Lost and Found

Lost and Found

13 hardy gents posted in no-mans-land this morning – in the dead zone between Metro and Area 51, known as the DMZ. With about 4 weeks passed since my last F3 post, there was sure to be some rust – and there was. A sufficient disclaimer was given and away we went.

Here’s what went down-

We took a spin the long way around C@C for a quick COP – SSH, mountain climbers, and merkins to check the boxes. The gameplan today was to hit some fast, quick-ish runs. Mix in a few hills, some partnerwork and a few exercises to appease corporate.

First exercise: AYG up Colony to Sharon View. Starting position, move, in-cadence, exercise. B-T-dubs, its, a mile. Agony and Cold Cuts must have flirted with a sub-6 pace on the way out. I’d verify and give Agony the appropriate kudos, but I forgot my Map My Run password back in 2006. The lead dogs led some Mary while we regrouped. The mary sesh was short- guys weren’t far behind at all.

Q Rust: we mosied up Sharon View with the intent of banging a L on Shaker. We blew right past Shaker for a bonus climb up the SV hill. When it sank in we were far from where we needed to be, I pulled out the old “call-an-exercise-like-you-meant-it-all-along” trick. Fortunately, everyone fell for it. A quick about-face and we worked our way back down SV and hooked a Rizzo down to Shaker. 20 merkins IC

Next segment was an AYG run down Shaker (is it pronounced Shake-r, or Shack-er?) to Mountainbrook.

At MB, guys partnered up with someone of similar size for a partner carry down to the pool road. The downhill partner carry was sneaky on the quads.

The last segment was from the pool road to Carmel. At each side street, we did 5 burpees, then rotated to the left 90 degrees, continuing to rotate, running every direction, until we hit Carmel. Sideways running got weird.

The call was for a native american formation run back towards Colony. After a sluggish start, we hit stride midway back, dodging cars, potholes, bushes, ditches – the usual.

10 minutes to spare, we ventured on campus at C@C to wrap up with some partner sprints. P1 did dips whilst P2 ran the short loop around the church. After flapjacking, P1 did incline merks while P2 ran.

The skinn-ey

A lot of new faces (to me) out there this morning. Great running with you all. DMZ was heavy in the rotation for me a while back and has some wicked terrain to explore. Appreciate the patience and creativity out there. We had a FNG “Albatross” – Paul D, who LBJ brought out. He killed it today – look for him at Governator on Wednesday.

Thanks LBJ for the takeout. Enjoyed it fellas.