- When:07/19/16
- QIC: Kirk
- The PAX: Hammer, Sledge (WB), Sundancer, Swiper, Cold Cuts, One Eye (WD?), Kirk
The Smokey III
All in all, not a bad morning weather wise that greeted the seven of us this morning. Clock struck 0530 and we were off. Veteran crew, so a moving disclaimer after One Eye mentioned turning his ankle yesterday.
THANG
Run left out of OP onto Rea for +/- 1 mile to Providence Lane West.
This is a roughly 1/2 mile long stretch with great elevation changes and five side streets.
At each side street on the way to Lancer, do the following: 20 merkins, 20 knee ups, 20 squats
At Lancer, turn around for pure run back to Rea Rd. That’s one. Repeat until 6:05ish and run back to OP.
COT
Announcements:
F3 Dads – pretty sure still ongoing in SOB land
F3 Golf – sign up soon
Church on the Street – YHC signed up for September, need a few more for August I believe.
Former college roommate of mine is a church planter in Boston. YHC will be hosting an event for him next Tuesday, so for anyone with a heart for the inner city (or that just likes free beer), shoot me a DM on Twitter for details: @leewillunc
Moleskine:
This was early BRR prep, as the hills on Providence Rd West are deceptively steep, though short. The Strava elevation map looks a little like the silhouette of Batman.
YHC entertained going for 3 full trips, jumped out to an early lead, and then faded. Lungs and legs still not back to “normal” after what seemed like a short IR stint. I believe most of the group completed 2+ full trips. YHC had the distance at 4.44 miles with 200 merkins, squats, and LBCs. Sundancer, despite having run this before, stopped for exercises on the way back also…so more exercises and less distance? Something like that.
Anyway, that many squats take a lot out of the legs. Not a fun 1-mile run, all uphill, back to OPE. Quite a bit slower for all.
Good to have Cold Cuts back off IR. One Eye and Sundancer are back from vacation. Apparently it was 82 and sunny all week in Connecticut, which was coincidentally about the weather upon our arrival back to OPE.
Probably leaving out just about anything that could be of interest. Serious about the next Tuesday thing.
- Kirk
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This time of year, SOFAWIB attendance is like bermuda grass in January. It retreats but never dies. With BRR front and center for every middle-aged male within a 100 mi radius, SOFAWIB numbers are dipping, to be expected. Given our outstanding growth in 3Q2015, I would expect nothing less in 3&4Q2016. Men will be tired of sweaty, muggy vans and worn out HorseyMcHorse routes and on to character-building activities like pull-ups and sprints to Harris Teeter. Stay tuned as excitement and attendance builds!
This was a terrible workout for comments / commentary as it was pretty spread out on a dark stretch of asphalt. Plus, YHC was accused of being “anti-social” for running away from the group, so no comments to be heard. If, like other site Qs, I hung out near the six, I’m sure there would be tons to discuss. Plus, as we all know, internal monologue makes for a terrible backblast (http://f3nation.com/2016/07/18/streamofconciousness/). It’s just played out.
I fully expect Sundancer’s BB next week to up the comment / pax ratio back to its rightful place.
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