Giving up the Ghost

  • When:11/01/16
  • QIC: Turkey Leg
  • The PAX: Hannibal, Lex Luther, Gummy, Ductwork, Van Pelt, Prohibition, Icicle, Turkey Leg


Giving up the Ghost

Eight men paid for their Halloween sweet tooth with 6.6 miles along the Ghostrunner route with a chaser of burpees.

The Thang:

Warm-up pace run to Arbo ABC store for COP:

SSHx10
IWx10
Burpees OYO x 18  (quantity of candy collectively eaten by pax on Halloween)

Sprints to entrance on Providence.  Stop at each speedbump for increasing number of merkins.

Tempo runs at 5k pace over the Ghostrunner route:

  • Arboretum to Raintree (along Providence)
  • Whitethorn from Raintree
  • 4 Mile Creek from Whitethorn to RainTree
  • RainTree from 4 Mile Creek to Rounding Run

Break on 4 Mile creek for brief set of grinders (jump ups and LBCs)

Mosey to Woodfox for AYG back to school.

COT

Mileage: 6.6

Moleskine:

  • We got off easy on the candy punishment today with a relatively small crowd and apparently a healthy one.  Perhaps the others were wallowing in a post-Halloween sugar hangover???
  • The Pax that did show got their money’s worth and stepped up to the task of a “shadow” Ghostrunner route.  Pro seemed to be consistently out in front, with most of the gang not far behind.
  • The ghosts were still out indeed… looking through the thick mist in the air, Halloween decorations were in full light.  The ghosts seem to nail a replica of Hillary Clinton to a tree with a sign “Terrorist”?  no comment
  • Always a pleasure to lead the men of Fast Twitch – nice job seeing everyone get after it on a misty post-Halloween morning.
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Gummy
7 years ago

Thoughts from chasing Turkey Leg (and everyone else, really) through Rain Tree:
– Ductwork has a sweet new ride. Although, a school parking lot at 5:15 am is not the place for an unmarked white van with no windows.
– The “warmup” run was at 7:00 pace from the school to the Arbo. No big deal.
– Pro was very concerned about sidewalk construction that never materialized. Also, he was fast this morning.
– I was behind Lex Luthor when he nearly soiled himself on Whitethorn. That motivated me to make the pass.
– There were a couple of decorative lights along Whitethorn that gave me premature hope that we were at the blinking light. Cruel.
– Hannibal and I mostly took the Grinders section off. At least I did. I didn’t really pay attention to what he was doing. But, we only had to run up the hill once.
– Van Pelt said he’d run slow with me, then crushed the hills as usual.
– Icicle quietly crushed the runs too. I tried running up next to him a couple of times but couldn’t hang.
– Thanks to Ductwork and Lex Luthor for alternatively pushing and dragging me up the hills. That’s way faster than I would choose to run on my own. I set a few Strava PRs this morning, so I know we were getting after it.
– If I weighed 75 pounds, I’d be fast like TL.

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