9/21 Recap (Sharon Woods)

Back-to-back turnout of 9 wolves.   

New member:  Cub #2 (Ryan), and damn if he’s not a spitting physical image of Cub #1, with the addition of a wolf-man beard.  Maybe we should have an autumn beard growing competition?

Attendees:  Iron Wolf Burgio, Alpha Matt, Omega Matt, Cub #1, Cub#2, She-Wolf, Papa Cub, Golden Wolf, and last but not least (but sill last) Safi.

The Event

Stage 1:  Mild warm-up for 1.25 miles as a group.   

Stage 2:  Unleash the hounds -  an approx. 1-1.25mile hard run to complete the lake trail and then up to the Clubhouse.  Objective was to set handicaps based on each person’s completion time.  As expected, the Cubs set the leader pace.  They were scary to watch – looking at ease in tandem, striding like the Terminator.    It was all Mull could do to stick with them through the .75mile around the lake, but upon reaching the hill he morphed into an old-man shuffle while the boys kept their robotic stride.  Mull ended 50 sec behind the Cubs, next 15 sec was Malloy and Ron, Burgio another 15 sec, Laura and Bob spaced 15 more and Safi sandbagging the anchor.

Stage 3:   Run down the rabbit.  With the handicaps set, we released the rabbits in reverse order and spaced per the Stage 2 times.  Route was down the hill, gorge trail, and to the far parking lot (1-1.25mi).  The chase worked as planned and many of the late starts were catching the earlies.  However, Mull expected to hear the pant of the Cubs as the finish approached, but it turned out to be Papa Cub.  The Cubs appeared to have missed the early gorge turn.  The pack searched the routes on the way back to the start (1mi) where we found the Cubs shirtless and telling tales of girls necking in the woods.

Stage 4:  Parcourse events.  Pictures tell a thousand words (see below).  Phase 1:  60 second Dips.  Strong showing by all.  Cubs faced off and hit 50, assuming no one could match it.  Cub 1 said he started getting nervous when Mull followed and came close at 46.  Phase 2:  pull-ups.  Burgio and Ron almost pulled down the bar.  Phase 3: 60 sec push-ups.  There are 3 levels, so the Cubs showed compassion on Mull and allowed him the higher/easier bar.  The pics are so blurry due to the speed of the motion (gravity wasn’t fast enough so we not only pushed up but also pulled ourselves down to the bar to crank out 70-80).  You’ll love the picture of the Sign showing the parcourse trail – they seemed to have anticipated a Hogben-Safi event – you decide who’s in the chair and who’s pushing.

Stage 5:  Easy jog back to the cars . . . then on to another wide selection of beers.  Total run 4.5-5mi.

Malloy pointing at the Golden Wolf

Notice the 2 small brown biathlon signs.  Is that Pete and Wael?

Perfect 90 degree form

Specimen

Ron well above the chin

Blur of speed

Elderly abuse

Keeping the variety bar high