Urban Farmhouse Midlothian
With the summer tour YHC thought there may be other runners there but it was a quiet Sunday. Great weather for a run.
Browsing: Off The Books
After a few weeks of summer tour guests and lone runners YHC and Honeymoon hit the roads around Midlothian for a few early a.m. miles. We hit the regular route of coal mines, Woolridge and Midlothian at a pace conducive to mumblechatter. YHC’s 50k, Honeymoon’s trip to Disney, upcoming BRR and CSAUPs dominated the conversation during the run and at the post run coffeteria. Beautiful weather for a run this morning. Announcements: The Ghost Flag will be making it’s next appearance at YHC’s 45MOM Q this week. Come one, come all to claim the flag.
A solo summer tour participant posted to Off the Books this morning. Fearing that may be the case, YHC had a route planned out that went like this: Right on Charter Colony, Right on Coalfield, Right on Midlothian tnpk past SOT, right on Charter Colony, around the lake on the path, and up the hill back to the start. NMS Was a nice morning for a run, even if only accompanied by the Classic Rock Pandora station coming from my iPhone. Tunes were enjoyed, along with a pretty striking sunrise. Was interesting to run along Coalfield and with my birthday…
A duo of kayakers arrived at Huguenot Flatwater to enjoy reasonable water levels and an escape from the heat. Upon departure, we headed to the north bank where a nice beach had formed. Worth exploring next time. We kayaked upstream to the dam and checked out the fish ladder and the semi-blocked portage on the other side. We chatted with a couple of kayakers who were hauling heavy boats over the portage path. It was a team of father and young son who were on mile 93 of a 100 mile journey that started in Charlottesville last Saturday. The dad…
YHC, or the 6:00 AM YHC, reporting the details of a Sunday morning run at Off The Books. The thang: Standard 6ish mile route through Grove, Midlo Mines, lake, up to Midlo and up to Charter School Rd, back to Urban Farmhouse. YHC showed up at for the standard 6:00 AM run and left solo. Returned just before 7:00 to find Honeymoon and a few minutes later Shake (who may actually be the YHC for this post, or at least the 7:00 AM YHC). Amidst the heat and humidity it was nice running before the sun was fully up, the…
YHC, Upchuck, Hardywood spoke at Dogpile about meeting at Off The Books for a quick 3 mile run. EF Hutton was there and Labrat showed up!! The idea was a quick out and back route that allowed for 3 miles run! Being the only SOJ PAX member present, why not run the Mid-Lothian Mine Park. 0530…off we went!! Hardywood, Upchuck, and YHC to lead with EF Hutton and Labrat conversing in the rear. Through the mine trail we ran and into a subdivision. At 1.5 miles, Upchuck knew where he was, so audible called. Instead of out and back, we…
Two regulars posted for a variation on the standard downtown run. It was hot and humid. We saw Sugar Sock (as usual). Any day now I’m expecting some new PAX to show up and earn that Summer Challenge point. We run every Wednesday at 11:30 from Broad and 12th (Governor). Hope to see y’all soon
2 new-ish F3’ers made their way to Midlo to explore the Coalmines with an early morning jaunt. The Pax was a couple of guys from the Northsiders stamping their Passports. Handshake and Vinny stepped off at 0730 hours looking from the no-so-Urban Farmhouse. Made our way up Woolridge to Midlothian Mines park and around the lake while Handshake gave a history lesson of the Midlothian Coalmines and influence in early Virginia industry. We made our way up through the American Family Fitness parking lot and there was Flashdance going in for a climate-controlled Yoga class, we chatted briefly and back…
Shakedown and Swiper ran 3.2 miles across the river and back today in the muggy mid day haze. As per usual, Sugar Sock was sighted on a walk. Nothing much more to report though it’s always good to converse with Swiper. Come run with us soon
https://youtu.be/Xf3mRZ7SHu0 According to Phineas and Ferb, there are 104 days of summer. What a better way to spend the summer than challenging yourself to visit all 24 F3 RVA AOs. Although procrastinators can wait as late as August 6 to start, it would be best to spread this challenge out over the entire summer. Once you complete the tour, you will have done the following: 14 bootcamps 7 runs including a trail run and evening run 2 Kettle Bell workouts 1 bike ride Don’t let not having a kettle bell or bike prevent you from participating in this challenge. Borrow…