A View To A Kill

A View To A Kill

11 Goats joined the humidity only found in Central American jungles for some highly anticipated hill intervals, and a special “kill” overview from the legendary kill-machine himself…. Mr. Brady!  More on that in a moment… but let’s recap the SIMPLE workout:

1. Warm-up jog past Gullah Junction to Raintree Ln and down the hill to the bottom by RTCC.
2. Quick Dynamic Stretching… ready to go
3. The Program: Grinder up Raintree to the intersection of Four Mile Creek… = .28 miles x 4; recover back to the bottom of the hill.
4. Mosey back to SCMS… DONE!

We completed around 5-miles.

Moleskine:

All eyes are on Blue Ridge Relay… and today’s workout was a way to expand the VO2 consumption so that when you are in the hills in September, they will seem to be FLAT!  That’s the expectation!  In addition to developing that capacity, Mr. Brady shared his legendary strategy for making a “kill” in BRR.  A “kill” is when you pass someone while you’re running your leg.  Mr. Brady has racked up many!  He told us to approach a “kill” slowly… you don’t want to go flying past them, then bonk and get re-passed.  This can be especially painful when the passer is of the female persuasion… that is called getting “Chicked”.

Anyway, it was great to have Mr. Brady join us this morning!  Obviously leading the way on each interval, but then swinging back to finish with the 6!  Thanks for the encouragement!

Also good to have Early Bird join us.  He has been a bit AWOL for the past several months, but we learned he’s been mixing in biking with running.  In fact, he rode in 6-miles, pre-ran 1-mile, did the workout, then rode back home 6-miles… that is impressive!  Definitely BRR-Ready!!

I will have to say that Houdini and Insomniac found some extra gears today!  You guys stayed very consistent in your times for the intervals, and just really pushed it.  Excellent!

Tweetsie is looking strong!  He has shrugged off that pesky ankle injury… BRR-Strong!!  I inadvertently burst his bubble about the intrigue of someone being at a Country Club at 5:30 in the morning… I’m sorry!   Please forgive!!

Nomad did pre-run and was solid as usual!  Drano and Lois were also making it look easy!  BRR-Ready… Drano especially is ready to jump in as the team needs him!

The Mouth of course was bringing it solid, and then there’s Sensei, who pushes hard every week!  I won’t go into details… but Sensei gave some medical reasons for his blindness… and then it devolved from there… just trust the myth!!

Speaking of Sensei… he will be competing with his Beep Baseball team from San Antonio in the National Beep Baseball Assoc. World Series this next week in West Palm Beach, FL.  Keep Sensei in your prayers for safety and to have a great time… he’s taking his son.  Between the 2 of us, we will try to keep you guys updated on the results of the games.

Tweetsie took us out with a prayer.  You guys are awesome!  SF