Tag: Miles of Truth

4 track stars met at Midlo Middle knowing something different was in store for the day. According to the teachers snagging their parking spots, this is more or less how it went down.

Warmup with a mosey lap around the school doing some Carioca, high knees, and butt kickers.

Mosey down to the track to get the run down on the days plan: as many miles as we can get on the track in the time remaining. With two small caveats…. 1. Each mile is ran faster than the one before it. 2. Complete 25 Merkins every half mile. Tunes were set on some old school Metallica (Ride The Lightening era) for while the merkins are done, and we were off!

got in about 4.5 miles, 200ish merkins, and pretty close to all negative splits. Awesome work by all PAX today.

NMM

Been wanting to break out this workout for a while now. The Wednesday MOT training day was finally the perfect opportunity. Enjoyed the challenge today. Good to catch up with everyone. Reach out to someone. You never know the difference you can make!

According to the startled joggers on the track, here’s how it went down…

2.2 mile loop doubled. After the second loop we went down for a hotlap on the track which Doozy led us on a blazing sub 6min pace. We jogged back to the flag just as we hit 5 miles. Lots of great chatter today. At some point YHC found out that Boberry had switched jobs 2/3 months ago. While most would assume the only possible explanation for YHC not knowing this information is if I have really been in the fart sack for that long. However, the much more plausible explanation is that YHC has time travelled and somehow missed the last few months..

At any rate, most of the run was 6 wanna be runners chasing Doozy for 45min.

Well done all and its great to be back in the gloom.

6 dudes knew more or less the route and that they were in for some intervals from MOT. 530 struck and we hit the mean streets of Midlo. According to the few cars that passed, this is how it went down.

Route was 4.5 miles, including the Manders climb and finishing with Mt Midlo. Once we got going we did a little warm up with some carioke , high knees, and butt kickers. After we were warmed up it was time for the main event. 1 min of pushing the pace faster than your normal pace, 2 min of slower than your normal pace, while going back for the 6. Repeato until we made it back right on time. Did names and numbers with them SOT boys. Duke took us out.

NMM

great work today fellas, way to push! Nice job by Greenbow finding the PAX and finishing strong! YHC really enjoys the running workouts that change it up a bit.

YHC was joined by 5 fleet of foot gentlemen for a simple taper run for those setting up for the Petersburg Half this weekend. An out and back was on the agenda – Down Mt. Midlo, right on Woolridge, left on Charter Colony – turn around and come back. Negative splits were an option, Doozy tried to run to Chester, and there were more hills than expected on that route. I don’t know that we hit much of a flat spot or easy grade on that one. Well done gentlemen.

Good luck to Don Draper and Tobit at the Petersburg half this weekend. Lockjaw would be proud of your tapering efforts last week.

Happy Hour at Diamond Billiards this Friday, 4/14.

Prayers for Oyster and his family with the sudden loss of his father-in-law.

SOT or MOT? Of all the PAX hanging out at Midlo Middle at 530am, three decided to hit the streets for a run. Down Mt. Midlo, up the Grove hill, down Manders, back up Woolridge to Charter Colony, and finally back to MMS. Mileage was just under 5 this morning and with a few minutes to spare, we joined up with the SOT PAX for some alphabet tracers.

Numbers, names with the SOT PAX. Honeymoon took us out.

Announcements:

-SOJ happy hour, 5:30/6ish, 4/14 at Diamond Billiards

-CSAUP coming in early May….details to come from Gomer

NMS: Rosetta has recently been dealing with a robin at his house that crashes into a window multiple times a day and craps all over the place. His simple question for YHC and Honeymoon was “how do I deal with that?”. Honeymoon didn’t hesitate to respond that the best thing to do is “kill the mother f____er”.

Safe travels for Rosetta and his M as they head to Mexico next week. First time they’ve been on a 7-day vacation together (without the 2.0s) in 10 years. Let’s see if they both make it back.

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