{"id":9505,"date":"2019-07-08T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=9505"},"modified":"2019-07-08T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T21:14:14","slug":"weatherman-svp-was-right-it-is-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2019\/07\/weatherman-svp-was-right-it-is-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Weatherman, SVP, Was Right &#8212; It is HOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temp:\u00a0 72 degrees<\/p>\n<p>Humidity:\u00a0 YES<\/p>\n<p>The route was around and through the gentle hills of old Sherwood Forest.\u00a0 The first mile was mostly downhill and down Archer from the Fire Station to Kirklees.\u00a0 The second mile was up and down &#8212; namely up Lichfield and down Chester.\u00a0 The third was mostly a gradual uphill with some swales on Quarterstaff and Huntington.<\/p>\n<p>YHC&#8217;s distance was 3.21, a number of some significance &#8212; more later.<\/p>\n<p>Then we did three rounds of tabata (20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, no rest between sets) roughly matching the songs on YHC&#8217;s free Spotify app from a collection of about 40 songs that YHC has deemed suitable for workouts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mountain climbers and Freddie Mercuries &#8212; &#8220;It&#8217;s Been Awhile&#8221; by Staind<\/li>\n<li>merkins and alternating lunges &#8212; &#8220;Jungle Boogie&#8221; by Kool and the Gang<\/li>\n<li>WWII sit-ups and, well, WWII sit-ups &#8212; &#8220;Wherever I May Roam&#8221; by Metallica<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>COT &#8211; No announcements, but requests to remember Peacemaker and his M in prayer and unspoken requests.\u00a0 YHC took us out.<\/p>\n<p>NMM<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Q put the location within one-half mile of his home, yet still drove.<\/li>\n<li>Pax noticed and were pleased by the fact that other runners were just finishing their 0430 run at 0520.\u00a0 There were also bikers gathered at Messiah Moravian at 0530, an exercise mecca.<\/li>\n<li>Because YHC did not arrive on site until 0526, I was unsure as to whether Mutton had posted until returning at the end of run and not seeing him there.<\/li>\n<li>SVP and RedEye got out to an early lead and blazed comfortably down Archer.\u00a0 JB and Bueller eased along together chatting peacefully, while Lawnboy hung with YHC (the 6) until we turned up Lichfield when he caught up to Bueller and JB.\u00a0 The latter was kind enough to circle back for me near the 4-way stop at Kirklees and Quarterstaff and reported that Lawnboy and Bueller kinda took off.\u00a0 The rest of pax picked me (the 6) up the final hill on Huntington for the last few hundred yards.<\/li>\n<li>We ran by the house where Parkay is doing yardwork for a neighbor even as YHC types this BB.\u00a0\u00a0We also ran by my house &#8212; I suggested last night to my M that about half dozen guys would be running by the house about 5:50 a.m., but she declined to make an appearance nor to provide any refreshment.<\/li>\n<li>YHC posted a roughly 8 and 1\/2 minute first mile which is reasonable given that I was running with fast guys and mostly downhill.\u00a0\u00a0My second mile was under 9 minutes which was pretty good for me given that it was a bit of climb and largely out of sight of the pax.\u00a0 The third mile was a struggle for YHC, even with JB&#8217;s welcome company, as I was sweating so much and somewhat dehydrated (apparently).\u00a0 I was struggling at the end.<\/li>\n<li>A Volvo station wagon pulled into the lot by our cars about the time I returned on the run, and for a moment YHC thought maybe Resistor was dropping by for the GUN portion.\u00a0 But it was a Messiah employee starting work in the playground garden while it was still relatively cool.\u00a0\u00a0 When I was leaving, I realized it was Barbara Shore, the director of Messiah&#8217;s pre-school and long-time friend.\u00a0 If you know her husband, Jim, put an EH on him.<\/li>\n<li>The title of this BB is a reference to SVP&#8217;s video posts on Twitter regarding the dangerous weather conditions.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>On a serious note, I mentioned the mileage on my MMR at 3.21 being significant to me.\u00a0 I will try to explain here.\u00a0 March 21 (3\/21) is Down syndrome day.\u00a0\u00a0Folks chose that day because for individuals with Down syndrome, their 21st &#8220;pair&#8221; of chromosomes is actually a triplet &#8212; that is, they have 3 chromosomes instead of two.\u00a0 This trisomy 21 is commonly called Down syndrome.\u00a0 You will see 5ks that raise money and awareness for DS often be 3.21 miles in order to make the connection with the three chromosomes in the 21st pair.\u00a0 This is significant to YHC as my daughter, Elizabeth, has Down syndrome.\u00a0 She is planning to attend UNC-Greensboro this fall in a special program called Beyond Academics.\u00a0 She plans to live on campus with typically developing students.\u00a0 She just received a partial scholarship from Ruby&#8217;s Rainbow, an organization that grants scholarships for college bound students with Down syndrome.\u00a0 The scholarship that Elizabeth received is in the memory of a young woman, Laura, who attended George Mason University about ten years ago and was a pioneer in collegiate programs like the one at UNCG.\u00a0 Laura died unexpectedly three years ago.\u00a0 Elizabeth, Dawn, and I were able to meet her parents.\u00a0 It is also interesting to me that the Ruby&#8217;s Rainbow organization was founded by a family who had a daughter with DS but well before the daughter even qualified for college.\u00a0 In fact, the Ruby for whom the non-profit is named has another 10 years before she can attend college.\u00a0 Her parents had the foresight and inspiration to raise funds to help other kids with DS attend college well before their daughter even started grade school.\u00a0 My M and I are very grateful for these families and especially for Elizabeth and for the life that she leads and the potential she is realizing with each new day.\u00a0 I just wanted to share a little of her story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for the opportunity of leading and sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Burlap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temp:\u00a0 72 degrees Humidity:\u00a0 YES The route was around and through the gentle hills of old Sherwood Forest.\u00a0 The first mile was mostly downhill and down Archer from the Fire Station to Kirklees.\u00a0 The second mile was up and down &#8212; namely up Lichfield and down Chester.\u00a0 The third was mostly a gradual uphill with [&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-9505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pain-stations","category-run-gun"],"acf":{"q":"Burlap","date":"08 July 2019","pax":"Van Pelt aka SVP, Bueller (WB), RedEye, LawnBoy, JuiceBox, Burlap (WB &amp; QIC)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505","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=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9520,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions\/9520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}