20+, Beautiful, can’t argue with results

Yesterday I missed my gym session so I made up for it with an extended session at home on my outdoor bars.  Ali was home from work early and joined me outside as well.

I decided I wanted to try to best my previous best in one set muscle up reps.  Unfortunately I wound up with the same 4 reps as before and once again was only an inch or so short of getting rep number 5.  Although I failed to hit that goal, I smashed through another number.

Thus far the most total muscle ups I ever have done in one session was the 10 reps I did during my bar-barian requirements attempt last week.  Well last night I did somewhere around 25 total muscle ups, it was great.  I strung 3 muscle ups together multiple times and also messed around with close and wide grip variations.

Even after all of those reps I was able to pull out a 300 v2.0 today with 84 pull ups in the routine.  I am quite happy my upper body is adapting to the strain of the muscle up movement.  I can hardly wait to get back to Tompkins Square Park.

The weather today is in a word, awesome.  75 degrees, low humidity and not a cloud in the sky make me want to just walk out of the office and enjoy the beauty of Naples.  It is the first time I can remember the nice weather rolling in while we still have standing water around our property.  It will evaporate soon though.

Obama just stuck a couple more big feathers in his cap in the past few days.  The confirmed killing of Gadhafi can be only viewed as a good thing for the world, one less murderous dictator to deal with.  Now today Obama announced that we are pulling ALL troops out of Iraq by the end of THIS year. Amen, finally an end to the war that should have never existed.  Now if we can just do the same in Afghanistan we’ll be set.

I am sure the military contractors and all of the associated leeches that profit off of country building aren’t happy but tough shit.

Is there a good chance that Iraq will quickly slide back into a cesspool of corruption/violence without our troops playing babysitter?  Yep.  Do I give a shit? Nope.  You can’t save people from themselves.

Nobody would have predicted that some of Obama’s biggest victories in his first term would be on the foreign front.  I am sure it will be drilled home repeatedly during the upcoming mind numbing election cycle.

I have a cross country meet to time tomorrow morning.  I timed the same meet last year.  The attendance this year is going to be dramatically greater with over 700 kids registered.  This type of event has some additional challenges for me but since it is my second time around the learning curve should be flattening out.

Since the Eagles are on bye this week I have a free Sunday.  I hope to enjoy the weather and work on getting our garden populated with Ali.  Should be fun.