7 PAX made a great decision to start their week off with a terrible idea. Senator Royal Repeats! Start at Trader Joes and run to light at Senator Royal and Mallard Creek Church. This is where the repeat starts. Run .9 miles down Senator Royal to David Taylor. Run .9 miles back up Senator Royal […]
Tag: Blue Ridge Relay
Mini Millstream Convergence
6 Highlanders welcomed 5 Tradition/Precinct pax into the loving embrace of Millstream Ridge Repeats this morning. The embrace was warm…very warm…and sweaty…and smelly…and quite painful. More like a ferocious bear hug than an “embrace.” This was no “Gentle Grizzly” (who made up some excuse about his M’s birthday being the reason he couldn’t post to […]
Soggy, yet strong cruisers at the Valley
6 brave souls ignored the 2:30 AM thunder and brought themselves out for a good old fashioned soggy cruise. The Thang: Senator Royal here we come! Right on Mallard. Left onto Governor Hunt. Right onto David Taylor. Grab the 6 and head for Senator Royal! A lot of guys mentioned last time we ran this […]
We all want to be like Farm!
11 runners ventured out this morning for another round of BRR training this morning. If you aren’t on the team, you are still going to be doing the training runs….so you might as well join! The Route: Right out of the valley Left onto Governor Hunt (This road is always great to run on for […]
A few hills and a FNG…I mean Belding sighting
This morning brought back what felt like February weather…cold. As we at Tradition are trying to put together the very first Tradition BRR team, it is time to to start training nonetheless! So YHC came up with a route that took advantage of the very limited amount of hills that we have around our AO […]
2016 Blue Ridge Relay- PreBlast #2
2016 Blue Ridge Relay- PreBlast #2 Link to PreBlast #1 It’s time to hard commit to the 2016 Blue Ridge Relay, September 9-10, 2016 (Friday – Saturday) This event is capped at 160 teams. Last year, it was completely sold out by late May, this year, they expect all slots to be filled as early […]
Highlands Blue Ridge Relay (BRR) 2015: The Official Backblast
The Teams Fast & Furious Driver: Law Dawg Pavarotti Diplomat Chavez Nanny Filibuster Chowder Kato Stoli Treadstone Joggernots Driver Van 1: Thorn Drivers Van 2: Fonda & Ziploc Mash Pharaoh Nighthawk Meathead Glock Search & Rescue Shazam J-Lo Sugar Dropcloth Bootstrap Bling Quotes from the gloom “Did a wet dog get in the van?” […]
2016 BRR – Pre-Blast #1
Pax, It maybe holiday season as you sit back, enjoy those Turkey Day leftovers, look forward to taking those built-up vacation days you either use or lose, and start to work on your Santa Wish List. But it is also 284 days until the 2016 Blue Ridge Relay (September 9-10, 2016)! You may be wondering […]
2015 Blue Ridge Relay—We Own the Gloom
The Thang: September 11 and September 12….from Whitetop, Va to Asheville,NC….208 210 mile relay run completed by teams of 6-12 pax, each running 1 of 36 legs in sequential order. NM: 54 Teams consisting of almost 500 Pax completed this event which is the pure definition of CSAUP. As with all things F3, there is […]
Blue Ridge Relay 2014
A year from two weeks ago, Hootie threw down the Blue Ridge Relay challenge at coffee. This weekend, 12 men from Harrisburg met that great & awful challenge. Here’s how it went. Leg 1 (Kraut; 4 miles; 102′ climb; 1098′ drop): “There was something proud about being able to bat lead-off for the race. I wasn’t […]