Run to the Hills

Run to the Hills

As the rain started to fall, 16 brave men came out for the early workout to give those legs a test on some of Rain Tree’s finest slopes.

The Thang:

Warmup in parking lot.  A couple laps with karaoke, etc, followed by brief COP:

• 20x SSH
• 20x IW
• 21x SS

Tempo run out of the parking lot through Rain Tree to our favorite hill on Windbluff and then partner up for some hill repeats.  Note: Mapmyrun shows steep part of the hill is 10-11% grade

• Partner 1 runs to bottom of hill, burpees, run back to top
• Partner 2 stays at top and does an exercise
• Flapjack

7 rounds completed:

• 7 burpees at bottom; LBCs at top
• 6 burpees at bottom; lunges at top
• 5 burpees at bottom; dollies at top
• 4 burpees at bottom; squats at top
• 3 burpees at bottom; CDDs at top
• 2 burpees at bottom; flutters at top
• 1 burpee at bottom; 30 merkins at top: 10x diamond, 10x regular, 10x wide
• Hill suicide races  (cancelled due to time constraint)

Run back through Rain Tree to South Charlotte Middle.

Total mileage: 3.2 miles (including warmup laps)

Moleskin:

• YHC thoroughly enjoyed anniversary tex-mex dinner the prior evening and decided to give the pax a break with one of the shortest mileage Fast Twitch’s in a while – saving the pax from being subjected to an explosion of mexican merlot.  note to self: need to remember not to do that on the BRR.
• Heard “I have 5:59 on my watch” after that last round, resulting in an unfortunate cancellation of the hill suicides, and a late return to base. Sorry about that – YHC will need to re-calibrate the timekeeping equipment (and move suicides up earlier in the plan).
• The BRR crew is out in full force now, breaking in shoes and new equipment.  New smokebooks hill-tested?  check.
• Mall Cop put in a good performance, even though admitting he held back to avoid injury and “save himself” for the BRR.  Good move. Of course expectations will be high for the BRR – looking forward to seeing some record time out there.
• Lots of other strong performances out there today.  Impressed by Strange Brew – regularly in the mid/front of the pack today.  Fraiser and 49er kicking it into high gear on the run back to base (suspect the latter was daydreaming of his future BRR glory run the whole way).
• Not really any stragglers today… seemed to mostly hold together – nice job!
• With the departure of Sprague taking his gun show out west, I will be lining up a rotation of QICs for future Fast Twitch workouts.  Please ping me if interested.

Announcements:

• New moderate workout has Started on Saturday “The Ascent”
• F3 Dads Camp – plenty of space still available, but sign-up soon
• HDHH at Vintner’s wine market Wednesday (location may change, check twitter)