Howl at the Moon

Howl at the Moon

This morning the crew of DT ran the greenway in the dark.  A handful of us are hitting the Mud Run this weekend so I promised no big hills to keep the quads and hammys in shape for Saturday.  Lots of strange noises and sounds this morning on our run.  I think we were actually being stalked by a werewolf or a chupacabra.  For a second I also thought Tolkien was sneaking up on us in the woods, but alas he was not to be found today.

The Thang:

0515 – No pre-bootcamp before the run this morning.  9 PAX showed up and YHC gave them the directions….pretty simple for the day.  Run a 1 mile warmup, followed by 20 minutes at a “comfortably hard” pace (my favorite Bratwurst saying), then a 3-5 minute cool down followed by another 20 minutes at a “comfortably hard” pace (so nice I used it twice).  That’s it…no more no less today.

The Naked Moleskine:

A little confusion popped up last night on who had the Q.  HB asked me to take the helm while he’s out in wine country…he tried to make it back in time but the headwind was still too strong to get back to the east coast.  #BigSur=BigWind

A big thanks to Hairball who admirably tried to jump in and handle Q duties last night thinking no one was at the lead….I appreciate the willingness to jump in and we look forward to more of your Q’s in the future.  As usual, at the firing of the gun he’s off like a rocket and we didn’t see him until the end.  Hairball has speed.

We were in the presence of greatness this morning…Mario blessed us by showing up for DT.  Kudos to him for coming out for a little training run with YHC and Tuck (mud run teammates).  We ran strong the first 20 minutes, and then pushed each other for a much quicker second 20 min session.  During our second stint we almost ran over what appeared to be a Zombie from The Walking Dead….literally.  This lady was staggering all over the place…had she been moaning like the dead Mario was sure to take her out to protect me.

Tuck was running hard this morning.  He’s been racking up the miles, has knee issues, and yet still keeps showing up and working hard.  At the end of the run he extended his hand to me and called me “dear”….so sweet.  Until I realized he was actually pointing at 3 big DEER next to the trail staring at us.

Margo showed up for his first Devil’s Turn appearance…welcome!  I didn’t realize it was his first post at DT until I listened to my phone recording at work…thanks for coming out and running hard today.  Great to have you at DT…come back again.  We have some great running locales at DT.

Good to see Outback this morning.  I actually saw him drive up…had I gotten there a few minutes later I would have assumed he had already run 10 miles before the workout…but maybe he did somewhere else.  The man is a machine and can lay down the miles at a strong pace.

Huggie Bear, Exlax, and Stone Cold all had strong showings this morning.  Good to see you guys out there.  Stone Cold disagrees with my description of the pace and he wants me to change it to “uncomfortably hard” which I totally understand.

Thanks for the chance to lead today.  Another fine showing for Devil’s Turn.