{"id":18732,"date":"2022-02-14T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=18732"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:47:39","slug":"nothing-but-love-for-valentines-day-rng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2022\/02\/nothing-but-love-for-valentines-day-rng\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing but Love for Valentine&#8217;s Day RNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather:\u00a0 26 and clear under a large, romantic moon.<\/p>\n<p>Route:\u00a0 Flat for W-S with only about 90 feet of gain and on mostly well-lit, well-paved streets lined with fine homes.\u00a0 About 3.2 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Location:\u00a0 Start\/Finish at Knollwood Baptist Church on the edge of Buena Vista and just off Salem Parkway for easy access.<\/p>\n<p>Gun:\u00a0 Merkins\/Squats, then Hillbillies\/Curtsy Lunges, then Mutton Crunch\/Mutton Crunch, with 20 on and 10 off, no break between sets.<\/p>\n<p>COT:\u00a0 Give blood, especially this Sat Feb 19 at Coliseum Drive.\u00a0 Woodpecker has a CAT scan to make sure that he is still cancer free about five years past his last occurrence; pray for this on\/before Tuesday.\u00a0 YHC took us out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NMM<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From what I could tell, there were two groups:\u00a0 faster guys (Balco, BoutTime, JB) and slower guys (the rest of us).\u00a0 The slower guys stayed together generally.<\/li>\n<li>Mutton&#8217;s car was too cold to unlock.\u00a0 Rather than go back to bed and call AAA, he ran from his home toward the start and met us about halfway along Greenwich.\u00a0 He probably got in 3.75 miles.<\/li>\n<li>Also, Mutton was the only one to have bare legs &#8212; we all wore shorts, but everyone else had tights underneath.<\/li>\n<li>Boo Boo and Woodpecker could have run faster (as could Bueller, I would say) but these two were content to talk throughout most of the 5K while Mutton and I tried to catch our breaths.<\/li>\n<li>JB and Bueller wore red for the special occasion.<\/li>\n<li>We ran within a couple of blocks of the homes of the following folks :\u00a0 Mutton (present), Boo Boo (present), BoutTime (present), and Cheerio (noticeably absent).<\/li>\n<li>YHC used the &#8220;70s Road Trip&#8221; channel on Spotify for random music&#8230; and ads.<\/li>\n<li>JB and YHC fondly remembered when Bill Clinton&#8217;s campaign for President used &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Thinking about Tomorrow&#8221; by Fleetwood Mac.\u00a0 Not that we are Clinton fans.\u00a0 Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that.<\/li>\n<li>Five of the eight Pax have names starting with the letter &#8220;B&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>YHC thanked the Pax for being my Valentines, but if they heard me, they wisely ignored me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good start to my day.\u00a0 Thanks for letting me &#8220;lead&#8221; this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p>Burlap<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather:\u00a0 26 and clear under a large, romantic moon. Route:\u00a0 Flat for W-S with only about 90 feet of gain and on mostly well-lit, well-paved streets lined with fine homes.\u00a0 About 3.2 miles. Location:\u00a0 Start\/Finish at Knollwood Baptist Church on the edge of Buena Vista and just off Salem Parkway for easy access. Gun:\u00a0 Merkins\/Squats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pain-stations","category-run-gun"],"acf":{"q":"Burlap","date":"14 Feb 2022","pax":"Balco, BoutTime, JuiceBox, Mutton, Boo, Boo, Woodpecker (WB), Bueller, and Burlap (QIC &amp; WD)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18733,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions\/18733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}