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Fourth of July

The last three Cross Fit workouts, Wednesday, Friday, and today have been really brutal. It hasn't helped that my belly is just not cooperating (due to the fact I'm eating protein shakes and forcing calories into it) or that my calf has a knot in it that I cannot get to unwind.


I am powering through the pain, and today did 3 rounds for time of: 30 Kettle Bell squats, 30 pull-ups, 800 m run. I completed in 18:02.

I have stabilized my weight at 162 pounds.

I am looking forward to sitting on my boat with my kids today, sipping cold drinks and reading a novel. I hope that everyone has a wonderful 4th of July - be safe and stay off the roads if you can. We will be grilling Porterhouse steaks on the boat and then floating in the cove here, watching all the neighbors setting off fireworks from their docks. The kids will fall asleep on the cushions and I will be drinking Toad Hollow Chardonay and being eternally grateful for my country, her independence, my family and the health and well being of all those that I love.

Posted at 14:59 in Cross Fit Gym, Health, Life | | Comments (1)

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  • We are not now that strength which in old days

    Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,

    One equal temper of heroic hearts,

    Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

    To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  • ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

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  • In August of 2004, the sloths took a vacation to St. Maarten. During the trip, Philip became ill. That illness has never been diagnosed, though not for lack of trying.

    Many tests have been run, many things have been tried. All have failed. In an attempt at levity, Philip has ascribed the pain in his abdomen to the Mola mola (oceanic sunfish) that resides therein.

    Philip is fighting to find new ways to cope with the alien in his belly. The Mola mola pretty much has a life of his own, living as an expatriate within his host.

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