Lab Rat took to the streets surrounding Atlee High School accompanied by a headlamp and his trusty Tron.  Unburdened by the pax, he felt free to roam around the neighborhoods, covering 5 miles at a brisk pace.  Conversations, albeit only internal, ran the gambit this morning as one could only imagine. Announcements: -Bear Creek Trail Run is Sunday.  Food and beverages will be provided by yours truly…bring a few extra bucks to split the tab.  There will be chicken bog, hot and cold beverages (including beer), and a camp fire.  Non-runners and family are welcome to join us!  Consider car…

3 showed for the moon, 3 conquered 4.5 miles, clear skies, freezing temps, doing 3 loops around the school and 150 ish  merkins!

YHC picked up Sassy and drug him out after a long hiatus, and we met Spit in the parking lot for a small group run on a crisp clear fall morning. Route:  out along the Atlee HS spur road, thru Honey Meadows etc. to Kings Charter.  Turn around at the playground for an out and back of 5.00 miles. NMS:  Sassy was given a free pass for a bit while training up for his 100 mile ultra in September.  Free pass is over, it’s time to start dragging his butt back out to some F3 workouts!  Great to catch up…

4 runners were found loitering on school grounds this morning.  Punishment was to run laps around complex: start with short stroll around parking lot to catch any stragglers (none showed), then head down road until Honey Meadow Rd.  Left until bus parking lot, another left into lot, then across front of schools to starting point.  Each lap is 1.5 miles, pick your distance. NMS Teams of two formed, Anchovy and Spike leading us out, with Lab Rat and Spit close behind.  Spit was pulling hard out of the gates this morning, and Lab Rat was struggling.  After 2 miles, Lab…

3 Loyal Runners and 1 FNG show up at Atlee HS parking lot this morning for nice group run Thang: -5.5 milers: Out to the King’s Charter loop and back -5.0 miler: Out to just past the King’s Charter lake and back. loop around the football stadium, soccer field, and HS parking lots to get the full mileage. NMM: YHC knew that Lab Rat mentioned he would be missing the Tomato Run today so a plan was put together to do our normally run. The pax started out together but YHC knew he wouldn’t be able to keep up with…

6 Mechanicsvillagers showed up for this week’s episode of Tomato run.  The weather was such that the pax had a choice in dress this morning, and you had to deal with the consequences.  Route: -6 milers:  Out and back to the King’s Charter clubhouse. 4.4 milers: Out to the 4 mile turnaround, get lost on the way back, go into several cul-de-sacs looking for the trail back, then run out Honey Meadows to the front of the schools and cut across the parking lot. So, the pax organically split in to 2 evenly manned groups, with the Sugar Ray’s no…

Would you be my, wont you be my, wont you be my pax….3 regulars and a Kotters to Mr. Rogers for Tomato Run this morning: The pax once again decided to stick together this morning, although the speedsters (Helix and Anchovy) were given the go-ahead if they felt the need for speed.  We wandered around King’s Charter whimsically, coming back to the VSF at exactly 4.5 miles.  Discussion varied, covering topics such as Shane’s Shuffle (which would be a great F3 event, had it not fallen on convergence day), Mr. Roger’s petri dish son and various colds, and how to run…

5 pax met up for the weekly running of the tomato’s, and here is what went down: Route This morning’s route was a little fluid, and we generally just went out for a morning run.  The plan was to head in to King’s Charter and run to the 5 mile turnaround, but we made a group decision to turn another way.  The change in route caused us to have to make some modifications to add length at the end, so Spike led us to the trail around the lake at Honey Meadow.  Total distance was 4.7 miles. NMS -What looked…

4 pax decided to meet the day with a run.  Weather was 70 and sticky, as summer claims it’s last few days of 2016.  A great morning for a run sans-shirt, and 1 pax member finally agreed with Q.  The run went like this: Lab Rat had a 4, 5, and 6 mile route planned, but with a smallish pax, the decision was made to keep the pax together for a “bro-code run”, a tradition of the Rutland group to keep the pax together and only fart downwind of pax (YHC thinks that’s part of bro code).  Run took the…

Enjoy the theme song, 40 somethings….. The Gloom of Atlee was penetrated for the first time (officially) by six strong runners out to improve or recover, depending on how the rest of their weekend went.  The route was as follows: -Head out the parking lot and back to the gate, pass under or around to Honey Meadows Rd. -Hang a left on Honey Meadows, pass second bus, turn left into bus parking lot. -Follow sidewalks along the front of the schools back to starting point.  1.6 miles or so. -Repeat until done. NMS Unusually, the Q was not early…