3 Warriors came out to enjoy a cold but bright morning thanks to the supermoon.
For Mudface and No Idea their normal route through the woods and around Honey Meadows was taken completing a total of 4 miles
YHC who made his first appearance back to Tomato Run since the Half Marathon ran the school loop (1.6 miles) 3 times.
YHC also was treated to a small meteor shower while completing the 2nd loop.
Two foolhardy gents in search of fitness, fellowship and freezing ventured out to run, if for no other reason than to beat back the cold.
COP: “You have pants!”
YHC and Mudface did our usual meandering over hill and dale, and our running took on an element of just trying to warm up in the freezing temps. YHC is sure Mudface can take it, but YHC hates the cold, it goes against my Southern Louisiana roots! Not sure of exact mileage, but somewhere around 3.5 miles was put in.
2 Pax showed up, turned on the headlamps, and headed out.
The COP: “You ready?” “No” “Okay, let’s go”
YHC and Mudface managed to crank out a little over 3 miles using our scintillating run/walk combo, while trying to pretend that we weren’t freezing our Schweddy balls off (see video). There was mumblechatter about why YHC has failed to buy any cold weather pants, and much fun was had as Mudface shot down all of YHC’s perfectly valid reasons.
YHC hopes all of his F3 brothers, along with their M’s and 2.0’s, have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Safe travels!
A PAX of one showed up to run on this sunny (nope) and 70 (nope) morning to run/walk/shamble around various roads and neighborhoods near a dark high school.
The Route
YHC went forward and turned when something got in his way for about 4 miles. Trails were too muddy for running so the access roads were used for everything. YHC is not really sure where he ended up when he turned around, but here were dogs and angry looking people.
NMS
No Idea had the Q this morning, but a last minute call informed YHC that he would have the Q instead. Hope everything works out No Idea.
Without any responsibility to any other runners the direction that was decided on was forward for as long as possible. 50 Merkins were done at the end just because.
4 Davillians arrived at various times on this warm November morning. This how it went down:
ROUTE
MudFace and No Idea arrived around 5:20 and heading out on their normal route. Started down the service road, through the cross country course, into Honey Meadows then back.
Grabber and YHC headed out around 5:26 at a tapering pace. Down the service road, into Honey Meadow estates, fire road into Kings Charter. Took a right onto Kings Charter Drive, turn around at Atlee Station and head back to Honey Meadow. Short run through the townhomes then back to parking lot to get in around 4.5.
MOLESKIN
What a great morning for a run. In preparation for the half marathon this weekend, YHC is tapering this week. During the run this morning, YHC and Grabber ran into old friend the big black cat. As usual he just gave us a stare and we mosey along.
On the road back to the parking lot, YHC and Grabber ran into Mudface and No Idea. Mudface wasn’t paying attention thus got the crap scared out of him (almost literally)
Thanks to Grabber for helping YHC train over the last almost 4 months. Looking forward to crushing this race on Saturday!
3 slightly crazy souls showed up in the gloom on a cold, rainy day to run through the suburbs and disturb the neighbors. Here’s how it went down.
Mudface and YHC left at 5:20, early as usual, and proceeded on a modified route, as the cross country trail was initially deemed too slippery to run on after all the rain last night. Upchuck ran us down somewhere in Honey Meadows, as he had arrived early at 5:25, waited for others to arrive and then took off in search of us after spotting our cars in the parking lot. While Upchuck is clearly in a higher class as a runner, he decided to hang with YHC and Mudface while we did our run/walk thing. It was good to catch up with him, as YHC’s M has known Upchuck and his M since college.
We all ran/walked along the service road behind the high school, through Honey Meadows, and then decided to test the cross country trail again, which was not too bad after all, before heading back to the parking lot.
Numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.
Good run this morning, despite the cooler weather and rain, and we apologize to residents of Honey Meadows if we woke you up, as a couple of Mudface’s comments had YHC and Upchuck laughing perhaps a bit too loudly. YHC also had the pleasure of introducing Upchuck to the video referenced above, as there were 2 Ti-moth-ees this morning.
Thanks again gents!
4 Davillians found their way through the fog to make it out to enjoy a great morning for arun.
This is how it went down!
ROUTES
Mudface/No Idea – Head out down the service road though the trails and back up to the front of the school for their 5k run/walk
Grabber/YHC: Head down the service road, Through the Honey Meadow Estates, cut through to KCD Rd. and headed right down to the lake then back to Atlee HS for a 5 mile run.
MOLESKIN
Great morning for a run (or run/walk). The fog didn’t seem to bother the PAX much as we got our normal mileage.
YHC has decided that he will need need to bring his old Laser Quest guns out next week. Will have to use the back Mudface’s and No Idea’s head lamps as target practice. You can see that bright red light from a mile away!
Grabber and YHC did have a surprise Shortly after getting onto KCD Rd we noticed an object in the middle of the road. Was it a large rock? Not it was a cat! The cat jump up as so as we ran by it. Luckily no cats were injury i the making of this run today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Two of the slowest runners in DaVille and Spit showed up on a rainy morning to get in some miles. No Idea and YHC hit the woods for some run/walk and put in about 3.5 miles. Spit ran laps of the school and got in his 4. Good work this morning
Thanks for letting me lead
“Movement is momentum, and the enemy of momentum is timing”
Three Davillians climbed out of their fart sacks on this cooler first Monday in October. Running routes were set and this is how it went down:
MudFace and No Idea: Showed up early and headed out their normal run/walk route up and down the cross country course
Spit (being the lone longer distance runner): Headed down the access route into Honey Meadows. Up the hill Meadow Pond Dr to the Kings Charter fire road. Turn right until KCD and loop around at Altee Station back to the fire road. Head down Meadow Pond Dr and loop around the town homes before heading back to the AHS access road and parking lot. Complete a complete cool down laps around the parking lot. Total miles a little over 5.
MOLESKIN
YHC arrived at the AO around 5:25 to find MudFace and No Ideas cars in the lot but they had headed out early. YHC did stay around till a little after 5:30 just in case any LIFO decided to show up. Seems like he would be only longer distance runner today.
While heading out and heading back, YHC never ran into the two others posting (You fellas can add your highlights in the comments).
Four regulars and one visitor greeted each other in the Atlee parking lot just prior to today’s Tomato Run. Mudface and No Idea went along their merry way leaving Spit and Grabber to have to deal with Splinter’s Q. The route was pretty straightforward:
YHC took us out.
Moleskin
YHC was trying to conceive a unique workout for his first Q during TT week but was unable to come up with new with the unfamiliar roads around Tomato Run. Therefore, YHC decided to Fartlek. I mean, who doesn’t love a good Fartlek. Fartleks are good when you wake up, before you go to bed, after a good meal… there is never a bad time for a strong Fartlek.
Once the PAX made it about a mile we started Fartleking. Some were short, only lasting about 50 yards, some were much longer, up to a couple blocks. YHC even shared the Fartlek honors with Spit and Grabber at the end. Each of them respectfully Fartlek’ed for the first time and didn’t disappoint.
In the end, at least 8-10 Fartleks were had, each one better than the previous. One mile cool down sans Fartleks prepared us for the rest of the day.
YHC learned something new about the Mechanicsville PAX this morning. Some of them choose to wear gloves while running due to fear of spiders.
The only announcement was a prayer for EF Hutton’s family. Let us all keep his family in our prayers.
Splinter out.