Tag: Miles of Truth

Midlothian Middle

  • Miles of Humidity

    The three regulars posted for a soupy ‘run’ through Salisbury to Winterfield and back for 4ish miles.

    -Singer

  • …

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

    It was cool but muggy, but we goter done

  • Run Slow, Turn Left or “Beer Nips”

    With different runner in different spaces of training and speed, YHC opted to Q a bro code style run. Goal to be fast or slow depending on your plan for the day. With the speedsters coming back for the 6, on the four mile route laid forth. Down 60, left on mt pisgah, continue onto Westfield, left on Winterfield, continue on to LeGordon, continue onto Charter Colony, left on Woolridge, left to go up mt Midlo and left into the parking lot. (Zoolander would have had a hard time with this route). Doozy sped ahead but kept coming back, Don Draper and Cavity Search followed Draper’s planned 800m reps and kept getting back for the 6 as well. YHC managed to take it easy until deciding to chase Rosie up mt Midlo at the end. Easy is relative given the high humidity.
    prayers for Doozy’s M who is on a mission trip and for my HS friend who lost his father and his wife who has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
    announcements

    -homegrown half is August 16th, route is current under construction, more details forthcoming. There will be a 10k ruck option as well. (Here’s looking at you Try Hard!) potentially a 5k option as well. Come on out and challenge yourself!

    -partner ship with the bridge is ongoing. Whitesnake is leading the charge July 19th. See him or slack for meet up details.

    NMS

    YHC hasn’t been posting as much lately. Plan to get more regular with it. Great mumble chatter today. Word to the wise. Be wary of nipple chafing on runs if your overseas travel involve a lot European lunch beers.

  • Solo Salisbury

    Did MOT move? Worse yet, cancelled? Hopefully not but as YHC returned from vacation to a desolate start, the darker thoughts emerged. Off we go….Salisbury for some tree cover from the light rain. 4 miles and done.

    -Singer

  • 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.

  • solo MoT

    Knocked out a traditional route. Took a few minutes to walk and read some of the local historical markers.

  • “D.A.B” run

    DAB: Not the gen Z dance movement or the apparent reference to this. I made up a new term for our “down and back” run. Today, we had an empty Q sheet and a Rosie with angry knees. I quickly whipped up this run (basically MOT towards Timberwolf via Woolridge and Charter colony).

    I think Doozy gets the prize for almost making it to Timberwolf. 2nd place goes to a pair of squirrels (Tobit, yes that Tobit and 100 percent Rosetta). The Duke and I had a nice conversation about wrestling, fatherhood (M is expecting and due in two months), staying in shape. We put in 4.8 miles at around a 9:10 pace (pretty happy with that).

    Prayers for all our wild and wonderful kids — that they stay safe and have fun during these summer months.

    Special prayers for Draper as he works through a challenging season — as OC put it, it can feel like moving boulders. I’m grateful to Draper for sharing his story today. These honest conversations remind us that every one of us goes through highs and lows — and that’s not just normal, it’s human.

    Draper took us out in prayer. BOLO for August home grown half.