Shirts Vs. Skins

  • When:7/19/16
  • QIC: Buttermaker
  • The PAX: Daisy, Madison, Run Stopper, Blue Hose, Haze, Beaker, Voodoo, Cane, Gummy, Retread, Huggy Bear, Geraldo, Utah, Margo, Alf, Pop Tart, Faultline, Marvel, Strawberry, Pro, Turkey Leg, Cheesecurd, Hairball, Draino, Buttermaker.


Shirts Vs. Skins

A strong, group came out early to get their miles in before the heat gets unbearable. Preblast was brief but promised 5-6 miles so I didn’t want to disappoint. After the emails to the site Q’s yesterday regarding the importance of the Disclaimer, I did my best to give a thorough one and we got moving.

The Thang:

Mosey from the school up 51 to the dead-end street behind the park / Wal Mart. Did a set of suicides here using the light poles as our markers. 4 rounds in all.

Get back out to 51 and head to the Arboretum and partner up. Catch Me if You Can starting by the Pet Store and ending at the Firestone on the C/O of Providence Road.

Shoot down Providence to the bottom of the hill for 5 sets on the grass hill. This did not go over well but we will get back to that.

Back up Providence to Shallowood for 2 lines of Indian Runs back to the C/O Windbluff and Raintree (about 8/10 of a mile).

Head back towards the school with a final burst of AYG.

One lap around the track at the school that rounded us out at almost an even 60 minutes.

Moleskin:

Total of 6.1 miles.  More skins than shirts when we arrived back at SCMS.

It was a fairly chatty group this morning with more complaining that I was interested in hearing:

“Is this FT or DT”

“Why no IW or SSH”

“My shoes are getting wet”

“I’m not trying to get injured right before BRR”

I think most of these were coming from Pro but I can’t say for sure because it was hard to make out the voice because he was so far behind me.

Catch Me if You Can got a bit dangerous with a lot of near collisions on the route.  Slower traffic keep right.

I heard someone comment how “cute” HB and Beaker looked running side by side shirtless with similar looking tattoos on their back.  No comment.

I tried to incorporate the grassy hill on Providence that wasn’t a big hit with this group.  Truth be told, it is a bit steeper than it looks from the road and with the moisture, was a bit slippery.  The BRR boys felt like it was a safety hazard.  I regret taking you off the pavement and out of your comfort zone.

We got back to the school with 4 minutes left.  My timing was thrown off by the lack of interest in the grass hill run.  Alf, to the dismay of many, suggested we hit the track for a quick lap.  We quickly learned that the Run For Your Life ladies (and a few men????) were there.  TL took the lead, sans shirt mind you, and puffed the chest and flexed his chicken wings for a fast lap.

Good to see Blue Hose and Draino out there working hard.  If I’m not mistaken, they are both site FNG’s.

The regulars were in the lead (TL, Alf, Beaker, Faultline, Hairball, etc) and the regulars were in the back (Haze, Pro, etc)

Thanks for the take out Haze…even though you tried to take a subtle jab at me in it.  #Sinner.

Announcements:

Beer Mile this Friday at SCMS @ 8pm.  Contact Hairball for details

Haze is collecting for FT Golf Hole sponsorship.

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Madison
Madison
7 years ago

Just reviewed my Strava segments and realized those 10 counts really killed my pace. I nearly got chicked during the AYG back to the school but managed to avoid it. Thanks to Haze for calling me out and asking why I was a back-of-the-packer today.

Purple Haze
Reply to  Madison
7 years ago

Don’t get your feelings hurt Madison. I was legitimately concerned for you, as normally you are a middle of the pack guy (ahead of me). But when the grandma (which is an entirely different thing than being chicked) almost beat you back to base, I thought you might be hurt.

Madison
Madison
Reply to  Purple Haze
7 years ago

Grandma’d! I was hoping no one noticed. Thanks for the concern. I was trying to keep my version of Fast in Fast Twitch and blew up on that last hill. #stupidhumidity

Purple Haze
Reply to  Madison
7 years ago

Ha! I was done as well, especially after the Indian run. We’ll get ’em next week.

Purple Haze
7 years ago

Butter, your pre-workout Twitter game was strong and I’d say you nailed the disclaimer. But between 0520 and 0615, this was a disaster. Lots of chaos on the suicide and CMIYC and then the absolute killer…”Haze, can you give me 10 count?” This ain’t SOFAWIB. TL wants to ban you from Qing now because of that…I’ll have to talk him off the ledge again so you can have another chance.

Also, I stayed in the back to look for the site FNGs you abandoned. Pro, well he’s just slow.

And I named you specifically in the prayer…I’d call that more of a blessing than a subtle jab.

Kirk
Reply to  Purple Haze
7 years ago

Unprovoked, PH…and I really hate that, because now I can’t decide whether to make a short joke, a bald joke, or an old joke. We’ll let the scoreboard speak for itself.

10 counts: FT – 1, SOFAWIB – 0

Frasier
7 years ago

A lot of anger in Haze today. Not a good role model for site Qs. Maybe you should attend Alf’s next Q school.

Pro you are especially getting the beating. Let me know if you need to talk or drink a lot.

Purple Haze
Reply to  Frasier
7 years ago

Frasier, you can’t solicit business in the comments to a BB for a workout you did not attend. Pro is fine.

Prohibition
Reply to  Frasier
7 years ago

What’s your hourly rate Frasier? Would it be cheaper to just go to Swift?

Gummy
7 years ago

Haze needs a hug. Angry twittering yesterday, and now all this. He’s probably still hurt by this: http://www.wyff4.com/sports/South-Carolina-picked-to-finish-last-in-SEC-East/40712314.

I liked that one, Buttermaker. Tough but fair (except for the grassy hill repeats) and lots of variety – well, various ways to run while covering six miles. Not really any variety of exercises since you wouldn’t throw in an Imperial Walker.

I felt good this morning – after all the mid-day, 95 degree runs, that was like Fall. I thought I was crushing it on the suicides; I was even keeping up with Pro! Then I saw that was like 5th from the back, and only by about 20 yards. We have some fast guys out there.

Pro noted that us storming the track for that last lap looked like Caddy Day at Bushwood. The poor RFYL’ers probably felt violated by our grossness.

Purple Haze
Reply to  Gummy
7 years ago

Gummy, I’m not surprised by this article from this station…basically a stone’s throw from Clemsux. Pretty sure the writer is a contributor to TigerNet.

#SpursUp

Purple Haze
7 years ago

On a serious note, thanks to all the men of FT for the support of the @F3Golf tournament. Proceeds raised go to the @F3Expansion effort #GiveItAway. Due to your generosity, we raised $130 for our hole sponsorship.

Prohibition
Reply to  Purple Haze
7 years ago

You’re welcome.

Voodoo
7 years ago

#Cobains for missing the group this morning. I swear I lost 3-5 minutes somewhere between putting on my shoes and getting in my car, then Buttermaker head-faked me on the departure from the school. I attempted a solo Fast Twitch, but I’m sure it didn’t meet the standard. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to run with my brothers in the #six.

For those of you who left early, you missed Purple Haze working his skills on a tomato he was able to separate from the herd of RFYLers. I’m pretty sure I overheard his pick up line: “Yeah, I’m a site Q here. It’s a huge responsibility. Speaking of huge, you should come by my place and see my collection of black, orthotic sneakers…” That’s about the time she peeled out of there. #justkiddingPH

Cheese Curd
Reply to  Voodoo
7 years ago

The workout sucked! I may have bite off more than I could by joining the fast Indian run line, so I choose to peel off and lead from behind! That said, at least Utah and I completed the Hill Climbs…wimps!

PH- you sly dog! Damn kid has style! We all saw you flexing…

Prohibition
7 years ago

Man. I finish up from a long day of work and pull up the ol’ twitter to see how many times Buttermaker screwed up while trying to post the BB. Only once. #gettingbetter. So this turns out to be bash Pro day? I expect it from Butter…and Haze…well, and Gummy. OK just the usuals I suppose.

As I told PH after the awful call to run up and down a wet, grassy hill which I’m pretty sure caused a strain of some sort (you’ll be hearing from my BRR team lawyer Young Love by the way) this was like when a manager fires and employee but lets him finish out the day. You knew it was only going to get worse.

BTW, this was my 3rd day in a row of hitting 6+ miles (strava lies due to all the starting/stopping I missed the entire CMIYC) so my legs were a little tired and I was taking it easy today. I figured with a BM Q, that was going to be par anyway. #easyday

Better luck with your twittering and overall Q-ability, Butter. You’ll get there…maybe.

JRR Tolkien
JRR Tolkien
7 years ago

Guys sorry to break up the party, but please consider running the Ragnar Relay Race. Many of you have not signed up and we have a few open slots that we would love to fill ASAP. Send me message @jrrtolkienf3

Purple Haze
Reply to  JRR Tolkien
7 years ago

Tolkien, ok to post here but just so you know, we’ve actually encouraged Curd to hold out for a more lucrative offer.

Joker
7 years ago

Beer mile? Interesting. I’ve been training since 1987 (little before your beer drinking days started Hairball).

Hairball
Reply to  Joker
7 years ago

That’s what you think…

Spackler
Reply to  Joker
7 years ago

Step up your games boys. I am in the middle of a Tito’s marathon. Just crossed the half way point.

JRR Tolkien
JRR Tolkien
7 years ago

PH sparing no one today! And to think I was about to make my first FT appearance today. I’ll be there next week for my first post… And to get HC’s from most of you for Ragnar.

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