Date: 2025-02-04 AO: swift Q: bratwurst PAX: Polly, citgo, Wolverine, drive_by, fire_hazard, fleetwood, Gump, flipper FNGs: None COUNT: 9 Warm-up: eventually making our way to the Johnson road bridge, we meandered through the Ballantyne corporate park. On the bridge, we did drills and eventually ended up across from the bowl at Ballantyne corporate and lower Ave.
The THANG: 7 MINUTE INTERVALS AT THRESHOLD PACE, WHICH IS AN EFFORT OF 7.5 OUT OF 10. COMFORTABLY HARD. THE PACE THAT YOU COULD RUN FOR A 1 HOUR RACE. OUR COURSE WAS ACROSS LOWER AVE TO NORTH COMMUNITY HOUSE, LEFT ON NORTH COMMUNITY HOUSE, THEN LEFT AT THE SECOND LEFT, NOT THE FIRST LEFT FOR POLLY, ONTO UPPER AVE. RUN ACROSS UPPER AVE UNTIL ENDING AT BALLANTYNE CORPORATE. AFTER THE 7 MINUTES, REGROUP TO THE SIX FOR 2 MINUTES. IT WAS SOMEWHERE ALONG NORTH COMMUNITY HOUSE, THAT WE LOST GUMP, AND CITGO AND WOLVERINE WENT OFF TO FIND HIM WHILE WE REVERSED COURSE LOOKING FOR HIM. EVENTUALLY CITGO FOUND HIM. BUT WE DIDN’T FIND THAT OUT UNTIL BACK AT COT. SO INTERVAL NUMBER TWO WAS REVERSING COURSE OF NUMBER ONE, INTERVAL NUMBER 3 WAS BACK THE SAME WAY AS NUMBER ONE. AFTER INTERVAL NUMBER 3 WOLVERINE LEFT US.
AND THEN THE FOURTH INTERVAL WAS BACK ALONG BALLANTYNE CORPORATE BACK TOWARD COT. DURING INTERVAL NUMBER FOUR, WE PICKED UP FLIPPER.
WHY THAT WAS IN ALL CAPS, ONLY VOICE TO TEXT WILL KNOW. IT WAS DEFINITELY NOT MY TONE. AND SINCE IT’S MY SECOND TIME DOING THIS, BECAUSE SLACK BLAST CRASHED ON ME AND WIPED OUT EVERYTHING FROM THE FIRST TIME, I’M NOT EVEN GOING TO EDIT THIS. JUST SPEAKING INTO MY PHONE.
WE MADE IT BACK TO COT WITH SECONDS TO SPARE, WHERE WE FOUND GUMP AND WOLVERINE, BUT NO CITGO.
We need a Q to step up for next Tuesday. Or all three Tuesdays of February. Flipper has already volunteered, after he crushes the swamp rabbit, to lead during the month of March.
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