FF - An Extreme Athlete's Journal

We meant the skull laying on the grass FF
 
lol.

Good job FF. You're keeping that lean look despite a month off, having a "Farmer John" tan and gorging on Thanksgiving dinner. Thats a talent! Look for an early Christmas gift of self tanner from me in the mail :D
 
3 X 5 pullups wide grip with knee up crunch
2 X 10 handstand pressups against wall
2 X 25 pushups
run 40 minutes
bike 20 minutes
run 20 minutes (all three of these at the bay walk)

Let's decorate a Christmas Tree

Sweat Daily
FF
 
i have rowing blkisters!!! and NO I was not inspired by you at all Dutes. :)

actually rowing is rather boring....

did an adventure race yesterday...

supposed course waws--

ride 50, run 5, row 5, and swim 1. The row was straight accrossed the open Bay- 4.8 miles. and it was hell.

my total time for the event was 6:18, and I won first place out of 4, we will see when the results come up.--- hahahah LOL!

BUT- the whole thing was a total race. I made the final pass during the 20 minutes swim, and only did it by having long gliding strokes, and the other dude go too excited, and was stroking too fast. VERY GRUELING and competitive.

I have never won before. hehehehehe first place out of 4 aint bad!

p.s. rowing is for the patiently smooth and boring. I zig zaged all the way accrossed that bay... LOL!

p.s.s. I was kyaking and going forward not backward.
 
flyinfree said:
i have rowing blkisters!!! and NO I was not inspired by you at all Dutes. :)

actually rowing is rather boring....

did an adventure race yesterday...

supposed course waws--

ride 50, run 5, row 5, and swim 1. The row was straight accrossed the open Bay- 4.8 miles. and it was hell.

my total time for the event was 6:18, and I won first place out of 4, we will see when the results come up.--- hahahah LOL!

BUT- the whole thing was a total race. I made the final pass during the 20 minutes swim, and only did it by having long gliding strokes, and the other dude go too excited, and was stroking too fast. VERY GRUELING and competitive.

I have never won before. hehehehehe first place out of 4 aint bad!

p.s. rowing is for the patiently smooth and boring. I zig zaged all the way accrossed that bay... LOL!

p.s.s. I was kyaking and going forward not backward.
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That's a cool race, FF, what is the name of it? And congratulations!
 
flyinfree said:
i have rowing blkisters!!! and NO I was not inspired by you at all Dutes. :)

actually rowing is rather boring....

did an adventure race yesterday...

supposed course waws--

ride 50, run 5, row 5, and swim 1. The row was straight accrossed the open Bay- 4.8 miles. and it was hell.

my total time for the event was 6:18, and I won first place out of 4, we will see when the results come up.--- hahahah LOL!

BUT- the whole thing was a total race. I made the final pass during the 20 minutes swim, and only did it by having long gliding strokes, and the other dude go too excited, and was stroking too fast. VERY GRUELING and competitive.

I have never won before. hehehehehe first place out of 4 aint bad!

p.s. rowing is for the patiently smooth and boring. I zig zaged all the way accrossed that bay... LOL!

p.s.s. I was kyaking and going forward not backward.
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Haven't heard from you for a while. Hope all is well with you and your family.

Best regards,

Chillen
 
flyinfree said:
i have rowing blkisters!!! and NO I was not inspired by you at all Dutes. :)

actually rowing is rather boring....

p.s. rowing is for the patiently smooth and boring. I zig zaged all the way accrossed that bay... LOL!

p.s.s. I was kyaking and going forward not backward.
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I'm going to let the boring comment slide, just because its you ;)

But as I said in my journal, sculling (even though you mention kayaking I still presume that, like sculling, you were alone) is so hard mentally because you are all alone, nobody cares. Sometimes it is really hard even for me to get up, get in that boat and go for a long, lonely row. The same motion over and over again for sometimes upwards of 2 hours continuously. The same reach of water every day, week in, week out, month in, month out.
But at the end of the day to me it isn't lonely, or boring. It is freedom, pure freedom. Just lost in that same repetitiveness, the perfect catch, the feel of the hang of the oar as you drive with the legs before the swing rocks you into the finish and you feel the boat run effortless underneath you. It is, to me, the most perfect feeling in the world.

But hey thats, just me and rowing definitely isn't for everyone ;)

Sorry to hijack your thread with my own ramblings.

Great work on winning, its a great feeling :)

Hope everything is well and that you've just been trainign too hard to have time to update!
 
well shoot!! I was guna start a new journal, but this one is at the top.

today

Ride 17 miles to channelside
run 5 miles with new runner
ride 17 miles home
run- on track single mile without monitoring my time = 7:33 mm OMG! exactly the Boston pace!!! I am being haunted!

anyhow

happy new year all!

Sweat Daily!
FF
 
ahhahahaa - that was funny... it took me a few to get it- heheeh ding dong!

anyhow--

ran in the woods 120 minutes.... good hard long run... felt great.


Life is a tangle and a half right now. Changing total life structure for career, and emotionally living the life of FF, and well, shoot-- livin large actually. Totally on the edge in a few areas, and it takes energy (even if some is negative). I am in for the full experience, and there ya go!

got my bib # for ING Miami Marathon (#1297).

sweat Daily!
FF
 
thanks for the tatoo compliments- that one took two years to get.

Today-
ran 21.6 miles, total training time of 3:10. First mile ran a 6:51 mm, last 5 miles ran 9 flats.

weighed in at 184.6

and in the spairit of the old days- at mile 14 I stopped in at "the bathroom wwe all know wo well" a took a lil pic for you Marko!

how you likeey me pose!
 
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