Tour de Matthews

Tour de Matthews

Our AO is as solid as they come – good lighting, some hills, track (sort of), stairs, large field, really really ridiculously good looking site Qs, etc. but for a while I’ve wanted to take the PAX through DTM (Downtown Matthews) since it’s not even .5 miles away and it’s got a great feel to it and lots to do.

We started off with a strong pace but one that I knew the PAX could handle. Cotton Tail immediately yelled “pretty fast pace” in effort to send me a hint to slow down, Harley (I think) yelled “Where are we going?”.

What had happened was…

We immediately ran across John St. and took the back route to downtown Matthews, past Renfrow farms and into the motorcycle shop parking lot for a warmup.

SSH, Mountain Climbers, Carolina Dry Docks, Merkins

At the long one-way parking lot behind Seaboard

8 total lamposts – increasing burpees at each one – 36 total

Three rounds of the following – 20 derkins, 20 dips, 20 Sister Mary Catherines  and run a lap up the new stairs (that lead to Seaboard) and back around to Trade St.

Run down to the library across the street and partner up

Cumulative reps of the following with a partner:

1oo merkins

100 squat jumps

200 LBCs

Partner 1 runs lap around the circle in front of the library and flap jacks

We rounded up the PAX to head back as it was already 6:02 and we were exactly 1 mile away from the school

In Downtown Matthews 

At 8 lamposts we did 8’s

1 plank jack, 7 merkins, 2 plank jacks, 6 merkins, etc.

At this point it was 6:08 and we headed back to the school on the back road.

We made it back by 6:13 and did an AYG sprint to the lot, which took us less than 1 minute and ended up finishing a minute early. I was considering a burpee burnout but I could tell we were done.

Moleskine

Swiss Miss, being a true servant leader, brought up the back of the PAX as we were going across some busy roads and went pretty far offsite – thank you.

Gypsy came back after posting like 4 times since he joined F3 last Friday. He said he just gave up smoking after 30+ years and he’s killing it now – congrats bro. Bring your friends.

I did a little pre Q-run last night at like 10:30-11ish pm and saw Drive By at Seaboard taking in a very dark stout brew. He said he was out for this morning because it was late and he was feeling good with a beer (or two) in his belly. I pushed him (and another guy there) to post and he showed up. He knew we were making the trek to downtown and still made it. He’s basically out until next summer since he’s a teacher and has to make it to school early – see you then brother.

Everyone pushed hard today, it was a little longer of a run than usual but we stayed within 50 yards of each other the whole morning. Except at the end when Rhapsody put it into 5th gear on the AYG run – such a douche move.

We got a good tour of Matthews today – there’s a lot to do but there was a bit more traffic than anticipated. Nice work by all!

Announcements

Nov 4th Matthews – 5k race benefiting TEF Charlotte – The Exceptional Foundation – non-profit program for Adults with special needs

http://letthemsoar5k.racesonline.com/

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