Lose+Your+Lunch+Challenge

Lose Your Lunch Challenge

Your challenge should you choose to accept it. Run up and over the knob just past the Lunch Rock Overlook off of the MST 6 times. The goal is to run the climb on either side to near "lose your lunch" status...i.e. HARD! Recover on each decent...repeat until you've gone up and over 6 times. In order to make it challenging, choose what a goal time for a fast (for you) ascent would be on the front side (side with Lunch Rock on it), then try to beat this time on each ascent, on both sides! Post your ascent times below in order to track what you and others have done! Separate front side and back side times in order, then shoot to see how low you can get the cumulative time from each side!

More details: Lunch Rock is the rock outcropping that is across and above the Blue Ridge Parkway from the Haw Creek Valley Overlook north of the Folk Art Center. From the Lunch Rock Side, start your ascent from the side trail for Lunch Rock (indicated by a white blaze with a heart etched in it, as well as a red blaze). Stop your watch/time as you crest the knob, where there is a white blaze on a tree to the left that has a sort of frowny face etched in it. Jog/recover down the backside until you get to a short stretch of double track just after a set of 3 or 4 wooden steps (you will be next to the BRP); Start again from the base of those steps running back to the same tree that you stopped your watch from the front side ascent, where you will take your split for that ascent. Repeat!

Extra: We dubbed this knob, Jack(son) Knob. This has a double meaning, as Action Jackson brought this challenge to order, and you may or may not have to dodge an older paranoid guy named Jack that will be yelling that you are stalking him and his dog!?! Be careful out there!!

Times (if your willing and brave enough to share!)

__Easy or backside __ 4:48, 4:40, 4:42 (14:10) __Frontside __ 4:41, 4:58, 5:07 (14:46)
 * Mike (Action) Jackson: **

05.06.14 __Backside __ 5:15, 5:40, 6:20 (17:15) __Frontside__ 6:15, 6:17, 6:20 (18:52)
 * Mandy (Cookie Monster) Higdon: **

09.19.14 __Backside__ 4:45, 4:50, 5:00 (14:35) __Frontside__ 5:35, 6:02, 6:05 (17:42)

Front- 4:42; 4:41; 4:39= 14:02 Back-4:20; 4:23; 4:17= 13:00
 * Adam Hill:**

Front- 4:32; 4:32; 4:36 = 13:40 Back- 4:32; 4:27; 4:27= 13:26

Front- 4:58; 4:56, 4:48= 14:42 Back- 4:48; 4:50; 4:33= 14:11

Front- 4:46; 4:51; 4:54= 14:31 Back- 4:13; 4:32; 4:29= 13:14

02.03.15 Front- 4:42, 5:11, 5:15 (15:08) Back- 4:44, 4:42, 4:46 (14:12)

5:48, 5:46, and 5:49 on the lunch rock side 5:48, 5:45, 5:36 on the back side
 * Brew Davis:**

02.03.15 Front- 4:54, 4:54, 4:52 (14:40) Back-4:54, 4:44, 4:42 (14:20)
 * Adam Standley **

**03.12.15 Crew!** **Lindsay Hensley** Front- 5:10, 5:30, 5:35 (16:15) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Back- 5:03, 5:20, 5:27 (15:50)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Front- 4:35, 4:59, 5:12 (14:46) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Back- 4:22, 4:51, 4:51 (14:04)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Eli White **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Front- 4:32, 4:35, 4:45 (13:52) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Back- 4:16, 4:21, 4:21 (12:58)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Adam Hill **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Anne Wheatley- no time recorded **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Josh Stevens- no time recorded **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Front- 4:58, 5:29, 5:11 (15:38) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Back- 4:48, 5:04, 4:57 (14:51)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Joseph Quinlan **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Runners that have taken the challenge, but I don't have his/her times...
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Arnaud (Trail Panther) Levasseur **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Josh (Tumbleweed) Stevens **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Anne Wheatley **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Jon Harrison **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Genevieve Yeakel **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Josh Marcus **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Pete Ripmaster **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Charles (CH3) Humphrey **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Clay (Dice) Warner **