Starting off another multi-group/multi-meet workout week the Spartans split up in order to divide an conquer. Today's blog post will be focused around the Ladue team top group (minus Kevin) who had a 75 minute free for all run around Creve Coeur. This being said, if anything blog worthy goes on in other groups, make a move, write something up and email it to us to be posted!
Today's run has been dubbed Exploratory Mission: Ballas and Beyond. We were required to check in with coach back at DeSmet every 30 minutes turning into two out-and-backs on Ballas.
The first, much to Scherping’s confusion took us south farther than we had ever ventured before (past Conway road) before heading back to base. It would have been simple enough had the traffic not been out to get us the entire day as we crossed many streets and intersections. This was no problem however after many traffic and street crossing safety demonstrations and lessons by Coach Traughber over the years, because remember, in Car vs. Runner, the car always wins.
After paying a visit to the hydration station back at school we headed out for round two going north on Ballas across Olive and into the great beyond where none of the runners had ventured before. Eventually running into a fork in the road, we took it, heading into a neighborhood providing fresh and entertaining sights and street names as we wandered through the great beyond (on pace of course).
Navigating through various apartment structures, and a young girl who decided to hiss like a cat at us, adding another hubcap to Martini’s auto repair shop, we scoured the hilly landscape until it was time to head home again.
After another easy 15 minutes and some “real” hill sprints the Spartans called it in for some turf stretching and recapping the day’s events. Truly a run to remember.
Quote of the day: “I’ll follow my nose!” – Brian Scherping’s attempt at choosing a path to take at another fork in the road, while looking for a path into the woods.
Title: With many ideas being thrown out for what to do today I made use of a new catch phrase to shut down bad/goofy/impossible/dangerous/lame ideas.
Happy Holy Week!
- Padre
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false potter and i went beyond olive in the winter way farther than you guys did
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-Fog
Potter had nothing to do with the writing or distribution of this blog post. Good try fog.
ReplyDeleteSince I am "Team Kevin" this week I was running 800s during this great run. The only consolation was recalling other all-time great runs while we were stretching. Such good times!!
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