A deer, a fox and a Pax walked into the woods………….

  • When:07/09/2017
  • QIC: Fire Hazard
  • The PAX: Haggis, Outback, Nard Dog, Frehley's Comet (R), Argonaut, Buckeye, Doc McStuffins, Transporter, Wingman, Fallout, Fire Hazard (QIC)


A deer, a fox and a Pax walked into the woods………….

11 men rolled up to the Vine at 5:15 ready for a good beat down. YHC wanted to oblige them… so off we went.

The Thang,

We moseyed past Lochness and the fitness trial to the parking lot behind Snyder’s. Here we circled up for the disclaimer and the following:

  • 15 – SSH
  • 15 – IW
  • 10 – Merkins
  • 10 – Windmills

Next over to Bag Pipe hill.

YHC slowly explained that we would be doing 11’s on the hill.

Start with 10 Burpees at the top and 1 Squat at the bottom. Then do it again with 9 and 2 then 8 and 3….. you get it.

Trying to stay safe we will run up on the left and down on the left watching out for each other while crossing.

Then we met at the bottom did a little plan work and then we were over to the Fitness trail with 3 groups. The first group would do 10 pull-ups on the fitness trial closest to Lochness. The 2nd group would then do 10 big boy dips on the bars. Team 3 would start at the other side of the fitness trial with 10 pull-ups. Cycle thorough this 3 times and then meet at the top.

Then back to the launch site for a few minutes of Mary.

 

The thing prior to the THANG…

I tried to make a point during the instructions to make sure the Pax new to run on the left hand side of the road always and to watch each other while turning and shouting out if cars were coming. We have all heard of the loss in F3 Lexington. Let’s learn from this and be safer. It is easy to get complacent and think of these AO’s as our playgrounds, but these are open roads and tired motorists are not always paying attention.

 

Off my soap box and on the THANG….

So it took a lot of explaining to get Pax oriented to the 11’s on bag pipe hill. Where is the top???? what are we using as the bottom???? Burpees WHY????

So as everyone was grinding it out a few key things happened.

  1. A deer was seen crossing by wingman.
  2. Transporter ran into the same set of bushes that the Deer disappeared into.
  3. A fox was seen running out of the same bushes shortly after. Said fox was running erratically in the street.

So the events noted above brought up lots of mumble chatter. Why did transporter grab his shirt before running into the woods (Doc says this happens all the time with Transporter). Did Transporter accidentally bomb the foxes den, hence the foxes erratic behavior. Did the fox wonder what strange twig and berries had invaded his turf. Would transporter make it back sans shirt or with his shirt in tow.

Transporter did meet back up with us with his shirt (not sure if it was soiled or not. don’t ask don’t tell).

Everyone pushed hard today the 11’s were tough and we had almost 4 miles 38 minutes into the workout. During the fitness trail part of the workout I was beat and was heads down.

During the 11’s Doc was out in front the whole time as was transporter (until the bush incident). Haggis was having a bipolar day. He would tell me on the way down he wasn’t going to push hard today…. then he would fly by me on the uphill to catch Doc. Wingman was doing his job as the I.T. Q. Somehow he would catch up to me striding it out and not breathing hard and try to explain this new webpage. I had no idea what he was saying and I just wheezed OK between pants. Outback and Frehley’s pushed hard today and stayed with it until the very end. Buckeye and Fallout seemed to passed me on opposite sides of the road. I am not sure if they were in front or I was but we seemed to be on the same cycle round after round. Nard Dog was fast as always and somehow passed me multiple times on the uphill.  Argo was his normal silent self quietly killing it and pushing as hard as anyone out there.

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Argonaut
6 years ago

Nice lead FH. The pull-up nastiness at the end was a nice touch. Solid work.

Tuck
Tuck
6 years ago

Argo… silent but deadly

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