Four gloom warriors slept their extra hour and came to run trails today. Furley, YHC, and Southern Belle (quite the bright personable young lady one would expect) had an early lead but took a short stretch break and hooked up with TYA. TYA and TSB went out a total of 2.5 and back on North Bank. Furley and Shakedown did the loop plus the lariat. Good pace good times – winter is coming.
No Furley or Shakedown next week for Sunday Funday
Have a great week gentlemen
“First we go south under the cover of darkness, then we attack North in small groups” was the order from Gen Tippecanoe.
The 7 man squad executed flawlessly on both trails and roads and met minimal resistance.
It all started with a rare showing from Ferlin who asked approval of those assembled whether #NoShirt, gloves, and ear warmer was acceptable for a 48 degree start. TYA thought for a moment, and you can tell that he wanted to object that he is the #noshirt king, but he said, “not sure about the gloves, hoss”. Then someone said “Dude, you just do you” and there was much rejoicing.
Tippecanoe is PR seeking for the last few XC meets of the year, so he and YHC took off as fast as they could. Of course the trails and darkness slowed us down a bit, just enough for Hardywood to catch us right at the finish. 68min for the lead element.
Hutton and TYA secured the 6.
Saab secured the road network.
TYA took us out.
Gitty up
Nine folks showed up yesterday to run all kinds of different routes. One was a Fun New Gal, and didnt have the entire pax to really nail down a name, so she was Christened several names to match all the different routes run by the pax. If she returns, we will pick one. Saab joined a few of us at ET’s, which made me want to stay there all day….we almost accomplished that.
A beautiful sunrise greeted us as we crossed Nickle Bridge. These are the glory days.
Lab Rat apologizes…
Three men and a Sallydog went out this fine morning for a Sunday Funday trail run. YHC saw Furley show up and take off early but he may have not seen the rest of us. Maybe next time.
We took off across the bridge to the south side and planned to cross Belle to return up Northbank. Fudd wasn’t feeling well and mentioned almost passing out so we let him lead the pace (bro code) and when he decided to turn back we went with him. He insisted that he’d be ok but was told he joined the wrong gang if he thought that’s how we roll.
About 5 miles. Numberama, Namearama, YHC took us out.
Hope the sausage balls were superb
4 trail runners were graced with a cameo from F3RVA royalty to make 5 strong on the first day fall actually had a fall like feel. Spoiler alert: Sippy Cup was there!!!
Route: North Bank to T. Potter bridge and home on Buttermilk with a little Lariat loop just for fun.
NMS: Great day. I was actually surprised by the lack of pax this morning, given how comfortable it was. Good to meet Foley, and catch up with Pert+ after his big weekend of races. Surprise showing by Sippy Cup, who ran a couple miles with us before he had to break off. Pert+ and Foley set the pace, dragging Shakedown and Lab Rat along for probably the quickest pace trail runs I have been on. Including water stops and more than a couple flying EH attempts by Shakes, we stayed below 11 minute miles overall.
Among many things discussed, Shakedown and I decided we are in for a mile a day challenge starting tomorrow, along with the super secret probation challenge on the F3 RVA Garmin site for the most steps in a month. Good luck to all!
Apology of the week goes to Sippy Cup for being called F3 Royalty. Lab Rat knows you are actually a hard working blue collar F3 pax member, but poetic licenses were taken.
Lab Rat apologizes…
Four brave warriors (including 1 FNG) broke the spell of the fart sack, last night’s down pour, and tired muscles from yesterday’s Convergence to hit the wet and muddy trails for Sunday Funday. Here’s how it went, so I’m told: Counter clockwise going Northbank to Buttermilk. Mileage was ~7 miles, give or take. Number-rama. Name-a-rama.
NMS. We welcomed FNG Furley, who Vinny recruited after last week’s Sunday trail run. This now makes 2 PAX named after a Three’s Company character. Extra credit to anyone who can guess which actor played Mr. Furley. Both Pert Plus and and Furley are veteran Spartan Race competitors and crushed the run today. YHC enjoyed hearing stories from their races and dreams of one day doing more than 2 rungs on the monkey bars. It was also great hanging with Shakedown. Great job today guys!
On a personal note, my 1 year F3 anniversary was a few weeks back during BRR. I realized that over the past year I’ve never volunteered to queue. It’s easy to be a consumer, harder to be a giver. So I decided to get off my arse and sign-up to lead. My first ever queue will be this Tuesday at No Toll followed by my second queue at Mary on Thursday. I’m sure I’ll get a lot wrong, but we’ll have fun doing it!
See ya in the gloom!
Ollivander
Six warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day. According to legend it went a little something like this.
Counter clockwise trail loop down Northbank Trail with crossings at either Belle Isle or Pottersfield Bridge to the Buttermilk and back to the Pump House parking lot. Mileage was in the 7 range.
Namerama, numberama, Olivander led us out.
News: 4 Year Convergence is next Saturday (9/22) at Dogpile with not 1 but 2 extra toppings. Wilson requested that we do morning running and Phonics kindly obliged with an XC style run. See Phonics for details and Wilson for inspiration. The run starts at 7am. Also starting at is an FNG friendly workout lead by the greatness of JVille. Headlock the reluctant, and let’s make it a great turnout.
Marv has the Q with a 7:05 start time for Puppy Pile 9/29.
There’s a CSAUP in Forest Hill Park on 10/20. See TYA for details.
Moleskin: Despite the slightly cooler temperatures the humidity was a present cape on the F3 RVA heroes. All runners came back nearly discernable from a trail run or a dip in the mighty James River.
Governor Northam (and VMI alumni) was spotted putting in some miles this Sunday. Way to go Gov! Great to have Lola back out!
Make it a good one fellas!
Hardywood
Tu-Pac’s rejected the warmth and dryness of The Fartsack and pushed forth into the cool morning rain showers that made up the latest rendition of Sunday Funday. The tatoo artists around Monroe Park will tell the story something like this:
Route:
Rain made for muddy trails, so the PAX stuck to blacktop and concrete. From Pump House Park…north on Park Drive…through the neighborhood and park to Robinson, north to Monument heading east bound. Monument becomes Franklin. From there, continue east until 5th St., then southbound at 5th St. From there, west onto Cary until Robinson, then south to the Park, keeping the VITA Trail to our right and back to the VSF.
YHC lost count of his steps, and as neither Hardywood nor YHC was wearing a watch or other GPS-enabled device, there is no precise record of the distance. Google Maps says roughly 8 miles. Hardywood says 81 miles. Reality somewhere in between.
NMS:
Today was a fine morning to hit the streets and observe Richmond at its Sunday morning best. Modest foot traffic, pleasant drivers, and few, if any, cyclists. YHC continues to be amazed by the multiplicity of approaches the average citizen takes to seeing their fellow man jogging past on a cool morning…everything from complete aloofness to a pleasant wave and a hello.
ET’s always offers some good conversation. Today, no different – thanks for the advice, buddy. And, outside definitely trumps inside.
Have a super Sunday. And, if you are a Cleveland Browns fan, condolences. Talk about snatching a tie from the jaws of victory.
UpChuck spits the bit.
9 trail warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day. According to legend it went a little something like this.
Counter clockwise trail loop to Potterfield bridge and back for 7 miles plus.
Namerama, numberama, YHC took us out.
Moleskin: Great to have FNGs O’Really and Shortcut. Way to work fellas. Hope we see you guys back out soon. Gomer Pyle got in his miles early as he was going to be singing in church today. We are all looking forward to hearing about how his spiritual rendition of She Drives Me Crazy was accepted by the congregation. Saab got in extra miles this morning and he is ready to roll the BRR.
Good luck to the guys running BRR his weekend!
News: Labor Day Convergence is tomorrow at 3 Lakes Park. If you haven’t started driving, you probably won’t make the start. At this point you’ll need a bullet train or a pterodactyl to get you there in time. 4 Year Anniversary Convergence at Dogwood Dell on 9/22. CSAUP on October 20th, see TYA for details.
Be super,
Hardywood
4 BRR aspirants gathered for a late summer training run.
7mi trail run – Olivander, TYA
Mayo Bridge / Forest Hills route: 9.5 mi Gomer Pyle. 12mi extra credit Saab.
ETs for 2nd F
NMS
Beautiful day for a run and a preview of better weather to come.
We all decided that with the BRR less than two weeks out we need to take advantage of the training opportunity.
On the Mayo bridge route there are some detours. Over Saab’s mild objection YHC wanted to recon the blown out part of Riverside and see if it has improved yet. It’s still blown out and deep enough that it swallows a full size excavator. Saab did not want to add “construction equipment scramble” nor my other pastime of “lets explore the local population’s tolerance for runners on their property” to the run so we backtracked a bit. All apologies Saab, and thanks for the company. We split at Maymont and Saab did the loop around the perimeter of Byrd Park and some Love Hill repeats. YHC likes the Mayo route as a prep for BRR, closer to the variation of the race without the stops and hazards on the trail.
TYA and Olivander can comment on their route.
Get your miles in boys!