4 Spartans come across 15 Meatheads (A Spartan 5×5 and 4 AOs)  



4 Spartans come across 15 Meatheads (A Spartan 5×5 and 4 AOs)  

E ala ‘oe!!  e holo ana nā kānaka

Sparta has to be one of the easiest AOs to Q of all the ones YHC has been given the opportunity to lead.  The rules are easy.. WAKE UP!! Go run as hard as you can and add in some quick exercises along the way to ensure the PAX is staying together and/or catching your breath.  The hardest part is making sure you don’t run further away from the AO than you can make it back in the 60 mins.  Good rule of thumb is cover 60% of your distance on the 1st 30 mins and 40% of your distance on the 2nd. Today’s Spartan beat down was a classic 5×5.  Meaning we will cover 5 miles and add in 5 pain stations along the way.  This break down helps the non-runners like YHC from getting so bored that you start wondering why you started running in the 1st place. Personally I would rather watch paint dry than go run more than 5 miles non-stop.

The Thang:

Start AO: Sparta Launch

  • Turn right onto South Trade Street (.07 miles)
  • Turn right onto Fullwood Lane (.57 miles)
  • Turn right into Covenant day (1.25 miles)
    • 1st Exercise: 15 Hand release Merkins (OYO)
    • 2nd Exercise: 15 Low Slow Squat (IC)
    • 3rd Exercise: 15 Bonnie Blair (Sister Mary Catherine) OYO
      1. Mosey back to Fullwood Lane
  • Turn left onto Matthews Township Parkway, NC 51 (1.6 miles)
  • Turn into Cross and Crown Church parking lot (2.0 miles)
    • 1st exercise: 20 each leg calf raises (OYO)
    • 2nd exercise: 25 WW2 sit-ups
      1. Mosey back to NC 51
  • Turn left onto Elizabeth Lane (2.64 miles)
  • Turn Left into AO: Meathead (3.0 miles)
    • 1st Exercise: People’s chair for 50 air presses OYO
    • 2nd Exercise: 15 Hand-release Derkins
      1. Fly-by the Meathead crew (making sure Horsehead was where he said he would be) that was standing around in a circle… when Voodoo said 0.0 I thought he meant no running, but what we Spartans saw was 0.0 was actually F2 fellowship standing in big circle like a 45 minute COT.  🙂
  • Turn Right onto Elizabeth Lane (3.2 miles)
  • Turn Right onto NC 51 (3.3 miles)
  • Stop across the street from Cross and Crown Church (3.5 miles)
    • 1st Exercise: 40 Reverse crunch
  • Turn right onto Covenant Church Lane (4.3 miles)
  • Turn left into Kevlar AO (4.5 miles)
    • 1st Exercise: 50 J-Los
    • 2nd Exercise: 50 LBC
    • 3rd Exercise: One lap around track
      1. Rinse & Repeat 2 more times
  • Turn right onto West John Street (4.7 miles)
  • Turn Right onto Trade (5 miles)
  • Turn left onto McDowell Street (5.12 miles)
  • FINISH at AO Peak 51 COT (5.26 miles)

MoleSkin:

2 Weinkes are always prepared when I Q.  It may sound like over kill, but depending on the PAX for any given morning I feel I owe it to ALL the guys to be prepared and not just some of them.

That being said; although today’s PAX was small, we consisted of 4 AO site Qs in which YHC has personally been handed 3 of the toughest beat-downs I will ever remember.

  • Fault Line was the Q on my FNG day (enough said on that)
  • Orange Whip had me debating if I could come back to F3 after the Tour De’ Matthews
  • Madison pushed me to a PR in running distance during a Matthews monsoon.

So I threw out the 5K option and brought in the 5 mile one.  (The 5k one was running the Let Them Soar route and take note where potential bottle necks would occur for the SFN racing chariots.)  The 5 mile options was originally set up as a capture the flag situation as we did a Fly-by on Meat Head.  But honestly, there was wayyyyyy more guys at Meat Head than I was expecting and I saw more than one runner in the group.  After 3 miles to get there and those guys all rested from standing around doing nothing but staring at KBs sitting on the ground, YHC did what every “Not a professional” would do and modified the weinke.  I for one did not think I could out run that mob of angry meat heads on this day.. Soooooo needless say, we will mark today up as a dry run on the eventual occurrence one chilly gloomy morning.

Announcements:

  • A51 will be handing out flyers at Matthews Alive with many of the work outs listed for A51. Flyers will be given out next Thursday at Peak 51 for PAX to hand out
  • Collecting names for the planning committee regarding the ONLY Matthews SFN race “Let Them Soar”. Contact Gypsy for more information.

SYITG!!

Respectfully,

Gypsy

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Madison
5 years ago

Love the poking of the Meathead bear.

High Tide
5 years ago

Well, the Meathead secret is out – not only does #0.0 mean we neither run nor workout (#2ndF) but there is rarely a shovelflag flying (making it slightly harder to capture).
You were in danger of being EH’ed, until we realized “those guys over there by the school, appearing to workout” (Horsehead observation) were actually well past the EH stage… (actually, his observation was more like, is there normally another group of guys working out here? Over by the school?)

Horsehead
5 years ago

Couple of puffs on my silent whistle, and Stone Cold would have chased all four of you down an broken you in half like a neglected Twix bar. He’s always at the ready, you know.

Voodoo
5 years ago

Gypsy, you should have joined in for a few rounds of KBs instead of doing that bodyweight nonsense. You might have decided to tear up your second weinke and join the fun. It’s good to know where Fault Line’s Thursday loyalties lie. #deadtome

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