In the land of little skinny runners, dragonslayer is king.

I love Dragonslayer. It’s hard. But different hard than FKT. The fatigue comes from your muscles eating all of your oxygen as you work them relentlessly with kettle bells. And that’s exactly what happened today.

The day started with Enron pulling in for the standard. I’ll tell you what, ain’t nothing better than running a standard with Enron. If you haven’t tried it you should it’s like the best morning cup of coffee.

Of course, his eagle eyes saw a gentleman entering the Greenway with a large bow staff. He warned me of this, as we started our jog.  halfway through we ran into the gentle fellow. I had a strange sense of calm as I was jogging with the foothills wildcat known as muffin top.

I has we finish the 3+ mile standard, we saw the most girthist of Lake Norman pax ready to earn the sunrise.

This in the parking lot was Swamp Fox, SlingShot, and good old popcorn pulling in. Rounding our crew to five I’m sure all other Lake Norman Pax we’re out running tempo/slow flow/easy miles/hill repeats off the books runs making them skinnier. these five guys knew nine out of 10 sexy women prefer a girthy man.

The Thang:

1. Run one lap around GCC

1. Tabata 20 sec on 10 off x12 of exercise

1. Repeat

Exercises: Merkins, kettlebell swing, kettlebell squat, mountain climbers, Burpee’s.

If you do the math, average reps per 20 seconds was 10 to 15×12 sets equals 120-150 reps per exercise.  With about a mile and a half of running.

Also, we had a great music transition throughout the work out. We started out with Morgan Wallen, and EnRon hated it.  How can you have that twang in your voice Enron and hate Morgan Wallen? We then transition to being Rick rolled. We later moved into Michael Jackson. Bringing it home with some gangsta rap.

Halfway through the work out, Swamp Fox attempted to assert his dominance by taking off his sweatshirt to his cut off sleeve shirt. Unfazed, SlingShot then took off his sweatshirt and shirt crowning himself king of the girth.

Popcorn, lightly tweaked his back, or was just tired and wanted to stop doing the exercises. Either way he learned what a cat cow is and fought back to get back in the ball game and finish the work out.

Also, I did pre-blast to wear short shorts. Popcorn was game and won for shortest shorts. I think I actually saw some thing peek out during a squat rep.

This group of five was a great group. But I love the energy, push, and banter when we can get more guys out. I hope more pax in the area make the decision to level up at dragonslayer in the future.

#LFG

Jobe