The Sac and Back

The Sac and Back

12 badasses posted to The Brave despite heavy rain and Spring break and were richly rewarded with 5.5 miles of new hills (580 ft elevation change, 22 minutes spent climbing) and a promising new playground pain station.

After the hundreds of workouts that have transpired at the Ballantyne Corp Park AO, finding new ground is increasingly difficult.  For a while YHC has had his eye on a neighborhood about a mile from the launch point.  After revisiting yesterday, YHC realized that this uncharted territory was a home run waiting to happen.  Route

The Thang

After a quick disclaimer, mosey directly to Ballantyne Commons Pkwy.  No time for COP today, and no, we’re not headed to the parking deck.  Mosey West on Ballantyne Commons Pkwy, up Ben Nevis, stopping at each side street for 10 merkins. Our destination this damp morning was the intersection of Ballantyne Meadows Dr and Valley Spring Dr.  By the time we had arrived 1.3 miles later we had amassed 100 merkins, and the fun hadn’t even started yet.

The Sac and Back

Using Ballantyne Meadows Dr and Valley Spring Dr as the starting point, run to each cul de sac and back to the start after each.  There are a total of 6 cul de sacs in the surrounding streets.  Perform 6 burpees in each cul de sac and 6 burpees back at the start.  Similar to a Triple Nickel, but with 6/6/6 instead of 5/5/5.   Here’s the catch.  From our starting point, the route to every one of the cul de sacs was a soul crushing hill of at least 250 meters.  Think Murderhorn.  Think Nut up or Shut Up.  There was no escape, no matter the direction.  #crowdpleaser

Playground Circuit

We gathered in the last cul de sac on Dovehunt Pl for some Mary and then hit a gem of a playground that was tucked away behind the houses.  The HOA was even nice enough to provide a flood light so that we could see what we were doing.  One group traversed a set of circular monkey bars (24 rungs), which was not easy due to the wet conditions, and did 10 pull-ups while the other group performed 10 dips and 10 Bulgarian split squats per leg on some picnic tables. Flapjack.

We spent the final 14 minutes on the soggy 1.6 mile route home, which was of course nothing but hills.

Naked Moleskine

Frasier of course led the way on the hills, lapping us in short order.  Little known fact, the dead rabbit we were side-stepping all workout met it’s end at the foot of the aforementioned Frasier, who is just too fast for man or beast.  Pebbles, MT, Mario, Bunker and even Fire Hazard put in strong performances and really pushed YHC all morning.

YHC has a feeling this is not the last time we will spill sweat (and perhaps merlot) on these hills.  The playground also has a lot of potential for some good OCR training.  YHC did smash his knee while on the monkey bars and is still limping.  So there’s that. YHC loves Q-ing the Brave!  Thanks for the opportunity to lead.  Great work out there this morning fellas.

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