A fearless 5 broke the strangle hold of the fartsack this Monday morning to enjoy the cool breeze and to slay some hills SOJ to kickstart their week.  We welcomed Flatline to his virgin River Run experience and that called for the old faithful – Left our of Bettie Weaver down James River Road past the high school.  Right onto Riverton Ridge to get into Tarrington.  Left at the round-a-bout onto Welby Drive.  Right only Sherfield Drive past the pool.  Left onto Ashwell and then downhill around the loop (the calm before the storm?) and uphill all the way to…

As the calendar turned to May, 6 redwoods, including a RiverRun virgin posted to kick off what could be the official start of BRR training. Start out with minimal warm up Twin Twin Team Lane and onto Brigstock into Salisbury.  4+ mile route straight to Ellesmere and down Ashwell through Tarrington.  5 milers take the Mt. Hill loop and follow the same route down Ashwell.  Back to the school up James River Road (that is a nice slow incline to close out the run). THANG Great to see Upchuck out at RiverRun this morning.  YHC had thoughts of avoiding the…

One car with two PAX showed up to River Run on a cool wet Monday morning to throw down a few miles and being thankful the rain held off! Once we figured it was only us we decided the route from last week was the way to go. We logged just over 3 miles! While the rain was not coming down on us, we found new ways to leave the workout just as wet as if it had been raining! Yup. The puddles in the dark got out little piggies cold and wet! Honeymoon has decided to convert all his…

4 SOJ stalwarts posted to River Run on this beautiful, maybe a little hot, post-Easter morning to start the week off with a little run to lighten our load after the Easter feast…some of us took that literally.  Wilson greeted YHC with “Dogs and Kids” as he was already in a hurry, so quick instructions and we took off.  YHC decided to forgo the mountainous hills around River Run for a new route, it went a little something like this: From BWES head towards Robious Road and across to the sidewalk near Twin Team.  Take a right on the sidewalk and follow…

3 stalwarts broke the hold of the fartsack on this glorious Monday morning and posted at River Run to log some miles and climb some hills.  The route today started with a nice mosey down to the high school and around by the baseball fields, then we headed West on 711 and turned left into River Downs to tackle the Queens Grant hill.  When we descended the back side on Royal Crest Drive, rather than turn around and repeat the hills in reverse to complete the River Downs Roller Coaster, we took a right on Riverdowns South and made our…

4 of the RiverRun faithful showed up for the return of the run.  Nothing new or out of the ordinary for the run today, just the classic.  Down James River Road and into Tarrington, around the Ashwell Loop and up the hill to Robious.  Head first into the bush and down Twin Team.  Circle the schools to round out the 5 miles. NMM The group stayed together today after what seemed to be a tiring weekend for those in attendance.  Wilson bailed early this morning with a #runningsucks text in the early hours to Honeymoon.  The hills are still alive…

Seven of the faithful stayed huddled in their cars until 5:29:58, then jumped out ready to make a downpainment. Johnsonville (YHC) took the Q, and, after a brief but thorough disclaimer, this is what went down: THANG Warmup with SSH, don quiote, merkins, scissor kicks, etc. Longish Indian Run out past JR High School and around to football stadium. Fourties with merkins and mt. climbers. Run up stadium stairs to the top, across, and back down between each exercise. 3x 440m repeats on track at target pace of 1:30 (alternative exercise for 75x LBCs). Repeat Indian Run back to VSF.…

6 River Run stalwarts showed up on a cold Monday in search of the hour missing from Sunday due to daylight savings time.  Here is what went down. COP SSH IC x 20 Imperial Walkers IC x 20 Arm Circles fwd IC 10 small + 5 large + reverso Merkins IC x 10 Little Baby Crunches IC x 20 Mosey to bus loop in front of school Curb Crawls Bear crawl to curb and perform 1 merkin Crawl bear to starting curb and perform 2 merkins Up to 5, then repeat 5 and down to 1 Mosey to other bus…

6 regulars and 1 Kotters broke the seal for the week and started it off right with a posting at River Run and to see what the hell Gumbo could have in store to begin a string of 5 straight Qs.  With no McRib coming in hot at 5:29, YHC almost didn’t know when to start, but we managed and it went something like this: Mosey behind the elementary school to the blacktop for COP: SSHs x25IC DQs x10 IC (super slow) Imperial Walkers x15 IC LBCs x25 IC Flutter Kicks x25 IC Mosey to the monkey bars for a…

6 brave souls braved the cold to take on Murph Monday! On this cold morning for the Murph Monday here is how it went down….. Mossy around the school and the track for a mile to get to the main playground. 10 rounds of the below with each round consisting of the following exercises. 10 pullups 20 Merkins 30 squats After we completed the 10 rounds we headed back to the parking lot with the normal stop at the track to make sure we got the full mile in.  Total millage equaled 2 miles with a nice little beat-down in…