Intro:
I’ve managed to avoid Q’ing Shark Tank for over 4 years now. Partly because I rarely post on Thursdays (see previous backblasts HERE and HERE ) but mostly because this extra credit thing seems completely unnecessary. I’m fine if you want to show up 15 mins early to get a warm-up in, but why do I have to lead it. Just find something about a mile away, run there, do a merkin or two, come back. Done. I can get an extra 15 mins of sleep, you get your warm-up, Cindy doesn’t start yelling at me until 5:30, we’re all happy.
If you’ve been lucky enough to attend any of YHC’s Q’s, you know YHC always (usually?) has a plan. However, I like planning for 45 mins, not an hour. Especially when you know everything you do is about to be picked apart by the flippers.
Easy solution just do the first 15 mins of your plan twice.
The Thang:
- Over to Kenilworth, up to Morehead, right on Morehead, left on Arosa, down into the fighting pit at Covenant.
- Quick round of dips, derkins, supine pullups over/under hand.
- Return to AO with another quick set of derkins / dips at the greenway park.
- Grab the rest of the pax and head over to Kenilworth, up to Morehead, right on Morehead, left on Arosa, down into the fighting pit at Covenant.
- Quick round of dips, derkins (skip the supines – too many pax and not enough time)
- Over to Dilworth Road at church entrance & partner up.
- Zipper down Mt Vernon & Berkley to Euclid, meeting in the middle of each cross street (5) for 10 partner hand-slap merkins.
- Mary on Euclid to wait for the 6.
- Mosey to the YMCA Deck; backwards up the ramps, forwards on the straights, LBCs at the ends all the way to the top.
- Fast mosey to the top of the BB&T deck.
- AYG home.
~5 miles (~6.5 with EC) with a few merkins, dips, LBCs, and one trip up the most difficult parking deck in all of Charlotte.
Moleskin:
- Apparently, Cindy’s new thing is buzzing through the new Atrium parking deck on Harding to piss off the security guard. Mission accomplished on the return trip of EC.
- Good to see Slaughter back out in metro instead of jet setting for his nighttime log carrying adventures.
- I realize the streets in 1930’s era Berkley/Mt Vernon section of Dilworth have a little more curvature to them than the square blocks of old Dilworth, but they are pretty much still standard blocks. I have no idea how someone gets lost on a zipper here (looking at you Stinger).
- When you ask if the 6 is in, make sure someone other than the flippers respond in the affirmative before you take off (again, Stinger – sorry)
- If you’re ever within shouting distance of your own house while H.E. is with you, make sure you call for whisper cadence. Otherwise just laugh as he wakes up the rest of the neighborhood.