EC: Redenbacher
FNGs: Not today
Warm Up: 15 X SSH in cadence
The Workout:
Turkey Leg route in reverse
Mary: Negative
Announcements: CSAUP Dec 5th, check slack for details
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for picking up the six.
Prayer: 187 and Tracy, unspoken.
YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.
YHC stepped up and crossed the aisle to take the Q at R4TJ today. Apparently, there has always been some beef between R4TJ and TBD, but as co-site Q at TBD, I’ve taken on a minor duty to try to bridge the gap this year plus I’m also adding miles to my repertoire and the guys at R4TJ push me hard and keep me accountable on that end. YHC had a 3 famous hills route at about 5 miles planned, but apparently overnight, some batflipping by some PAX was being planned. Now as I understand it, batflipping is done for all kinds of reasons…some good… some bad. Today’s bat flip was for a great reason. About 2/3 through the route, the pax detoured on a route that took us to the memorial at Veterans Park. We stopped there and spent a few moments of reflection and prayer on those who have served and paid the ultimate cost for our freedom. Like I said… a great bat flip plus it helped us form the dragon route as UTI discovered.
FNG’s: None
Warm Up: Frankenstein’s and Daisy Pickers. Since it is 11/11… we also did 11 Merkins.
The Workout: 10 PAX got in their miles with a few other PAX sightings along the way. We ran.
Mary: Once at the flag, we did our last 11 merkins to wrap up.
Announcements: HS Half on Saturday.
T-Claps (Recognition): Skidmark for a good flipping idea!
Prayer: Shamwow!, 187, and YHC’s M’s dealing with health issues. Our Veterans and Nation. Let us not waste the health, life, and blessings we are given. Push for something and make your life worth it. Take opportunities to make it cool for somebody somewhere else… serve. Honor to lead!
EC: LED, Fonzie, Deuce, Full House, WebEx, Skidmark, Vasoline, YHC
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Started the run with a nice steady pace towards the stop light as we turned onto Main Street. Picked up the 6 and continued on.
The Workout: A new route was designed by YHC the night before. It wasn’t intentional but some trial and error with plotaroute.com yielded a shape that was sorta familiar…
I suggest holding the center of the printed image right up to your nose. It should be blurry. Focus as though you are looking through the image into the distance. Very slowly move the image away from your face. Do you see it? “The Bowler”
5.436 miles were charted to create the familiar shape. Keeping the namesake alive – Fonzie was witnessed running off course fairly early into the run. As we wrapped up the run, McNugget took a shortcut to the facilities available at Ting. We circled up and did some stretching. Mid stretching session, Pablo excused himself to seek some relief. Running 4 the John indeed!
Mary: She’s not into bowlers – yeah, they are athletes but they aren’t really “athletes”
We did move at a fast clip this morning and we took the extra time left on the clock (about 7 minutes) to stretch things out. When YHC ran out of yoga moves, Skidmark served up some additional options to eat the rest of our time together. Kinda like when you pay for an hour of bowling and finish early. You might not have time for another game but you might as well stick around and throw some extras. Trickshots, practice, goof off. Great mumblechatter as we finished up a few more frames.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
FNGs: none
Warm Up: Good mornings, windmills, SSH, IW
The Workout: 10 PAX out for some miles this morning in the gloom. Q had plans for a new route, a slight variation and a little Wednesday spice – as if spice is needed for AO that already gets the bowels moving naturally. Just a hair under 5.5 miles for most, nice work men!
Mary: About 5 minutes of stretching to loosen up the hips – according to Skidmark
Announcements: Reach out to Dumbo to help volunteer at the HS food pantry this Saturday
Prayers: Hightower from F3 Grand Strand in Myrtle Beach, prayers for his family and PAX. Prayers for CrabLegs and ongoing treatments.
FNGs: Lawn Dart
Warm Up: SSX x29, Good Morning x10, IW x10
The Workout: Crossway out and back
Mary: She didn’t show again!
Announcements: Holly Springs Food Cupboard work on 10/10. More to come soon. Marathon Madness starting up again for a group committed to Wrightsville next Spring.
T-Claps (Recognition): Mulch.
Prayer: Moby’s father passing, PAX welcoming new additions to the family
With many PAX recovering from BRR, YHC pre-blasted a 3 mile option. Dumbo reached out to me and said he and Dawg had a 5 mile route ready as well. We always aim to please at the John so come on with it.
FNGs: None
Warm Up: 10x SSH, 10X Imperial Walkers, 10x Hillbillies IC
The Workout:
3 Mile Route:
5 Mile Route:
Mary: MIA
Announcements: Mulch project at Bass Lake, WebEx to start 5 mile EC option on Wednesday to give PAX a 10 mile option during the week. Stay tuned for more information.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Unspoken, Man who died from carjacking, Roger Roger’s family, Crablegs, hurricane victims, those dealing with Covid-19
Dumbo took us out.
“The race is the celebration of all the hard work and training.” I can’t remember where I heard this quote but I thought it most appropriate for this week.
19 Pax posted this morning, surprised by the gross humidity that reared it’s ugly head again. Plan was for 3 miles and then some stretching. 3 Pax held true and did the turkey leg for 5 miles.
FNGs: Surprising no
Warm Up: IW, Hillbillies
The Workout: 3 mile loop and 5 mile loop
Mary: Various positions of stretching
Announcements: The longest mulch project in the history of mulch projects continue
T-Claps (Recognition): Wallaby securing a new job
Prayer: Moby’s family due to his father’s health
YHC pre-blasted that dice would be in place to determine the route. There was some pushback to the possibility of 5 miles in loops around Ting, but remember mental toughness is a thing too. Anyone up for a backyard Ultra this fall?
YHC arrived to an empty parking lot at 0450 to run EC. Pikachu arrived shortly after already 6.5 in and joined YHC for a few miles. Sure glad I didn’t slow him down because he was cruising. Returned back to Ting to see a group of Pax running into Bridgewater. No idea who was there except for Emeril, causes everyone knows that gait. At the flag Martini was warming up. Pablo shortly after, and Dumbo was early rolling in at 5:28. Dumbo had the honors for the dice roll…4…which meant big dipper.
4 of started out on a mosey with no communication from the other 5 except that they would not be starting out with us. Thanks for filling us in martini. I’ll assume they’re scared of the dice. Shieldlocks are tight right? Wrong. Dumbo and Pablo had no idea of the early start by the fritters, or bat flippers, or cookie pouch munchers, or whatever they call themselves now. After Dumbo’s effort this week he may be joining FML.
FNGs: None
Warm Up: OYO
The Workout: Big Dipper. Pickin up the 6. Nice job Pablo and Dumbo
Mary: Minimal as we arrived back right at 6:30.
Announcements: Mulch
T-Claps (Recognition): Pablo and Dumbo getting the 6 and Martini crushing it today.
Prayer: Skidmark’s friend’s daughter who got bit by a copperhead Monday evening. Dumbo took us out.
FNGs: None
Warm Up: None. We went right out and ran.
The Workout: Run run run. 9 for convergence, 5 for Crossway. They both sucked, in different ways. For convergence, we split up and had a race/WWI/math competition, followed by a BTTW until failure. The score was 2-2…until next time guys.
Mary: Nah.
Announcements: Scramble week! Go try something new.
T-Claps (Recognition): McNugget for forgetting where Crossway is and coming to converge. He ran Nemo’s sizable head start down for the victory.
Prayer: Boy George’s house to sell quickly and easily. Our nation.
FNGs: No
EC: Pikachu, Skidmark, Cupid, Emeril, DawgPound, Gillette, YHC
Commuters: Bernie, Aquaman, ShamWow, Vasoline, Lipstick
Warm Up: High Knees, Butt Kickers, Carioca
The Workout:
If you frequent Slack and you happened to be online yesterday evening, you witnessed something pretty special. You see, YHC was once the site co-Q of R4TJ – the best damn South Wake AO you can attend on a Wednesday morning, not to mention the very best running AO in our region (pre-emtively stop your crying other AOs – haters gonna hate). Part of the responsibilities I had at R4TJ was to make sure that all of the other Wednesday “workouts” were kept in their place. One particular “workout” wasn’t even sure if it was now or To Be Determined… pffttt…..
YHC has been out of the game for a bit. Call it a Covid pause. But I’ve decided to get back in the mix with my boys and contribute to the Q-Sheet even if only for a few running AOs (see you at the #2 running workout in South Wake this Saturday BTW). Since I was back at R4TJ, it was only right to light the warning fires to all those Undetermined Fakers. Check out Slack… It was awesome…. They got the message.
R4TJ Checklist
The “New Hotness” was now in session. An old favorite was tee’d up wth a special twist. We would run the Little Dipper (because it looks like a 6) but today we would have mandatory pick-up-the-six. Every turn on the route marked the need to turn and catch the 6. It was a hot and muggy morning and many of the PAX had already put some miles in. There was a little mublechatter questioning the direction for the route and the need for mandatory pick ups but YHC layed down the law and we were off.
There was a good togetherness this morning with the group. Lots of pairing off and the pick-ups kept us pretty close together. YHC held up the rear for too much of the run. I suppose I can claim that was by design but in truth it wasnt. DawgPound kept me moving with some words of encouragement, Emeril ran along side of me for most of the run and kept pushing me on. These HIM are testements to F3 Goodness.
Through the run, many of the commuters returned to their homes wrapping up some considerably long runs. Great work Men!
NOTE: No planets were harmed in this running of The Little Dipper. There was no sign of Vader. There was a suspicious and small moon hanging in the sky… wait… that’s no moon!
Mary: Probably Playing Possum
YHC performed some common core math to count the PAX – 14 PAX!!! (pretty sure…)
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): The whole gang today for picking up the 6 (aka me). Specific T-Claps to Dawg and Emeril for the motivation when I wanted to hit the brakes.
Prayer: Clay’s family, Crableg’s (The FB told me it was his Birthday yesterday – cool pics from some National Park’s in recent posts – safe travels!), Our world – it’s hurting right no – love each other.