Head Out on the Highway…

Head Out on the Highway…

13 PAX read the PreBlast and posted anyway at #F3Swift on Tuesday.

Here was the PreBlast:

http://f3nation.com/2016/10/10/preblast-get-your-motor-runnin/

The THANG:

• Read the Preblast (link above).  We executed it so well that there is no need to write an extensive THANG…

The Moleskin:

• Most of the PAX chose the XL option, which after Reading the PreBlast, it’s surprising that there were so many PAX that showed up.  Missing some of the regulars due to the Fartsack or Ragnar recovery (or both, and there are some that would call this a SmartSack, but…).  Many of these PAX also are finally getting the notion that in order to do the XL option, there’s going to be a limited warm-up if you only show at 0515.  We probably had our biggest group at 0500 yet to get ready for this one.
• Long intervals, dark streets (except for the streetlights near the 485 bridge that make it seem like it’s daylight), and definitely a you vs. you workout waiting for the clock to signal the end of the interval.  If you didn’t have the end of the interval counting down and listening for the ending tone, it probably seemed a lot longer not knowing how far you had to run for.  Frasier, turning back a little over halfway in to go back and get wrist warmers, was the only one who knew where he would end up on the first interval.  The rest of us just ran into the darkness.
• Recovery seemed to be pretty short at only 10 minutes, and most of the time was spent looking for and gathering PAX on the dark Endhaven.  Never found StumpHugger, but turns out that he had alternate routes in mind that morning.
• The way back should have been easier.  We had hit decent hills on the way out so it should be more downhill, and we knew where we were going.  You were at least chewing up the 2-3 miles that you had just run through.  Only challenge was in seeing PAX in front of you and not wanting to get run down by the PAX behind you.  Probably the most fun about out and back.
• On the way back, there was one PAX that wouldn’t be run down.  His group said that he had shot off and left them, and he kept increasing the gap.  Then, when he heard foodsteps, he didn’t concede but pushed harder, well beyond whatever Threshold Pace was the target, right into a zone that only he knew about.  Nice work Beaker.  That Minnesota air must have helped you with some sort of Altitude training, but it’s only further North, isn’t that close to the same thing?
• A bit of a brisk morning, most PAX were in the long sleeves and stayed that way.  No shirtless, but Mario was probably the last holdout to stay sleeveless.  May have also been the reason he didn’t want to slow down on the recovery in the middle and headed for home.  Probably to get some handwarmers that Frasier had left in the parking lot.
• If you showed to the 0500 warm-up, you probably had about 9 miles today.  Not too shabby.
• Already, YHC is not looking forward to next week’s workout, but YHC is still looking forward to the PAX that will be there after reading the PreBlast anyway.

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