September 9th, 2019 By 4wide

YHC was thinking of a different run to mix things up. From my days at the Dawghouse, I wanted to try the Partner Run at Afton. With Big Blue not able to do the Q, I decided this was a good time as any to try it. Before we started I told the pax that I was going to try something different. From there it was time to head out. We started to make our way to Mt Afton…which I heard some mumble chatter that this isn’t different from our other runs. Oh my friends, but it will be. We made our way up Mt Afton then headed to the Food Lion parking lot. We stopped for a brief explanation. I asked everyone to partner up (of course we had odds so we had a team of 3) 1 partner runs 1 way around the Food Lion parking lot while the other partner started the other way and run behind the Food Lion. Once the 2 partners met back together (hopefully somewhere in the middle) they turned around and head back where they started. We did this for a total of 3 sets then we flapped jack so each partner was running the opposite way. We did that for a total of 3 sets (6 sets total). I think I heard a “I hate you” from Booter so I knew it was a great work out.

After we collected all the pax, we started running to the Charter School…As a special surprise I asked everyone to partner again and do the same thing expect we would run around the Charter School. If you haven’t been at the charter school it is basically just running hills. Lucky for the pax, we only had time for 1 pass each way. As an added bonus, we got to meet some of the faculty which promptly told us that we shouldn’t be running there. Which for a public area not sure why that is the case, but we were done anyways so it was time to head back to Dorton parking lot.

After all said and done the pax did 4-5 miles of running. The beauty of the partner run is it a) keeps everyone together b) doesn’t matter how fast/slow you are c) pushes you as you do not want to let your partner down and have him cover more area.

Proud of everyone and it changed up our normal Monday Runs.

Announcments
Iron Pax this Wednesday – look at video for proper form

Prayers
Big Blue for a quick recovery
Unspoken prayers

Backblast

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