Rain? What Rain Peak51 backblast

Rain? What Rain Peak51 backblast

Set Up

In the days leading up today I often looked at the Weather app for Thursday morning and was greeted with predictions of rain.  Not 10% or 20% chances, mind you.  More like 80% plus.  Harkening back to the great American philosopher, Alfred E. Nueman, I thought, “What?  Me worry?”  No way was I going to worry…I KNEW Peak51 was safe from rain.  Because I have access to a far greater weather predictor than Weather.com.  Way better than the Farmer’s Almanac.  Better than NOAA or even the National Weather Service.  I had learned from the master himself – Slim Fast!  He has said on many occasions (in your best redneck Texas accent) “I don’t know what it is.  I can’t explain it…but every time its raining in Matthews before Peak51 it stops just in time.”  I’ve seen it happen several times myself.  No matter how dire the predictions are for a total washout.  Explaining the Bermuda Triangle or Nessie would be easier than this phenomenon.

I dutifully arrived at 0445 in a substantial downpour for the pre-run and spent the next several minutes praying no one else would show up.  5 minutes later two things became abundantly clear: 1. My prayers were answered, and 2. Every other F3 participant in the area is smarter than me.   At 5:10 the rain grew in intensity and I was about to part ways with Mr. Nueman and start worrying.  Cars began to roll in and 5:27 the rain dwindled to an occasional sprinkle.  Slim Fast had waved his magic wand again.

Introductions made and disclaimer given – we set off to mosey around Matthews Elementary.

The THANG

Circle up on the bus lot for COP:

SSH X 20

IW X 20

LSS X 17

Mosey to bottom of hill behind the church.  Partner up for suicides/called exercise.  Partner 1 does suicides uphill (texas drawl: shorten ur stride, shorten ur stride, lean in to the hill) while partner 2 does mountain climbers. Flap jack.  Round 2 substitute bomb jacks for mountain climbers.  Round 3: squats.

Mosey up to the covered stage at Stumptown Park.  Keeping with same partners…partners 1 on end of stage and partners 2 on other end.  Partners 1 bear crawls to their partners as a relay race.  Once tagged, partner 2 crab walks to other end.  Taking advantage of the dry floor YHC moved Mary up to this point in the workout:  Dollys, Freddie Mercury’s, American Hammers, LBCs each X 20.  Two rounds of protractor with each pax calling out an angle.  Merkins X 20 just because.  The Q being the observant one that he is, noticed the PAX really enjoyed the bear crawl/crab walk relay race and were disappointed we only did it once.  So…round two!  And there was much rejoicing.

Mosey back to the AO to the entrance of the city building for circuit work on the benches and stairs.  Step-ups X 20, dips X 20 and derkins X 10.  Rinse and repeat.  Mosey to the big church wall for two rounds of sitting in the people’s chair with 50 and then 100 air presses.

Snake mosey back through the ‘suicide’ parking lot and then back to our cars.  One or more of our directionally-gifted PAX noted in a somewhat frustrated tone that the mosey was the ‘wrong’ direction to get us back to the beginning. He/they were correct so YHC rewarded them by picking up the pace of the mosey.  Garmin says we did 1.95 miles (Q honestly expected that to be higher.  Guess we will have to run more next time to make up).  Time = 6:15  Done!

MOLESKIN

Great to have 3 returning PAX from days gone by:  Triple D, Blue Hen and Blender.  Hope you all make Peak51 a regular part of your week going forward.  Great effort from all the PAX which has become the norm for Peak51.  The dynamic duo Sensei and Slim Fast were strong as always; the ‘other’ dynamic duo/Siamese twins Tweetsie and Lois again added sweat and humor to the workout; Lumberjack again performed at a high level belieing his ‘respect’ status.  T-claps to Sensei and Lois for their excellent leadership of Peak51 and for giving YHC the opportunity to lead these awesome men.  Hearing the ‘wrong way’ comment mentioned earlier and a PAX comment that he won’t be able to lift his arms later in the day was almost enough to bring a tear to the eye of YHC.  BTW – as we broke the circle of trust…you guessed it.  Rain slowly started picking up and wipers were required for the drive home.  Unreal.

T-claps to Tweetsie for taking us out by giving thanks to our Heavenly Father and encouraging us to be salt and light to a hurting and dark world. Additional T-claps to Tweetsie for being here this morning – with the passing of Billy Graham I’m sure work for him this week has been off the charts.