Tag: Sunday Funday

A solid 9 pax showed up this morning for trails.  Saab has been benched from the trails by his knee doctor, so he opted for road miles.  The rest of us did the following:

-Buttermilk to Lariat trail then up Forest Hill loop.  Check out the rest of the CSAUP course by adding a lap around the lake.  Back to parking lot, for roughly 8 miles.

NMS

First off, great to see our friend from last week, FNG Pert+ show up again.  In case you would like to know where his name came from (as were several of the pax present this morning), he is a man of many talents, one of which includes teaching adjunct at UR as a music professor in West African drum music.  Neal Pert is arguably the best drummer of all time, so we named him Pert, Plus all the other stuff he does.  I was ready to hang Zumba on him, but Upchuck seemed to think that was dumb…so I listened.  I was waiting for a text from ET’s to tell me the next great name, but alas it never came.  Welcome Pert+!

Also, we saw TYA out on the Forest Hill trails this morning.  Vinny was bent as hell when I wouldnt count him in the COT, so he gets an honorable mention here.  You either show up for the workout or you don’t.  TYA knows the deal, as do I.

Phonics took a spill early.  He’s ok.

Lab Rat apologizes…

1. Ten stallions of the dawn converged on Pump House Park for some trail running fun today.  Some were there for the summer challenge and at least one was back from a long abscence. It went something like this:

Saabs doc says no trails so he ran 12 on the road flying past large slow marathon trainers. Helix, Opus, and Pavarotti did about 40 minutes of a Pump House Park to Tx beach loop. Places to be people to see and all that. The rest of us went through the Pump House Park, jumped a train, past Foushees Mill across Potterfield bridge up Buttermilk to the lariat loop then Back across the bridge to the parking lot. About 8 miles. YHC managed to not get us lost though he tried.

Lab Rat EH a UFC fighter. Second F for some at ET where we saw TYA.

Run with the governor this Wednesday- sign up at Richmond Road Runners page.

Puppy Pile soon.

My kids are bugging the shit out of me so I gotta finish here. See ya

Shakedown

8 strong hit the trails or blacktop this fine Sunday morning.  Conditions were clear, 70 and sunny with some peacefulness and serenity thrown in.

This is what we did:

YHC called the Nickel Bridge to Buttermilk to T Potterfield to North Bank route.  An “Oldie but Goodie” route right, Vinny!  Saab stayed on the blacktop and made it down and across the Mayo Bridge and back up to T Potterfield and ran halfway across until he met the trail group, turned around a ran with us until Tredegar and continued up the hill on the blacktop surfaces back to and around Byrd Park and then threw in a few hill repeats on Love Hill.  Great job!  Gomer and Upchuck took off out of the gate and killed the called route in an hour!  Well done!  Hardywood did the called route with a few modifications to make it longer.  The rest of the PAX ran the called route in about 90 or so minutes.  Great job to all!

What a great morning!  It warmed up a little when we got out of the shade onto T Potterfield.  Everything including the river and city were really bright with the sun reflecting off of everything.  A nice break from all of the rainy, dreary, cloudy days we have been experiencing.  YHC rolled his ankle about two miles in but continued on in an ugly fashion.  Vinny may or may not have had a slight tumble.  I’ll let him describe.  Glad to have Shakedown and Gomer Pyle back out in the gloom after their vacations!  Also, glad to have Hardywood back out after his paternity leave.  YHC enjoyed our conversation about long term planning, Hardywood!  YHC didn’t make ET’s but I know some folks went.  Hope you had a great breakfast.  Enjoyed it fellas!

Announcements:

Combined Roller Coaster and HDHH this Wednesday at 5:30pm at Kuba Kuba Dos in Tuckahoe Shopping Center.  I have a loop route planned in the hills nearby and then we will convene for food and beverage after.  No outdoor tables there, so you may want to bring a change of clothes and/or deodorant.

PuppyPile on Saturday, August 25th immediately following Dogpile.  Bring those 2.0’s out!  Marv has the Q.

Announcement on Ghostflag appearance soon.  Look for a PreBlast.

New Podcast is out.

Have a great Sunday all!!

Kubota

keep posting!

One megastud (and one companion who will not be named) launched for a Sunday run at 6 am and ran for 13 miles.  This megastud started his trail running career less than six months ago and completed a full half marathon this weekend on the trails.  Bootleg is that megastud. He has consistently posted on Sunday’s and on other run days and increased his mileage along the way.  He is prepping for the Patrick Henry Half Marathon in late August and if yesterday was any indication he  will slay the run.

Since the two early/late runners did not cross path’s with the normal Sunday trail runners, they were deemed to not be worthy of getting credit for the run.  Fair enough, but Bootleg deserves to have his awesome feat from this weekend memorialized.

Unnamed companion out.

Three ground pounders churned through sunny and 70 temps to grind out today’s version of Sunday Funday.  Here’s how it either happened (or YHC wishes it happened).

Route: South Bank + Larriott + Pottersfield + North Bank.  Roughly 7 miles in total.  Ponch was squeezed for time, but shoe-horned somewhere in the 3-4 mile range with limited time.  Well done.

Silent Number-am-a, Name-a-rama, and YHC mumbled something about what a treat this part of life is.  And, there was a bit of a silent remembrance for a friend.

NMS:

Great day for YHC to get back on the trails. It’s been a few weeks since YHC has done a Sunday run, so YHC was a little reticent given a tender ankle and a limited amount of miles over the past week or two.  Turns out…no worries.  Good stamina, even with the humidity.  Let’s hear it for me.

Nice to see Ponch join us – he is building back up his endurance running.  Great job today.  And, way to push this morning in order to balance the first F and the Family F when crunched for time.  Squeeze in the miles when you can.  Looking forward to having you join us on more Sundays.

Lab Rat was his normal chatty self, and between the two of us, many solutions were developed to the world’s problems.  Implementation seems to be lacking, but plans are in the works for addressing Trump, employment for those with special needs, female aging, and the appropriate times for a woman to announce she has put on a bra.  Glad to hear the coffee carts are going well.  Next week: male pattern baldness among other topics.

UpChuck spits the bit.

A Lucky seven ? trail runners engaged in CSAUP scouting and training today at Sunday Funday. YHC arrived at the pump house 15 minutes early (on time) and was followed immediately by Sugar and then Saab. Saab informed us that TYA was running Forest Hill Park loops and that he was headed out Buttermilk a little early to do the same. After the rest of the Pax arrived we followed their lead and ran BM to FHP and back for about 7. TYA did 3 loops for around 11. Saab logged around 10. Sally the dog joined us and we saw another (Mustang) Sally on the trails.

The main group did some running, some walking, some talking and had a good time.  We got off the trail around the time it started to rain.  Sugar Sock took us out.  YHC wasn’t planning on going to ETs but Lab Rat texted his M from my phone and then said “see you there” so I figured I could change my plans, which were lame anyway.  Glad I went.

Good times guys

6 Sunday stallions posted for a 7:00 trail run. Everyone kept asking “Shakedown, which way are we going? What’s the route?”  YHC was not aware his name was on the Q sheet but since it was we went North to South to maximize time with Saab before he left our group (with Oli in tow) to add  the FHP loop for 10. The rest of us did 7. Good fun as always. Good conversation. Various levels of bonkedness towards the end but we all finished.

Three of us had dogs and kids to attend to so we circled up before the longer runners were back.

Puppy pile next week. Tour continues, CSAUP coming in October, lots of biking going on these days, no Reese Strong this year.

YHC took us out

Peace, love, and chicken grease to all – enjoy your day gents.

Some pool hanging going on in Brighton Green at 2:00 to celebrate Sugar Socks Birthday. Come hang and we can get you a guest pass.

Shakedown

What a beautiful morning for a run. Four gloom warriors departed at or around 7:00 AM. We saw Wedding Singer on the trail and rumor had it that Saab was out there too. We four stuck mostly together and ran south to north across and on top of Belle Isle. Lab Rat took a swim.  There was a fairly common Swallow sighting on top of Belle. YHC is almost back up to speed but not quite. The last mile was a doozie.

Puppy Pile is coming

Stop by the Raise tent at the ? festival next weekend

Summer Tour is going strong  – go see an AO you haven’t seen yet even if you are not on the tour

Pray for our brothers in need – they could use it

– Shakedown

5 fleet footed trail runners took off at 7 wondering where the other 3 F3RVA car owner’s would be on the trails.  Main PAX did:

• Northbank to Pottersfield bridge, across to buttermilk, then down train tracks, hop in for a quick dip in James River before finishing up back across Nickel Bridge.

NMS – YHC rarely can make the Sunday trail runs with family Sunday schedules but since YHC is a bachelor the next several days the first thing that came to mind was hitting the trails this am.  We started with just Ollivander and YHC but Hardywood pulled in at 7 and off we went.  Phonics and Betsy Ross caught us as we were getting started and our 5 PAX was cruising.  Ollivander forgot his socks but pushed through it.

Nice conversation along the way with varying topics and all PAX were amazed how Rosie and Shakedown crushed the 50k in these warm temps.  Hardywood directed us down the river trails to his hidden spot where all 5 of us took a dip in the James for a few minutes.  Man that felt good.  Of the 4 dads in the main PAX 3 have 4 kids, or soon will.  Step it up Ollivander.  T-Claps for Prodigious Procreators!

Arriving back at the parking lot Saab and TYA were waiting for us having hit the trails early.  Circle K came in on the bike at 7:05 with his watching saying he did 21 or so miles.  Hardywood took us out.

Annoucements – TYA’s F3RVA Ultra is a go for 10/20. 3 mile loops, kryptonite, and fun.  What more could one want?  Also Hardywood’s Cap2Cap Bike&Run relay will happen, we just need to pick a date.

4 PAX emerged from the Sunday Fart Sack to pound out some trail miles.  Just prior to 7 a.m., appropriate greetings were exchanged, goals for the day shared, and off we went.  Temps were sunny, 70, and a touch of humidity.

Routes:

TYA…North Bank, perhaps Texas Beach, at a walker’s pace (mileage unclear…goal: be pain free)

Saab…South Bank, Forest Hill Loop, North Bank…at a runner’s pace (10 miles)

Olivander and YHC…South Bank, North Bank…at (ahem) an UpChuck pace (7 miles).  Olivander was running with a restrictor plate.

NMS:

Good to catch up with Olivander today as it was YHC’s first time running with him.  Strong performance and thanks for dragging YHC through the humidity.

Pre-notice to the PAX…TYA was hip-pain free after today’s walk.  This left his brain free to concentrate on diabolical ways to challenge the PAX, a core skill of his.  Good stuff coming…stay tuned.

UpChuck spits the bit.