Wilderness Notes you know that spiritual passion, sight, and affections ebb and flow. At times our sense of spiritual realities can be strong and vibrant; other times, our hearts feel like lead weights and we find ourselves longing for God to visit us once again and bring refreshment (Psalm 85:4-7). These seasons are usually …
I think Frank Martin would be proud
Conditions: A blazing January inferno, plus some rain Tha Thang: 9 gathered for what was promised to be a leg/core focused beatdown. Some #grumblechatter ensued for the first 10 minutes as there was the usual full-body warmup. After that, silence as YHC was true to his word. Disclaimer Mosey to corner. Warmup with SSH, Merkins, …
Love me some Fartlicking (yeah, I know)
Conditions: Dry and cold Tha Thang: 11 pax (1 for faculty) set out for 3.5 miles of Friday-approved quickness. Start with a Queens Way Loop together to warmup (sorry about the directional snafu), then 4 separate intervals (varying from 400-1500 meters) of speed with active recovery to Burnside Loop and back. We warmed up fast. …
No bad weather, only bad gear
Hardcore. Conditions: 39 and clear. Dew on the field. Disclaimer Tha Thang (roughly): Mosey to corner. SSH IC x 40, IW x 40, ISW x 40. Mosey to next corner. Merkins IC x 10, walk up into Carolina DryDocks x 10 IC. Flutterkicks IC x 40, LBC x 30. Mosey to playground. P1: …
You made a great choice!
18 pax made a great choice to beat the fartsack early this morning and come post at The Armory (wait, are we THE or just ARMORY?). We all make thousands of choices everyday, and we obviously started well. Will it continue? Are you committed to God honoring choices? Let’s search the Scriptures and find some …
Kumba YA-YA-YA for SPEED!!!
Conditions: Muggy but doable. Some Chippendale’s Tha Thang: Kumbaya style for 3, MAF for 3. For full description, see Strava Kumbaya We needed some speed. We got it. Over 5.5 miles, we had the following interval accelerations: 5×30 seconds, 2×1 minute, 2x2min, 2x3min, with a rotating Q and no route in mind. It worked, and …
Kids go #Cheechstrong
Conditions: Humid and warm Tha Thang: 5 dads and 8 little ones gathered at Dreher for the 3rd F3Dads workout of the summer. Small crowd, probably due to many of the pax running for the Cheech convergence and not having time to do both. You are definitely forgiven if that is your reason. Disclaimer Mosey …
We were, like, flipping out
Conditions: Cool and dry Tha Thang: 9 guys didn’t take the Twitter hints and showed up anyway for what promised to be a repetitive, hard workout. It didn’t disappoint, although admittedly it was not as brutal as I anticipated due to time limitations and having a good number of pax to split the load. Recently, …
A Force-Ful Snotwoggler
The Conditions: Warm and a little muggy, but wait til July! Tha Thang: 6 padawans gathered at Dreher High School for a MudRun-avoiding bit o’ Jedi training. Wienke heavily borrowed from recent browbeating by Floppy Disc at SwampFox but adapted for circumstances like all good Force-users are able. We were supposed to disclaim and get …
Loaded Dice
Conditions: A touch warm and humid but quite tolerable Tha Thang: 9 D&D fans posted for an unwelcome #Pondoapproved “run”. Monday rhymes with hills, so we did it with a twist. Mosey to Indian Mound hill base (the full segment! #jarjarapproved) Roll the deltoidal icositetrahedron alphabet dice (I really just made that up, I have …