Country Adventure 

Country Adventure 

13 PAX chose running the hills of Ballantyne Country Club instead of stoating about on Tuesday morning. Here’s what they did:

The THANG:

• 0500 the early crew of Mr. Bean, JRR Tolkien, and Tuck were joined by some Bag pipers (Outback and MT) in milling about. Honeybee and YHC arrived late enough to catch the tail end of the milling.
• 0515 round up the pax and head out towards Ballantyne CC West up Ben Nevis. After 1mi, do some dynamic warm-up while heading deeper into BCC on James Jack.
• Start the rounds of 2 minutes hard, 1 minute to recover to the six, 1 minute hard, 30 seconds recover to the six, 30 seconds hard, 30 seconds recover to the six. 2 minutes hard….keep going for 5 total rounds.
• 10-15 minute mosey home. Take a partner, choose your own route whether to push, coast, or recover.

Moleskin:

• The “hard” pace is meant to be subjective over the hilly terrain, but the effort should be faster than 5k pace. Running 2 minutes doesn’t feel long the first couple of times, but then it begins to feel like an eternity.
• Noticed this with the Pax, too. In the first couple of rounds, most made it back to the six before each hard effort because they kept a slow recovery jog. However, as the rounds accumulated, many pax used the recovery opportunity to stop or walk and the pax got strung out a little more. Either they didn’t like the turning, they needed the walk because the hard effort was too hard, or they just plain forgot. #judgementfreezone
• During one particularly steep downhill at the start of a 2min interval, there was a commotion. It being the last long 2min of the morning, HB and YHC were determined to finish the interval.  However, we headed back right away to find that Mr. Bean had taken a tumble.  Several theories abounded from an invisible speed bump, a country club yorkie #anklebiter, to Cheddar trying a bump draft for the pass.  StumpHugger, when deposed by Mr. Bean’s legal team said, “I plead the Six.”  In the end, Mr. Bean finished the run only to find that he broke something. #iceUpSon
• Other recollections were Abacus not taking any shortcuts on the run home #gothedistance.
• Cobains for the late backblast. Had to get it done before the PreBlast…

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