Bro Speed 2 – Choose Your Own Adventure

Bro Speed 2 – Choose Your Own Adventure

24 PAX voted with their clicks on Monday to determine the venue for Tuesday’s Swift.  It was left up to the Q to prepare the spot of finely tuned distance intervals with paint and cones – just what the Ballantyne Corporate Park cops want – graffiti and litter.

The THANG:

• Slack PreBlast seems like it may be a good thing.  Check the #run Slack channel on the F3SouthCharlotte Slack group for future week plans.  Sound off in the comments if you still want a PreBlast on this forum.
• 0500 PAX time – Tuck, Wild Turkey, Hairball, Goonie, Fleetwood, Gumbo, Woodson, and Mario just couldn’t wait to get going and set out on a prerun.  Apparently, Bunker needed some extra warming at the CVS, or had a list of supplies to buy from the M, and caught up to the rest of the pack later.
• 0500 Q time – try to act inconspicuous as you walk down the shoulder/bike lane of a 4 lane road through a major corporate park, wearing a headlamp, carrying a can of spray paint, pushing an orange wheel, and marking spots and dropping cones on the curb every 330 ticks of the wheel.
• 0500 Das Boot time – Choose your own adventure and post at Community House Middle school track, hoping the other PAX wanted to run on the track also.  When discovering you are solo, reroute to the Vine.
• 0515 PAX time – Pax depart the Vine parking lot through the Ballantyne Hotel lot and up Ballantyne Commons Rd towards the Met Life building.
• 0525ish – PAX trained in the art of the warmup start some dynamic exercises and strides.  Somewhere during the A skips, the Q joins from the opposite direction into the flow of the PAX.
• 0530 – Group up at the corner of North Community House Road (spelled it out for Das Boot) and Ballantyne Commons Parkway.  Note start point of the 400meters (measured at 1320 feet = 1/4 mile = 402.336 meters, so you actually ran a bit further than planned!) was at the “stop strip” near the intersection and runs all the way down to the next light’s crosswalk.  Every 100m (actually 330 feet) there’s a cone along the way.  Mostly slight downhill grade, but decidedly into a 9mph headwind this morning.
  • Start 400m interval at 1-mile Brolympics-planned race pace, recover back along the sidewalk with a jog.  Form some groups and stay together.
  • Continue rounds until 0605 with a goal to reach 8×400.
• 0550 Goonie Time – Head back to the CVS to see if what Bunker found on special was still in stock.
• 0601 Rock Thrill Time – Head back to your car at Earth Fare?  Did you forget where we started or just wanted some extra distance?
• 0605 PAX Time – Head back to the Vine for COT with a cooldown jog.
• 0605 Q Time – Find your vehicle parked nearby, pass the PAX on the way back to the Vine, but run around the Bagpipe PAX until 0615.
• 0615 – COT
• 0630 – Timekeeper at the “bagel place” with PaperJam bringing a discussion question.

Moleskin:

• Can’t say I was fearing for my life walking around Ballantyne Corporate Park with a can of spray paint this morning, but definitely feared for an end to a clean public record.  Definitely, don’t want anything to show up on a permanent record that speaks to defamation of public/private property.  So far, so good.  Now that I have access to a wheel, thanks to Barenaked, we’ll start measuring some more precise distances at the Bull Ring and other locales in the Ballantyne Corporate Park that will allow for easier recall of intervals that we can be better with timing.  Thoughts on a template/symbol to use with spray paint, or the more generic/incognito the better?
• Why do we need measured intervals?  Because while GPS is decent at figuring pace per interval/lap, it’s not quite the accuracy needed over short intervals.  A Lap button is much better and you can track intervals with a simple stopwatch.  Even Fletch learned how to use his lap button this morning!  Mario is getting
• Late January bringing out the PAX – 24 is definitely above average by a handful.  Weather is cold. Distance is medium length.  Still a good turnout.  Well done men!
• Several groups this morning.  Group with Fleetwood, Hairball, Enron, Bunker, Woodson, and Gumbo (and Soft Pretzel?) held on and never let a large gap widen to the PAX ahead.
• The group of Voodoo, Tuck, Erector, and Meatloaf kept things close and got in all 8 intervals that were the goal.
• Madame Tussauds, Wild Turkey, Goonie, Das Boot, and Picasso had reports coming back that they pushed each other to the limit, kept the merlot from spilling (barely), and finished strong.
• Whether it was Frasier (whose efforts came on late) or Citgo (who pushed hard the whole time) breaking the wind for the group, it was Haggis and Fletch tucking in behind to try to stay in touch.  And in the end, it was Mario who blistered the last 400m making a 65 second 400m look like a little baby jog.
• Note, we ran the “proper direction” for cold-weather running with wind.  You want to run the Hard effort into the wind (despite the extra resistance), for it allows you to do the “back” recovery with the wind behind where you can warm back up.  In warm weather, opposite directions where there is a breeze, for you get extra cooldown into the wind with the recovery.