- When:06/01/2017
- QIC: Gummy
- The PAX: Hops, Hopper, Marge, Queen, Sleepy, Sleeping Cow, Lazy Boy, Cottonmouth, Tackling Dummy, Good Hands, Jet Fuel, Harley, Safe Light, Boerewors, Sweet Roll, Arena, Spackler, Flutie Flakes, Gummy (QIC)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
19 men gathered in an elementary school parking lot at 5:30 this morning. After what I thought was an excellent disclaimer, we proceeded thusly.
Yog around the front of the school, all the way back around to the field just behind the school. The complaints about the wet ground started right away. Pulling a page from a Tiger Rag workout long ago, the first exercise was to lay down on your stomach, roll to the right, roll to the left. There you go. You’re wet. No more complaining. IW, MC, Slow Squat. Off to the picnic tables.
Partner up. Partner 1 does the exercise at the tables while partner 2 runs hard to the end of the fence along the baseline of that field right there. Flapjack. Repeat for all four fields. Exercises were derkins, dips, step ups and incline merkins. Recover there with some alternating people’s chair (why do we call it that?) and BTW.
To the back field, then get back with your partner. In one end zone, partner 1 does 15 derkins on the other’s back, to midfield for 15 hand-slap merkins, then to the other end zone for 15 full situps. Flapjack for the other partner going back to the start.
Head through the trail (well lit this time of year) to the hill. Sevens on the hill with jump squats at the top, CDDs at the bottom. Recover with Mary. Then up the hill to Old Providence, stopping at each light on the right for 1 burpee, 2 burpees, etc. That sucked.
Jog to the field where we started for AYG sprints to run out the clock. Done
Moleskine
It’s such a polite crowd at Hydra. Other than Spackler’s constant feedback, I didn’t hear much from the PAX. Hops showed up looking like he’d run 13 miles to get to the workout. Nope, just the 1.5 from his house. It’s going to be a long summer. He eschewed the offers for a ride home afterwards though and finished his run.
Announcements:
F3 Granite (New Hampshire) has launched. Send your friends to see Flutie Flakes.
Ghost Runner (aka Stink ‘n Drink) starts back up tonight. ABC at the Arbo at 7:30 for 4 or 6 miles. Then to Vintners to fight off the ladies while enjoying a beverage.
Horsey McHorseArse starts Monday. 5:30 in the Old Bell parking lot of the McAlpine Greenway. If you’re looking to finish off that overuse injury before BRR season gets too far along, that’s the place to do it.
F3 Dads starts this weekend and continues every Saturday in June. Sounds like it’s at Beatty Park at 9:00, but you should probably confirm before you show up.
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Good call on the rolling around in the wet grass. I recall that TR move.
So that you all do not feel neglected, below is the link to the Summer Shirt Order. Closes June 7. Get on it! Aye.
Good to see Flutie down from the Granite State. Also, Kotters (sort of) to Hopper; hadn’t posted with him in forever. Sleeping Cow and Sweet Roll, among others, were really getting after it.
Random comment of the morning, somebody said it smelled “floral” as we were suffering through the 7’s on the hill. Not if you were running behind Spackler!
Gummy listed himself twice as QIC #humblebrag. It was a solid Q, however. Noticed you didn’t do your normal run in #Qpressure
My run home felt like 20 miles, and a couple of my neighbors asked me to put my shirt back on. Humidity leading to humility.
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