Tag: Sunday Funday

  • We’re Going to Orlando

    8 male, 2-footed runners joined one somewhat standoffish 4-footed female for a saunter around the trails. According to Gopi, who is prepping for the Richmond Marathon, here is more or less what happened:

    Route:

    Buttermilk, T. Pottersfield Bridge, North Bank, except that some runners did the Long Way around Belle Isle and some runners did out and back 20 minutes each way.

    Numbers, Names, YHC took us out.

    Announcements:

    TYA has a race set up at 07:00 on the day after Thanksgiving. 4 mile loop every hour. Start a new loop every hour until you cannot or do not want to continue. Anthrax and Swiper are ready to challenge for the title of Incredibly Fit Man with the Least to Do on the Day after Thanksgiving.

    Offshore is looking for chaperones for a last minute trip to an engineering conference in Florida this week. Reach out to him if you speak technical Spanish.

    NMS: Cooler temps and somehow a slog around the trails. YHC thanks Gopi (dude YHC met running today) for the solid push. Good luck on the Marathon.

    ETs was excellent as always.

  • Loops and Lariats

    Hard to say, but something like 6 showed up for this week’s version of Sunday Funday. Temps remained at exactly 70 with sunny skies. According to Anthrax’s dog, PETA, the following all happened approximately 2 minutes before Anthrax showed up.

    06:57 : Saab launches.

    07:00 : Shakedown, Sippy Cup, Lab Rat, and UpChuck launch. Route was Buttermilk (+Lariat), Forest Hill, then fire road with Shakedown and Lab Rat returning via North Bank.

    07:03 : Anthrax and PETA launch. They ran what they ran.

    Sippy and YHC circled, numbered, named, and COT’d thinking others were going much further. YHC apologizes for under-estimating the speed of the remaining PAX (or over-estimating our own speed).

    NMS: Great to catch up with Sippy Cup for today’s run. YHC always learns something with Sippy; today was no exception. Thank you.

  • half way trails

    Route was access road to Belle Isle loop and back, but discussion over how much rain downtown didn’t get Saturday caused an audible to return on North Bank. It was a good call.

    Other F3ers were spotted out in the wild as well enjoying the weather.

    A bit of advice: for the next few weeks until time change, bring a headlamp…you will need it for the first couple miles.

    Also, never ask Saab for help in illegally throwing out a mirror. You can guarantee yourself 7 years of bad luck.

  • 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