Should I Stay (in bed) or Should I Snow??

Should I Stay (in bed) or Should I Snow??

…. That was the question 13 Goats unequivocally answered with “SNOW” today… or at least PRE-SNOW-MAGEDDON.  It actually didn’t feel as cold as I would have expected with the impending forecast of 2-142 inches of snow on the way.  And that is coming from a wuss that wears 2-layers and glomitts when it gets below 50!

Having disclaimed, and knowing that white out conditions could occur within the next 24 hours, we set out for Strawberry Ln for the following:

1.  Warm-up mile; dynamic stretching
2.  At I-Pace — 4:00/3:00 recovery; 3:00/2:00 recovery x2; 2:00/1:00 recovery x3; 1:00/1:00 recovery x2
3. Cool Down
4. Done!  6 miles covered (including warm-up and cool-down)  EXCELLENT JOB!

Since Joe Davis has been moved to the following week, we were able to go one more week at a more intense level.  I will admit that I was thinking 4-3-3-2-2-2-1-1 seemed like it wouldn’t be as intense… I was wrong!  I was breathing pretty heavy… and I think/hope others would agree!

The thing I like about running half the time out then back is that we finish about even and at the same spot.  In theory if everyone is running their same pace for the interval, we will all finish at the start point.  While we weren’t laser accurate, I was pretty impressed that we were all finishing within 3-5 seconds of each other.  That is pretty solid!

The Goats had to dodge a seemingly increased volume of traffic this morning!  I guess the impending Snow of Doom was causing erratic behaviors that drove everyone to suddenly have the urge to drive down Strawberry Ln.!

Great to have Chin Music join us for his V-Mtn Goat experience.  Strong running… always at the front of the pack!  You are more than welcome to ditch those losers at Joust on Fridays to spend quality VO2 time with us at the Goat!  🙂

Second week for Beaker… that makes you a regular!  Also Hairball made an appearance.  I’m not sure if that is his V-Mtn Goat… but both of these guys are just strong runners period!  Great to have you!  You are welcome back anytime!!  Thanks for joining Nomad and I for the pre-warm-up run!

Welcome back Tutti… and always good to have Joker join us!

The Mouth, Tweetsie, Lois, Insomniac, Nomad and Drano… you boys are the heartbeat of The Goat!  Solid effort from everyone!  Tweetsie and Insomniac came in on 2 wheels and had to join us down range on Strawberry.  Lois had to come without Tweetsie… something about Tweetsie threatening a drive-by fart sack in case it suddenly turned into a white out at 0515.

Early Bird showed up and said he was chilled… no offense, but if EB is sick, none of us wanted that!  However, it does show the dedication, which is EB’s trademark!  Hope you were just a little cold!!

Announcements:

1.  Joe Davis Run moved to next week due to Winter Storm.  Next week we will taper/prepare for that run.
2. Anyone interested in being on one of the Mountain Goat BRR teams let Slim Fast know.  We are potentially going to have a 12-man and 9-man team.

Hairball took us out in prayer… thanks, Brother!