Tag: Sunday Funday

  • Commitment Issues

    Seven stallions plus Petey showed up, chose a route, and ran it. Temps were a delightful 70 and sunny. According to the spiders whose webs were torn apart, the following more or less happened:

    Route:

    For several of us, North Bank to T Pottersfield to Buttermilk. TYA did whatever he did. Swiper apparently ran all over, including roads and trails. Nicely done, fellas.

    Announcements:

    There is exactly one guy in F3RVA who has not signed up to help at the blood drive on October 20. If you are that guy, don’t be. Send Pigskin a message on Slack and get yourself signed up to help for an hour or two. Easy volunteering opportunity and almost every company in the world supports helping out.

    Faceplant wants you to drink with him, run with him, and puke with him as he remembers his college pal who died far too young. One gets the sense that Sean Hogan might have liked to run, drink, and puke with Faceplant back in the day. October 16 show up, and ask Faceplant about it. Handshake knows the stories, too.

    NMS:

    YHC has been having commitment issues lately. Last Wednesday, YHC wanted to run, asked others to run, and then had to bail due to a carpooling commitment. Poor form.

    Sunday, YHC was ready to run only 5, and notified the PAX that YHC would turn around. NOPE! Decided to do the full 6.7 after arriving at the turn-around. Man, two times in one week.

    YHC redeemed himself. Told Anthrax YHC would be at ET’s, and then made it to ETs. Life has small victories.

  • Sunday Runday

    A gaggle of men, some topless and some clothed, hit the dirt slopes on Sunday. Temps continued to be flat at 70 and sunny. According to the really fast dude who went flying past YHC, the following likely happened:

    Route: South Bank (Buttermilk), optional lariat, T. Pottersfield Bridge, (meet Fire Elf), return to base via North Bank.

    NMS: YHC left at the end of the run. No idea what happened. Hopefully, Sippy Cup made it home on time.

    Announcements:

    F3RVA Retreat is Saturday. Bring your meat, your ball glove, your social skills, and your desire to defeat the Stache Brothers. See address on Slack.

    Pigskin has organized a Freed to Bleed blood drive Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Midlothian (Tuckahoe and Mechanicsvillians: that’s south of the river.) Volunteers are needed, so take a look at your calendar and pick out a 2 hour slot on the calendar to help staff the event!

    Gypsy is collecting shoes that are in reasonably good shape. Drop him a line for details.

  • Trail Run on BRR Weekend?

    Heck yeah! The route was counterclockwise, with a trip around the west end of Belle Isle. Pigskin turned back near the end of the spur – kind of an interesting spot to do so. PAX are looking forward to the BRR backblast!

  • Over the River (Twice) and Through the Woods…

    Some posted at 6:30 and ran 10, some posted at 7:00 and ran 7ish +/- Some ran on two legs, some ran on four. Some ran in silence, some ran with YHC. All were better off for having done it.

    Make it a great week!

  • Watch This.

    10 gathered. 8 ran. 1 cooked. 1 rubbed his heal. Temps were sunny (for sure) and 70 (in all fairness, YHC didn’t check). According to the little fuzzy caterpillars all over the roads, this is what happened, more or less:

    Gather at Casa de Vinny & Co on Wendover. Run west and south, before returning north and east. Turn left, right, left, and left again. Find a lake. Circumnavigate that lake. Turn right and go to the railroad tracks. Do not cross the tracks. For that matter, never, ever cross Buford. Return up a big hill, take the trail to the right (across from the mom/wife cheering us on), and head BTTVSF. 5 or 6 miles or so, depending. 

    Numbers, names, let’s eat. 

    NMS:
    BRR team members gathered for a pre-run, Charlottesville style. It was hot. Really hot. In the shade. Outside the shade, it was hotter. 

    Thanks to Punch List and Fresh Prince (of Bel Air, VA; not the RVA guy) for being our pace cars. Those dudes did yeoman’s work helping us to prepare. 

    Circle K and Vinny created a good little feast of burgers and sausages afterwards while the crew lounged and chatted around Vinny’s pool. Coor’s Light and Gatorade all around. If you haven’t seen Hutton attempt (video floating around) to board a watercraft backwards, YHC suggests you should do so. Sorry, Hutton, but failure can be funny.

    Also, if you have heavy feet, lacrosse is not for you.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

    Icarus himself would have crashed today. We were way too close to the sun. Shade was at a premium. Way to push through, fellas.

  • Trauma Is In My Background

    13 enlisted today for the latest edition of Sunday Funday. Temps continued to stay steady at 70 and sunny. According to the (perhaps nonexistent) people who snagged Shakedown’s keys, this is more or less what happened:

    Long Range Recon Patrol (TYA): 28 miles on the bike.
    Road Patrol (Saab, Faceplant): ~10 miles
    Advanced Dismounted Element (Sippy Cup, Helix): ~6.8 on trails, including War Memorial Hills.
    Main Body – Element 1 (Rip Cord, Shakedown, Flatline, Anthrax, YHC): Buttermilk, T-Pot, North Bank, BTTVSF. Just under 6.8.
    Main Body – Element 2 (EF Hutton, Offshore): Same distance.
    Independent Action (Pigskin): 30 minutes out and back.

    Numbers, Names, Faceplant took us out with a one-sentence reminder of our mission.

    Announcements:

    BRR is still recruiting. No way, you say? YHC says it’s 50/50 whether the team will have a new member after the discussion at ET’s today. Here’s hoping.

    Field Day: September 18, 7:00 a.m. Team captains are in place for each region. Time to start working on your team uniform. See Honeydo, Snuff, TYA, and Corned Beef for more information, depending upon where you reside.

    3rd Annual First Inaugural Retreat is September 25. Sign up for Cornhole. (Look for Hutton’s post on Slack.)

    Swirly is trying to give away two tickets to the Duke vs. Kansas FOOTBALL game on September 25 (no, this isn’t hoops). See him for details.

  • Mens Health

    5 Regulars and 1 FNG posted on a Sunday morning for run on the trails (or roads). South side to north side was called. Faceplant took to the streets (missing saab).

    NMM

    YHC pulled into the parking lot to a pretty empty lot. Two cars, one parked in the normal location and one parking rather crooked in a weird spot. After YHC got ready for the run, the drive of the second car got out and asked if I was with F3. After introduction, he let me know that he had seen an article in Men’s Health about F3, looked us up on the interweb, and found this workout. Just moved to Richmond from Colorado Springs, airforce guy and father of 1 with more on the way.

    As we entered the trails, I was thinking about the FNG and whether he was experienced on trails. As such I was preparing my “Head down, Feet up” advice when I look up and dragged my feet on the ground and took a nice spill. No damage, but lots of dirt stuck to my sweat. Started itching about halfway around the loop. Took a dip in the river to clean off. When I arrived home, I had a dozen or so huge welts on my back. Not sure if it was spider or spiders, ants, or something else. But something irritated my skin.

    TYA OUT

  • Moist Rocks

    Seven runners, 2 by road, 5 by dirt, grinded out 7-10 miles on a glorious 70 and sunny morning. Trails were great despite the previous days’ weather. ET’s followed with discussions of BRR and the PAX’s favorite movies. Saab and TYA can’t recommend the movie The Lobster enough.

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    8 men of steel linked arms and pounded the pavement and paths of RVA in the latest edition of Sunday Funday. Conditions were remarkably close to sunny and 70. According to the lone boxer at the trailhead, the following are likely to have happened:

    Cross the river to Riverside Drive (east), up and down to Belle Isle, and back along the access road, studiously avoiding soiling our “Sunday Best” shoes.

    Distances were anywhere from 4.4 for YHC doing a rehab gig to something in the 6-7 range for the more traditional runners. Saab may have done 10.

    Announcements:

    Vinny’s Field Day is September 18, 7:00 a.m. at Dogpile. Team captains are:

    City Proper (if you live in The City of Richmond): TYA
    DaVille: Corned Beef
    Tuckahoe: Checking on schedule of a potential captain
    Southside: TBD

    Resumes and cover letters due for the remaining openings. YHC will draft captains, if necessary. YHC finds this to be an appropriate time to recall that the purpose of F3 is reinvigorate male community leadership.

    Captain’s Roles:

    1. Recruit a team of men who live in the appropriate geography
    2. Decide on a dress code for that team and organize your team to wear same
    3. Rally your team to attend Dogpile at 7:00 a.m. (special time) on September 18

    Sit and Sip, F3RVA’s Retreat that is not like any Church Retreat is September 25. Food (bring and share), booze (same), baseball gloves, football, that golf thing Vinny has, Corn Hole, and the optional tent are in order. WAGS and other camp followers are out of order. Come spend an afternoon / evening with your pals on a farm. It’s the 2021 answer to the challenge,”Show that you can live like the Hardywood’s without actually showing that you can live like the Hardywood’s.”

    NMS:

    TYA organized and led today’s run, but YHC knows that history is written by the victors. Having finished the run “first” today, YHC has declared himself the winner (possibly in a one-man race, and surely because rehabbing a knee (pun intended) injury is a good excuse for running several miles less than the rest of the PAX). Nonetheless, like golf, today’s run was not about how far, but about how few.

    Also, writing the Backblast precludes TYA from picking on YHC’s shoe choice (new white running shoes, in honor of Billy “White Shoes” Johnson, the only man on the NFL’s 75-year anniversary team to NOT be in the Hall of Fame). TYA was determined to force YHC to run through the bacteria-infested waters of the James River, and in the interest of public health during a pandemic, YHC preferred to remain dry. Safety first, or at least that’s YHC’s story, and he’s sticking to it.

    31 shopping days until the BRR.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Calamari

    4 regulars posted for a slightly wet Sunday morning. Saab opted for the roads, the rest of the crew hit the access road and did and out and back to Belle Isle. A couple of hours at Elwood post workout.

    No swim today. 300,000 gallons of raw sewage seemed to impact the desirability or a dip in the river. Question is how long will it take for the river to be safe again. Only time will tell.

    Eat lots of Calamari.

    TYA OUT