I heartily support that PL goal. Just to see you in a singlet. Well, for lots of other reasons.
I look forward to reading about it Bear!
Bear in singlet? I want this now.
I have a singlet you can borrow. It’ll be very tight. And the legs are very short. It’ll be perfect 
on an unrelated note;
tattoo is healing nicely.
which means that there’s nothing more i want than for this fucker to be healed completely so i can scrub my back in the shower and then get the best back scratch ive ever had.
lotion, however, is the next best thing.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
pegg- those little nuggets are too precious to be yours. they’re such hams for the camera!
training
did some light stuff tonight, remembering that i’ll be expected to lift heavy all weekend. and im so ok with that.
did some wide grip pullups with a green band, 10, 8, 5, 5, 5.
offset stepups, 15 each leg, with a 40lb db
face pulls 3x15, with close neutral grip seated cable rows with 130 (dunno what the real weight is, that stack lies like a crazy ex0, 3x15
then some russian twists with a 12lb medicine ball, 2x40(or 20? i count each side swing as one.)
story. well, announcement.
I think (and by think, I mean I don’t see any reason why I wouldnt) Im doing to do a PL meet in august.
the more i toss around the idea the more i like it.
pegg, you’re gonna have your hands full.
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they are my kids. Honest. They look too much like me to be anyone elses. looks like training went well. The PL meet will be fun. Im doing one in August. you doing the SPF ProAm?
planning on doing something retarded. had some stuff come up, so it wont be rawdog as i had originally planned, but Im willing to bet that it will be entertaining, no less. Why am I going to have my hands full? Youre trainable.
Jason
yes. bear in a comp. awesomeness i can’t wait to see.
glad your ink is healing nicely-that part of the the process is a bitch. i had to very much refrain from my ‘picker’ tendencies and let that stuff heal up…
It’s about time!
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
on an unrelated note;
tattoo is healing nicely.
which means that there’s nothing more i want than for this fucker to be healed completely so i can scrub my back in the shower and then get the best back scratch ive ever had.
lotion, however, is the next best thing. [/quote]
It puts the lotion on it’s skin!
V
I’m so excited about your plans to do a meet! You’re gonna kick ass.
kimba, alisa, bg- you’ll see me in singlet. i plan on documenting this as much as i do the rest of my life, if not more. bg, you know already that you’re coming, so, yeah. bring your singlet next time youre down here.
nlmain- its so awesome to have fans along the way! if we keep track of each other, its less like weird internet relationship and more like real human interaction. you shall be efriend.
t- ive already been told i have mutant mobility, and being able to reach all parts of that tattoo to clean and lotion it hasnt helped that cause. oh well. i’ll be a mutant ninja. skye can keep the turtle. and i haaaaaate shirts right now. anything thats touching the tattoo.
mim- im surprised at how much im hearing that. its seemed strange to other people to train for something without a competition or show in mind. oh well.
V- several times a day. and it feels soooooo gooood.
blue- it’ll be odd being the “new” kid at competition, because competing itself seems so lifelong to me (start with 2 older brothers and 2 sisters. nature or nurture doesnt matter at this point), and im counting on screwing something up but having a great time anyway!
pegg im saving yours for last because its just so quote worthy. [quote]Why am I going to have my hands full? Youre trainable. [/quote] BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
not training
2.5 loads of laundry done, dishes done, carpeted vacuuming done, dishes done, bathroom cleaned, closet reorganized. now to set up a new budget (setting aside $$ for vaca and meet expenses) and make lunch for work. <— that’s between last night and today, btw. not all this morning.
MIM, am i up early enough for coffee? I can go make my own if i need ta.
I can make more…
and I hear what your saying…competition against one’s self is enough(is that cheesy?) but this will just take you to that next level!
Fuck yeah!! You’ll do us proud at the meet. And of course documentation is imperative.
So uh, did you actually sleep last night or did you pull some kind of Jessie Spano “I’m so excited!” situation. (if anyone gets this reference I will your sex slave)
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
I can make more…
and I hear what your saying…competition against one’s self is enough(is that cheesy?) but this will just take you to that next level![/quote]
no, its not cheesy.
storytime.
my junior year of highschool, mom came to one of my swim meets. freshman, sophomore, and senior, she was at every one of them. i told her to stop coming after the first one junior year, bc she wasn’t happy with my attitude. (my little sis played basketball, so that mom made it to every one of my meets means a lot to me now, bc i realize how difficult juggling those schedules were, as both are winter sports here.)
before that first meet, my coach and i had been working on my turns, and changed things up. my downfall, screwed me everytime i did it, was looking to see where the other swimmers were in the water. looking itself takes time away, and if they were next to or ahead of me, it would psych me out.
so in my second race (my only individual event, my others were relays) i looked right before the turn, fucked up the turn, and ended up with second place when i clearly should have had first. the other girl wasnt in front of me when i looked, she was next to me. however, there was talk/pressure beforehand about whether or not i’d be able to kick her ass. had i done the turn correctly i would have.
(for those of you who dont know, swimming comes down to one onehundredth of a second sometimes. and a tenth of a second can be eternity.)
i was IRATE when i finished. for the next 2 weeks, actually. mom was in the bleachers next to my stuff, and when she congratulated me for second place (she’s awesome like that. she really is. no sarcasm) i went off. loudly. in front of other swimmers and parents. while i dont remember exactly everything i said, i know that mom was embarrassed/ashamed of my tude, and the other parents were surprised to see me so upset. I know one of the things i said was, “second place is the first loser.”
don’t think that im much of a sore loser… im ok with not winning, as long as i did everything possible to do so. if someone is genuinely stronger/faster than i am, im happy for them, and look at what i can learn from them. the story was to illustrate MIM’s point of competition against yourself, because coach told me for the entire rest of the year, “this is YOUR race, no one elses. no one else is in the water. it’s your horn, your lights, your lane.” (when i swam, for the start, they blew a horn and flashed a light for the start of each race. dunno if its different now. hafta say sometimes i didnt hear the horn because i was in the ZONE.)
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Fuck yeah!! You’ll do us proud at the meet. And of course documentation is imperative.
So uh, did you actually sleep last night or did you pull some kind of Jessie Spano “I’m so excited!” situation. (if anyone gets this reference I will your sex slave)[/quote]
I NEED TO PRACTICE!! I NEED THE PILLS!!
no you don’t jessie, you dont need the pills!!
yes, i slept. from 12:15 to 8:30
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
I NEED TO PRACTICE!! I NEED THE PILLS!!
no you don’t jessie, you dont need the pills!! [/quote]
At your service, mistress…
Great story and all too true. Applies to everything in life.
oh and for those of you who care, breakfast is
20oz coffee with milk and sugar
2 eggs over easy on 2 pieces nuclear toast
1 scoop chocolate MD with leucine and 1 scoop Superfood
20ml fish oil
and as many of the strawberries as i can eat from the container of em i sliced and washed last week
CB,
I confidently predict you will find the platform to be a place where you should have been all along. For some people, and i think you are probably one, it is a one of the places where all the aggression and work and need to test and push yourself can happen. Not to mention the ability to kick somebody’s ass while risking your own dignity and getting your own ass kicked.
If you are driving home afterward and need a few days to reflect on and explore the complex emotions you experienced than you should move on. If you are already planning what you are going to do next training cycle before your first beer you have found a home.
You have one of the best environments to excel in also.
Good luck.
PS Please video your deadlift psyche up.
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Fuck yeah!! You’ll do us proud at the meet. And of course documentation is imperative.
So uh, did you actually sleep last night or did you pull some kind of Jessie Spano “I’m so excited!” situation. (if anyone gets this reference I will your sex slave)[/quote]
I completely get the reference. Do I win?
Jason