The gloom was dark and the air was thick with humidity. Any sane person would be under the covers giving their M’s a dutch oven, but not these brave Pax, oh no. Myself and three other High Impact Men of F3 Lake Wylie/The Fort resisted the urge to do the easier thing and gathered themselves to SeaLegs for a high intensity beatdown the likes of which SeaLegs has never seen before(that’s probably an exaggeration).
A disclaimer was given (I’m not a professional/can’t sue me, the school, F3, the nature preserve, yada yada yada). Fun fact Yada means “to know” in Hebrew. I see what Seinfeld was doing there. We then proceeded with a warm up. A warm up? At SeaLegs? Isn’t running a warm up? I say no and I was the Q so I directly ripped off Cha Ching’s parking lot agility drills from yesterdays CrowsNest Q and implemented them to my own Q. Run up a parking lot stripe/side shuffle over to other parking lot stripe/nur back down/rinse and repeat throughout SeaLegs parking lot. Now that’s a warm up.
We then did a routine run from the back of the school to the back of McDowell Nature Preserve and back. Just because it is routine does not make it easy however. By this time all the Pax were glistening with sweat, wondering to themselves “is this over yet”, but no, there was 19 minutes left and I was just getting started.
The next evolution of the workout was to go to the bottom of the Abyss hill, sprint up it then run the track once, come back, rinse and repeat till we got a mile in, which we did. At this point there was still 7 minutes on the clock and we still had work to do.
We once again went down the hill and Nur’d up twice then sprinted up it once. We then ran back to COT where we did 3 light post to light post sprints to finish the workout strong. Hushka said we got 4.2 miles in, all at different intensities, which to me was a job well done by all the PAX.
Observations- SeaLegs is a hidden gem amongst the AO’s of Lake Wylie/The Fort. There are hills for days there which makes you a better runner, which makes your bootcamps easier, which makes your overall fitness better. This AO should be attended at least once a month if not more so, despite the competing AO’s. Give Haushka your support!
Prayers for teachers for the upcoming year, Omaha learning how to drive and making the Cross Country team at his school, and general daily anxiety for everyone. Prayers for me at Spartan Race this Sunday(I heard the Sweati was harder so I should be fine). Thanks Haushka for the opportunity to lead. Peace!