Ringing in the New Year of Run & Gun

You can’t post at every #RNG of 2021 if you don’t show up to the first one.  6 PAX took the challenge and arrived at Speas at 5:30am to run a 5k with a sneaky hill  and 5 stuck around for 15 minutes of Tabata.  YHC has enjoyed celebrating the New Year with The Avett Brothers over the years.  This year virtually my and M and YHC enjoyed our 7th NYE concert with TAB.  The playlist for today’s Tabata was from the 2014 NYE concert.

Tabata – 30 secs on 10 secs rest x4

Imperial Squat Walkers and Overhead Press
LBCs and Merkins
Parker Peter and Low Flutter

Tunes:
Satan Pulls the Strings
Kickdrum Heart
Talk of Indolence

The Avett Brothers – Kick Drum Heart – Raleigh, NC – December 31, 2014 – NYE – YouTube

COT:
YHC took us out praying for all dealing with health issues and my co-workers M who is preparing for chemo treatment for colon cancer.  Prayed that we would approach this week with Truth, Justice, Love, Hope and Joy!

NMM:
Balco ran, but skipped the gun to find out if he was given the placebo.

Mongoose has been dragging me around the 5k course the past two weeks.  He is working on slowing down and I am working on speeding up.  So far its been a good partnership.  I appreciate the push!

JB is coming off of 1400 miles for 2020 and just keeps running.  #consistency

The Tabata timer was still set for 30 secs of exercise, which was a Q fail.  I appreciated that Burlap crunched the numbers to confirm that we could still get 3 rounds in during 15 minutes.

YHC failed to include the Mutton Crunch to properly honor the HVAC man himself.

Do people actually read Backblasts?  I remember back in the day there was a lot of action in the comment section.  Has it all moved to Slack?  Or is the PAX no longer into reading?  Here’s a test.
YHC will donate $5 per PAX that comments on this Backblast to City with Dwellings capped at $100.

 

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16 Comments

  1. Love the call to action for 2021 and the charitable twist! That “sneaky” hill up Woodbriar is no joke…YHC has EC’d this route pre-purgatory before – #bigmistake.

  2. I absolutely read backblasts but never comment on them like we did back in the day. Can’t believe I remember my password

  3. Even after slogging up Woodbriar, YHC remembered his password amd commented here. To quote Seinfeld, “This is what the holidays are about: people being helped by people other than me.”

  4. I read the BB often, but rarely comment, guess I am just kind of shy like that. Sorry i couldn’t make it this am

  5. Had every intention of coming! Alarm went off… turned it off (as opposed to snooze) because I felt awake enough… next thing I knew, I re-opened my eyes and it was 5:37am. DANG!!!

    Hate I missed!

    Yep, still read BBs!!!

  6. Here’s a secret; I’m not actually slowing down on these runs. Closer is fast but sandbags a lot.

    1. In fairness, I used to be a bit too active on the backblasts. But this is a good call to action and one that works like glue for those that attended and those that missed. 2ndF.

      Great cause for donation, Closer 👊

  7. Thanks for playing along! This was a fun experiment. I am glad to see PAX still read the BB and a few PAX dusted off their passwords. In 24 hours there were 14 comments by 13 PAX. I also saw a twitter comment by JB. I’ll round up to $75. City with Dwellings is doing important work in the city and I am happy to make a donation.

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