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I'm quite sore this morning. Glutes, hip flexors, etc. The ocean was snotty and my little boat gets tossed around like a cork.

But the ling..... oh my, the ling. Basically a hyper-aggressive tube of awesome buttery white meat attached to a giant, toothy, mouth. I'm already plotting a proper ocean boat. My little gal can only go out when the seas are relatively calm. Well.... I'll only TAKE her out in those circumstances. Who knows what her limits actually are. When the water is so cold you'll be dead in under an hour of hypothermia (and functionally incapacitated long before then) it tends to keep a guy cautious.

Oh- had a whale breach about 100 yards from the boat! Freaking Oregon, maaaan.

Won't clog our thread but here she is back at the dock. I think I'm about done upgrading this boat- I think she's in good overall trim other than upgrading to 4-stroke motors. My motors run awesome- love me some Japanese machinery- but the exhaust fumes from them can be a bit much on an ocean "drift". Basically you find underwater structure on the FF, figure out the drift angle from the wind and currents, and set up drifts over the structure. The boat will go bow-first into the drift. So, the wind is from behind and the fumes can pool in the cockpit area. I was having some issues with seasickness and the fumes compounded it greatly. I'm kind of a pussy out there and leave the motor idling on the drift so we can have instant steerage if there's a big rogue swell or something I need to point the bow into.

BUT.... to dupe that wonderful Suzuki 40-hp in a 4-stroke would be, gosh, $6k or so. And it'd be a lot heavier. That pulls the stern down, and one technique on a drift is to "back-troll", which means put the motor in reverse and push the stern of the boat against the drift. That can make swells or wind chop waves come over the transom, and that's........ not good. So keeping weight off the stern on a little boat like mine is important.

Enough boat gakk.... haha.... sorry guys.

Hunting season is fast approaching, and I need to get into shape. What kind of boat should I buy?

Cardio today on the stationary bike, 40 minutes, 510 cals.

Paddle boat?

5 mile walk

Get serious, I need a good core workout.

Scott, I hope your doctors can fix the airway, and you plug a big one in MT.

Good luck!!

Welp......you and battue kinda own the man-ass talk and frankly, I'm ok with that..... with that conceded, I'm pretty sure the whale was checking mine out.

21 miles and 1100 feet of elevation on the bike today.

Thanks Smoke. Doc at Cleveland suggested removal of 2/3 of mostly paralyzed cord. Still researching the cons since it non-reversible. Want to see if doc at Penn offers same remedy.

For now and evermore you shall be known as whale ass.

Same here.

4 miles on the trails for Tiny E and I yesterday evening

few more pics from Sunday

What do you know about exercise and conditioning, you don't even own a boat.

I acquired my expertise traveling the mighty Mongahela and Allegheny for three summers on a Derrick boat.

We could have picked up that little dingy, flung it up on the bank and never missed a beat.

Elliptical: 15 min

TNation: Squats, Seated Rows, Dumbell Rows

Dog walk/jog: 45min

Hit the gym today, tried the squat machine for the first time in 3 1/2 months. It doesn't require the ankle to flex so the ankle was fine but the leg muscles overloaded at about 2/3 of the weight I left off with, so I had to hold off on that one. I'll have to work back into it slowly.

^ that’s good progress; muscle tone recovers pretty quickly- slow and steady is the way to do it

Yep, I hear that slow and steady wins the race.....

6 mile hike in the Coast Range w/ Cyn and the mutts.

The goal was to get to the area I mentioned a couple weeks ago- little waterfall, steel plates, etc- but from lower. We went up a gated old logging road that seemed correct... but there's a [bleep] zillion of them and it went elsewhere. Cool hike though and I found two great hunting spots in the form of clear cuts that were maybe 4-5 years old, so tons of browse, but still decent visibility... this is one of them; it's about two miles past the gate which is more than enough to keep 95% of the "hunters" around here away. Pretty perfect for the 6.5 GAP 4s!

^ nice find

Wendler week 19: deadlifts 5/3/1+/10, overhead press 5/3/1+/10, weighted lunges 3x50 yards, chin-ups 3x13, core