Backblast? Whats a Backblast?

The BackBlast:

As Cindy has recently pointed out I have come off a few year Haitus, still being a little spotty. This is so true I actually forgot how to write a backblast, which it seems like a lot of the PAX have also forgotten how to do. But since I love our new Nantan, I will oblige and see what I can do to make Metro continue moving forward.

The Thang

Take off from gravel lot. No Cindy as expected, but also no Sheep. He was supposed to be my stand in, should I have decided at 5:05 that posting just wasn’t for me this AM.

Head down Maryland at a much more brisk pace than I anticipated. Stop at a corner to pickup the 6 (we do that in Metro?), but we weren’t there for long. Sheep LIFO’d and the PAX were moving this AM. Did some stuff. Forgot what it was.

Appetizer – Head to Hamburger Hill. Run up, 5 Merkins, do it again and increase to 25 Merkins. Apparently that was 5 trips and 75 Merkins.

As we washed out hands of the Hill, we mosey quickly through Freedom to Stairway to heaven, take a little break with both inboard and outboard supine’s.

Main Course – Head to the lurker and do what I found out later that Frogger calls the WIB Lollipop. I know this as Coach K’s Hill Massacre. Sprint Lurker, jog down Idlewood, Sprint MegaTool, and repeat Idlewood/Megatool. HE leads some Mary at the top because candidly I had already smoked myself trying to keep up.

Head back down Lurker and take Cumberland home. Occasional stops for some exercises because a few complaints were filed we didn’t do enough of that. And I was tired.

Total: 4.15 miles, 450ft of elevation gain, and 150% humidity.

NMM

I structured this workout a week ago. I did so to accommodate What Did’s training for BRR, but he was a no show and is multitasking BRR training and the IronPax challenge. I also wanted to make sure I could appease Cindy if he decided to show up to heckle. No guarantees but I think he might have been happy with the end result.

Its been so long since I have Q’d I forgot how quickly you can smoke yourself. It also didn’t help that HE has turned into a terminator. Trying to keep up with him once he had the plan was futile. What a stud.

Group was fast today. Sorry for picking nothing but hills. The main focus was smoke everyone but do my best to keep them together. It used to be a thing. But I guess in 4 years things have changed. Maybe I should get with the time?

Speaking of Cindy. I bet most people think I really dislike him, himself included. I must say, its quite the opposite. If it weren’t for his #batflipping, there is no chance that when I used to post regularly I would have been in near the shape, both mentally and physically that I was. So while maybe disappointing, I have a lot to be thankful for in Cindy and what F3 has done for me as a whole.

Really enjoyed this group of guys this AM, and Valdez took us out with a perfect COT. I just wish we actually got rained on because the humidity was absolutely miserable this morning and we could have used a bit of a break from it.

Thanks for the keys, Sheep.