PAX: Honeysuckle, Pope, Smooth

AO: Stage

By: Paradox

Nothing worse than food envy.
Ya sit down for a nice anniversary meal at a high flutin establishment and scour the menu to fine something you can either pronounce or has a picture beside it. Next, like the first time they put letters in your math, you look desperately around to see if any of your neighbors have a plate you can copy. Finally, defeated, you go with the tried and true and order the comfort zone triple dipper with southwest eggrolls. You know it’s going to get the job done but you also know you left the unknowns out there. Inevitably your better half (or worse , your own progeny) orders something so much better it casts a cloud over the whole evening and possibly the year. (But hey atleast you can go home knowing the artistically rendered pepper is a fruit, that’s grade school stuff)

This is where YHC arrived on this particular Monday morning at the Stage. My life/run coach (we’ll call him Tommy Zoyster to keep his fame out of this) told me about this Norwegian 4×4 training method that he used to smoke smoke his Mary Kay group. What is this new dish?! I was going to order the tried and true Fartlek today (that all would surely know and enjoy) but now the menu has changed. I must have it, better yet..I’ll take 4 rounds for my friends too!!

Duke get the keys , we’re going to IKEA!

YHC had premeditated this lil run party since there would be a high likelihood of even lower Monday numbers than usual. Pope was there already pretending to stretch. Good one lil buddy, you must have seen that on tv. Smooth arrived unannounced and YHC apologized in advance for today’s plan: in typical Smooth fashion he stated he was going to suggest running anyway to fight the turnaround scaries. We were set for a party of 3 when I used the term “Vo2max” and Honeysuckle appeared out of thin air already warmed up.

A 4×4 for 4.

So be it.

A Quite simple format:

4 min on mini stage loop- 95% effort run
THEN
3 min off- Contemplate existence
(I had a few things planned to distract )

Round 1
Run 4 min
Batwing 3 min
5x self love, 5x cherry pickers
5x tie fighters front/back , 5 Moroccan nc, 5 Lafayette NC
(I’m not sure if this is official batwing but it felt right)

Round 2
Run 4 min
Around the world 3 min (all lunge directions)
-A little daft punk never hurt no one.

Round 3
4 min run
Kung Fu fighting
3 front kick , back kick, side kick (both sides)
-the pax as a whole are not good free space kickers. I’d rank it slightly higher than jumping rope but well above burpee cadence.

Run 4 min
PROUD MARY 3 min
Rolling on a river
Boat, BBSU , Flutter kicks, Freddy Marc , 100s

Notes:

-For the first 100 yards of each round I would match Smooth against a hybrid cheetah/cape buffalo. Uncharted athleticism, and there ain’t no brakes. A great effort for being blindsided by a Monday run party.

-YHC spent the last 3 rounds like a student driver on the interstate . Light 65 mph wondering how the big trucks (Pope/Suckle) kept control at those dangerous speeds.

-HS and Pope traded leads until YHCs vision got to blurry to keep up. The push in round 4 was amazing and we checked out the stars for the last 60 seconds fa in a well earned puddle of men.

We counted and prayed and gulped oxygen before walking along to our vehicles.

Grateful for the sprint but also for the rest.

Both are needed in this race.

SYITG
Dox