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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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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Running AO Recon Mission

Weather: Perfect running weather – 58 and low dew point. Mission – check out a location to launch a pure running AO.  I think Ragnar has caused an itch that we all need to scratch!! The track at LWR HS is locked down like a prison, so the pax took off for a run across …

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West S[tr]ide Story

Weather – perfect with mid-50s and low dew point. All fartsackers missed-out. Pre-Run — since it was a perfect morning for a 3-mile pre-run, YHC and Big Mac set out on a quick loop. We chatted about everything from running to running. Well, it was pretty much a one-sided conversation as Big Mac was chest-heaving the final 1.5-miles, …

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Backblast from The Tower

There was a chill at The Tower this morning. 47 degrees. 5:15am. After a brisk mozy n some dynamic stretching 14 brave HIM’s descended to the lower levels of The Tower for Rowdy’s 1st VQ! We started with ”Levels 1-3″ lvl 1 merkins, lvl 2 dips, lvl 3 carolina dry docks to jailbreak up The …

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It’s Monday!!!

Plan and simple, let’s start off the week with a little suffering… Warm Up Long Mozy down to the bridge with a few hits along the way Side Shuffle Butt kickers High knees Strawberry pickers LBCs   The Meat Tabata Tabata 8 Sets 20/10 Merkin Suicides Tabata 8 Sets 20/10 Knuckle Draggers (deep squats) Suicides Tabata 8 Sets 20/10 Mountain Climbers …

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Public Display of Fitness

Weather: 60’s and clear gloomy skies After a 3.3 mile EC run with Gridlock, YHC was thrilled to see the crowd gathering in the parking lot.  Part of the pre-run included setting up some cones and we were ready to go. Disclaimer was shared and we took off for a mosey around the parking lot, …

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