#F3Swift – Silent assessments

#F3Swift – Silent assessments

6 PAX posted on a hot muggy morning to take one last look at the flattish Bull Ring before going more vertical.

The THANG:

• Warm-up 1.3 miles with a Mosey and some drills.
• 4 x 0.75 mile (1200m or 1.5 turns of the Bull Ring) at Threshold Pace calculated Here. 2 minutes rest in between each.
• 1 mile Mosey to COT
• Total miles about 5.5.

The Moleskin:

• Turns out, only 2 PAX from today’s group are assaulting the BRR, but any PAX who shows up to Swift would be comfortable on the hills of the Blue Ridge mountains.
• A taper week is a week to assess how you feel from the weeks of training.  It can be maddening – do I feel a tweak here, am I in shape, should I test myself, should I rest…  The way the workout was structured today did not help, for most PAX ran alone for 5 minutes at a time.  Not the normal way we do it at Swift.
• Fortunately, YHC was happy to have Honey Bee as a pacer.  Knowing that his “A” race is still weeks away at the Chicago Marathon, HB had more freedom to push it and get a max workout.  YHC was a little more restrained.
• Spinner was back to Swift after a long layoff, and actually hopes to get better Cycling by running more.  The first time back feels hard, but that’s why we do it, right?
• Abacus has been making Huge strides (and he’s really Tall) at Swift, and he’s probably a shoe-in for the BRR or any other running event upcoming.  A chance to shine next week in the Mud Run simulation.
• Outback, while still nursing a calf issue, still plugs away out there.  YHC can’t tell him to back off, for he probably would pull “that’s not a knife, THIS is a knife!”
• Stump Hugger, Swift regular, is probably feeling less Stumpy and will be more like a tall Oak soon.  Getting fitter by the week.

Announcements:

• M. Tussauds on Q next week at Swift.  Probably pulling some reluctant Bagpipers along, or perhaps even supplanting Bagpipe as the Tuesday bootcamp for a day, he’ll take the PAX on a Tour d’Ballantyne through several pain stations.