Equal Intervals – Unequal Pain

Equal Intervals – Unequal Pain

It is much easier to write a backblast when you write up a detailed pre-blast #cutandpaste

9 pax showed up to become Mountain Goats and a small part of the journey has now been completed and is roughly outlined as such:

Basic warm up, about a 1/2 mile out (pronounced oot) Woodfox and back to the track for dynamic stretching.  Q definitely getting the comments when it comes to skipping and bounding, mumblechatter always welcome, you’re at my workout anyway so participation is always optional and I’m not a professional anyway, however I do it because I was taught well and it seems to work.

Running intervals at I pace which also uncomfortably hard which is also about 30 seconds slower than our mile time which is just find some like speed guys and run with them if needed, etc.

200M – 200M jog/regroup recovery

400M – 400M jog/regroup recovery

600M – 600M jog/regroup recovery

800M – 400M jog/regroup recovery

Attempted to run a proper cut down run, taking 5 seconds a lap (which equals 20 seconds per mile) off the pace.  Despite the fact that this is described in a single sentence it takes a surprisingly long time to describe in person.  Two groups formed, Slim Fast of course leading the faster group starting at a 9 min/mile pace with YHC leading a group starting at 10:30 pace.  Groups pretty much stayed together and mostly executed the cut down run.  TR of course being the engineer was a bit dismayed at missing the start by a few seconds which threw off his per lap timing but he seemed to pull it off regardless.

Major props to Kilowatt out there, our only respect pax today, he has and continues to be a regular out there and wow is it showing, he powered through all the intervals and the cutdown run pulling in about 5.5 miles today, he commented during the cutdown run that he couldn’t run half a mile before and here he is pulling off 5+ and in the respect category too.

Floor Slapper was quiet but consistent out there which is exactly how you are supposed to run those intervals, nice.  High Tide spent almost the entire 800M interval running with YHC and complaining the entire time, which means he was talking, which means he is stronger than he thinks and is definitely BRR ready.  Ickey Shuffle, for someone that likes the kettlebells has been getting quicker after only a few times out at Mountain Goat, keep it up and High Tide will take away the 0.0, oh no wait, he’s already lost his anyway, nevermind, keep coming back brother, love to have you out there and the improvement is already noticeable.

Announcements:

Mountain Goat is ON next week, thanks to Honey Bee for taking the lead, yes it will still be a moderate, push yourself workout.

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