Midlothian Middle
First MOT Q ever and I dressed like a construction worker. Even north of the river knows now because Gomer was there on the summer tour.
Got a little 4 mile run (https://onthegomap.com/s/hn0eddqp) and some hill work (up the grassy hill by the track).
Airwolf and Rosetta smoked me up the hill every time. Went up the hill and around the sidewalk about 6 times (did one track lap between the 5 and 6 hill).
An easy flat out and back route was set for the 7 runners and a canine regular, maybe some speed work along the way. Doozy almost missed a turn early on but got back on track. Turns out Doozy wanted to run fast, so Airwolf followed but lost him, then Tobit jumped in with Airwolf and took off from the pack. Annie may or may not have been slowing Honeymoon down. YHC and Boberry decided MOT as run workouts is preferred – hills, speed work, track, tempo, or, like today ended up, negative splits.
Public Service Announcement – It’s getting darker in the gloom, if you are going to be running on the streets don’t forget your lights, reflective gear, or if you’re Draper and Greenbow – glow in the dark shirts.
8 or 9 “not big guys” hit the mean streets of Midlo to get some miles. Route will be below this post. Route was followed to varying degrees by the PAX as needed. You against you! Great push today guys. We hit the Manders climb and finished with Mt. Midlo! Next time YHC will take a headlamp when venturing on a trail in the woods. SYITG.
https://footpathapp.com/routes/664954E3-B779-4096-A074-6670BF087289
Lots of mublechatter in slack but no one grabbed the Q so Rosie and YHC combined the worst of our grabbag of ideas and hit the pavement. It went something like this:
1-mile warmup (Left on Midlo Turnpike, Left on Coalfield, Left on Woolridge, Left on Grove Hill) – Circle up at the bottom of Mt. Midlo.
1 hard pace trip up Mt. Midlo, recover jog down to the Midlo Middle track.
1 x Magic Mile – (A prediction formula based upon a one mile time trial… You can run a measured mile at a good, hard pace for you, and use the time to predict what you could run at longer distances.)
Recover back to the bottom of Mt. Midlo.
2.5 more trips up Mt. Midlo to finish out the workout.
Circle up to close out with the SOT crew.
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It was great to have a 10-man crowd out for some miles this morning and a heck of a workout. Thanks for pushing it this morning gents!
We found a flat, slightly downhill route.
Coalfield.
Unfortunately we had to come back uphill.
That was less fun.
5 rabbits, some that checked the pre-blast of the route and still showed up, bounded a few of the hills of Midlothian. In figure 8 shape, head down Midlo to Charter Colony – left on Woolridge and up Honeymoon Hill. Down into the Grove for the final climb up Grove Hill Road, back around Coalfield and Woolridge to Mt. Midlo.
Enjoyed the run and chasing Doozy up the hills, if anyone wants a rabbit to chase – Doozy is your man. Unless of course Annie gets tired of him leading the way and cuts him off with her leash. Good company for the run this morning, thanks for showing up and following along men.
YHC and Greenbow left the safe space of SOT to get out and take on the wind and the rain of MOT. Greenbow predetermined that he would not be running 10 -12 miles today so together we ran to the bridge on Charter Colony which is the 2 mile mark where Greenbow turned and headed back to the flag. YHC bound and determined to get in 10 miles due to the fact that a Monday and Tuesday runs where missed kept pressing on towards Tomahawk Middle, Brandermill PKWY to Genito back up and over to St Francis, up to Manders Dr, to Coafield to Queensgate back to the flag
10.58 Miles total, didn’t feel good in the rain and had to walk more than one uphill battle. In all it took about an hour and a half +
NMS: Its always good to get out and after it with someone, while Greenbow didn’t go the whole route with YHC it was good company for the time that YHC did have with him. YHC will do this route again but hopefully in dryer weather, it has lots of short hills that add a fair amount of challenge to the already challenging distance. Starting off the day, basically (not quite) running a half marathon is not for everyone but I enjoyed it.
Strong 10 for the morning run as we toured the Midlothian mines. Little less than 5 miles, keep up the good work and nice seeing numbers continuing to grow!
7 Runners were to scared to stick around and see what Marmaduke might try to make them do so at 5:30 we separated from the Bootcampers and according to local officials this is what happened.
The route is AO to AO and back (SOT to Timberwolf) or at least to the round about on Brandermill Parkway which is approximately 3.5 miles one way. PAX runs as far as they are comfortable and then heads BTTF, most made it somewhere between 5 – 5.5 miles and made it back in time for COT. YHC took a little more time and did the full route and ended up missing the COT but catching a few of the guys before they left.
YHC wears a vest with water bottles and pockets for longer runs but in a hurry this morning to get out the door forgot to put the anti chaff cream on, hence the title of this BB. oooouch!! $%&#
warm up jog, active stretching.
the thang: 3x 1 mile at 90% effort or uncomfortable. Recovery jog between efforts to let HR return to normal.
Solid effort by all.