Dirty Deeds

The BackBlast:

A couple of weeks back, while making my rounds of Metro North, I was at Cherokee and met Groupie at coffee afterwards. He’s a Kotter that hadn’t been back because of a foot problem that keeps him from running on concrete and asphalt. “You come back in two weeks & I’ll Q and we’ll stay off the hard top”. Two weeks later and the fun begins…
The THANG: Cherokee start time is 7am-ish (7:02, 7:05 – ?), so we started at 7am on the dot. Mosey up to the brick dais and SSH followed by Imperial Walkers. Warm-a-Rama was because we were waiting on Cubby and Canoli. Deer Tick said “They’ll find us”, so we went for a slog around the field, stopping at various points for some exercises. Cubby shows up in a tank top that screams “I was dancing at Scorpio last night and never changed clothes” and that is the beginning of the ground work. It was nice and cool, and the grass was good and wet. Why run and stay dry when you can roll around in the grass and get soaked, all the while trying to avoid fire ant hills and doggie presents. Recover and mosey. Some Heels To Heavens, some LBCs. Canoli shows up, looks at us and looks at the ground in disgust, which makes the next exercise Hand Release Merkins. More details will cause this BB to be WAY too long, so in essence, we did a little over 2 miles and a good deal more PT – a lot of which caused us to get soaked and more covered in grass. Plenty of groans and grumbling during the hour and that made me happy. I was told that I’m not allowed to Q at Cherokee ever again, so I guess that I did it right.
Moleskin:
Deer Tick’s wisdom kept us from literally rolling through a puddle “You and I will do it and everyone else will just walk away”, so we didn’t
Groupie is playing with his band at Common Market in Oakhurst next Friday. The hours will be appropriate for “men of a certain age”
Eye Chart loved all of the action that he got today. I’ll leave it at that
Canoli’s wet-grass-happiness actually assisted in the development of a new exercise: The Canoli – lay in the grass with your arms outstretched and roll and roll and roll. “That’s not even an exercise!”. It was beautiful.
Misenheimer’s great eyesight helped him avoid dog poop and fire ant hills.
Speaking of eyesight, Buzz Cock’s eyes are so bad from a medical issue a few years ago, that he can’t drive. Yet he’s always at Cherokee and constantly talking smack and cracking jokes. The man is amazing.
Cubby is still dreaming of the dial-up days in his basement, before VPN’s started making it “tough to access the really good sites”
COT:
Remember the veterans. ALWAYS. We are losing 22 a day to suicide and we have them to thank for our freedom. Participation in the Veterans Bridge Hero Run in November is a small way that you can show some support. The Rescue Mission has their 5k coming up later this month.
YHC took us out