Who put that hill there?

Who put that hill there?

HE double hockey sticks froze over and Strange Brew Q’d a running workout.  It was a mere 24 degrees (C), if that sounds cool to you then the conversion calculator is here: https://www.google.com/search?q=c+to+f+conversion+calculator&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I had an idea of how to modify one of the many Swift workouts I’ve participated in for Mountain Goat and so with a disclaimer given, the four of us were off.  Shortly after exiting the SCMS parking lot on our way towards the DT start point a cool looking pickup truck stopped us to ask where we were going and we told Bratwurst to just run towards Devils Turn and he’d catch up, which of course for him didn’t take long and then we were 5 pax.  After about 3/4 of a mile we stopped to do some dynamic stretching to conveniently (or inconveniently) lasted until we reached the bottom of the bigger hill on Coburn (for those of you that are familiar with the route to/from DT and SCMS).

There we did 5 min of hard effort up, recover down, turned out to be about 4 reps each, with the stronger runners going a bit further each time.  Then we did 5 min mosey pace recovery, and then a repeato.  The third time we mixed it up with reps 1 and 3 being backwards up which of course was a “nice” way to mix it up but also work some different muscles, this was intended to be a leg strength with some cardio mix.

A recovery run with a little walking on YHC’s part back to the school for a little cooldown stretching and catch up with Steinbrenner who thought the workout was at 0530 and to his credit he did a run on his own, matching routes he almost made it as far as the rest of the pax, had he turned one more corner he’d have found us but good work out there on your own, that is actually harder to do.

A total of 4.5 miles covered, more for the faster runners but since YHC was on Q I get to use my distance on the watch.  Doesn’t sound like much to some, sounds like a lot to others but it was ISI and each pax pushing himself.

NMM:

Thanks to the pax for going along with the plan, wasn’t sure how it would work out but it seemed like a good workout was had by all, the great thing about this type of workout is that all skill levels could push themselves equally as hard.  Huggy Bear has really been getting at it at Mountain Goat, great to have you, keep coming!  High Tide, for someone who claims to not be a runner (but actually is) was near the front of the pack and on the way back to the school stuck with YHC out of pure pity and 2nd F opportunity, thanks for that.  Bratwurst and Hopper were inspiring the pax from the front, thanks guys for coming out, you always give others something to shoot for and an encouraging word, even though you’re working just as hard, you still take the time to give a shout out at the right time, inspiring.

Would love to see more and more beginner runners out, or really runners of any skill level, or pax who don’t think they’re runners, or pax that don’t think they can run, etc.