The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. YHC ran the Sparta route twice in the last week to make sure I knew where all the pain stations were going to be along the 4.5 mile mossy… However, those were during the day and you could see everything around you. Come to find out, the 4 mile Greenway trail in Matthews is a REALLLLLY dark trail at 5:15 AM and not all the pain stations were found. But since none of us are professionals and we declare so that the start of each work out, improvisation is expected from time to time.
The Thang
Return trip
Moleskin:
Total of 4.5 miles with pain stations along the way. (The Mosey pace was at an 8:06 min mile)
This is an excellent location for a morning run. Deer and Rabbits are out in abundance and the Spring smell of flowers was amazing.
The long bridge before John St is much longer in the dark than it appears in the day light, so if you are going to sprint it, be ready to sprint a little longer than expected.
Was expecting a few more today but the text messages from 2 unnamed pax both indicated the Alarm did not go off…. All good.. next week we get to do it all over again so I am sure they will make it then.
Announcements
THIS IS SPARTA!!!
Stay Strong. It was an honor to lead this morning.
Respectfully
Gypsy
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