Blinded by the Light

Blinded by the Light

24 men, realizing that there are less than 5 weeks until the BRR, decided to once again (or for the first time for several) take on the Mount Charlotte Horsey McHorse Arse Yucca Plant of Pain.  Here’s what we did…maybe:

0515 – 20ish men left the Old Bell parking lot and headed for the base of Mt. Charlotte for a slight warm up.  At the base, YHC laid out the plan for you to choose to accept, or just ball it up and throw it in the trashcan like most weeks.  Head up to the Yucca plant (via the usual route to the right) and back down to base camp at the bottom. Turn around and head back up Blue Ridge Circle, but take a left on Mountainview, right on Wilby, then left back up to the Yucca.  Turn around and come back the same way to base camp.  Continue to flapjack which side of the mountain your are climbing and descending.  Meet at the flagpole at 0608 for the pledge of allegiance, then back the cars.

The Moleskinny:

We had several site FNGs this morning who all looked so happy and eager to take on the Horsey.  Looks like most everyone survived (HH may have come up a little lame)…but not nearly as excited as they were.  Moreso happy that it was over.  When I arrived, Horsehead said someone with a bright headlamp came up to him and said, “I’m getting started early…see ya in there!”.  Horsehead, now partially blind, couldn’t see who it was.  It was Fish Wrap of course.  I guess he was needing to get in some extra miles.  Not only was he first in, he stayed after to keep going.  #FILO #beast #crazyman.  Swiper also got a quick head start because he had to leave early.  Put in a solid 30 minutes. I hope you’re proud.  Udder and Margo were a minute late and had to play catch up.  With the up and downs on either side instead of going in one big loop, there was a lot more of seeing each other than most weeks.  Unfortunately with that, more and more of us are going shirtless.  #ReflectiveSkin

As usual, the directions went in and out of the ears of several pax.  There weren’t many stopping and turning at the Yucca, instead continuing the end of the culdesac to grab as much O2 as possible on flat ground.  Alf seemed to be the only one who heard me.  He questioned me twice on it and then went on to rat everyone else out that they weren’t stopping and turning around at the right place.  This is HoMcHoA…there are no rules, man.

Great to have Slim Fast and Sensei out this morning.  The Mouth woke up the neighborhood with his megaphone speaking level.  Chelms finally made an appearance after saying he would for the past 6 weeks.  Ickey Shuffle came out after running the Asheville Super Spartan on Saturday.  I think you deserved a day off, but thanks for joining and keeping the legs loose.  Mr. Brady, Fletch, and a bunch of team F3Metro were smoking it up front the whole time.  Solid work by all.

Chester had a friend with him in the driveway this morning.  It was another dude.  Roommate?  Slumber party? Are there bunk beds in that house?  So many questions.  At least they were both clothed…from what I could tell.

Thanks for the takeout by Slim Fast.  See you all next Monday.

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