Midlothian Middle
According to the bus drivers sitting in the gloom laughing at 4 skinny, old men trying to break into the high school track for some hot laps…
Warmup: 1.5 mile jog to midlo high. a-skip, b-skip, high knees, butt kickers
The Thang: 5 x 600ish meters @ just under threshold pace w/30 sec recovery
Outro: 1.5 sluggish miles back to the flag. Yikes, that hurt a little. numberama, prayers, out.
On an especially cold and windy morning 3 men met for some running. We found some hills. Hill repeats on Mt Pisgah and Mt Midlo with timed efforts, recovery, and specific areas to work on. Everyone crushed it! Good mumble chatter that day about kids and Pokémon life lessons.
In 4 and a half years with F3, YHC has never Q’ed a Running AO. Today the cherry was popped. 6 Truth Seekers ran the following route :
Head west on Midlo Turnpike, Left on LeGordon then take that until it connects to Charter Colony, cross Charter Colony and enter dirt trail behind Midlothian High School Football Stadium, Right on Bluegrass Road, Left on S Carriage Ln, Right on Coalfield, Left on Woolridge then head all the way to Midlo Turnpike, Left on Midlo Turnpike then back to Midlo Middle (4.12 miles at this point. YHC continued around the school, down the stairs, around the track and BTTF for 4.5 miles. The rest of the PAX continued with the Little Caesars Loop and BTTF for 5.3 miles at a pace somewhere in the 8 minute range. Well done)
DONE
Joined with SOT Bootcampers for Numbers, Names, and YHC closed out in prayer
Announcements : This Saturday 3/18 the Q Source Ruck that Boberry and Doublemint lead is transitioning to Saturdays at 6 am at Rockwood Park
This upcoming Monday 3/20 Vagabond has the Q for the Monday AO location switch from New Market to Rountrey. He’s already got 3 FNG’s who gave HC’s to come! Awesome job brother.
Next week Thurs 3/23 SOJ Lunch at 11:45 am at Wongs Tacos Midlothian location
Sat 3/25 Breaking Bread is open for someone to Q. Make a meal for residents at Southside Health Center medical respite program and if you want to stick around to eat with the residents then go for it. Breaking Bread is on the Q Sheet for the 4th Saturday & Sunday every month. Contact Oyster for more details.
NMMS : Not only was today YHC’s Running AO VQ, it was my first time back at a running AO post hip injury. Wasn’t sure how it would go but it turned out okay. My hips are sore now but should be fine. Appreciate you brothers!
With the purity of OC’s cadence never in question, the runners ditched the track this week for some miles through Salisbury.
530 arrived with three boot campers and five runners present. Boberry and Doublemint started a ruck at 5 and were expected back for the start. Alas, deep conversation must have ensued b/c neither were anywhere to be found at 530. So five started off on a five mile run that included hills and some tempo (thanks to Rosie).
BTTF with one minute to spare. Bootcampers joined us. OC led COT and took us out.
Boberry’s car was still in the parking lot when runners and bootcampers converged, but he was still nowhere to be found. Sometime after COT, Boberry finally joined us. After rucking, he apparently took off after the runners on his own Salisbury route. Nice work Bo!
Prayers for OC’s mom who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Prognosis looks good.
Announcements: Diamond Billiard’s happy hour second Friday of every month, Oyster pays for SOJ lunch on the 4th Thursday of every month (March will be Wong’s tacos)
Solid run today fellas!
Track day menu.
Amuse bouche: 0.5mile warm up
Starters: active stretching (A skip, B skip, high knees, Carioca).
Mains: Ladder 4x200m, 2x400m, 2x800m, and 2x400m. Pacing (~mile+1min). 200m active recovery between reps/sets.
Postres: 5min cool down.
Back to the flag to join with the bootcampers. DTH and Boberry took us out.
Merci a tout le monde qui sont venus
10 fine gentlemen showed up to do something no man has ever done before. Unfortunately, they couldn’t figure out what that was so 6 decided to hot potato a bootcamp and the other 4 decided this was a fine week to launch the new MOT (Miles of Truth) run club.
The bootcampers came back looking sweaty so they were probably spritzing some water on their faces from the middle school water fountains.
The runners did a 1.5 mile warm up, a few cadence drills on the track, then launched into the Magic Mile and a few 400 repeats.
Fun times were had by all.
With one week to go before the official launch of MOT, several of us got out to do a thing to celebrate YHCs bday. With a 5am launch and a commitment to 41 laps around the Midlo Middle track, what could go wrong? Somehow distances ranged from 1 mile to 11 and our pace dropped below 7:30 for a bit. Nonetheless, it was a fantastic morning for a run. Special thanks to McRib and the SOT pax for all the birthday love as we circled the track. Man it feels good to be 41!