Mileage and Burpees

Mileage and Burpees

Show up and sheets of rain are coming down.  Happy pulls up and has this ‘Are you nuts?’ look going on and then it just stopped.  And from then on, it was just light drizzle and nice temps.  #blessings

The Thang
Mosey to the side road

COP
SSH IC x 25
IW IC x 20

Enough of that. My basic plan for the rest of the workout is revealed. Run, do burpees, run, do burpees, repeato. The rest of this is just the order in how we did it:

Run down the side road and at each island on the side, do 10 burpees. Plank at the stop sign. Total of 40 burpees.

Back road tall light pole suicides. 2 light poles with the furthest around 150 yards away or so. Then plank at the stop sign.

10 burpees OYO. Total of 50 now

Increasing pace run along the side road beside Carolina Courts. At each tall light pole, increase your pace until you are in an all out sprint from the last tall light pole to the stop sign.

Mosey to the corporate entrance maybe 25-50 yards down the road. *First time off campus for Thrive*

Light pole suicides again. Three light poles with maybe the furthest again about 150-175 yards down the road.

Mosey back to the side road beside Carolina Courts.

10 burpees OYO. Total of 60 now.

And again, an increasing pace run back to the intersection with the back road using the tall light poles.

Tall light pole suicides along the back road with a final run back to the stop sign (how depressing that the last light pole is literally just a few feet in front of the stop sign yet you had to run back one more time).

Once we all collect, 10 burpees OYO. Total of 70 now.

Run along the side road again and this time, stop at each short light pole and do 10 burpees. 3 short light poles = 30 burpees = 100 burpees total. Site Qs should be pleased.

Hey look, you guys ran so fast we have some time to kill. Mosey to the side of the bathroom building.

People’s Chair with increasing air presses each round. Round 1) 50, 2) 75, 3) 100.

Mosey back to the parking lot for 4 MOM

Flutters IC x 20
Freddie Mercury’s IC x 20
LBCs IC x10
Protractor to finish out.

DONE!

COT
Thanks to Happy for taking us out

Announcements
No Overdrive this week as we are now going to the AG Middle Convergence for the 1/1 F3 Anniversary workout. Clown car meeting at Carolina Courts at 6 AM and leaving shortly after.
The Late Show on Q for Outland
Union County convergence on 01/16 at #F3Commitment. Sounds like Doc McStuffins and Double E are your Qs.
Joe Davis run on 01/09.

Moleskine
What I thought was going to be a nasty morning turned into an almost perfect morning. Light drizzle, perfect temps and even some breeze to help cool you down…or slow you down along that side road.

As always, I got there early this morning for a warm-up run and decided to drive around Carolina Courts just to scope it out and noticed that corporate entrance down the road. First time I had noticed it (course, we’ve only been to that side area one time from what I can remember) and saw it had some good suicide light poles set up for us. Never a bad time to go off campus to a new area. And did anyone notice those parallel parking spaces along that road. Surely someone is creative enough to use those, right? I didn’t even know they existed until we started running that road but the more you know…..

The mileage was high and the burpees were 100. Site Qs are hopefully pleased and no one but me is pleased with the mileage. My guess is 3-4 miles this morning. That was a crap load of running honestly with all those suicides.

Great work by all the pax. Believe me, I know when a body part hurts, it can be a huge temptation to fartsack. I’ve been determined to not stop posting and just rehab my foot through PF and spend some money on proper support. Today was the absolute best it’s felt in a month with a decent amount of speed work too with those increasing pace runs. Guys, keep plugging away at it and make sure you get a good plan for stretching and/or icing/heating (depending on your injury).

And I am thankful that you guys showed up in the nastiness and pushed through this one never stopping. That’s how we get better together. Thanks for letting me Q for the first time at Thrive.

Glass Joe