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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.