Wore it to work, taking inventory, published, BBR, three ring circus

So I did indeed wear my Tough Mudder headband at work yesterday, albeit only long enough to snap this picture.

So my post-Mudder body ache and pain inventory is unexpectedly low.  Yea the spot on my head that bled like a pig is sore, the various cuts and brush burns on my knees are a bit bothersome and my mystery thumb pain has returned to mid-range in the pain level but other than that I feel like I escaped the event practically unscathed which is awesome.

I went into this assuming I would be totally out of commission for a couple weeks.  Instead I see no reason why I can’t go running in Central Park next week.  I’m stoked.

A couple weeks ago when I was perusing the online edition of our local paper I saw an article talking about a new feature called UR Wheelz.  Basically they wanted people to send in pictures of their cool cars along with a description of what it means to them.  They were going to post select entries on top of the Saturday SWFL Wheels section of the paper.  So anyway I sent in a couple pictures of the SSR along with a quick blurb.  I quickly forgot about it after I sent it in.

Well last week I received an email from someone at the paper saying my car had been selected to be published this weekend.  She just wanted to give me a heads up.  My mom had told me that she saw my car. I looked online to see if I could find it but it appears that the online version of the paper does not include this sort of stuff.

Well a co-worker also saw my SSR in there and was nice enough to give me the hard copy.  I thought the SSR transferred well to print media, it looked sharp.  I neatly folded the paper and filed it away with other important documents. 🙂

I have made some really nice progress in my physical goals in 2011, completing my first half marathon, some more triathlons, the world’s toughest mud race and various body weight milestones including the elusive muscle up.

Well for 2012 I am setting a goal that is pretty up there, completing the Bar-barian requirements in the allotted time (6 minutes).  Right now I am miles away from being able to do it.  In case you forget, the requirements are 5 muscle ups, 45 dips, 25 pull ups, 55 push ups and 5 more muscle ups.  The sets for each exercise have to be unbroken and it can’t take more than 6 minutes.

Doing any one of those exercises for that amount of reps alone is tough as hell, trying to stack them back to back multiplies the difficulty several times over. So anyway, I figure the best way to train for such a gauntlet is to do it, a lot.  Last night for my after work mini-workout I did the middle section of the BBR, trying to do my max numbers of dips, pull ups and push ups back to back (the muscle ups will take care of themselves).  My numbers were 30-15-35.

My plan is to just keep banging this out several times a week and hopefully the numbers will continue to climb.  If I manage to pull this off I am pretty sure I would be the first 44 year old Bar-barian on the planet.

Wow the Republican presidential race is a total joke.  I can never recall so many different candidates being declared front runners, there have been at least 4 or 5.  The problem is none of them, besides Ron Paul, brings anything truly different to the table.  It seems like this is the year the Republicans will be throwing up their version of Michael Dukakis.