Sleep is over rated.. just ask the P200 teams



Sleep is over rated.. just ask the P200 teams

1201 AM:  When the day of Q starts with you still 90 miles away from home, you know it is going to be rough.  As I ponder the various ways to explain why I fartsacked my Q for Sparta, I kept coming back to the realization that no valid reason short of my Truck driving off this ridiculously curvy interstate 26 in the mountains of TN would work considering the Site Q participated on an Ultra team in the P200 only days before.  (seriously though… the TN DOT must have some crazy law on the book that interstates can’t be straight for more than a half mile before a curve is randomly placed in it. Smokey can you confirm this idea?)  After way to much coffee to get me home, I had the dreadful realization that what kept me awake for the drive home was now keeping me awake while I’m trying to sleep.. !@#$%&.

Solid 2.5 hrs of sleep and time to get the Speed For Need (SPN) Chariot trailer loaded onto the Gypsy-mobile.  Again, thinking trough how much crap I would get if I FartSacked, YHC decides that the Great Q in the sky has placed me in this situation for a reason and I committed to the PAX a SPN training post… So off I go.

WE all know the Great sky Q has a since of humor at times… but today this day was not one that I really wanted to be tested… however, YHC was for sure being tested as to if I would follow through with the commitment or not.

430 AM:  Headlamp on trying to get the dang key into the trailer hitch lock and the tummlers are not working…  Way to sleepy to think of something simple like use WD40 to help… many choice words and various 4 letter ones were used to describe this inanimate object at 430 in the morning and yet for some reason it still did not work.  (Could have been a very easy reason to cancel the post and go back to bed)

445 AM Time to improvise…pull 2 Chariots out and load them into the back of the truck.

455 AM Thank goodness I have been doing F3 for a while now… although the chariots are not heavy, they are awkward to lift solo into the back of your truck.  All those morning random coupon posts have finally paid off…Send a message to the Site Q and let him know I’m on the way.

515 AM pull in right on time to start.  The intent was a Chariot training post meaning the wienke was short.

The Thang:

Show how the Chariots work.

  • How to adjust the handles
  • How to put on the front tire and which side it goes on
  • How much air goes in the tires
  • Where the break is
  • ETC

Pair up by height so the handles are set properly and time to roll.  Release the break and off on a F2 pace 5K+ run with very limited exercises to retain the “Boot-Camp” tag for the AO.  (A few merkins, Hill-Billies, Low Slow Squats, and SSH.)

My choice for where we were going to the get the kilometers in was a reallllly bad idea due to the steepness of the hills. Time to call an audible and mosey around the neighborhood (Thank you Madison for taking lead on the directions for this) until we get back to the AO.  Finish up with some stretching, circle up for COT, load Chariots back in the truck, and time to place this post in the history books!!

MoleSkin:

Lots of lessons for YHC on this one.

  1. Make sure to look at family calendar BEFORE signing up for a Q
  2. Prepare the equipment the day before (including the coffee)
  3. Shake-N-Bake in a Chariot as you push up a hill is one hell-of-a workout
  4. Christmas and Madison would make a stellar two-man SPN team (Hint-Hint)
  5. Two Chariots will fit in the back of a Standard truck bed regardless of what Tolkien tells you
  6. HANG on tight when pushing down hills…your pace will pick up, but let it cuz you will need it for the momentum up the next hill
  7. Sleep is not needed when you have Q-drinaline

As Always:  Thank you all for everything you do every day

Respectfully,

YHC Gypsy

 

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