Doubly warm at DMZ

Doubly warm at DMZ

So Friday One-Eye emails me to remind me of my Monday Q at DMZ.  With Snowpocolypse only hours away I took a look at the weather.  Morning temps on Monday slated to be 7 degrees.  Seven.  As in you can count on one hand – Seven.  I believe my coldest F3 post was 8 or 9 at Kevlar a few years back and it was not that fun.

But Alas this morning was about 17 degrees at the start.  More than double the warmth we were supposed to have!  (You engineering and science nerds may claim this is incorrect so you can leave Kelvin out of this)

7 mean of steely resolve set out to get the week started right.  The pre-tweet mentioned we were going to be run heavy to keep warm and thats what we did.  Planking and wall-sits seemed like a bad idea today.

The Thang –

Mosey north on Carmel to Sharon View.  Hang a right and do a little COP with IW and Low Slow Squats in the Redeemer Presby Church lot.  Cross the street onto Harrison Rd.

Partner up.  P1 Runs down Harrison with a left on Howland.  P2 heads down Gorham.  Meet in the middle for 30 Handclap merkins.  Come back the way you came.  Flutter until the 6 is in.

Repeat in opposite directions – 30 2-hands on the ground jump squats.

Repeat first route – 30 plank jacks

Repeat opposite direction.  No exercise, just meet and return the way you came.

Back out to Sharon View, hang a left and run to Hartmill.  2 rounds of run to the bottom, 10 8-count body builders, run to top.

Mosey back to launch with 2 stops of 5 x 8-count body builders at each stop.

Hit the parking lot right at 6:15

Frozen skin:

The PAX started out with a thoroughly improper disclaimer where I did say something about ice and don’t die or sue.  On the warm up run I was pretty sure my face was about to freeze off.  But after 2 miles all was good.  One Eye claims the 4.4 miles was a DMZ record.  I claim returning 100% of the PAX without frostbite was mission accomplished.  I also brought my headlamp to try and scout the ice, but either it was frozen or the batteries were dead, because it was dim and about as helpful as a single christmas bulb.  I need some help with Exterior Illumination.

I don’t come to DMZ enough so don’t know the area that well so I plan the route with Google Maps.  Pretty pleased with the hills over there in Pellyn Woods.  They kind of sucked.  But all the PAX were crushing it.  Pothole and One-eye, who both ran in were moving well and Rock was leading the pack on our side of the course.  Doogie was tackling the hills hard as well.  Pretty sure Margo lost 4 pounds coughing up phlegm out there but t-claps to him for continuing to post through this cold he is fighting off.  What was the excuse for the rest of you who didn’t post?  Good to see Jamboree out there.  An original Mercury’s Minion BRR runner.  I think I see him once a year now!  Always posting on opposite sides of town.

Thanks to One Eye for the takeout.

-Alf