F3 New Orleans

Tag: Fartleks

  • A Fill in Fartlekker

    Rudy’s not allowed to Fartlek right now, so he needed a fill in for the 610 Stomp. YHC is an old Fartlekker so it was not a probably for me. I showed up at roughly 0529:40 and gave the disclaimer. It was a beautiful day for a run. Here’s how it went

    • Normal Pace to the NOMA Fountain. I call it the fountain, but there is no fountain, just a lily pond with a huge statue of tri-colored bacon. Upon arrival I gave the instructions. I would call out an effort number from 1-100 (100 being a full out sprint) and a landmark to run to. After reaching said landmark, the pax was to circle back and pick up the 6.
    • 75 to the end of Lelong Drive
    • Easy jog to across Esplanade and down the sidewalk to Moss Street
    • 100 to the first big tree on Moss
    • 70 to the curve
    • Easy jog to Dumain
    • 50 to Orleans
    • 65 to the Lafitte Greenway
    • Easy jog to Bienville
    • 58 to Canal
    • Easy Jog back to Bienville
    • 70 to Conti
    • Avoid the car and truck at the Lafitte Greenway
    • 55 to Orleans
    • 70 to the curve (the real curve) near Cabrini
    • Easy jog to the bridge
    • 60 to Esplanade then an easy jog to City Park until the 6 arrives.
    • Easy Jog to Roosevelt Mall
    • 88 to the Flag
    • Seal the Deal with 20 Burpees
    The Skinny

    If you question the accuracy of the above – you should……my nine year old and Rev Sox both have this in common: they giggled when I announced our exercise this morning. I’ll have everyone know that fartlek is a bonafide Swedish running term used with a straight face by Kinesiology majors around the world no matter how funny it sounds in English……we covered approximately 4.5 miles give or take, depending on how many times you swept the 6. I feel like we got our money’s worth……I was glad to see that so many guys survived Tool’s Big Rock Challenge on Monday. Cowbell reminded me of my own foolishness. Is it better to not be able to perform any of the exercises or admit defeat and take the walk of shame? I contend that the walk of shame is never acceptable…….we had a Recall sighting. He ran with us for a bit on the bayou then peeled off to run the Wisner bridge. Not sure why he is choosing to run alone instead of with the pack. Perhaps it is the shame associated with being a Razorback fan. It does make life difficult, but you have to be tough and overcome it…….sealing the deal is a Stomp Tradition and it brings joy to Fracsac’s heart. Our next site Q needs to make sure it regularly happens ……. speaking of which, thanks to Cowbell for his reign as Stomp Commander. Under his tutelage the Stomp has grown at least two-fold in average attendance. If U.S. Presidents can take credit for economic growth, then Cowbell should be given credit for this ……. next man up. Who will take the reigns at the Stomp and fill the teeny-tiny shoes of Cowbell? From what I can tell, it mostly involves having someone else type your name into the spreadsheet, occasionally telling people to sign up to Q, then ignoring messages on GroupMe from people that need to reschedule their Q until someone else answers them and says that they will take it. You can’t really mess it up, well actually you can, but that takes a very special person.

  • Fartlekkers Rejoice

    The Pax have been bringing their A game to the Stomp recently.  Multiple weeks of double digit counts and some all out effort have revitalized this legendary AO.  YHC had the good fortune to follow up a Rudy Q.  Surely I could make it over the low bar he had generously set for me.  It has been a minute since we have done farleks around here so I brought out my proven technique of yelling random percentage numbers at the Pax and letting them figure out what they mean.

    Disclaimer

    Fail.  I start off worse than Rudy.  Embarrassing.  In my zeal to give the Fartlek instructions I forget the disclaimer.  I hastily yell it as we run, after Recall brings the omission to my attention.

    The Thang

    Da Parish, who claims his super tight and bright cycling jersey must have shrunk recently, takes off on a solo trek around Lakeview.  I don’t know where he went, but where ever it was the women were blessed.

    The rest of us ran in relatively baggy outfits.  A picture is worth a thousand words:

    You thought I was going to post a picture of Da Parish’s outfit?  Sorry, I didn’t take one.  In case I ever decide to run for political office, I want to make sure no one finds anything like that on my phone.

    We started with your normal pace to the festival grounds.  As we reached the festival grounds we circled back around for the six.  For each of the following segments the early finishers circled around for the six so that we all stayed together.  Recovery pace between each segment

    • 70% effort to the big pavillion
    • 100% effort to the last tree before the path to the Wisner overpass
    • 60% effort up and over the Wisner overpass
    • Run backwards up the overpass, turn and run 75% effort down
    •  50% effort up and over the overpass
    • 80% effort to the turn that goes under the overpass
    • 75% effort to the turn that goes under 610
    • 100% effort to the top of the hill past 610
    • Normal pace to the backside of the track
    • 100% effort – 440
    • 100% effort -220
    • Recovery run back to flag

    We sealed the deal with 15 burpees.

    NMM

    If MapMyRun is accurate, and I have little reason to believe that it is, the entire Pax ran over 4.5 miles at a 9:00 min/mile pace.  That’s an impressive showing.  And they had plenty of breath to make several Junior High comments about entering the track from the backside.

    T-claps to El Guapo for EHing Swamp Cock to post at his first Stomp.  Hope you become a regular, brother.

    Looks like 33% of the LARC is taking their training seriously.

    I wore shoes.  I think that was a mistake.  I know Rudy was disappointed in me and for once I agree with him.

  • Gluteus Maximus or lack thereof…

    5 pax showed up this morning for a dreary work out in the gloom. Not a bad turnout considering 2 regulars (Sea Bass and Burgundy) decided to fartsack.

    The shovel flag is still being held hostage by Nacho, who has been in the fartsack since early October.

    The Thang:
    -warm up lap around the parking lot, stop to pick up 2 stragglers, and mosey to livingston playground:
    ~Plank walk x 50 feet
    ~Swingset sets: legs on swing for Pike ups x 10 IC; TRX rollouts x 10 IC; lat pulls x 10 IC

    mosey to monkey bars:
    superset: 5 pull ups/20 squats, 4 pull ups/20 squats, 3 pull ups/20 squats… you get the idea.
    Knee to chest, hanging from bar x 10 IC…killer.

    Fartlek run from play ground back to weird bus stop thing by the trailhead.

    Circle up: scorpion kicks x 10 IC, Supermans x 5 with 20″ hold

    back to the benches: glute bridges x 15 IC, split squats x 10 IC, box jumps x 10, split squats x 1O IC, box jumps x 10

    Circle back up: glute bridges x 10 IC, Single leg glute bridges x 10 IC each leg, Sidelying jane fondas x 15 IC with John Kerrys x 10 IC B sides

    Reverse Lunge x 20 yds, forward stop motion lunges x 20 yds

    Toe touch stretch x 5, monkey humper stretch x 5

    Mosey back to invisible flag,

    COT: Nameorama and Prayer.

    Well done gents.

    T-claps to Paison for his second showing and bringing a pal, Chris, who shall remain FNG until he completes a workout and is named. (he left 5 minutes early to get to work on time)

  • Turtleheadin at the trailhead

    3 men met in the gloom for the launch of the northshore’s first weekday workout.

    Warm up:
    SSH x 20
    IW x 20
    Merkins x 10

    Catch me if you can trailhead to underpass with 5 merkins each time
    Through the tunnel of darkness

    Underpass (70 yd sprint) by Nacho’s estimation
    Jacob’s ladder up to 7 Burpees

    Fartlek back to the trailhead,
    Via a few wrong turns for an added 1/2 mile by EiEi’s estimation.

    Jailbreak (all out sprint)back to shovel flag last 1/4 mile by QIC estimation.

    Circle of Mary:
    SKTC x 10
    DKTC/jackknife x 10
    Freddie mercuries x 20
    Lower trunk rotation/LTR x 15
    Mayweathers x 10 alternating
    Scorpions/cobra Kai’s x 10
    Y,T,W,I progression x 12 each