• When: 01/09/15
  • QIC: Clinch
  • The PAX:  Pepto, Yellow Cake, Mac, Freon, Blue Screen, Peachy, Scooper, Nail Pop, Ken Doll, Clinch


Run For Your Burpee Lives!

(This is respectively posted on behalf of the author and Q, Clinch)

Today we played a little game I like to call “Chaser”. Started off by breaking into groups based on what we believe to be our 1 mile pace time for a 5K race. After some mumble chatter and what I believe to be out right lies about their speed we broke into three separate groups. Most people would say they are faster than they really are, but I found that not to be true with this group. Several of us, myself included, underestimated are quickness (subjective term). The three groups were the 9 min milers, 8:30 min milers, and the super sonic 6-7 min milers (aka Yellow Cake and Mac). All of the runners, except super and sonic, were given a piece of reflective tape to hang off their arm or their waistband kind of like in flag football. Yellow cake and Mac were told they had to do 40 Burpees at the end of the 5K, but could subtract 5 Burpees for every flag they pulled. Then they gave the rest of us a 7 to 9 minute head start on our 5K route. If us slowpokes could finish the 5K with our flag in hand we only had to do 10 Burpee’s, but if we returned without it we owed 20 Burpee’s. I have always said that I hate running and only will run if being chased. Several of us underestimated how fast we are running if we felt like our Burpee lives depended on it. Let’s just say Lexington’s finest would have been hard-pressed to catch most of us. Five of us made it back unscathed and the rest of us fell victim to Yellowcake and Mac’s Speed.

I did however have mercy on all of us because of the under estimation of how fast we would run when being chased and the fact that Mac just ran a 50 K last weekend and ran 2 to 3 miles to the workout this morning. We’ll ended up doing 10 to 20 Burpee’s age. However, next time I will account for the fear factor speed and the underestimation of the runners when establishing the time to release.

Conditions:
20 Degrees but it was a dry cold…

The Thang:
Route, Prayer, and run for your life

South on 6, right on Gibson rd, right on Hendrix St, left on Church St, and right on Maiden Ln.

I set out Chem lights at every turn a green Chem light means to take a right turn and a yellow Chem light means you would take a left turn. The Chem lights started off bright, but quickly dimmed to the point that you could barely see them. After the run I retrieved all the Chem lights. I was pissed and ready to return them. As they set my car and defrosted they started getting brighter and brighter. I then realize that Chem lights get duller in subfreezing temperatures.

COT
We had one FNG visiting from Las Vegas. He is a relative of Clinch and a fellow military member. The FNG made the fatal mistake of recommending his own name “Big Money” and it was quickly given the name of “Fiddy Cent”!

Prayer Request-
Say What’s sister was diagnosed with Cancer

Pepto asked prayers for one boy that he knows who was diagnosed with brain cancer and one boy that he knows who was diagnosed with leukemia.

Praise – Nail Pop’s son, Walker, continues to show improvement.

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