Where’s my GPS?

Where’s my GPS?

9 pax got up early the day after the epic F3 South Charlotte Christmas Party for a little jaunt around Ballantyne.

YHC got there early after a quick survey of the vicinity. The plan was to catch a 10 minute nap while waiting on the pax, but OT pulled up uncomfortably close to my driver’s side window, making that a bit awkward. Oh, well, might as well get out and be social…

Haggis came in on two wheels and parked on three at about 5:30.01. A quick disclaimer was provided while he then proceeded to tie his shoes and put on his merkin mittens.

Mosey over to the BB&T parking lot for COP:

• SSH x 25 IC (waiting for Haggis to join in, which didn’t happen)
• IW x 15 IC
• LSS x 10 IC
• Mountain Climbers x 20 IC
• Merkins x 10 IC

Run over to Ben Nevis and plank up with feet on the guardrail while waiting on the six. Upon their arrival, do 15 derkins, 20 dips, and 10 split squats per leg. Run up Ben Nevis and plank for the six, then return to the bottom and repeat the derkins/dips/split squats. Repeato. At this point, Haggis informed the Q that Loogie was threatening mutiny. Loogie was definitely looking daggers and YHC was smoked, so we moved on.

Mosey up Rushmore Lane to the little pond with the bridge. Jump squats and squat hold while waiting for the six. Partner up by speed. P1 runs around the pond, bear crawling the bridge while P2 performs merkins. Flapjack until each pair has performed 100 total merkins. Haggis was happy to provide real time feedback on merkin form to JRR Tolkien at this point.

Mosey up to the corner of Harney and Ballantyne Corporate Place. LBCs x 25 IC while waiting for the six. Mosey to the corner of Ballantyne Corporate and Brixham Hill Place. Dolly x 25 IC while waiting for the six. Continue mosey (guided by Mighty Mite) to Loch Ness. Head to the nearest patio and do flutters x 25 IC while waiting for the six. Mosey to the high bar for 2 rounds of 10 pull-ups and traversing the parallel bars.

Mosey back to Brixham and Conlan and get on your belly at the stop line. Jailbreak on Q’s count back to Hairball’s truck (sorry for the handprints, HB). Mic Check easily took the checkered flag on that one.

5 Kiawah runners joined us for COT at the end: (Bratwurst, Turkey Leg, Hairball, Bunker, and Frasier).

Announcements:

• Sign up for the Joe Davis Run. There will be a bunch of F3 pax and families there, so come on out and support a great cause.

Moleskine:

• Thanks to Wild Turkey and JRR Tolkien for allowing YHC to lead at Stonehenge. It’s always good to get out there on a Saturday morning and the extra motivation after the Christmas party was appreciated. Great job by the pax on posting the next day. YHC saw JRRT, Mighty Mite, Haggis, Loogie, Mic Check, and Lex Luthor at the party, so we had a strong showing of partygoers. Wild Turkey was there early, but had to head back home after his 2.0 started throwing up. Glad to hear she’s doing better.
• This was my second Q at Stonehenge and both times I’ve had way more planned than we had time to accomplish. I had hoped to hit a few more of the sights around the AO, but we just didn’t have time. I guess I’ll have to Q again to do the rest of it.
• My favorite part of the morning was on the way back when I asked JRRT what he thought since YHC was pretty smoked. He basically said it was great because they’re trying to keep the difficulty down at Stonehenge to encourage the pax to post on Saturday. #thanksfornothing
• Apologies to the pax for the distance (~3.85 miles). The AO is huge and we ran more than anticipated trying to get from point to point. I promise to run less at my next Stonehenge Q.
• Great to see Haggis out there this morning. Tiger Rag also threatened to post at the party, but apparently he thought better of it. Probably a good thing or I might have felt like I was being audited.
• Good luck to all the pax running the Kiawah full or half marathon next weekend. You’re all welcome to join us at Foxhole when you decide to do something about your soccer arms.
• That’s all I’ve got. Please feel free to sound off in the comments with anything I’ve missed.