I am not Brat

I am not Brat

25 men showed up in the parking lot for the weekly installment of Swift.  At least 10 did the prerun. I apologize who they were but internal satisfaction is more rewarding than external praise right?

An announcement that I was not Brat, nor could anyone be, and the disclaimer was given.  A mumbled direction was given and off we went.  Comments soon followed that “Brat wouldn’t have done it that way.” They were right.  We headed the opposite direction of the prerun through the bull ring until the last building on off of Rushmore and Ballantyne Commons.  In the parking lot we did the standard warm up drills: toe inside, outside, straight; heel inside, outside, straight; high knees, butt kickers, B skip and zombies.

Short mosey over to the corner of Rushmore and Ballantyne Commons.  The direction was given to run a 5k pace to the top of Ballantyne Meadows Dr.  Once there either wait for the six or recover.  We ran from the daycare to the intersection of Ballantyne Meadows and Valley Spring. This is where we spent the majority of the morning.

The sum of it all was we did varying lengths up parts or all of Ballantyne Meadows and Valley Spring with recovery going back down.  Always at the 5k pace, although this was not always adhered to.  Those that did not listen have after school detention doing an hour of monkey humpers and mowing my lawn.

We did a 5k pace down Ballantyne Commons back to Rushmore.  From there you had two options. Shorter way or longer way home with the goal to be under 6:15.  Most made it by that time.

BRR is not far off and so we will begrudgingly being running more hills over the next four months.  It was a nice morning for a run though.  The humidity had moved out so it allowed for better conditions.

Moleskin: Everyone was running hard and at times too hard.  Honey Bee smoked it going down Ballantyne Commons.  Probably sub 5:00 on that stretch.  Haggis despite having an ultra on Saturday was out front all morning.  Thin Mint even pushed it once or twice despite having the same ultra.

Some newer faces out at Swift this morning with Erector, Boot and Birdcage.  Meatloaf and Picasso are becoming regulars.  Good to see Ringer back out.  He was pushing hard. Chipotle loved/hated every minute of it but never stopped to walk when it was time to run.  Great job!

Hairball, Honey Bee and TR were usually within seconds of each other on every segment.  Fire Hazard, Bunker, Teddy, Depth Charge, Gumbo, Soft Pretzel off his 10k and Tuck were never more than a few seconds off that group.  There was some back and forth between the groups.

It is honestly hard to keep up with 25 guys it is a testament to Brat for building some a strong workout to have guys come from other regions regularly for his workouts.  No way I could duplicate something like that with the precision that he does.  We are all better runners and men for it.

Highlight/low light was at the end of the down hill spring that Honey Bee won.  He tried to show his superiority over the second place finisher TR in a very archaic way.  It came within a inch of happening.  Awkward.

Thanks boys for following along and mostly playing nice.

Swift needs a Q next week.