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Strength training this AM - squat, bench, BB row, LTE, dips

brisk 5 miles on the trails with Tiny Elvis, while cold- at least the trails were well packed

Last few days in the arms/hands jungle gym

5 miles on deep, snowy trails with Tiny Elvis- sadly the last day for 3-4 days, we go back into the freezer with forecast highs at 0

Woke up to a bunch of snow yesterday so had to hit the gym. Did 100 floors on the stairmaster, ran a mile and walked a mile for cool down. Feeling it in the legs this morning!

gym to strength train

squats 3/3/3+/10, bench 3/3/3+/10 70/80/90/70% 1RM, pull-ups 3x12, dips 3x30, core

In negotiations <g> to buy a MTB..... a Specialized Chisel Comp.... excited at the workout possibilities it will open up. The severity of my prior head injury rules out any notions of single-track mayhem, but there's virtually unlimited old closed off logging roads in the nearby Coast Range to explore with tons of elevation gain/loss.

Wife and I are also in negotiations to go for a hike/walk. It's just vile outside. High 30's, windy, and dumping rain. We have this new Frog Toggs rain gear we want to try out though, so...

My workout today was a killer.. two bacon and egg sandwiches, on wheat!

nice looking bike; I've looked hard at their Fat Boy, but still in looking mode

I think it's "nice enough". I'm a total gearhead so I'm trying really hard not to go nuts; I'm just gonna be a middle-age duffer riding logging roads, after all. I rode a 2018 base-model Rockhopper last week, and it was shiny, almost-new, and cheap, but it was hard to get excited about the crappy components, etc. The Chisel is a mid-level build...much better components, better frame, also much lighter. The Rockshox air-spring fork is a biggie. Thou shalt not buy a bike with a junk suspension fork! Words to live by.

My road bike is badass. A racehorse for sure. Light as a feather, and the frame is highly refined. You can be carving a sweeping downhill corner at 35 mph and it feels like you are on a rail it tracks so precisely. Awesome.

My main impediment to getting this Chisel is picking it up. It's a 3-hour trip away, across the Cascades, and I'm slammed busy in the shop. I offered to send the seller a PMO deposit to hold it and he thought I was scamming him. I think I've got that resolved now but I'm gonna need to steal a day and go get the dang thing. These are different, much simpler, parts than I told you guys about prior, but these come in quantity. I pick up 300 of them Tuesday and it'll take a solid week to run them. A $2700 week though.

Strength this AM - squat, press, deads, BB curls
Snow removal tonight so unsure of treadmill time.

well so much for going to the gym this evening- started the day with a little over an hour of shoveling, got home and shoveled for another hour; it's deep enough that I had to spend a lot of time knocking my berms down- I couldn't throw snow any higher- the joy

Got a foot of snow overnight.... it was mayhem out in my woods, lost some trees for sure... stayed home, but we did put on the pac boots and walk a couple miles.

Did cardio today, but got in a good hike on some packed trails up above Steamboat this weekend, we were up there for the bluegrass festival, it was schweet:

smoke- sounds like fun

Jeff- not so much

started the day out, just like the last- about an hour of shoveling, -11 w/ a windchill of -30; the joy never ends!

Assault treadmill: 30min
iSatori: Weights: Squats, lat pull downs, bent over rows, DB curls, incline BP.
Merlot, quick walk: 45minutes


Bluegrass you say? Sounds like a good time.

Jeff: Don't feel lonely with trees being down. We have an ash blight going on here. A whisper wind is bringing the dead ones down. Driving down the road and looking into the wood, it looks like they are timbering. They're not....Good thing is it is opening up the woods more than a little for new growth.

It was a good time. My favorite band did a separate show in a small venue, we were right up front. Seeing good musicians up close is always fun. That and the beer.

Mike,
You shouldn’t have to shovel in the morning but probably again tomorrow night.
I’d head south but all the roads are closed!

nor tonight 6 miles on the dreadmill

You a groupie or with the band?

Who would be your favorite band?