"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."
Joan Didion
Monday
Lunch with Lauren S who is smart and quick and starting out well. Busy busy busy from the minute I sit down at 8:30 and it's brutal. Not feeling it; feeling shitty in fact. Come within a hairs width of bagging it. Heading to gym-actually turned away and headed east, forced the turn around. You are strong, you are beautiful, give it a go.
And so goes like:
10+10 x 5 16kg warm-up
To:
10 alternating 24kg press to 5 doubles
15+15 Bulgarian split squats, body weight
10 reverse pullups off of Smith machine
Suitcase deads with bar, 170lbs
x5
That was a boatload of volume for feeling shitty; back did not feel like ballistics but the deads felt really good.
Was about 35,000 pounds moved in an hour which is quite a bit for an old guy. Felt the split squats for two days.
IST put up his pictures last night. Threw everything up there good or bad. He has far to go with his camera technique but got some awesome shots; technique kinda drops away when an African Elephant is filling the frame.
He has seen much in his 18 years. He has been on boats surrounded by hundreds of dolphins around. He has seen Rissos, northern right whale dolphins and Dahl's porpoises in numbers. He has seen bottle nose from the beach and from a boat. He has seen Orcas, Humpbacks and Blue Whales in large concentrations.
He often said he hated those trips but then chose to go halfway across the globe to count primates, see elephants, wildebeest, cape buffalo, zebra, impala, dik dik, ostrich, lion, baboons and what else I don't want to think about in the streets of Mombasa.
He is interested in travels and that he is fortunate to have family that will support him. Nothing about such interest strikes me as remarkable, but others seem to think it is.
Much better by Tuesday am but long day with loan docs and more office bullshit kills any thought of late yoga and it becomes an off day by default. I hate and resent those but I should probably grow up.
Wednesday
Wasted time dealing with client past. Leave late to blow off steam with @giryagirl Monday Mayhem circuit on Wednesday. Great ballistics and fun like this:
10+10 x 3 single arm swing 16kg warmup, then
15 double swings, 20kg's
5 clean and press, twin 24
5+5 renegade rows 24kg to 5 push ups
5 front squats, twin 20
3x
3 tgu, 24
10+10 tactical lunge, 20 kg
10 20kg slingshots
10 24kg figure 8 to hold
20 28 KG swings
x3
The 28 has been the tgu bell for a bit now and the 24 felt like a toy. I can remember when it was shaky. Pretty happy with the double 20 swings, felt good and yeah with the big sport bells the doubles look badass. But lost the grip on the 24 figure 8's last circuit and nearly crushed the phone. Good times, good sweat.
Walk in the door and house exploding with the smell of roast chicken and thyme. Brigid is home and on a mission and in addition to the roast bird and veggies and stuffing it's homemade apple pie (all organic). B sits down to his full plate and smiles; his eyebrows go up: "ok ! Yummy."
Could not love it more.
Thursday
Morning brings email streams starting at 6:50 with Gillian and Dave's Newport set streaming as we skim across the flat bay returning again to concrete, steel and problems. Back ok after last evenings 88lb swings.
Sit down at 8:30 after straight calls since walking off the boat and do not look up until 1:15 when it occurs to me that if I don't eat I'm toast. Grab spider roll and silk swathed korean beauty buddy slips freebees in the to go bag and smiles broadly. Whatever the impulse I'll take it and dash back.
Force it up and head to EH. Chatting beforehand she'd heard about Pradeep's stunning class Friday; her 5:00 is mostly middle aged men like me and it's dialed back appropriately.
Just breathe, can be the hardest part and without it the rest is shit. Oh yeah, whatever it is it's perfect. I forgot.
Friday
Deja Vu breakfast with mf.
In for multiple serial calls with one insane and one crazed client.
Split to 5:00 Pradeep; it's so so great, roll out toasted and drenched down market in vff past occupysf and skim back to suburbs.
Saturday
Walk the dog with Brigid and watch her chase lizards. Brigid, not dog.
I gotta get three and Cal sucks so out back for;
15/15 7 rep pace with 16kg x 60.
Boils down to 30 min of speed snatch work. Been pimping @girlsgoneStrong in cyberspace and the awesome @kathrynbudig replied; seven rep pace too comfortable, time to escalate.
Sunday
On phone by 6:00 with clients on Mumbai. My day is quickly fucked and I am fried by 12:00 pst. Rest day.
Monday
Halloween. Flying from 7:00 am to 4:00. Get up and leave. Hah. Steal into gym for 45 for this 28kg fest:
10+10x3 16 KG warmup
20 and 24 KG warmup press sets, to keep shoulder happy, then
3+3 28 short cycle c&p
10 28 GS
10+10 28 KG rows
5-1 28kg single arm swing ladder
28kg tgu
X5.
Tear two way too high callouses on left hand on first set of swings; get through.
Trick or Treat with b, love it so.
Tuesday. Wake up to 18 emails, fuck me.
MH at 5:00, good.
Wednesday
Spend the day bringing it. Plan on late pm blowout, the plan is set. Leave Oakland meeting at 3:45 and head to gym. Sitting on steps in the sun, productive calls and emails. But then incoming oh fuck.
My achilles heel is that I give a shit, I do. When someone deploys the nuclear option, I care about the fallout. So sitting there on the steps in the sun the oh fuck holds the narrative hostage. Its chemical, I wish it was not so. I would like to compartmentalize. But cortisol kicks in and I'm getting freaked out calls from another time zone. Bag it, cost of wearing heart on sleeve. Play it as it lays.
Thursday
Another nutso start. Break away at lunch:
10+10x 3 16kg single arm swing warm-up
Burpees to 3 push-up to twin 32 suitcase deads x 5
10+10 step back lunge, 24 in rack
10+10 32 kg rows
10 squat to press, 90lb barbell
x3
Smoked after 35 minutes, want to do snatch work
15 + 15 swing to snatch combo, 24kg
set off to do 25+25 with 20, but hit wall at 15. You're done dude, should have eaten at 10:00.
Sleeve is a good place to wear it. Wow.
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