6 faithful, plus 2 future FNG’s showed up for a chilly but gorgeous morning run along the trails of the RVA this morning, here’s the down and dirty: Leave from the Pump House parking lot across the Nickle Bridge to Buttermilk. At Reedy Creek, take the service tunnel to Forest Hill Loop. Around the loop back to Reedy Creek, then back the way we came (with a slight detour on “the spur”). Ended up tallying up 7 miles and change on the GPS. Toga was on a time crunch, so continued on down buttermilk to North Bank (taking potential FNG’s…
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Weather was 70 and time of day was Sunrise Four Pax “braved the weather” for Lab Rat’s virgin Q, kicking off what has turned out to be Virgin Q week here in RVA, We were greeted to a stunning sunrise while heading across the nickle bridge. With Offshore in the lead, we headed down Buttermilk Trail and picked up Forest Hill Loop, then back home the way we came. This gave us a total of a shade over 7.1 miles total. Nobody was in much of a rush this morning, and even the speedy Offshore seemed content to keep the…
1 PAX posted for the Sunday morning trail run on the Buttermilk. Wondered what was going on for a while….standing out in the cold all by my lonesome (cue Roy Orbison), and then was reminded by a fellow trail runner that passed me 1 mile in that the Bear Creek 10 miler was the same morning. Figures that the first Sunday trail run I’ve done since July is the one where no one else posts. No worries……it was a glorious morning for a run along the river. The sun was burning the fog off the water, and geese and ducks…
7 faithful posted for a sunday morning run. Weather 70 degrees and sunny. The Thang: Northbank to Belle Isle to Buttermilk. Optional jaunt through forest hill park. Naked Moleskin: Five of the faithful took the 7 mile option skipping the forest hill park options. Saab and TYA were the only takers for forest hill. Saab and I got a little lost during our run through the park and got and extra mile done for a total of 11 miles. Both options were good runs and should have us all ready for next weeks’ Bear Creek 10 miler. Lab Rat took…
7 posted on a crisp morning for a trail run The thang: Northbank trail Belle Isle, take outside track at Belle Isle and cross bridge to Buttermilk. 4 of the 7 went straight on the Buttermilk and back to the parking lot. 3 of the faithful took a single lap around Forest hill park and then back to the Buttermilk and parking lot. Naked Moleskin: Good to have Toga and Brain Tumor back out on the trail run. Toga brought his brother in law (?) Craig to the run. They had a church commitment so they went straight through to…
3 Veterans and two trail run FNG’s posted on a crisp fall morning. The Thang: Cross over Nickel Bridge, Buttermilk trail to Belle Isle. Take outside loop around Belle Isle and back over to the Northbank trail. Northbank trail back to parking lot. 7.1 miles done by 8:20 am, COT and out into the day. Naked Moleskin: Splinter and Lab Rat posted for their first trail runs with F3. Both had great runs and enjoyed the trail experience. Splinter hung around at the front of the pack with Saab, and Lab Rat spent a good majority of the day with…
4 faithful posted for a sunday morning jog. The thang. Head East on the northbank trail towards downtown. Cross over to Belle Isle. Head into the trails of Belle Isle for a loop. Head back across the river to the northbank and head back to the parking lot. Naked Moleskin Good to hit some new terrain today. Belle Isle is full of trails and we have explored just a few. YHC has yet to find a good map of the trails, so we explore and learn as we go. Total loop today was somewhere between 7 and 7.5 miles. YHC…
One #toweringredwood (YHC) posted for this morning’s Trail Run. Oyster’s car was parked at pumphouse when YHC arrived at 6:50A, and YHC got very excited about having a trail running companion. However, Oyster was nowhere to be found, so YHC flew solo. #OysterFallBackwards. YHC did the normal Buttermilk/North Bank trails in the CCW direction but added the Forest Hill Park hill-fest. 10mi total. #tiredlegs. Jville
3 + 1 posted for an early morning trail run. Although we are starting at 7 am, it is still dark outside for the first half hour or so. Cannot wait for the time change. The Thang: Cross river, take buttermilk trail to Belle Isle. Run the middle of Belle Isle, Rock hop back to the buttermilk at the set of stairs and head back to the shovel flag. Moleskin Oyster posted early this morning to get a headstart. When he arrived at the AO, he read the previous nights Twitter activity and noticed that TYA had announced that a…
Four of the faithful posted early Sunday to run the Buttermilk/North Bank trails. The temperature was in the upper 30s. That was a bit shocking to me at first. But, I quickly warmed up and enjoyed the perfect running temperature. As an extra bonus, the temperature was just cold enough to keep the pesky mountain bikers and dog-walkers away. We ran the trails in the clockwise direction for the first time in a few months. Offshore enjoyed the lead most of the time and finished very strong. We started off in the dark. Several of us had headlamps. To avoid…