A Brush with Nature – A Cautionary Devil’s Turn Tale

A Brush with Nature – A Cautionary Devil’s Turn Tale

16 men were drawn by a promise of (relatively) flat running at Devil’s Turn today. Even with BRR on the way, it is still nice to flatten things out once in a while. Even with a flat course, one quickly remembers that it is still a tough endeavor to hold a respectable pace for a full 45 – 55 minutes. The challenge was present and the men of Devil’s Turn met it with fervor.

One may ask, “but where’s the brush with nature?” Read on for more on that topic.

We started at 5:15 with a full briefing of the route and a promise of chalk arrows for those not familiar with the route. As the group left the parking lot, Long Haul was spotted driving in. Tiger Rag, being the thoughtful guy that he is, asked whether we should wait on him. Nope, that is not per the policy so we left (knowing it is Long Haul and he’s got legs to catch us).

The warm-up was relatively uneventful except for Cheese Curd and Baracus trading places for the lead. They seemed so giddy battling it out up there, no one had the heart to mention it was just a warm-up. With as much running as they have been up to though, the front will become much more common.

At the 1 mile mark, everyone took the pace up a notch to “comfortably hard” which means different things to different people. The suggestion was ~marathon pace on the honor system. It seemed to be followed closely despite the oppressive humidity.

Out at the track, several chose to lose the shirt and go metro (YHC included). It was steamy. Half way around the track, there was shouting of something like “Honey Bee, come here!” Strange words bringing thoughts that someone may be hurt or someone is making fun of my moobs. Oh well, just carry on, they can deal.

Then, all of a sudden, a deer pops out of no where like some kind of magic show and runs across the track and onto the field. It then proceeded to run all the way across to the other side. A few minutes later after buzzing the majority of the PAX, it proceeded to bang its head on the fence while running at ~ 15 mi/hr down the back stretch.

After that display, it was gone. Not sure if there are any other stories from this event, but it would be interesting to hear in the comments from other perspectives. Just crazy stuff right there. After the deer incident, the rest of the run went somewhat smoothly.

There was ~ 37% participation today in wearing the official day glow yellow. Moderately acceptable. Wingman not only wore the offical shirt color, he added the red, white, and blue head band. #Strong. This almost spurred a declaration of an official head wear, but that vote was postponed.

Gumbo was back after a long hiatus for injury. It is good to have you back with us brother. Stay healthy.

Slice came out for his first Devil’s Turn today. From the sounds of it, he is a committed runner going from zero to 5 half marathons in just one year. We hope you will make us part of your rotation leading up to the full at Kiawah in the fall. Great to have you out.

It was good to have Early Bird out. Unfortunately, it was a #Qfail on not getting a chance to talk during the run. Thanks for coming to DT. It’s going to be the place to be traning for the BRR.

Thanks for another great Devil’s Turn guys!

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