The Ghost of Van Gogh

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The Ghost of Van Gogh

Date: 6.25.26

PAX: Burns, Zephyr, Starfish, Huckleberry, Greenspan

YHC dug in the archives for inspiration and found this gem created by Van Gogh from 2020:  https://www.f3winstonsalem.com/f3/2020/02/a-runrangerrun-edition-of-wib/

With a few tweaks and a few pax, we’d be off and running.  Four others obliged YHC this morning at River Oaks Community Church.

Warmarama:

SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Whirlies, Asian Squats, Cherry Pies

The Thang:

Beginning at the pull-up bars on the backside of the church:

  • Pull-ups + toes to bars x 5 (always x 5)
  • Run counter-clockwise around front of church to Noah’s Ark for Dive Bombers x 5.
  • Continue running around perimeter of parking lot to northwest corner for Bootslap Squats x 5.
  • Continue running perimeter of lot and back to pull up bars.
  • Each round, increase dive bombers and squats by 5 reps until completing round of 20 reps. Then decrease by 5 reps each round.

No time for Mary.  Finished.

Prayer Requests:

  • Bevo’s family and house.
  • Continued healing of Huck’s leg.

NMM:

  • 3+ miles covered for all participants. Strong work, fellas.
  • Burns, working 10 hour days, started alone at 0445 and was wrapping up his business as the other four us were just getting started. He advised YHC that “the dive bomber station is too close to the pull-ups; you should move it further around the front of the church.”  Noted and done.  Burns completed 6 full laps, winning the morning.
  • Huckleberry made a welcome return and posted up at the pullup bars with the Yacht and its speakers doing all manner of worse exercises than what the Q called for. He threatened to drive around the parking lot to each station as the rest of us ran.  Great to have him back out and rounding into Bourbon Chase form.  We discovered that his physical therapist is the same person who helped YHC recover from the debilitating IT-band syndrome after last year’s Ragnar.
  • Zephyr led the late comers, coming around the bend for the completion of his 6th lap when time was called. Post-COT, Burns fessed up that he had not done WoR and thus had 6 extra minutes.  Guess Zima is proven correct:  WoR really is a time waster.  Zephyr also talked up Starfish’s 2.0, aka Frostbite, and his improved running speed.  Also rounding into Bourbon Chase form.
  • Lamb Chop texted Wednesday evening decrying YHC not having WIB in Ardmore, close to his prior home. YHC responded that Ardmore not being the chosen locale should be blamed on Ardmore UMC removing their monkey bars since pull-ups would be required today.
  • Starfish let YHC hang around for a few laps and then kicked YHC in the hind parts. At the conclusion he remarked, “Forty-five minutes of threshold.  That’ll do.”
  • As always when doing a workout at ROCC, YHC had flashbacks to the 5,000 rep challenge at the 2020 Shmed and running around in the middle of the August night heat with H.O.G., Zima, Litterbox, Van Gogh, Hold My Beer, and Huckleberry. Truly CSAUP.  The pax were grateful for the mild weather today and noted that this might be the last time it feels this nice in the morning for a few months.
  • It should be mentioned that at the aforementioned Van Gogh WIB Q from 2020 that there was no cap on the exercises and that the pax in attendance got up to 45 reps. Today’s pax were momentarily despondent when notified of this but quickly recovered when informed that the plan that day did not include the pull ups and VG had utilized regular merkins instead of dive bombers.  In rereading that backblast, YHC also realized that this was the legendary moment when VG unhelpfully informed the pax that it was “only 5:46” in the midst of their sufferings.  YHC had misremembered the timing of that silliness, thinking it to have been an IPC workout.
  • All in all, this seemed sufficient. Shoulders were toasted, heart rates were elevated, mileage achieved.

Thanks, Zephyr, for the keys.  Huck took them.  Get him on the calendar.

 

 

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