Sargent Slaughter

As I woke up this morning, the snooze button was looking pretty good...but I had to get up and be a man. I showed up about 5 minutes early only to see about 5 guys. I started chatting with my hockey buddy Jason about yesterdays workout. Apparently, I missed a 4 mile ranger run (thank god). Ranger runs are the most brutal workouts known to man. The last man in the line has to sprint to the front as fast as he can. The drill instructor has two lines basically competing and they have to keep up with each other or else! The thing is that the sprinter usually over runs the front of the line and everyone else has to keep up. Deadly, hence the light showing today. Anyways, our usual instructor was out so a new guy came in. I guess he wanted to make a good impression because instead of our usual 30 count exercises...he did 50 counts. I guess it was the Army in him....had to kick the snot out of a Marines workout. After the crushing first 5-10 minutes of calisthenics he asked us if we wanted to do a long easy paced run. Of course, we all said yes. Little did we know it was going to take us from Quincy Park to the Rosslyn metro. Any Arlingtoner that knows the area will tell you that Wilson Blvd takes you straight down hill (reminds me of a road in San Francisco). As most of you know...when you run downhill you usually need to head back up to get home. Brutal, but I did it in 42 minutes. Go Army.

Stretches

50 Jumping Jacks fast paced

50 bicycle kicks (full leg extensions)

50 Push ups

50 Flutter kicks

4 mile run

To view 11/13/2008 Route, follow the link below:
http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_route?r=415640433946

(Thank you Jason Kattman for the link)

Good times.