Can You Dig It?

Can You Dig It?

Some arrived earlier than others, some arrived faster than others, and by launch time an even dozen had shown for YHC’s first Q at Fast Twitch. And so began our morning as we set out to do a little bit of a lot of different things:

Thang

• Disclaimer and mosey west on 51 towards Rea
• Pause in the parking lot of Davie for some stretching (IW, Windmills, LSS)
• Pick it up to a run and continue west on 51. 5 HR merkins at every lamp post until you get to Rea
• Hot mile (5K pace or so) north on Rea to the DD light
• Return south on Rea stopping at every entrance for 5 burpees; halt at Summer Gate Drive
• Run together down Summer Gate, right on Five Knolls, halt at the base of LC
• One trip up LC, make it a good one
• Continue to Clavemorr and back to 51
• Run east on 51 back to launch stopping every 5 lamp posts for 5 HR merkins
• Suicide in the lot using the 3 big lights
• AYG sprint to the last light
• Mosey back to the starting spot and stop at 5.98 miles (ouch)

Moleskin

Purple Haze came out firing and lodged his first complaint at 0511 this morning, letting YHC know that I had neglected my duty of pre-tweeting and pre-Slacking my Q. This was followed roughly 4 minutes later with a note that my SOB shirt was a less than ideal choice for this Q in A51 territory. For a moment I thought I might have to channel my inner-Swan if he asked me to take off my colors, but it didn’t come to that.

Plenty of additional complaints mumblechatter kept us entertained throughout the morning [stretching (Haze), burpees (Haze, HH, Brady, more), LC (most except One Eye, Rachel and also Purrell who didn’t know what to expect and ran smoked it for his 1st time today), having to count to 5 street lights (more than I care to admit)]. Taking Summer Gate into Five Knolls was originally a way to save time. It was a nice bonus when almost everyone was genuinely surprised to look up and see LC looming in front of them. Each trip up that mother is still near vomit-inducing. #LoveHate

YHC was able to hang with Rachel and Purrell part of the way back but eventually watched them fly off into the distance. Alf put it best afterwards saying Rachel is like a flywheel — takes him a little while to warm up but once that inertia is going it’s all over. Purrell is just plain fast and put himself out front on just about every portion of today’s workout. Brady doesn’t like upper body work on his running days, Benny was running strong coming off his PR sub-20 5K this weekend, and I am pretty sure most of you were probably still sore from Southern Discomfort this weekend. Today likely didn’t help with that.

Big thank you to Haze and Rachel for inviting me to lead. Always great to get out and put in work with the men of Fast Twitch.

Announcements

• JRR Tolkien on Q at Fast Twitch next Tuesday. SFN chariots will be present.
• P200 is close to selling out. Awesome race. Form a team or find one now if you are thinking about racing.
• F3 Golf this Friday
• Register yourself (and the whole family) for the Joe Davis Run for Recovery. Incredible cause and tons of PAX. 10K, 5K and 0.5 mile fun run options. https://joedavisrun.racesonline.com/
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