Hill Seekers at Speed Trap

Hill Seekers at Speed Trap

QIC: Interference

Date: 5/21/2018

PAX: Walter White, Zuck, Wink, BALCO, Glazer, Cheerio, Bueller?, Beverly, Interference, El Vig, Patch

PAX: Walter White, Zuck, Wink, BALCO, Glazer, Cheerio, Bueller?, Beverly, Interference, El Vig, Patch

For thirty-seven minutes this morning, 11 of the Dash’s elite runners took it easy.  We did a one mile warm up, a one mile cool down, and – as advertised – eight slow jogs down a steep hill (Yorkshire).   And to top it off, Mongoose didn’t show up. Sounds delightful, right?

Well, it wasn’t.

The remaining eight minutes held a fair bit of pain.  Eight one-minute runs up Yorkshire at the fastest pace you felt you could sustain for a minute.

To be precise, we did:

1 mile warmup finishing at base of Yorkshire

1 minute to get as far as you could up Yorkshire – trying to beat your previous best

2:30 to jog back down and continue to mosey (goal: no walking) around until the green flag waved again

Repeato x8 trips up total

1 mile cooldown finishing on trail to parking lot.

NMM and stray observations:

We had a big crowd for Speed Trap today.  The lesson seems to be that if you limit speed trap to a confined space, you’ll attract more PAX

All agreed we would never be able to push through such a workout solo, so we were all grateful for the group today

“Hills are speedwork in disguise” – Frank Shorter

T-claps to Beverly for introducing me to this format.

Glazer has put in a lot of hard work over the past year, and his newfound speed really reflects that

Beverly said he has the Q at VI tomorrow.  So, either he had the Q at VI today and skipped it, or he has the Q at Parliament tomorrow.  Stay tuned to Twitter.