Return of the Purple Haze

Return of the Purple Haze

They said he quit.  They said he’d gotten fat.  They said we’d never see him again.  But today he made his triumphant (and slow) return to F3 and most importantly to the home of his own site Q responsibilities.  Kotters to Purple Haze!  I may or may have promised you that I’d keep it under 2 miles with Imperial Walkers AMRAP…and I may or may not have lied about that.  Kudos to you for showing back up and not so much to me for not paying any attention to the clock today.  #poortimemanagement.

16 men gathered this morning for this week’s episode of Fast Twitch.  With a much needed disclaimer clearly stating that I am not a professional and a quick run down that we’ll be doing a slight continuation of what Frasier started last week with some threshold running followed by recovery runs, we were off.  Here’s what we did:

Take a right out of SCMS and head down Strawberry Ln and circle up when we get to Rosecliff.

• SSH x 15
• Imperial Walkers x 15

Continue Mosey through the neighborhood until we get to the bottom of Coburn Ct.  We line up for 7’s with merkins at the top (the stop sign) and squats at the bottom.  Run at threshold pace up the hill, and recover on the way down.  Get your heart rate back to normal before threshold back up.

Once completed and regrouped, threshold pace up the other hill towards Bevington.  Once at the speed limit sign, recovery pace to Bevington.  Circle up for LBC x 25 to wait for the Haze six.

Interval Work:

• Threshold Pace to 1st speed hump. Recover back to Coburn.
• Threshold Pace to 2nd speed hump. Recover back to 1st speed hump.
• Threshold Pace to 3rd speed hump. Recover back to 2nd speed hump.
• Threshold Pace to 4th speed hump. Recover back to 3rd speed hump.
• Threshold Pace to 5th speed hump. Recover back to 4th speed hump.
• Threshold Pace to stop sign at Rea Rd.  Go back for six or check watch and realize we need to keep moving.

Whatever you got up Rea, right on 51, and back to SCMS.  Done anywhere between 6:17-6:22.  #overtime.

Moleskin:

So maybe I was just so excited that Purple Haze was back, but I underestimated our course today with the speed hump intervals and we got a little behind on time.  Cobains to everyone on that.  My bad.  The good news is I think everyone cleared well over 6 miles this morning!  Excellent work!  Even Heartbreaker said he thinks that’s the furthest he’s gone at a F3 workout.  Strong.  What a great group to lead this morning.  A few faces of old I hadn’t seen in a while as well as some of the regulars.  Hannibal, Gummy, Margo, and I started out at the head of the pack representing team Flattnin’ The Hills for the BRR (paperwork has been filed. training has begun).  Alf, of course, was out front all morning.  At one point I started to worry he was getting lonely.  Then I stopped caring because it’s his fault he’s so fast.

Pop Tart must have drank a PBR before the workout because he was flying up the hills of Coburn like it was just another lap of the beer mile.  Icicle, Early Bird, Ductwork, Retread and Madison seemed to be on cruise control all morning.  I felt the evil eyes coming from Strawberry, Utah and Ironsides every time we crossed paths on Bevington. And of course I heard the complaints from Purple Haze for all 67 minutes of the workout.  But after it was all over, I think/hope everyone enjoyed it as much as that’s possible.  There is nothing fun about interval work, but it’s necessary for us to get back in shape and shave some time off our road race times.  Everyone put in some serious work this morning.  Great job!

I’m expecting some comments from Gummy on us going over in time.  He said he’d file a formal complaint with the board.  You know you liked it.  Also, feel free to chime in on whatever I missed.

Announcements:

No time for them.  Again…oops.

Til next time,

Pro