Goats That Go Up Must Come Down

Goats That Go Up Must Come Down

The sun broke over the horizon and the pax rolled in to start their day with a light mosey, most of that is true except for the sun part.

Wait for Soul Glo to get out of his car…then a quick overview of the warm up procedure, since this is a moderate running workout, we warm up at a moderate pace, those runners that need to go faster turned around at Coburn to pick up the 6/Q (turns out you can Q a running workout from the 6).  Some dynamic warm up, saving the skip to the end to maximize mumble chatter, slightly disappointed although some comments were made.  Interestingly enough this ended the pax peloton up at the bottom of the main Coburn hill and so we did 30 sec, 1 mile race effort up the hill, recover as a group at the bottom.  Part way through a shadow in the mist showed up and someone declared it to be Steinbrenner, which indeed it was, although after the explanation of the hill drill he claimed to be a local going for a walk…We did the hill 5 times at which point the Q said we’d take a break so we went up the hill backwards but for less distance, apparently some of the pax did not view this as a break.  So then we did 5 more reps with the last one meeting up at the top, then 2 min mosey pace out and back to recover (running recovery) at which point we did 30 reps x 5 down the hill after some (sorry for putting you on the spot) pointers from A51’s resident running expert (Bratwurst), pax had fun going down, then some realized that the “recovery” was up the hill, turns out that is less of a recovery, oh well it’s good for you nonetheless.  After the 5th rep of that the pax started for home with alternating backwards and forwards runs to the corner of Browne’s Pond then a cool down jog back to the parking lot with the instructions for the lead to start Mary when they arrived, in a demonstration of what F3 is all about, lead pax ended up taking the initiative to retrieve the 6 instead, commendable and appreciated.  So ultimately only Young Love did the Mary, well done brother.

Great to see Baracus coming back off of injury, great to see Soul Glo on his first ever Friday post (always welcome back) and Stump Hugger coming back off of injury also, Kotters and strong work on those hills!  A hearty discussion was had prior to setting off on the lack of integrity on the part of ISIS, not all that surprising really I suppose.  Someone even mentioned that shirts are being made that look like Arabic script but really say some mean about ISIS in English, what will they think of next.  If you are wondering how this fits into the context of the backblast this just proves that you actually read the backblast and you are now obligated to post a comment below with your thoughts on this.

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Bratwurst mentioned the Gladiator Games in Indianland for Sat, apparently Pebbles has never been beaten so go out and try

Thanks to Stumphugger for the takeout and strong reminder of our privilege to workout and health and to take that out into the day!