610 Stomp #101 – Back on Track

This concluded our two week celebration the 610 Stomp Centennial Celebration.  The Inaugural Stomp went down on August 18th, 2015.  Four men attended that first Stomp and we can proudly say that we have seen the Pax increase a whopping 50% in the past two years as the attendance was 6 this morning.

The original idea was to celebrate the Stomp by running the old route – up Marconi, across Filmore, back down Wisner and into the park past Pan Am Stadium.  Tool did some reconnaissance and found that the construction of the new overpass makes the route difficult, but still passable.  In the end, I decided to retire the old route for good.  It’s just not a very safe route (remember the silver 4 runner going 80 – not sure what the make and model was as it was always going 80 when it past me on Filmore).  There is a lot of running on or near the road, it’s dark, and at times you have to run with traffic.

In memoriam of Cheech’s death during an F3 Lexington run, we went sleeveless and I used the disclaimer to preach running safety.  I went long on the disclaimer, but I thought it was important.  Some good tips I stole from someone else:

• Ditch the badass black F3 shirt and wear something bright
• Wear reflective bands or lights to make yourself more visible
• Run against traffic and stay on sidewalks or grass if possible.
• Run with a group – leave no man behind.
• Bring your cellphone.
• Get an ID bracelet or carry emergency contact info.

The Thang

The 610 Stomp was originally created to prepare for a Spartan race.  The idea was to jog for 6 minutes and then take one minute to do 10 burpees and catch your breath.  Then repeat until the 45 minutes are up and you are standing back at the flag.  The 6-10 Stomp.  The 6-10 part has been modified to mean different things.  If doing burpees, the Pax usually picks their own number to do.  Sometimes we run for 30 seconds in lieu of burpees (a SFx special).  Sometimes we do something totally different, but today, we were going to get back to the original intention, with one caveat.  Since Side Effects famously got our numbering system of track by making us repeat 610 Stomp #18, the Pax was instructed to do 18 burpees during 2 of the breaks – you could choose when, but extra points if you did them on back to back breaks.

YHC hung with Shorty and we went too far.  We did complete the 86 burpees on the route.  When we got back (6 or 7 minutes late – #Cobains) everyone had to bail except Stubhub.  We sealed the deal with 15 more burpees bringing us to a grand total of 101 for the 101st running of the Stomp.  T-claps to Stubhub who makes his own rules and sealed the deal with 16 burpees.

Moleskin

Thanks to those that came out to celebrate today.  Cobains for getting back so late.  We had some great representation today.  I went back into the historical records and found that Tool was there with me for the very first Stomp.  Shorty showed up for the second one (he was an FNG at RockCity the day before).  Fracsac shows up in the Backblasts at Stomp #56, although I’m not sure that is his first.  Stubhubb debuted at Stomp #96 and Roots grabbed his passport and posted for the first time at Stomp #101. T-claps to all.

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