Running late

Running late

The alarm went off at 5:10 the only problem was it was not my alarm but my wife’s alarm to get up for work.  Despite my dog getting up at 2:00 I cannot even use that excuse because my alarm still would not have been sent.  Sent a quick text to Brat, who did not get it till later, about the plan.  He must have read my mind because when I pulled up to the turn lane on Johnston he was headed to where I was going to go.  The pax was so involved in giving me grief about being late to see that the turn lane I was in had a green arrow.

After running faster than I wanted to catch the pax I finally caught up with the tail end at Ballantyne Country Club entrance off of Ballantyne Commons.  We caught the rest before they made the right turn.  Everyone was scattered at this point and the theme of the morning was me feeling like I was herding cats.  We did stop and do some warm up drills i.e. tip toes, heels, butt kickers and B skips.

Once we had finished our warm up and Paper Jam had decided to set sail himself the instructions were given.  The workout was jog two minutes, run a 10k pace for one minute and then go hard for thirty seconds.  I did not do a great job of communicating this or we just had some refuseniks.  After the thirty seconds of hard you were to circle back and run with the shirtless wonder Strange Brew.  We did this through both sides of Ballantyne Country Club being careful crossing Johnston Rd.

Somehow we finished in the parking lot with one minute to thirty seconds to spare.  That promise of stretching did not occur one more failure in the plan today.  The idea was to mix it up with a long recovery followed by some harder running.  Not all that was promised in a recovery run as Paper Jam ran by me calling me a liar in a polite way. I know a lot of us are still recovering from The Crane Relay with some fantastic performances.  Guys were running hard this morning, in particular One Niner, Polly, Brat and Fleetwood who participated in the Crane.  Hope to see more of you out there next year.

The moral for today is make sure you not only set your alarm but turn it on as well before Qing a workout.  Side note if anyone wants a dog that does not sleep very well at night and is prone to whining please let me know.

Announcements: No Swift at Swift next Tuesday.  We are converging at Fast Twitch at Charlotte Latin for a topic secret hard fitness test.