Hindenburg BLIMPS

Weather – It’s Florida. 6 HIM rose early from the fartsack for a pre-run including a new routine of going postal at the end of the run, which includes hill repeats at the post office (hey, it’s the ONLY hill in running distance that gave us a whopping 82 ft elevation gain).  Launch time of …

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Magic Number 55

In honor of YHC double nickel birthday I figured there was no better way to celebrate than to have the PAX join in with the celebration…. Ripken enticed a group of the PAX to do 5.5 miles as a pre-run to start the festivities. Started off with the core principles and F3 disclaimer then we …

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Trying is the First Step Toward Failure…

Weather: 64F with dew point in the upper 50s. Not great. Not horrible. Pre-Run: Bing, Ripken and YHC launched at 0420 for a modest 4.5-miler to things rolling. Headed to the postal hill and then did the usual loop. Nothing fancy. Upon return to the parking lot, YHC casually asked, “Who’s Q?” To which a unison reply …

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Der Beatdown Drei Uhr vierundvierzig

Weather: 58 and clear As per usual, topics of conversation got progressively more unpleasant leading up to the 5.15 start time. Fortunately, we eventually got to 5.15 and so YHC recited the core principles and disclaimer, just in more detail due to Bing having just returned and maybe needing some additional time to process someone …

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Double Dora with a Cowboy Split

Perfect weather in the low 60’s for the 16 PAX Mosey High-knees Butt-kickers Karaoke Toy Soldiers Circled Up: Strawberry Pickers (1 minute) Side Straddle Hops (1:30 minutes) Moroccan Night Clubs (2:00 minutes) Mumbling was a rumbling, YHC reminded McNugget to keep those young arms up, 😉 Thang: Dora 1 with partner and 500 meter laps 100 …

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F3 [almost NFL] Combine

Weather: perfect day for a beatdown. Temps in mid-40s with some nice wind from the North. Dew Point in the low-40s was a welcomed change. Pre-run: YHC and Bing set-out on a 6-mile pre-run that became a 6.5-mile pre-run that meandered through the normal Greenbrook–70–Lorraine loop, but then took a surprising turn for the sinister as …

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Pincher VQ 2.0

Mosey (2 laps total 500 meter) High Knees Butt Kickers Karaoke Skip Side Shuffle Circled up Strawberry Pickers Wind mills 10 Burpees Thang (3 timed sets followed by a 500 meter run) Sit-up w peter Parker 2:00 Kick Through w 10 Plank Jacks 2:00 Spider-Man Merkins 1:00 500 meter run 1:30 break (to mumble) Rinse …

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