!

Splinter out.

A tenacious 10 arrived at Spider Run. Routes below were administered, albeit in reverso…with 5 & 6 milers starting at the eco-corridor, and 4’s taking College to University.

Saab abides

https://onthegomap.com/s/ck0vs5b5

https://onthegomap.com/s/1d4qguii

https://onthegomap.com/s/q0spditd

We were moving mountains on a glorious Tuesday morning in the lower Tuckahoe Area. Normally, a trip up Mt. Henrico includes a jaunt up Julian to what is the highest point in Henrico County…the intersection of Julian and Parham.

But not today.

It’s been a good 7 years or so that we’ve been meeting every Tuesday to run around the leafy hoods of Henrico County’s west end, and we’ve never gone down Ridge Road. This is partly because, for a long time, it was pretty darn dangerous. Like, “hey, I’m Lockjaw, let’s run on that dangerous two lane road this morning” type dangerous.

However, the Board Supervisors of Henrico, who we all voted for, have installed some pretty substantial bike lanes on Ridge heading down to Forest, so we figured we’d make that run for the first time.

And it was glorious. I guess. I mean, it was fine…nice little diversion from Mt. Henrico.

The Thang…

The 4s ran the normal Mt. Henrico out 22.5 minutes and back. Pretty standard.

5s and 6s did their normal Mt. Henrico out but ran past the right on Glendale (where the AZ Cardinals play) and continued on University which eventually turns into Glendale heading towards Ridge. It’s a pretty steep hill.

Take a left on Ridge and head to Forest.

The 5s cut through Bodo’s church lot to Lakewood and then back to the flag.

The 6s took a right on Ziontown and then took a left on Holmes (Near Kanawha). Ending up on Sunset to Lakewood and then a lap around the lake…just shy of 6 miles but right at 45:00.

Marv took us out.

Routes shown below. Only 5 miler was run today with only 4 intrepids, so expect these to make a reappearance on a future date.

https://onthegomap.com/s/ck0vs5b5

https://onthegomap.com/s/1d4qguii

https://onthegomap.com/s/q0spditd

Saab abides

Spider run turned it up to 11 today to cover a well-defined out and back.  4,5,6 mile options were given, heading over the bridge and then due East before heading upward toward Cherokee road.

OBT shared a first hand experience highlighting the value and importance of F3 and its far reaching network.

Saab abides

12 men woke up ready to get a sweat going without leaving campus. 2 were walking and 2 were riding – they may have left campus, but the 8 runners remained and did a series of loops shown below. Unfortunately, YHC took the road name from On the Go Maps as “Crenshaw Way” when it is “Westhampton Way” but nonetheless, we all made it.

4-mile: https://onthegomap.com/s/aa698r6g

5-mile: https://onthegomap.com/s/kt0e1r33

6-mile: https://onthegomap.com/s/6bt0n4u4

Numbers, Names, and COT with YHC taking us out.

NMS:

Great running with Bodos and his new Pride shoes courtesy of Relay, and Oyster and Hitch. Perfect morning for some miles. Re-running the hills was not fun, but I may bring these routes back as it would be good to check progress – see if you run it faster next time or run a little extra.

Rumor has it some secrets were shared in the gloom this morning and minds were blown, but you had to be there to hear it.

Sorry to conclude COT before Bleeder and OBT got back.

No More Gumbo For You!

If a backblast is updated two weeks after a run, does it still count? Look, some of you are classic overachievers, doing backblasts THE DAY of a run, or maybe even the next day. Anyone can do that…but it takes a special form of procrastination to wait a whole fortnight before posting…which is exactly what this post is. (Who knows where my son gets it).

The Thang…

This was the Spottswood run, up one of the nastier little short hills in Henrico County. Here’s how it went, or, in Bodo’s case…supposed to go…

Head out towards the baseball diamond, hang a right up the first base line and then to the parking lot. Get to College Drive and take a right. Then a right on Lakewood, right on Wood, left on Baldwin…we know the drill. Across Westham and stay on Baldwin and 4s and 5s take a left on Rock Creek towards Forest, 6s go up one more block to Stuart Hall and take a left, also towards Forest.

Everyone runs south on Forest to Spottswood. 4s and 5s go into that pocket neighborhood and do one lap, the 6s do two.

From there, the 4s can just get back to the Flag any way they choose, preferrably south to Lindsay and then east to the flag.

The 5s and 6s keep advancing down Forest to Ridge to Ziontown. Left into Ziontown and go all the way to University with the dogleg on Ralston. 5s get back to the flag from there, 6s could probably do one more block on Ralston and a left on Rose Hill…but we aren’t running that fast these days.

YHC took us out.

A couple hills, then a big rectangle, pretty simple, one would think.  Here’s where:

The Route

• Head up UR Drive
• 5s/6s Right then left up Bostwick and back
• 4s left; 5s/6s continue on Campus Dr
• Take path to Wheeler
• Right on Ridge Top
• Left on Patterson
• Left on Westham
• 4s Left on Lakewood
• 5s Left on University
• 6s Left on Club Vista
• Left on College
• Right behind baseball field
• 6s Circle the lake and pick up another 3 tenths OYO
• Back to SF

Numberama, Nameorama, COT

MOLESKIN

Here ye, here ye, on this twenty-second day in the year two thousand twenty-five of our Lord, YHC decrees that SpiderRun shall begin at twenty-seven minutes past five that ye Q may bestowest upon the PAX the f*cking instructions prior to the hour of launch.  Arrivals after the Q’s royal edict shall be invited to pisseth off or be hanged by the neck.  – 1^st F Q- Hutton, EF, first of his name.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Bridge – join Corned Beef this Saturday or Hermes in May
• Century Classic May 2-3 – still time to HC
• Is the old Marv back?  Spottswood backblast is 7 days delinquent and counting

An esteemed 18 arrived at spider run to explore outward regions in proximity of Groooove….

Saab Abides