Author: Don Draper

  • One last one

    2025 clean up, I’m sure I missed other backblasts, but glad I remembered this. Now, if I could only remember where we ran…

  • A long long time ago

    This one time, Rosetta came to MOT and it was so surprising, I forgot to post a backlist. Now I did.

  • Hills! (and not hills)

    Two of us ran hills. Two of us did not. We all got at least 4 miles. It was fun.

  • Old men running fast

    At least that’s what it felt like… until we arrived back at the flag with fewer miles than expected.
    Next time we’ll be faster.

  • Third Annual Homegrown Half

    For the third year in a row, YHC’s disorganization and lack of social promotion led to yet another successful homegrown half, 10K, and 5K!

    Feedback from the PAX identified that the route last year kept everyone wanting more hills, so we brought back the OG double hill climbs and it was a big hit for all the half marathoners. 

    There was lots of mumble chatter along the way, but also a lot of camaraderie and shared disdain for the sudden resurgence of heat and humidity. At 6am, we kicked off to a true 70 and sunny, and the temp kept climbing throughout the race. 

    After the race, there was lots of speculation that our downrange guest, Dementia, was actually the infamous Bryan Kohberger, which turns out to be Fake News. 

    Special thanks to DTH for organizing a family, friendly 5K ruck with lots of participation. 

  • …

    3 rebels launched into a 4 mile run while YHC +1 did some track work

    It was cool but muggy, but we goter done

  • Swampy

    Three decades of HIMs showed up for a swampy beatdown on the track. The thang:
    – 200 warmup of Cadence drills and sprinters
    – 20x100s (run the straight, walk the curves) @ 20-25 seconds each
    – 400 @ race pace (6-7min mile)
    Then a slow walk back to the flag

    Doozy did a slow 6-8 so we didn’t see him after the warmup.

    Finkle came out for the first time in a year, but forgot his F3 name so YHC was able to track it down with much support from fuzzy memory, Big data, & our glorious backblasts. Welcome back Finkle!


    Homegrown Half – August 16th

  • Half n Half

    It was a swampy start to the day and half the guys wanted brocode and the others wanted tempo work – so we split up and did both.
    And then we were done.

  • Hills’ hills

    After joking with BigRig and Boberry that nine 60-second hill repeats seemed wimpy, YHC convinced 2 of the 3 runners to do a hill test of our own.

    Bullseye, Greenbow and YHC hit the block for a warmup and converged at the bottom of Mt. Midlo. After four 90-second Mt Midlo repeats, we were spent! We then hit the block for a cool down where Doozy passed us, blasting some late-90’s boy band jams, working his way toward 6+. We gathered at the (non-existent) flag to close out.

    Thanks for the push, gents – it was good to rev the RPMs.

    Announcements: YHC needs to pick an August date for the homegrown half. If you haven’t started training – you should!

  • PR-ecipitation Punisher

    A couple of stallions joined YHC as he kicked off training to PR his mile time by year end. As the pax joked ‘I think we’re getting wet,’ the downpour turned torrential. We did brocode to the Midlo High track, then it was each man for himself for 800 repeats, then back to the flag – all totaling about 4.5 miles of exhaustion.

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out. Prayers for Hermey’s upcoming surgery.

    We immediately scattered like water drops on a hot skillet, as if the rain could get us any more wet.