Friday, September 12
F3RVA
Always 70 and Sunny
F3RVA
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8 faithful and a LIFO Fudd posted for a friday morning jaunt at Mary Munford.  Weather was a little hot and humid. The Thang: Left onto Grove, all the way to Three Chopt, turnaround, 4 mile loop run to Sauer, 5 mile loop run to Thompson and 6 mile loop run to Belmont.  Turnaround and back to shovel flag. Moleskin There was a discretionary stop at Starbucks on the way to Three Chopt today.  Two of the faithful took advantage and the Starbucks staff were quite accommodating.  TYA and Loose Goose (makes sense right) made the trek, accompanied by an…

Father’s Day Trail Run starting at 7 AM at the gravel parking lot behind the Toll Plaza for the Nickel Bridge – this is just down the hill from #DogPile and Dogwood Dell and just off of the road to Pump House Park.  The early start should allow us to beat the heat a little bit.  Bring a water bottle or Camelback if you have these available.  The full loop is about 6 miles.  We’ll do this one slowly.

PAX, I am hosting a celebration for the near completion of one of my house renovations.  The celebration will be next TUESDAY (yes this is a change from Monday) at the house.  Address is 910 Baldwin Road, Richmond VA 23229.  Festivities will begin at 5pm.  We will have barbecue, beer, wine and soda’s.  Everyone is welcome.

14 faithful and one FNG posted in the post rain gloom this morning in RVA.  Upon leaving the car, temperatures was a cool 70 degrees…no sun, but it felt that way to me. The Thang: Mosey across Cary street to Windsor Way entrance to Windsor Farms.  COP just beyond the bus shelter.  25x Side Straddle Hops, 35x Little Baby Crunches, 15x arm circles forward, 15x arm circles backwards, 10 burpees OYO, 20x Russian Twists.  Line up in two columns, Native American run to the field at Dover Baptist Church (?).  Elevens on the field, two exercise are mountain climbers and…

9 Faithful gathered at the home of the Spiders for the first installment of the weekly BRR run training.  Here’s how it went down: Warmup lap around the lake.  Pause halfway through for SSH’s until everyone caught up. Mosey up the north hill to the entrance and back down to the lake for run intervals. 4 hill runs on the south side of the lake, with 30 LBC’s at the end of each interval. Mosey back around the lake and reverse the northside hill run.  Mosey back around the lake to the south side for COT. Total distance covered =…

9 faithful posted on a glorious Richmond morning.  Weather was 70 degrees and sunny.  No humidity, not heat, perfect weather for a nice beatdown The Thang: Slaughter Starter – 20 Burpees OYO, Mosey past policeman to entrance of park for a COP.  All exercises in cadence Moroccon Nighclub x 30, LBC x 30, Carolina Dry Dock x 20, Russian twists x 30 (crowdpleaser).  Mosey to field with nice soft grass for Merkin Wave.  All plank, first PAX does 1 merkin, then next pax, so on, increase reps up to 10, then back down to 1.  We switched up to LBC…

A PAX of 11 assembled for this morning’s version of #ThePunisheRVA.  It went down like this: Mosey to south lawn for initial COP – 25 x Don Quixote, 25 x Imperial Walkers, 20 x Arm Circles (forward and back), 20 x Ball Dippers. Jog to the back soccer field for:  High Knees over, Butt Kicker’s back, down and back twice more at increasing intensity. Saunter around the school to the front parking lot for the Prison Cell workout.  Pick a parking place for a series of exercises – all exercises completed within a single parking space. Round 1 – Windshield…

In preparation for the Blue Ridge Relay, we are starting an extra run workout each week that will alternate between Tuesday and Wednesday. All PAX are welcome to attend, although Source of Truth and NoToll will still be held at the regular times and AO’s.   This week, we will meet at U of R on Wednesday at 5:30 at the Pavilion in the middle of the lake at University of Richmond, Westhampton Campus.  Address for the parking lot is 47 Lakeview Lane, Richmond, VA 23226.  Walk over the bridge to the pavilion. I will Q this workout, and was…

8 Faithful and 1 FNG posted for a humid morning beatdown at DogPile.  Here’s how it went down: COP: 25 SSH, 15 Merkins, 25 LBC, 25 Imperial Walker, 25 Slow bending Squats Mosey to Pull-up bars Abbreviated, Half Murph: 5 x (10 pull-ups, 20 merkins, 30 squats) Mosey back to Carrillon 4 Minutes of Mary: 20 Flutterkicks, 15 Box Cutters Mosey to Amphitheater Declined Plank-o-rama: hold, walk right, walk left, left hand on bum, right hand on bum (repeat 3x) Mosey to base of pump station Love Hill-Blimp Style-Dealer’s Choice: lunges, walk out merkins, broad jumps, grapevine (karaoke), bear crawl,…

The Blue Ridge Relay is 12ish weeks out, and team-F3Richmond has aspirations of not coming in dead last.  Thus, it is time to ramp up the run training, men. Please join me (Johnshonville) at 3p on Sunday, June 14 at the Reedy Creek parking lot for a long trail run to do just that.  The location of that parking lot is shown on this map near Forest Hill Park (off of Riverside Drive on the southside). We are going to loop around Forest Hill Park’s 3.2 mi. trail several times at an EASY Pace, with faster runners doubling back from time to time…