July 27th, 2016 By The Nanny

15 pax mustered at a variety of times, ran a variety of distances, but all sweated the same amount – a lot!  76 – 78 degrees this morning at 5:15.  86 degrees last night at 9:30 PM.  Ugly.  Can’t wait for that first drier, cooler breeze which has to be around the bend here….

The Thang:

1. MSR Repeats baby!
2. Today was the first ever attempt at the Quadruple Peak…  Whaa?!?!  Is that even humanly possible?  Turns out that yes, like the lunar landing, it is possible.

The Naked Moleskin:

1. Two weeks in a row that S&R has bewitched members of the BRR team into coming out EARLIER than usual to run FURTHER than usual.  Must be voodoo or something b/c it is working.  Today Filibuster took the bait and then ran with it by suggesting the Quadruple Peaks attempt.  Pure idiocy I tell you.
2. Wild Turkey showed up late per our schedule but on-time per his schedule…and made it to the top of Millstream for the first decent only to find a pile of laundry that he had to vault over.  Recognizing some of the clothes as Shazam’s and Filibuster’s he was concerned that Millstream had learned a new trick and was managing to remove clothes from runners who usually go shirted.
3. Thorn went for some inadvertent extra credit by running past Legolas and all the way to Clarke Creek.  A case of oxygen deprivation perhaps.
4. J-lo was on fire today.  He happily used us early starters as a carrot and slowly hunted us down (YHC included) and passed us.  Thanks.  Feels great to be passed going up Millstream.
5. S&R was very disheartened when Nighthawk blew past him on the way up Millstream CCP thinking that it was his normal run pace.  Thankfully for S&R’s confidence it turns out Nighthawk was simply segment bagging the CCP hill.
6. S&R and his wife had a treat for the pax when we got back from the run at HCES.  He had rolled his kid’s red ryder wagon over and it was filled with a cooler of ice, cold bottled water, and some fresh baked healthy goodies.  We could get used to that kind of thing.  However not sure I can get used to seeing S&R walking his cooler filled wagon back home after the workout….
7. Worth a separate bullet in my numbered list here – was the can of SpeghettiO’s on ice in above mentioned cooler.  That is something I have never seen.  It was there for our brother Kato who has an unusual idea of what “good” recovery nutrition looks like….
8. Something heard after COT that many hope they never hear again at an all men’s workout group….  “Come here – I want to get a closer look at your nipple.”  J-lo obliged the un-named interested party and even demonstrated how to remove the fancy, small piece of 3M tape that he insists is wayyyyy better than body glide at chaffage protection.  J-lo was hence given the moniker of “Nipple King.”

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