20 degrees and frozen trails brought the old crew back together for a 6+mile loop – southside to northside. Lots of great conversation along the way. YHC really enjoyed being on the trails with the old-band after such a long hiatus (months/years?).
Saab abides
4 horsemen jumped on their steeds at the ripe hour of 2 p.m. for the latest edition of Sunday Funday, Off the Books-style. Temps were 70 and sunny. According to the kids on the TES playground, this is what happened, bro-code style:
Route (with some elements of “maybe those streets don’t connect, so you figure it out”):
TES to Ziontown to University to Ralston to Gaymont to River to South Westham to the parking lot to UR / Bat Cave Entrance to UR Campus to Bridge over lake to Lakewood to Westham Pkwy. to Lakewood to West Drive to Lindsey. 5.5 miles, with some rounding either up or down.
Announcements:
Handshake turns 37 on Tuesday and is celebrating by hosting a free workout. Invite all the police officers and school bus drivers you know to meet us at the public vehicle gas pumps at Quioccassin Middle School at 05:30.
NMS:
Nice to take a gorgeous afternoon with 40 degree temps and hit the roads. It’s weird to see guys wearing shades to a run. Almost like either the clouds have left Richmond or the PAX is running at a decent hour or both.
UpChuck spits the bit.
3 PAX and one pooch assembled for an Off The Books run, Sunday style. Temps were sunny and 70. According to the utility workers in Westham, this is more or less what happened.
12:10 hours: YHC makes his lunch. Passing on the opportunity for jalapeño hot dogs, YHC opts for salad and left-over, homemade moo-shoo pork.
12:30 hours: Lockjaw makes his lunch, including a (glazed?) doughnut.
14:00 hours: YHC leaves his house, jogs 1 mile to Chez Lockjaw.
14:09:15 hours: YHC meets Lockjaw, da Vinci, and Lark.
14:09:30 group starts running. 3.2 miles. At some point, Lockjaw mentions inadvisability of doughnut selection. Ahem.
Loop to / from Chez Lockjaw.
YHC runs home. Total about 5.3 miles.
Silent Number-am-a, Name-a-ram-a, Everyman took himself out.
NMS: After having both the Breakfast Club and Dogpile impacted by ice yesterday, YHC was glad to hit the roads of Westham. Nothing quite like the smell of freshly fallen pines, the tapping of snow and ice falling, and the soft hum of gas generators.
YHC hopes Lockjaw successfully addressed the doughnut.
Annoucements: Lockjaw mentioned to YHC last week a desire to add a third running option during the week. Current schedule for several PAX in our area is Tuesday at Spider Run and Friday at RAMM / Currahee. YHC figured Sundays might be an option. Pucker ready to join for runs after 10:00 hours.
Drop a line if you have interest.
5 grown men and one 2.0 all turned into kids playing in the snow on a Sunday Funday at Hoedown. The Q was passed via Husky’s snowball aim and according to the snowplow drivers passing by here is what we did:
Honeydo COP: SSH, Navalny Freedom Kickers, Biden Energy Plans, Imperial Walkers, Merkins. Q passed to an unsuspecting Upchuck, mosey to Triple check wall for 3 rounds of:
10 Donkey Kicks, 5 Derkins, Bear Crawl to sign & back. Over to covered area by gym: WWIIs while other partner runs up entrance and does 10 Derkins. Pass Q via snowball to Last Call – 11s on the skating rink of: Heels2Heaven & Lt Dans.
Pass Q to Kubota – mosey back to the field. Partner 1 runs to pull-up bars & does 3 then back. Partner 2 does Skullcrushers. 3 times through.
Fireman Ed Q – Down to bottom of Lindsay – 4 corners of- 10 Burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 Mtn Climbers, 40 Flutterkicks.
NMS – A text to First Watch regulars prompted this OTB snow beatdown and glad to have 6 out. Posting in the snow is never as cold as it seems, as the inner child awakens. Husky was the only 2.0 to brave the snow. Watching him do Imperial Walkers was worth the price of admission.
Upchuck was flat footed when the Q was passed after the COP but only for 2 seconds as we were off. We started out mostly dry then on the 11s with the Heels2Heaven the gloves we off. Fireman Ed upped the ante at the end with Mtn Climbers in the snow.
Last Call pulled in 5 minutes late. Apparently he had to consult his Owners Manual to see if the Caddy had 4 wheel drive. Husky took us out with a better prayer than any of us could have done. what a way to start a beautiful snowy Sunday. And a great way to finish up a tough January.
3 runners with two started at 7 and other a little after 8 enjoy a beautiful run in the trails this morning. TYA and YHC got in the buttermilk/north bank for 6.5ish miles
Bone Thugs got in 45 mins in run for out and back.
Great view this morning crossing the river
SPIT ON THAT!!
Four gentleman/scholarly types met at the pump house lot to once again attempt at becoming one with nature while trying to remain upright.
We did Buttermilk+Quarry Loop to T-Pot to North Bank to get right around that 7 mile number.
Observations:
The sunset turned the 4 of us into wide-eyed children for the duration of the Nickle Bridge. Fabulous..
YHC had not hit the trails in the Fall season.. the leaves do an excellent job of concealing roots and loose rocks.. Shakedown went down and YHC and Helix had near misses. Still a solid pace.
Just a great morning. Thankful for the opportunity as always.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…”
-Henry David Thoreau
Three F3 brothers enjoyed the warm November morning, while running around the James River. Great conversations made the run even more enjoyable. We need more November Days like today.
4 trail runners got their Sunday started on a cooler morning. Some left out early for higher miles. Others went out solo but were spotted at one point. The main PAX of Helix and YHC did the Buttermilk/North Bank loop for 6.6 miles.
This was not YHC’s first time running the trails (Thanks to Early Raisers) but first time on Sunday.
11 down and 19 to go for Spit’s Q4 tour!
SPIT ON THAT!!
Route was North Bank, then Buttermilk. Some did Potterfield v. Some Belle Isle. Some ran the hardstand. Some ran 10. All strengthened.
Pavarotti took us out
NMS – quiet day enjoying the humidity and slight cool down. Slightly slick stones.
Get some!
Four strong hit the trails for 7-8 miles, depending who you ask. It was miserable, we finished and that was that.