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And backward.

Shouldn't you be sheep hunting right about now?

12 miles (and nearly 4000' of gain) for Tiny Elvis and I; headed into the Elkhorns and bagged Casey peak- great day!

I was done with that before 8am on the 10th.

So, all that training for nothing, huh?

24 mile evening ride, sublime, incorporated parts of my climb route so I made some progress aka I suffered.

Went ocean fishing today, I am plumb wore out!

Colorado has an ocean now, what will think of next?

They do! You just have to look down under far enough.

I realize you are likely busting on me a bit here, but I'll tell ya what, it DOES wear me out! My boat is part of it I think. She's very light, and relatively narrow with a deep V hull and so cuts through chop rather remarkably but rolls side/side easily with wave action when stopped. And gets tossed around like a corn chip; there's not much weight to fight back against every little wave, so to speak. Putting it like I did the other day- like I'd been doing a hulu hoop all day- is maybe the best way to put it.

I'm going to look at a new boat this weekend and very likely will be handing over phat stax of $$ to buy it. 20' boat, aluminum for resale and easy towing, much much wider, much more appropriate ocean boat. A shocking amount of moolah by my piker standards but WTH, I'm having a killer year. Plus Cyn gives her approval (as long as it's aluminum so it can be easily flipped when I invariably want to further upgrade) partly because, she's off galavanting about in the mountains for a month chasing her dream while I hold down the fort and work every day. In other words, she really has no choice, haha. I'll put up pics if I nab the boat. She's a sweetie. The main motor alone (Yamaha 115 4-stroke) costs more, new, than my entire current boat did by a factor of like 8x. A wild hair for sure but I've been hooked.

Sticking with 2 heavy sets followed by two strip sets and supersetting. My body is sore, but the pump is awesome. Legs and shoulders today. I wanted to get in some triceps since I missed yesterday, but I just didn't have enough time.

Military press/hack squat
Seated lateral raise/leg extension
Rear delt cable fly/prone leg curl

Ya'll have a great weekend!

I like to think that smoking cigars and drinking mai tais every day is more of a lifestyle than "training", but yeah.

Mai tais?? I always figured you for a Dos Equis kind of guy.

Yes, it's designed to attract more tourists, we don't have enough.

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gym this evening

deadlifts 3/3/3+/10
overhead press 3/3/3+/10
lunges 3x30 yds
chin-ups 3x13
core

Cardio for me today. Unlike the mai tai guy I'm not done with my mountain hunt yet.....

I'd never do that. I was tired from winching in huge fish. The captain was callin' me "ol dragline."

5 miles on the trails for Tiny E and I- mid 50's, just gorgeous- sadly all comes to an end tomorrow and the heat wave is back on

Did my 27-mi climb ride this evening. Wasn't going to, was just going to do half, but I felt good so I kept climbing. Had a vicious hammie cramp last night and I'm pretty certain I'll get nailed again tonight, bananas notwithstanding. My new thing. It's awesome.

Got the boat! Well, I don't take possession for a few weeks but she's mine. 2010 20' Hewes Pro V, 115 Yammie, 9.9 yammie high-thrust. She's a salt boat; it's knocked the new right off of her but she's priced accordingly (and then some) and the first thing I'll be doing it putting her in the salt so it's good thing. I have a buddy who won't put his shiny $40k boat in salt water because it ruins the "shiny thing" aspect. Yeah, no, I don't have that problem.

Spent the day snorkeling on the reef, pretty amazing.

4 miles on the trails with Tiny Elvis, gorgeous morning- low 50's, hard to believe it will climb to 90 before the day is done