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Six warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day.  According to legend it went a little something like this. Counter clockwise trail loop down Northbank Trail with crossings at either Belle Isle or Pottersfield Bridge to the Buttermilk and back to the Pump House parking lot.  Mileage was in the 7 range. Namerama, numberama, Olivander led us out. News: 4 Year Convergence is next Saturday (9/22) at Dogpile with not 1 but 2 extra toppings.  Wilson requested that we do morning running and Phonics kindly obliged with an XC style run.  See Phonics for details and Wilson for…

Tu-Pac’s rejected the warmth and dryness of The Fartsack and pushed forth into the cool morning rain showers that made up the latest rendition of Sunday Funday. The tatoo artists around Monroe Park will tell the story something like this: Route: Rain made for muddy trails, so the PAX stuck to blacktop and concrete. From Pump House Park…north on Park Drive…through the neighborhood and park to Robinson, north to Monument heading east bound. Monument becomes Franklin. From there, continue east until 5th St., then southbound at 5th St. From there, west onto Cary until Robinson, then south to the Park,…

9 trail warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day.  According to legend it went a little something like this. Counter clockwise trail loop to Potterfield bridge and back for 7 miles plus. Namerama, numberama, YHC took us out. Moleskin: Great to have FNGs O’Really and Shortcut.  Way to work fellas.  Hope we see you guys back out soon.  Gomer Pyle got in his miles early as he was going to be singing in church today.  We are all looking forward to hearing about how his spiritual rendition of She Drives Me Crazy was accepted by the congregation. Saab…

4 BRR aspirants gathered for a late summer training run. 7mi trail run – Olivander, TYA Mayo Bridge / Forest Hills route:  9.5 mi Gomer Pyle. 12mi extra credit Saab. ETs for 2nd F NMS Beautiful day for a run and a preview of better weather to come. We all decided that with the BRR less than two weeks out we need to take advantage of the training opportunity. On the Mayo bridge route there are some detours. Over Saab’s mild objection YHC wanted to recon the blown out part of Riverside and see if it has improved yet.…

A solid 9 pax showed up this morning for trails.  Saab has been benched from the trails by his knee doctor, so he opted for road miles.  The rest of us did the following: -Buttermilk to Lariat trail then up Forest Hill loop.  Check out the rest of the CSAUP course by adding a lap around the lake.  Back to parking lot, for roughly 8 miles. NMS First off, great to see our friend from last week, FNG Pert+ show up again.  In case you would like to know where his name came from (as were several of the pax…

Ten stallions of the dawn converged on Pump House Park for some trail running fun today.  Some were there for the summer challenge and at least one was back from a long abscence. It went something like this: Saabs doc says no trails so he ran 12 on the road flying past large slow marathon trainers. Helix, Opus, and Pavarotti did about 40 minutes of a Pump House Park to Tx beach loop. Places to be people to see and all that. The rest of us went through the Pump House Park, jumped a train, past Foushees Mill across Potterfield…

8 strong hit the trails or blacktop this fine Sunday morning.  Conditions were clear, 70 and sunny with some peacefulness and serenity thrown in. This is what we did: YHC called the Nickel Bridge to Buttermilk to T Potterfield to North Bank route.  An “Oldie but Goodie” route right, Vinny!  Saab stayed on the blacktop and made it down and across the Mayo Bridge and back up to T Potterfield and ran halfway across until he met the trail group, turned around a ran with us until Tredegar and continued up the hill on the blacktop surfaces back to and…

One megastud (and one companion who will not be named) launched for a Sunday run at 6 am and ran for 13 miles.  This megastud started his trail running career less than six months ago and completed a full half marathon this weekend on the trails.  Bootleg is that megastud. He has consistently posted on Sunday’s and on other run days and increased his mileage along the way.  He is prepping for the Patrick Henry Half Marathon in late August and if yesterday was any indication he  will slay the run. Since the two early/late runners did not cross path’s…

Three ground pounders churned through sunny and 70 temps to grind out today’s version of Sunday Funday.  Here’s how it either happened (or YHC wishes it happened). Route: South Bank + Larriott + Pottersfield + North Bank.  Roughly 7 miles in total.  Ponch was squeezed for time, but shoe-horned somewhere in the 3-4 mile range with limited time.  Well done. Silent Number-am-a, Name-a-rama, and YHC mumbled something about what a treat this part of life is.  And, there was a bit of a silent remembrance for a friend. NMS: Great day for YHC to get back on the trails. It’s…

A Lucky seven ? trail runners engaged in CSAUP scouting and training today at Sunday Funday. YHC arrived at the pump house 15 minutes early (on time) and was followed immediately by Sugar and then Saab. Saab informed us that TYA was running Forest Hill Park loops and that he was headed out Buttermilk a little early to do the same. After the rest of the Pax arrived we followed their lead and ran BM to FHP and back for about 7. TYA did 3 loops for around 11. Saab logged around 10. Sally the dog joined us and we saw…

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