Today's Tweets

06:28 Wt: 167.4, RHR: 51 #

06:29 Amazing, hike 10 miles. gain a pound. #

06:55 Off to work. #

07:57 At work, really wishing I wasn't here. Actually that's not true, I feel better now that I'm up and about than when I was in bed! #

08:08 Tell people to stop dragging their start menus VERTICALLY! #

08:21 Just had a conversation with my boss about how single days off mid-week throw you off, 5 minutes later he was 3 days off on a T1 move. Heh. #

09:10 It's impossible to fade away anyway. Well, unless you're Michael J. Fox's family in Back to the Future, anyway. #

09:11 And for good measure, I'll say anyway again, anyway. #

12:02 Christmas picture tweetfest coming, so be warned. #

12:04 New Flickr upload: CRW_1037: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/8dusje #

12:04 New Flickr upload: CRW_1038: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/8vke6y #

12:04 New Flickr upload: CRW_1039: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/73k4fv #

12:04 New Flickr upload: CRW_1040: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/7l9n2z #

12:25 That's enough to drive me to the gym. #

12:34 New Flickr upload: CRW_1106: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/8amtlm #

12:34 New Flickr upload: CRW_1107: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/83kfke #

12:34 New Flickr upload: CRW_1109: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/9fnzfw #

12:34 New Flickr upload: CRW_1110: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/7zyo4q #

12:34 New Flickr upload: CRW_1112: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: tinyurl.com/axd42j #

12:35 Back to GNC vanilla protein powder, at least it's semi-edible. #

12:38 OK, I'm off to the gym. The flickr images, however, will keep coming. :) Sorry about that. #

13:37 Gym's finished. So are my knees! (stinkin' barbell rollouts) #

14:17 OK this is a bad sign, I mixed my pre-workout shake better than the battery operated blender mixed my post-workout shake. #

14:26 So I'm at the store in line. Woman in front of me wants change for 100 then tells the cashier she's "in a hurry" (cont.) #

14:26 I said, "Aren't we all?" and she said, "No." Woman BEHIND me isn't watching and slams her cart into me. Good thing I have padding back there #

14:39 Stinkin' Drago had to go kill Apollo Creed. You don't do that to Rocky, dude, you just don't. #

16:07 MapMyFitness.com: Completed 1/2/2009. 213 (kcal). 00:30:16 #

17:04 New Flickr upload: Gregory, Feather Falls Trailhead: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: This kid .. tinyurl.com/948sla #

17:04 New post on my blog: Feather Falls Hike & Other Schtuff: Can you believe my last blog post w.. tinyurl.com/8x4cny #

17:12 Aside from Diet Dew, I shall leave you with a quote from Rocky Balboa. He said... "Oh I made that up one night while I was eating dinner." #

19:07 Watching the girls take a bath. One's having a tea party, the other's building a castle. #

19:08 Mom just took over. Yay! #

22:07 Watching B5, S5: "Learning Curve" #

23:19 Now watching B5, S5: "Strange Relations" #

23:32 Better view *snicker* cdn.overstock.com/images/products/3/L11307259.jpg #

23:48 OK, caught up on B5 for the TCF goobers playing along at home. I'm off to bed. For the running goobers, I'll be doing 5k at 11. #

23:48 Nite all. #

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Feather Falls Hike & Other Schtuff

Can you believe my last blog post was about Tuesday's intervals? My apologies for missing the other days, but busyness at work combined with New Years, and it was just crazy. CRAZY, I say!

I won't bore you too much with the extras. No, I didn't miss the gym on Wednesday, I went, and had a great workout. Thursday would have been a tempo run, except for the planned 3rd annual Feather Falls hike, and this time I brought Gregory.



Check it out, the kid's 6 years old, about three weeks shy of 7. Feather Falls isn't the most difficult hike in the world, but it does tax adults. It was the first hike I did, and it just about killed me at the time. Granted I was overweight and out of shape, and that first hike will forever taint my view of the difficulty, but I'm extremely proud of that kid.

We made it to the falls in about two hours, and he talked about just about everything. When we were almost there, he told me that a lot of kids ask if we're almost there, or if we're there, but he didn't ask once, hehe. He then started making fun of kids in his class, who on field trips say things like, "Why does it take so long to get there!" He seemed to have his imitation down pat, too.

On the way back, it was a long haul. He started complaining about his legs hurting within the first quarter mile of heading back. My job was mostly as coach, getting him back to the trailhead before dark.

Today I asked him if he wanted to go back tomorrow. He said, "Mmm, maybe." That's my boy. :)

Anyway, I took some quick & dirty video from my phone, I'll post it later. Meanwhile, it was a gym workout today.

Warmup, w/45lb bar, 3 circuits
* Overhead Squat
* Squat
* Good Morning
* Barbell Lunge
* Romanian Deadlift
* Bent-over Row

Workout
* Jump Squat, 3x6x45lbs
* Good Morning, 3x6x95lbs
* Lying DB Triceps Extension, 3x6x40lbs (2 20lb dumbbells)
* Barbell Roll-Out, 3x6

I also seem to have lost my HRM strap sometime after arriving home last night from the hike. I took it off while driving and put it on the passenger side, and didn't bring it in last night with the thought that it'd still be there. It wasn't! I'm hoping it's still sitting there on the ground next to where I park, otherwise I'll have to buy a new one.

I'm scheduled for a long run tomorrow, but I'm running 5k with a group of people from church. That means I'll be doing the long run on Sunday, which isn't all that bad, I just have to make sure and be back in time for service at 11am.

I hope you all had a great New Years, and here's to a great 2009!

Today's Tweets

00:52 I definitely made it, but more importantly, so did my 6yo son! Amazing, that kid. #

00:53 Finished packing for the first hiking trip of the year, this will be the 3rd annual New Years Day Feather Falls hike for me. #

00:54 It will also be my son's first trip there, 8-9 miles RT, moderate terrain. We'll see how the kid does. :) #

01:03 New post on my blog: Today's Tweets: 01:33 New post on my blog: Today's Tweets: 06:12 Wt: 16.. tinyurl.com/7qq6on #

01:26 OK, I'm outta here. Happy new year everyone. #

07:30 Wt: 166.2, RHR: 55 #

20:37 MapMyHike.com: Completed 01/01/2009. 1,430 (kcal). 9.00 mi.. 4:33:34 #

20:40 Ooh, if I log workouts to MapMy... sites, it shows whatever site I logged into on Twitter. I'll now log into specific ones. #

20:41 That's MapMyHike, MapMyRun, & MapMyFitness. Ones I don't use are MapMyTri, MapMyWalk, & MapMyRide. All .com of course. #

20:51 Amazed at how sore I am after today's hike. It really is a different set of muscles! #

20:53 Off to bed. Hopefully not too sore tomorrow. :) #

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06:18 Wt: 165.6, RHR: 50 #

08:53 Nasty! Janitor's not here and nobody's cleaned the microwave, it's caked with food that doesn't smell all that great. #

09:22 Actual support call: "Solitaire's not on my computer, could you install it for me?" #

09:51 Oh my God, I just called Okidata for Citizen printer support, and didn't realize the mistake until he told me he'd never heard of the model. #

09:57 "Could you tell me what it says on the LCD?" "On the what?" #

10:50 SOLITAIRE MAN just came back to me asking why I haven't showed him solitaire yet!!! Where's my bat? #

10:52 Hey I know, maybe I should buy him a Neil Diamond CD. No wait, that's Solitary Man. hah, silly me. #

11:28 Shatner's "Has Been" is a fabulous album. Don't let anyone tell you different. #

12:45 Getting ready to go to the gym. As someone wiser than I once put it, "Getting ready to get ready." #

13:07 Alright, NOW I'm going to the gym. :) #

14:34 Back from the gym. The owners decided to flip/flop the yoga/boxing/cardio room so it's like Bizarro World in there. #

14:48 GNC strawberry flavored protein powder reminds me of the soap-eating scene of A Christmas Story. #

15:33 New Flickr upload: bareyb: LIVE!: Gregoriopolis posted a photo: TCF folks, look what I found.. tinyurl.com/8zk8y9 #

17:00 Heading home. #

18:49 Visiting my momma on hers @ my dad's anniversary. He passed away in 1989. It would've been their 40th. #

20:01 Wonder if I should do a tempo run before tomorrow morning's hike? #

21:44 Woo! Waffles! #

22:42 Still not 10 PST. Not gonna make it. I'm old. #

00:52 I definitely made it, but more importantly, so did my 6yo son! Amazing, that kid. #

00:53 Finished packing for the first hiking trip of the year, this will be the 3rd annual New Years Day Feather Falls hike for me. #

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