Is That a Jockstrap On Your Head?
EC: Vasoline
FNGs: None
Warm Up: Rolled into Panera Bread parking and saw Mookie in the Patriots mobile. A quick hello and asked if he had the Q. Nope, he was willing though. Also commented, where is everyone? Virtual half and full marathon running at Womble, ATT, and other places. Today WAS race day – Wrightsville. Ugh. COVID-19. A lot of PAX had trained hard and were determined to run today. Great job PAX! Those folks running shorter distances needed to stay hard and I volunteered to Q. I had a shovel flag in my car and planted it while I saw Vaseline jog in from his his early run. Alpine made it four and the clock struck 6:00 am. PAX and YHC did a quick jog around the parking lot and circled up for Good am, Frankensteins, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies and Open Gates (for the hips).
The Workout: Learned Alpine and Vaseline were running the full U-turn. They agreed to run together. I was thinking of doubling down at GP and opted for a 5K. Mookie joined me. As we ventured down the hill as a four ship, I noticed something on Vaseline’s head. I asked him if it was a jockstrap? See picture. I meant no harm. It was a shirt sleeve cut off helping his headlight stay in place. Genius idea – well done. The mumble chatter led to the iconic movie, Weird Science. Kelly LeBrock – good memories! OK, lmk your thoughts after you google her. Tempo was faster than normal. Why were Mookie and I keeping up with these gazelles? Then Mookie took off up the hill. I tried my best keeping up. Once to the first traffic light, we slowed down. I think I heard Alpine chuckle and he switched gears from 2nd to 3rd and took off with Vaseline close on his six. It was about this time I had THAT feeling. Yes Lipstick, I needed to adjust gross weight. Mookie was having his own issues. Something about a steak and cheese from last night not settling well. Then the feeling went away. Our pace continued faster than normal for me. I felt good. Mookie kept striding faster. I kept up. Mumble chatter was good. At the half way point, Mookie called out a time that was 60 seconds faster than normal for me. Ran some more on and off. Then I had to take care of business. I broke a rule and had not carried supplies with me during this run. YHC had to improvise. Made it back to the car for a quick change and thanked God for Clorox wipes. Way too much info here. On the way back, we ran into POTS. He started at 6:30 am and said he was going to run a 5k. Did some stretching and more mumble chatter. Alpine and Vaseline finished up with a great time. Mookie and Alpine went back and picked up POTS. Thank you men.
Mary: Static Stretches.
Announcements: See Slack/FB. If using WebEx or similar conference call numbers POTS suggested dialing the local number rather than the 800 number.
T-Claps (Recognition): Vaseline for EC and keeping bottled water on our shelves with his job. Also all the PAX running their virtual marathons. Great work!
Prayer: First responders, military. Our families. Our leaders. Everyone impacted by COVID-19.
2nd F at Panera – TO GO.
Honor to lead. – Dauber