Joe Davis Dress Rehearsal or CSAUP? A little of both…

Joe Davis Dress Rehearsal or CSAUP? A little of both…

The bone-chilling temps Thursday morning did not keep the #F3Sparta faithful from prepping for the Joe Davis Run for Recovery.  At 05:15, 5 beasts emerged from their warm automobiles, suited up and took off to conquer a few miles through Weddington Ridge and Providence Hills (with few squats, merkins & LBC’s thrown in).

Disclaimer was given and we headed away from Socrates via Big Pine, hung a Right on Equestrian, and then a Left on Cameron Creek.  We followed CC down the hill to the intersection of CC & Hampton Glen, hung another Left on HG and stopped at the 4-way stop on Hampton Glen & Savannah Hills Dr for COP.

COP = 20 SSH IC & 20 IW IC

The Main Thang 

The intersection of Hampton Glen & Savannah Hills provides the Home Base for a ‘starfish’ of sorts, so here’s how it went down.  HC dead ends into a cul-de-sac that is equal distance from Home Base.  Savannah Hills has a stop sign (at the pool house) that just happens to be the same distance away.

Today’s weinke was simple – run to 1 cul-de-sac, perform 20 merkins.  Return to Home Base & do 5 burpees.  Head to STOP sign for 20 squats.  Back to Home Base for 5 burpees.  Run to other cul-de-sac & perform 20 LBCs.  All exercises OYO and repeat the circuit until it’s time to return.

When it was time to head back to the cars, the PAX completed 80-ish Merkins, Squats & LBCs along with 45-50 burpees.  The Garmins claimed we covered just over 5 miles.

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A couple of guys are battling various maladies, but that didn’t keep them from ignoring the M’s advice and posting anyway.  Arena is a regular at Sparta.  He’s always been strong & now he’s getting fast.  Arsenal came out hoping for fog but likely found frost bite.  A dude from the desert is not used to these cold temps, but that hasn’t stopped him.  Seems like he’s there every week.  Shake N Bake is to blame for this nonsense.  This running workout was partially his idea, and he’s owning it by showing every week.  He even registered for his 1st Joe Davis 10K to show how strong of a runner he has become.  Speaking of ‘becoming a runner’, we welcomed Paper Jam this week.  With all of his pre-runs & Blakeovery, Paper Jam likely logs more miles than anyone in Area 51 (that’s an unofficial tally — don’t want any Fast Twitch or Devil’s Turn guys to get their feelings hurt).

What started as an idea being discussed over beers at Happy Hour has turned into one of the best workouts of my week.  It was my pleasure to lead this dedicated group of brothers this week, and I look forward to the next one.  Thank you guys for blessing me with your presence.

Out.