Swift happened, we can prove it

Swift happened, we can prove it

At 0515 on Tuesday morning, 7 men rolled out of the lot at the Vine American kitchen without a care of the overnight monsoon, or that there may be ice, but soon discovered an empty canvas on which to unleash some speed.

The THANG:

• 0500 – a couple of Bagpipers and a few Swiftys left the lot for some pre-run.  Gumbo and YHC, late is our calling card, forged our own path to find said mixed-workout group and tracked them down over the last part of the run.
• 0515 – letting two of the early Bagpipers continue of their run, and 1 early Bagpiper / vagrant in a hoodie / Pebbles with a kettle bell swing in peace, 7 PAX headed out for the high land of the Bridge over 521
• Repeat of a workout 2 weeks ago should give us a chance to check our improvement.  Not exactly the same course, but the same pace and distance goals.  We did find ourselves easing into some extra work on the backside.
  • 3 rounds of 200m at R-pace (1 mile race pace), 200m recover, 200m R-pace, 200m recover, 600m at R-pace, bend over / wheeze / gasp for air / recover for 600m
  • 2 x 200m at R-pace again, but we’ll leave that additional 600m in the tank we’re out of time for anything else
• Surprise BountyHunter with the Shortcut through Lance parking lot / fitness trail / Lochness, and head home

Moleskin:

• 6 of the 7 PAX can prove they actually did the workout today.  Never has such a large group of calculating, analyzing, and out-to-prove-it PAX been assembled:
  • OneNiner – https://www.strava.com/activities/494693331
  • StrangeBrew – https://www.strava.com/activities/494701174
  • Gumbo – https://www.strava.com/activities/494701697
  • Tuck – https://www.strava.com/activities/494718585
  • HoneyBee – https://www.strava.com/activities/495290676
  • Bratwurst – https://www.strava.com/activities/494937306
• On the warm-up, Bounty Hunter was practically re-introducing himself to OneNiner again.  While OneNiner has been nursing an injury, Bounty Hunter has been consistently posting for many weeks.  Getting pretty fit out there, but also noticing that this running thing is easier the more you do it.
• Chasing down HoneyBee most of the morning was OneNiner right on his heels.  And then many times, here comes Gumbo!  Gumbo was sure that he couldn’t possibly hold that pace for a mile, but then OneNiner casually offers, “if I can do a sub 6 mile, you for sure can.  It’s just gonna HURT!”
• After the first couple of intervals, Strange Brew was not in a good place, but he held in there and actually maintained the aggressive pace if looking at his results.  Just goes to show that you may not feel it, but it’s in there somewhere and you maybe just need to back off a few and then find it.
• Tuck is the quiet leader.  Busy building up his new DaVinci workout into legend status already, and taking on the Balrog, he’s out at Swift still learning what he’s capable of.  Looking for good things as he starts building the miles.
• HoneyBee hides his workouts.  Yes, he posts them to Strava, but he claims some sort of bug in his watch is preventing some of the more granular details coming across from Garmin.  It’s likely that he’s just hiding training secrets from Haggis.  The next 1 mile showdown is going to be interesting.

Announcements:

• 1 mile challenge is coming soon.  Dare I say that it’s going to be March, but we do have the Balrog and Palmetto200 to plan around.  Let’s just see where this 1mile training takes us.
• Next week we’ll try a new course with an old workout with 2/1/30, but then it’s on to a new Phase of 1mile training that includes some new tests.