Man these are perfect mornings here lately. Just a hair chilly but keeps the body feeling great. I decided I didn’t wanna do a regular EC run as I had knocked out the Ardmore rah 10k on Monday, so today was a ruck it or f*** it kind of deal. Both...
Read moreWhen Turnover put out the bat signal for a substi-Q sometime last week I was in a good mood and wasn’t looking at my calendar, so I happily helped out my good friend who has been generous to me in a pinch before. I should have inherently...
Read moreYHC popped out of bed this morning without an alarm – rare, then headed to the bathroom, like all of us middle-aged men do. As I was getting ready, you know, primping myself and listening to my morning podcasts, something felt off. A...
Read moreCruiser reached out last minute for a sub; YHC made some efforts to fill, but was unable to. Of course Wooly Bugger offered to rehash his golf q from a couple of weeks ago, but he’s already q’d here four times with another coming up. Nah, the...
Read moreHiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier who lived and fought on Lubang Island for many years after WWII ended. Refusing to believe that Japan had surrendered, he hid in the jungle and conducted raids on local villages for many decades after the war...
Read moreLaunchpad has received a makeover – a newly minted parking lot complete with painted spaces far exceeds in quality the gravel lot that was there prior. Unfortunately for the visiting pax, the gates were closed so we had to park across the...
Read moreWelcomeeeee….. Toooooooo… Scavenger-Trazzzzzzzzzz ! So, with a Q on the Date of 10-4 ( holy cow…if you look up “this day in history for 10-4, a WHOLE lotta stuff happened on that day. ), so I didn’t want to go the...
Read moreWow…a whole month late with a Backblast. Has to be a record? Better late than never? It was the opening weekend for the NFL, and yes, there had already been football themed workouts the week before with College Football getting kicked...
Read moreWhen YHC was voluntold about Qing #Purgatory on October 4, he thought long and hard about what sort of theme to build the workout around. The pressure was really on after @PonyExpress’ elaborate theme last week. Given that today is 10/4...
Read moreMayhem was my first post in September 2014. It has been a fast fun filled (see what I did there) 11 years with many memories – good, painful, humorous. There was no way to cover all of them but YHC thought it would be fun to visit some...
Read moreWarm-O-Rama SSH, Abe Vigota, Whirlie w/a clap, arm swirly things forward and in reverse, and Michael Phelps. Afterwards, mosied on over to the track. Greenspan requested lighting because he doesn’t like tripping on tree roots, and that...
Read moreI did not want to do this. I mean I REALLY wasn’t feeling it. Lousy day, lousy week, lousy month (show to know). My body is feeling gnarly all over and on top of that it’s just like a swamp in the grass here. All that said, I saw...
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