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Crossfit Humbling

There’s nothing more humbling than getting smacked down from a high.  Crossfit will do that to you pretty often. My dad blessed me with his strength genes.  My recently-back-to-crossfit backsquat is not too shabby at all.  What the Balvanera’s lack however, is endurance, as shown on the time it took me to finish today’s workout. [...]

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Photo Motivation

Ocean Beach Ride, originally uploaded by maubrowncow. Here’s proof that I rode to Ocean Beach and back. More about this picture in a post to come in my 90 day project section.

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Day 11 of 90

The back is fully recovered and stronger than ever thanks to sports chiropractic work in Oakland, a Thai massage in Soma, and low weight, slow deadlifts. My goals are back on track. Speaking of which, I realize I never mentioned specific goals of this 90 day project. After all, you can’t create a map if [...]

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Day 3 of 90

So the big predicament today is how to deal with a thrown out back just 2 days into a 90 day project.  Do I tap out, hit pause, say mercy.  What do professional athletes do in situations like this?  That is, besides be tended to by a staff of specialists. Well, let’s bring it down a notch.  What [...]

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Day 2 of 90

Tonight’s workout is one of the lovely “girls” of crossfit. “Karen”.  She consists of 150 twenty pound wall balls as fast as you can. Karen is a very unassuming lady.  What could possible be difficult about tossing up a ball a few times.  Don’t be fooled.  Karen is a bitch.  She toys with your confidence [...]

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Day 1 of 90

I am currently 26 days and 11 hours away from the Red Bluff Ramble Sprint, but more importantly, I’m calling today day 1 of a 90 day fitness experiment.  I don’t consider myself to be out of shape, but for the next 90 days I’m going to push my mind and body to the limits [...]

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