While it sounds like the BLACK PEARL consisted of TONKA complaining, BONO and ARKANSAS comparing WEINKEs, and FRUITY and COUSIN IT acting as daycare directors, the men of the OVAL OFFICE came to work. WE did a 5K the difficult way and no one made stinky in their DEPENDS (another Black Pearl reference for those following along).

YHC absolutely dreads the OVAL, but that’s the beauty of it… doing things, mastering things you don’t necessarily enjoy.  There is nowhere to hide on this unforgiving track.  The OVAL is well built, well maintained, and decently lit – there are no excuses other than the one’s you contemplate in your own mind while pounding earth around the perpetual ellipses.  The group MUMBLECHATTER is not as resounding as it at other AOs, but the MUMBLECHATTER never screams louder in the silence of your own mind at 180+ BPM truly envisaging YOU vs YOU.

The GOAL today was simple – Sprint and Recover.  The effort of this group today was outstanding.  Capt. Obvious was an absolute stud (with a broken hand) obviously.  NoIDeer and Silverado also maintained a blistering pace.  In the end, we logged close to 6000m.

Warm-up
800m Jog

THE THANG
3 x
400m Best Effort + 400m Jog

2 x
200m Best Effort + 600m Jog

1 x
100m Best Effort + 700m Jog

Cool Down
200m Walk back to the Circle

COR
NOR

PRAYERNoIDeer’s neighbor – her and her family as she readies herself for a liver transplant; Silverado – prayers for his M and 2.0 as they travel to ATL this weekend.

PICTURE + EXIT (I forgot the announcements… oops)

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