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Never wrote this up saturday, but I did indeed workout.  I was pretty worn out from a long week and surprise bday party the night before.

Suckerrific.  This morning was aweful.    I was out of breathe and cramping up by sprint 5, felt very sluggish the whole time, and just felt tapped out.  Abs were no better, I felt just as weak and unpowerful.

So definitely one of those low days I’ve written about before.  Performance wise if you actually timed my sprint and witnessed by ab exercises my guess is they weren’t actually all that much more worse than some other days.  But they sure as hell felt like it!

7 days left!

Not too much to say about today that I haven’t already said about pull day before.  I considered it to be a 7/10 on my workout scale, not a bad day, but not exceptional.   The next few months are likely going to be very chaotic, so I’m enjoying these last days of uber stable training as much as a I can.

One week till the Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll Boulder Theater premiere and end of my 16 weeks of sobriety!  http://tinyurl.com/sgrr515

Don’t know if it was becauase I didn’t get to bed until 11 last night, or because I worked out harder than usual, but for whatever reason legs absolutely kicked my ass today.  That’s not to say I didn’t give them a run for their money, but at the end of today’s routine it took me a good 5 minutes to catch my breath and I absolutely fried in the sauna.  Lunges started off a bit rough, but by the end of the leg press it was fully on, and I pushed out quite a few more reps than I had the previous week.

There’s something dreadful and magical about having LEGS be on hump day of the work week.  Tomorrow I’ll be all excited in the morning because its just “pull thursday”, and then friday morning I’ll be cursing the fact that it’s friday and I’m up at 6am doing sprints.  It goes on and on and on and on!

While many things in my life may be either in, or headed towards, the shitter, I’ve at least got my training.  Part of me is really starting to love sprints.  There.  I said it.  Every moment of every sprint rep has been hard since I started, and 12 weeks later that’s still almost exactly the same case, except for 2 things: For one,  I’m running harder, faster, and more powerfully in each rep, and two, in-between reps I recover a LOT faster.  And in my mind, that’s how I want all growth in my life to be.  Enlightenment is an edge to be surfed, not a thing to be achieved. With practice it can be lived more fully, deeply, and powerfully in each moment, but its never suddenly going to be “easy”.  Like sets of sprinting, some moments will be great, others will feel like shit, but recovery from those moments gets quicker and easier…or something like that.

Abs were also pretty solid today, Swiss balls and reverse crunches were solid today, I was present, engaged, and pushed myself.  So much so I was actually a little worm out by the time I got to crossovers, but that’s ok.

Sluggish today.  No particular reason, got an okay amount of sleep, woke up on time, ate fairly well this weekend….but when I pushed things didn’t move as fast or as powerfully as I wanted them to be.  One of the great things I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing with my strength traininng, though I think it applies to any practice, is the joy of highs and lows.  Often they come for no particular reason, days I intend on having the best workout ever turn out ho-hum, while other days where i feel like I’ve barely been able to get out of bed turn out to be the best.  Learning to enjoy the ride, whether its up or down, has been a great practice for me.  States come and go, as do good and bad workout sessions, moods, the weather, and so much else.

174.2 on the scale this morning.  My goals to have the lovely number 173 flash up on that scale by a week from friday.    Make it so.