Time Trial & Ruckacide

Perfect morning for an attempted mass murder of the Pax via a one mile time trial.  If that failed, the backup plan was to kill them during a Ruckacide.  Fortunately, both plans narrowly failed and all Pax lived. After the 5 core principals and disclaimer were stated, Ripken headed off into an unconventional mozy that …

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New “Bing Deck”

Conditions Oh my!!! 55 and stars… incredible morning. Mozi We did one lap around w the usual mozi stuff, Nur,high knees,butt kickers, kerioke…… Warm up SSHops, mountain climbers, Strawberry pickers, imperial Walkers, merkins,SSHops again and last but not least, bad back stretches. The Thang We started with an 11. Shoulder taps and leg lifts Then we hit …

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Ups and Downs

Weather – 61 and extremely pleasant. Confession:  YHC had serious thoughts of Fartsacking on this fine gloom, and the excuse was a later than usual evening with friends and the Triathlon this weekend…but having received texts from Coop the day prior, ending with “see you tomorrow”, I didn’t want to let him down…as I entered …

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19 on a Friday!!!?

Conditions great morning, 58 degrees and clear Mozi   We ran one lap around bridges with the regular stuff… Nur, high knees,butt kickers, kerioke Warm up SSHops, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, Strawberry Pickers and Bad Back Stretches! FNG Tower Run Of coarse with any FNG in attendance a Jailbreak run to the top is required!  Soooo, up and …

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Run the Hot Pepper

18 for a Chilipepper beat down. Mozy with butt kickers, high knees. Side shuffle.  Then SSH, windmills, strawberry pickers and monkey humpers.  JD lead us in some old man back stretches. Mozy with paver overhead, alternating arms.  We then circled up: 30 x Full paver lunges, lung pass the paver under your leg, repeat, etc. …

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BQ Fail — Marathon Mania

Weather – mid-40s with an ominous 5-mph breeze and low humidity. Perfect. Pre-Run — YHC, Bing, Ripken and FNG Excalibur were down for what turned-out to be a 6-mile pre-run. The pax circled-back to the parking lot to snag any would-be 3-miles, but all others chose a bit more of the shartsack. So, run we did. As …

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MODIFY

Weather: 68 and humid YHC took off for a little pre-run, contemplating what the final weinke would look like.  Even scoped out a new portion of this great AO, but decided to go with an Amazon favorite, run with stops along the way with exercises.  Boy did those plans every change.  Upon arriving back at …

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Equipping Our Coxswain — Sledgehammer Edition

Weather – low-50s with tropical storm force gales (clocked a 57 mph gust during CoT) and sideways rain to start. Almost ideal conditions for the crazies… Pre-Run — since it was a perfect morning for a 5-mile pre-run, YHC, Bing and a nip-laden Ripken headed around the Benderson horn promptly at 0440. In between wind gusts of 40-50 …

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