Getting the Miles in Early

Getting the Miles in Early

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• Disclaimer then mosey through lots towards Rushmore and circle up for COP
  • IW x15, 5 burpees OYO
  • LSS x15, 10 burpees OYO
  • Windmill x15, 15 burpees OYO
• Continue faster mosey, left on Rushmore, plank at the base of Ben Nevis (Rushmore & Ballantyne Commons Pkwy) for instructions
• Long distance suicides on Ben Nevis
  • 10 hand release merkins, run up Ben Nevis, 10 jump squats at first entrance, return to base of Ben Nevis
  • Repeat going to 2nd entrance
  • Repeat going to 3rd entrance (Cheswyck)
  • Mary at base of Ben Nevis for the 6
• Run opposite way on BC to Durant
• Fast run up Durant stopping at each speed bump (2) for 10 HR Merkins and finish at Costigan Park with 20 dips, 10 burpee box jumps
• Head to the deck and down to lower level for People’s Chair
• Grab the 4 plates stashed there and partner up just do some disorganized stuff carrying plates and sprinting since we now have 9 people (not 8). (Note to self and future Qs: 9 is a great number for 3-man grinders. Do this next time.)
• Call for hairburners in the deck met with much mumblechatter (see moleskin)
• Audible mosey back to lot across from launch hauling plates with us
• Modified Goonie hairburner lap around the lot
  • 4 men push plates in counter-clockwise fashion around the large loop
  • Other 5 men AYGish counter-clockwise around the loop, when you get back to a plate flapjack with someone and keep going
  • Finished after plates make 1 complete loop
• Line up at side of lot and hold 6 inch plank:
  • After 10 count in low plank: Bear crawl to first row of parking spaces then AYG to other side
  • After 10 count in low plank: Burpee broad jump to first row then AYG to other side
• AYG back to launch with plates, COT, Mermaid on the take-out

Moleskin

Cobains on the delayed backblast. No excuse, just didn’t do it. First sub-freezing post of the year so we got off to a quick start with plenty of burpees to get the heart pumping. The call for 15 burpees OYO was the first (but not last — burpee box jumps, hariburners, burpee broad jumps) time this morning that Frehleys cursed YHC. Starting to like this guy.

The Brave serves up a minimum 4 miles of running every week and YHC had the intention of getting most of those miles out of the way early. No better place to do that than Ben Nevis. If you haven’t run this hill, come give it a shot. The thing just keeps going. Strava segment called Ballantyne Soul Crusher is right on. It was Mermaid (and I think Utah’s) first time on Nevis and Mermaid left a 5 star review on Twitter.

Kotters to Fahvra who returned this morning 3 weeks post-hernia surgery. If we thought Fahvra with a hernia was trouble, healthy Fahvra is a nightmare. Led the way up and down Ben Nevis (and through the entire workout) without breaking a sweat. Welcome back!

Things went a little off the rails in the basement of the parking deck due to the arrival of a 9th person (aka – the Qs inability to count himself). Much dismay over hairburners in the deck being too loud for all the sleeping folk nearby as well. Worries possibly a little overblown, but getting us kicked out of the last deck available to us didn’t seem like a good risk one week into my newly minted Site Q duties at The Brave. Audible called with the benefit of the plates being carried back to my truck saving me some gas. We will call it a q-jack win-win.

Thank you for coming out in the cold to post and thanks to Mermaid for the take-out. Everyone pushed hard and put in the requisite 4+ miles at a healthy pace. If you would like to Q at The Brave, we have some open dates in early 2017 so please step up and give a shout out to myself, Fire Hazard or Mario.

Congrats to all the men (and Ms) who completed the Kiawah Half or Full marathon this weekend.

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