The Worm stepped off this morning like clock work at 0600 at the expected. 5 stout pax present, including YHC.
My plan blew up right away. The plan was simple, run a mile for each pax present. Usually there are 15 pax present, and I was prepared to piss off the pax with my plan. I figured for this elite crowd I could get us to 7+ miles straight out in the first hour with the questions starting by about mile 5. I was planning to hear ThinSlice, who wasn’t present, asking me if I knew what I was doing. Of course I do, go talk with Taf, who also wasn’t present.
I was expecting Swiper, who wasn’t present, to be asking his question of the day to Tormond, who also wasn’t present.
I knew the clown car pooling pax of Want Ad, Topham and Tom Sawyer would be occupied, while covering the first 7 miles, talking to Spooky about his big 50th birthday party. Nothing to worry about with their complaints. But they were all not present.
Steriod, a frequent regular would welcome the miles. I knew he’d be excited to not
run alone for his daily 15 miles. But nope, he wasn’t present either.
Then there was Shawshank. As long as I stayed off of Ferncliff he’d be good. No complaining from him. Well...he wasn’t present either. Nothing to worry about.
I expected to hear it from Stogie who just crushed a McHorsey run. 7 miles in a standard BC workout isn’t good. Let alone the 15+ I planned. And Stogie can share his feeling out there. It’s a good thing. Communication is good. But I expected Toolbelt to keep him company. Or was it Marv? Not sure. All three were not present.
Well at least Coach would show up. He’s a runner these days. He’d be excited to get swindled into the 15 miler. And he’d talk the whole time with anyone, really. Especially if Monk was present. Nope, Coach let me down. It wasn’t even raining. And Monk, come on.
So with the extreme option of my plan blown up, as disappointed as I was, I pulled back a little and took the pax out to Marion Deihl park on Tyvola. That’s a simple 2.5 miles out by way of Runnymede, to Michael Baker, left onto Selwyn, down to park, through a side street into the woods. Along the way we knocked out burpees, Merkins, Turkish get ups, and more.
Once there we hit the fancy playground of the soft rubber turf for pull ups, bear crawls and other dumb exercises.
Heading back we hit the new greenway extension. I can’t wait for Shine to get this project done. $25 Million is a lot for a greenway. It better be nice.
All said and done, 5 of us put in 5 miles + exercises. SwingLine, virgin Worm, barley broke a sweat, Nabisco struggled with morning bowels issues, ‘Shine and Dredd talked about AARP stuff.
I’m thankful for the opportunity to run with these men, even those not present. We’re all better for it.