8/6 White Wall’s first Q

by White Wall, posted in Backblast

Date:     8/6/18

Time:    5:30-6:30

Location:     Masterson Station Park

Q:     White Wall

PAX:     Lincoln Log, Opera Ghost (The OG), Duggar and White Wall (Q)

No FNGs

Introduction

Well you know it’s gonna be a good day when @ 5:30 a.m. it feels like a hot swamp outside.  What better to do then to get up and run…..a bunch.  When the question was posed 2 days prior, “who wants to Q a running WO on Thursday?” I think hey, I’m a terrible runner even at a short distance so let’s Q a WO that makes my legs want to fall off.  So having never Q’d a WO I say sure I got this!  So we decided to try a new AO and since it’s a run, we should find the biggest, longest hills possible.  So we did.

Warm up

12 Side Straddle Hops (why 12 you ask…cause my brain doesn’t function @ 5:30 and my first run at cadence confused it)

10 Body builders (new movement for me, basically a burpee with a kick jack after the merkin)

Some high knees and hamstring stretches

Workout

Well…..we ran….a bunch.  Got some good F2 time in on a old man pace.  3.6 miles in total.  I decided that since the distance was a bit longer that I would save the bootcamp stops for another day.  Judging by the soreness later in the day…I think it was a good call.  This AO doesn’t have a flat spot anywhere so there were some long grinding hills. Had a great morning with great brothers hitting the grind.  Unfortunately the Masterson splash pad seems to be on a timer (sorry Lincoln Log on over promising) and wasn’t ready for the early birds.  We were looking forward to a solid cool down but guess I just need to figure out what city worker has that area and headlock him!

Had a good talk after about just how important F3 is to me and what it means to put energy into something so much larger than myself.  Also hopefully planted the seed for getting a Speed for Need event going here in the Bluegrass (thanks Gypsy!!)