Kayaking around the Pawtuxet River during the Epic Flood of 2010!

What a beautiful day!  Got to the dunes around 6pm equipped with a 16kg kettlebell and a rested and freshly massaged body.  Ass-kicking included the following: warmup – walked with kettlebell to small dune ~5-6 min switching grip from clean “catch” to farmer’s walk style run over to large dune ~ 3-4 min @ fast pace working...

Can’t think of a better way to spend my rainy Friday night than hitting up a vacant URI gym.  Now that the pre-season has started, I’ve shifted from the Perfect Rep to a modified Stonglifts 5×5program for my strength WOD’s.  My focus is still accelerating the weight with perfect form, just going for a few more reps/sets now....

Just wasn’t feeling it yesterday.  Not sure if it was the the stressful work day or the lackluster sleep leading up to the WOD but something was “off”.  Walked in 22 hrs fasted and feeling pretty clean but could not get the motivational juices flowing.  I ended up pulling the plug (or auto-regulating) after a round of front squats....

Not doing much this week.  I will try to squeeze in some POSE technique drills, but life is getting in the way of training at the moment.  Typically I’ll work in a rest week after 3 weeks of hard training but I’m starting this one early based on how my body has responded to the...