After a one year hiatus, Thursday at #DashWIB, we ran the 2nd Marble Arch Marathons.\u00a0 At the inaugural event back in May 2017, 10 #DashPax attempted and 0 finished, although @Zima and @RustBucket came close but just barely missed the 45 minute time cutoff.<\/p>\n
The Thang<\/strong><\/p>\n Think of this as a much abbreviated version of the Barkley Marathons, the sadistic race in East Tennessee which is made up of 5 loops of 26ish miles and 20K feet of elevation gain per loop.\u00a0 On Thursday, we attempted to run 5 loops (or 3 loops for a #FunRun) of Marble Arch Road.\u00a0 Each loop is 0.83 miles and 61.6 feet of elevation gain.\u00a0 At each intersection, we stopped and performed 10 perfect form reps OYO of the called exercise:<\/p>\n Stop 1:\u00a0 M<\/strong>erkins<\/p>\n Stop 2:\u00a0 A<\/strong>lternating Side Lunges (each leg, so 1, 1, 2, 2, etc)<\/p>\n Stop 3:\u00a0\u00a0R<\/strong>ussian Twists (each side, so 1, 1, 2, 2, etc)<\/p>\n Stop 4:\u00a0\u00a0B<\/strong>urpees<\/p>\n Stop 5:\u00a0\u00a0L<\/strong>unges (each leg, so 1, 1, 2, 2, etc)<\/p>\n Stop 6:\u00a0\u00a0E<\/strong>lbow Plank Jacks<\/p>\n First loop was clockwise.\u00a0 Second loop was counterclockwise.\u00a0 Third loop was clockwise.\u00a0 Fourth loop was counterclockwise.\u00a0 On the fifth loop, the leader aka @LitterBox chose the direction and then the PAX alternated directions.<\/p>\n 3 completed loops within 45 minutes = #FunRun<\/p>\n 5 completed loops within 45 minutes = #Finisher<\/p>\n Virtual conch blew at 0525.\u00a0 Virtual cigarette was lit at 0530.\u00a0 5061 Marble Arch Road at the NW corner of Marble Arch and Cedar Trail (aka #TheTopOfTheD).<\/p>\n NMM<\/strong><\/p>\n This strong group of #HIM destroyed the race today as we had\u00a06(!)<\/strong> finishers and 12 fun runners with a bunch of those actually getting in 4+ laps.\u00a0 Lots of #ISI out there this morning and pulling and pushing.\u00a0 Conditions were nearly perfect at 42 degrees with light rain\/drizzle\/mist.<\/p>\n Our 6 finishers were:\u00a0 @LitterBox, @Vig, @Zima, @Huckleberry, @Greenspan and @Offsides.\u00a0 Strong work gentlemen!\u00a0 We will have to make next year’s version a bit tougher.<\/p>\n And, as expected my neighbor across the street aka @GladysKravitz sent me this text this morning:\u00a0 “Was that your exercise group flash mob at 5:30 this morning? :-)”.\u00a0 I think he was impressed with our studliness.<\/p>\n Special Tclaps to @Zima and @Spamalot who also #RIROd to this silliness.\u00a0 #CSAUP.\u00a0 There may have been other #RIROers.\u00a0 Sound off in comments if so.<\/p>\n This was a fun morning, boys.\u00a0 Not gonna lie, launching from my front yard was pretty sweet.\u00a0 And watching you guys kill it was even sweeter.<\/p>\n Your friend,<\/p>\n Starfish<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a one year hiatus, Thursday at #DashWIB, we ran the 2nd Marble Arch Marathons.\u00a0 At the inaugural event back in May 2017, 10 #DashPax attempted and 0 finished, although @Zima and @RustBucket came close but just barely missed the 45 minute time cutoff. The Thang Think of this as a much abbreviated version of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wib"],"acf":{"q":"Starfish","date":"3\/21\/2019","pax":"Burlap, Litter Box (WB), Huckleberry, Zima, Offsides, Greenspan, Bueller?, Palin, Burns, PITA, Resistor, Drama Queen, Spamalot, The Vig, Juice Box, Mutton, Thistle (WD), Starfish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","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\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8415,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions\/8415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}