The Non-Sissy Fast Twitch

The Non-Sissy Fast Twitch

Clearly the CEO never makes a mistake.  So with Turkey Leg on the Q Schedule and DR it can only mean that the FT site administrative assistant screwed up.  First thing yesterday morning I get a message from Haze to see if I would cover for his mistake while the boss was out.  A check of the weather said high 60 temps and low chance of rain – I’m in.

Then Hairball tweets out to see how hard TL was going to make the workout, you know, for a friend.  When I let him know I was at the helm, he had to come.  Probably because TL was out, Brady’s still on the IR, and Fletch is now admin assistant over at Kevlar.  All he had to do was hope this was Fraiser’s week to be at Swift and he had a solid shot for the top of the podium at the last FT of the year.  Plus I called him a sissy if he didn’t post.

Well the weather man had it half right.  Temps were still insane for December but the rain was pretty heavy at the start.  We press on.

Disclaimer given to sue Haze should anything go awry.  He offered his 2003 Corolla with the newly repaired tail light and 2 new tires as insurance.

Off for a Mosey down to Arbo.  A few deep puddles along the way where apparently Prohibition loses and entire shoe, and maybe a sock.  I don’t know.

COP with some traditional SSH and IW.  Mixed it up with some added Romanian Dead Lifts to get the hammies going.  Back up the hill to Rea and over to Raintree Ln.

The Raintree Lane 5K Joe Davis run prep.  Run Raintree Lane from Rea to Providence and back.  Right on the money 5K.

When done perform 3 sets of ab exercises x 30.  You pick ’em.  Then head back to circle up with the six.

Mosey over to the cleaners for a little stair work.  Line up in a plank row in parking lot.  Motion was made to move the plank row under the shelter.  Motion DENIED.  It’s 68 degrees for crying out loud!  First man takes off up the stairs, across the top and down the other side, rejoining the plank on the other side.  Next man does 5 merkins and follows chase.  Continue cycle of planking, merikns and running for 4 trips each.

Finish with some Plank-o-rama, right side, left side, 6 inches, hand release to get the chest nice and soaked.

Head back towards Rounding Run to head home.  At intersection – all you got down and back up to the top of the hill.  Mosey to Rising Meadow.  AYG to Woodfox.  Mosey to Burning Tree, AYG to Strawberry.  Head into school, one AYG lap around parking lot to finish the time and get the watch to 6+ miles.

Moleskine:

Gerber gave all he had to keep Hairball off the top of the podium for the 5K but had to pull up with a quarter mile left due to some intestinal distress.  Somewhere in the bowels of the internet (yeah, pun intended) are pictures* of men who didn’t give up, who chose to keep going to the finish, and who are completely covered in their own filth when they cross the finish line.  Thankfully Gerber is not one of those men.  Public Service Announcement:  don’t go walking barefoot behind the Raintree dry cleaner any time soon.

*See Tiger Rag or Spackler if you want these photo’s.

Good to see Iron Sides and Flutie Flakes making up ground on the PAX on the back half of the 5K.  Finish strong!

On the way back to SCMS we had a nice light display.  Thought it was lightning but seemed to go away quickly.  Turns out to be a transformer blowing outside Pro’s house.  Apparently his M likes to plug in the hair dryer, toaster and microwave all at the same time.  Hope it’s fixed soon, going to need that air conditioning on in December.

Other stuff probably happened, but it was wet and dark, so I missed it.

Thanks to Haze for the send off.

Area 51 Convergence on 1/1 at Kevlar is canceled.  Go to the Big F3 Convergence at AG middle school on Friday AM.

-Alf