Mixing to Chunder on the Ring

Mixing to Chunder on the Ring

10 PAX ventured out into the Ballantyne Corporate Park to satisfy the weekly #needforspeed at Swift on Tuesday.  Little did we know that an 11th was lurking in the shadows.

The THANG:

• 0500 – about 5 PAX hit the park for early warm-ups.
• 0515 – the rest of the crew gathered and left for the main event.  Warm-up on a familiar Bagpipe / Stonehenge route by Loch Ness, around Lance the long way, split TIAA and BofA, feed the fish at the kiddy pond, and pop out from the narrow sidewalk at the Bull Ring. 1mile in the books.
• Warm-up drills and strides
• 2x1000m at Threshold Pace, 1min Rest after each – what’s Threshold Pace? READ THE PREBLAST
• 4x200m at Repetition Pace (a.k.a. 1 mile race pace), 200m jog recovery after each with some regrouping to pick up all of the PAX
• 2x1000m at Threshold Pace, 1min Rest after each
• 3 to 4x200m at Repetition Pace, 200m recovery after each.  The last 200m was with the group headed back towards home along Brixham Hill Ave.
• Recover back to get home at 0514.  Some PAX took it upon themselves to run extra credit to get to a magic 8.0miles.  #notabaddayswork

Moleskin:

• New workout this time that will probably be a keeper. Good to mix up the relatively long (though could be made slightly longer by going for 1600m on the T-pace interval on 1min Rest) and the shortish 200m with 1mile race pace that we’re targeting.  Almost backing off a little from last week, so it was easy to push the Threshold pace intervals a little too hard.  These Middle-distance guys may have it too easy training for 1600m race if they never run an interval over 1000m.  We’ll have to change that…
• Or at least we know that the “split-ring” from starting at the putting green, running towards Brixham Hill to the ring, around the full Bull Ring, and then back down to the putting green is a near perfect 1000m.  No cones, no GPS watch necessary.  That also means the stretch from the putting green to the ring is a 100m Drag Strip.  Can’t wait to see that featured in some sort of contest.
• Though not next week, that will be 400m intervals at R-pace on 1minute rest.  Going to be fun to see who is the most consistent and doesn’t start off too fast.
• This week, the pack of OneNiner, Bunker, Gumbo, and CableGuy was quite impressive.  Never trailing each other by more than a few yards, and CableGuy had definitely come a long way to hanging with those guys.  Of course, OneNiner is going to show off the speed on the 200s, but it was Bunker that was most surprising pushing it to the limit on the short stuff.
• WingMan is sneaky and climbing up the ranks on several of his own Strava segments.  Not a bad day putting in some 2nd fastest PRs and best estimated efforts.
• WildTurkey is stealthy and staying off of the Strava stuff for now.  No one needs to see his training, or they may start asking for urine samples.  Big gains and continually grinding out there.
• It may take a while for him to get comfortable, working out the kinks, but once StumpHugger gets going, he is showing us that his mile time is dropping fast.  Can’t wait to see what he can do in April, but of course we’ll have to warm up for 45 minutes to make sure he’s ready…and not wearing his chuck taylors.
• Haggis drug HoneyBee and YHC around the ring today.  There is still no “backoff” in this PAX, and telling him such only makes him raise the middle finger (figuratively of course) a little higher.  Most notably was the 3rd 1000m when Haggis still thought we were on mile pace, YHC was trying to lamaze breathe and got so flummoxed that chunder almost spilled (dry chunders certainly a few times), but HoneyBee still stayed right in Haggis’s shadow.  These boys are supposed to be Distance runners.  Where is this speed coming from?  #askSharapova
• The 11th PAX was RockThrill.  Confused by the warm-up that snaked through the BCP, he never found us on the BullRing.  However, since he ran at least 0.25mi with the PAX back to the lot, he’s on the roll call for today. #notahounddog

Until next time,

Bratwurst