Tapering on down

Tapering on down

At 0515 on Tuesday morning, 14 PAX left the comforts of the Vine Restaurant at the Ballantyne AO for the weekly Speedfest known as Swift.

The THANG:

• Early crew started a little after 0500 for an extra mile or so.
• Full crew gathered, waited for Longhaul to exit from his late-arriving vehicle, and took off from the parking area at 05:15:59 (not officially late) towards the Bull Ring.  1mile warm-up.  Extended drill session, explain the workout, we’re off…
• 4 x 4minutes at Threshold Pace (explained as “you should have looked this up from the Preblast link” and “about 0:50 to 1:00/mi slower than your 1mile PR.”).  2 minutes rest / recovery / regroup back to the Putting Green.
• Circle up and get on your Six for some Stretching – IT band / glutes, Hamstring, more Hip / core stuff with “snow angel” and “reverse snow angel / scorpion”.
• Mosey back to COT at the Vine.  Still early, so count off and wait for Bagpipe.  Another COT with Bagpipe.

Moleskin:

• Tapering involves the same Intensity but Less Volume / duration.  Typically, this is a race week workout for the Half-marathon up to Marathon, and since we’ve done similar workouts in the last few months, it seemed right for this week.  Ideally, YHC would like to do this about 4 or 5 days before Race Day, but we have what we have.
• Honeybee is in full Marathon training mode and needed to get some more miles in before our early COT.  No problem with you all doing what you need to do, and thanks for communicating to the Q so we know not to send out a Search Party up Ben Nevis.
• Stump Hugger still on the ramp back up and doing his own thing around the Bull Ring.  Again, no problem with PAX doing what you need to do.  Glad to be motivation to get you out of the fartsack.
• Frasier still in Beast Mode.  Watch out for the F3 BRR Course Records to fall.
• Gumbo and Bobsled are newer faces dipping their toes into the Swift waters.  Join the fun.  Great week to start, but it does get more challenging that this!
• In all, the Ballantyne SOBs and IndianLand boys were out there representing and look ready (if healthy) to finish the BRR as a strong team.  It’s been a fun few months seeing you all pull each other to do something new, and we hope that you continue to make Swift a spot on your weekly schedule!

Announcements:

• Get the Area51 App / mobile site.  Preblasts for Swift will be linked to the Swift workout entry.
• Swift returns to a “reverse taper” next week with starting a slow ramp back up.  It would be a good week to join us!