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Freight. 6 X 186lb Green Mountain JB Pellet Stoves moved and stacked. 6 coleman minibikes(95lbs) moved and stacked. 6 Firman 4500 generators(135lbs moved and stacked). Its funny that I for some reason am the only one scheduled for freight night.

Spent the morning bucking up fir logs and dismantling this mess. Our woods, to the best of my knowledge, were logged in the 50's then allowed to grow back w/o any management... the result is a mixed lot of hardwoods and softwoods, the variety and size of which we love (lots of white oak, ash, maple, fir, pine, etc) and there's some huge trees out there... but the understory hardwoods (mostly cascara and wild chestnut and a few others) have reached a climax of sorts and are starting to fall over in places. This was one of those places. It's very strenuous and not a little dangerous taking something like this apart! There's a lot of pent up energy in those bent trunks and you gotta be smart about how you sequence it. I am, of course, not smart so that makes it extra-sporty.

For scale, the biggest of those leaners is about 14" at the base but most are 6" -8".

Anyway... 3 tanks of gas burned in the Husky, still got all my body parts, didn't squash my dogs, I'm done for the day.

Ok, I lied. Tried to stop but I cain't.

Let's get this punk rock party STARTED! I love splitting wood with a maul. That's some caveman [bleep] right there.

a leisurely 5-ish miles on the trails- the crocus are about done, but shooting stars, yellow bells, phlox and even some balsam root are popping- low 50's, light wind- perfect running weather

Bench
10sets X 320lbsX 3 reps
4 sets of 135lbs X 30 reps

DL
5 sets of 405lbs X 5 reps(failed on set 4/5 and got 4 reps)

DB Rows 110lbs X 5sets X 10 reps

Preacher curls X 125lbs X 5sets X 10 reps

Duck squats with 110 lbs db X 25 reps

5 sets of jailhouse dips X 50 reps

hack squats 5 sets X six plates X 10 reps

Hammer Strength curls X 3 plates X 5 sets and 10 reps

Latpull downs 5 sets X 10 Reps X 200 lbs

2500 M of intervals

30 min of exercise bike

^ crazy good bench! in my defense I could do the 4 sets of 30 @ 135

got in a nice 7-ish miles on the trails this evening- upper 60's, as warm as we have been all spring- felt hot, tomorrow it will be hot- low 80's- it's going to hurt!

Yeah... heat is not my friend as far as working out. Or shooting. Much prefer cold in both cases. The exception is cycling; the wind chill can be brutal on cold days, whereas even hot days are pretty tolerable on a bike (except steep long climbs) as long as you have plenty of water.

Another big day in the woods. Two truckloads of fir rounds brought in. Was lucky to get my truck back out of there with the second load! Hope I didn't tear my pasture up too bad. D'oh.

I had to carry the rounds across all manner of footing irregulaties to get them to my truck... also threw a bunch of them to save having to carry them across a couple really ugly areas. Like a medicine ball workout I suppose.

For the dog lovers... my pal Chloe was helping out today!

^ nice looking pooch!

got another 7-ish miles in on the trails- extremely warm here today- 80 degrees, 20 degrees above average; I'm not a heat guy

BMT calls her a "Muppet", the heartless bastid.

She's a sweetie.

6 hours in the woods today... chain saw work and then carrying/dragging the hardwood "pecker poles" to the truck. I love this kind of work and it'll be a real turning point in my life when I can't do it anymore. Been doing this every year since I was in my mid-20's... I'm in my early 50's now... there's a type of strength that builds up over the years with good hard manual work. The trick is to not get hurt. Lower back particularly... as we all know, being old guys and all!

here's a "young" fellow from Montana that should give you plenty of hope for an active old age

Im Back, I had to travel for work for a few days and with the website maintenence I got off track with my logging.


Today:
run: 8 miles on rolling trails, threw in a few sprints at the end then finished with pull ups and push ups.

Yesterday was absolutely fantastic around here. Walked the dogs for about 3 hours in the morning. Older dog started limping so we ended the walk before I really wanted to on such a great day. In the afternoon I did a warm up jog on the treadmill then squats, overhead press, bench press, and bent over rows. For conditioning I put on my pack and walked up and down the hill on my property for as many rounds as possible in 40 minutes. Walked with the dogs this morning, but the older dog started limping again so we turned back. I walked the up and down the stairs in my house for a 100 rounds.

Getting there.

Whole lotta this:



MTwarden: wow. Just wow.

weight trained on Friday evening

yesterday took on a big route in the Elkhorns; didn't know if it would be doable with snow, but hit both Elkhorn and Crow Peaks- a 15-ish mile loop w/ a little over 4000' gain; 10-11 miles on snowshoes- wee bit sore today

nice easy 4-ish mile hike with my wife and Tiny Elvis- just what the legs ordered!

Mike,
HPG pack?

Ed- yup- just got it, Tarahumara (w/ a kit bag up front)- the shoulder harness setup is similar to some of my running packs- makes for a pretty nice carry

Mike

Bench and DL

2 sets of 225lbs X 20 reps
6sets of 275X 6 reps

5 sets of 100lb incline press X 7 reps
8 sets of 405lbs DL X 5 reps
5 sets of weighted Dips+60 lbs X 10 Reps

Interval C2- 2X 200M@ 0:35/ 0:38 1 X 500 M @ 1:48 1X 1000M@ 3:35

20 Min laps in swimming pool. Switching up cardio.