at least starting on Saturday
I do my volunteering for the Tough Mudder event on that day
the job assigned to me is the registration area
so I'm gonna be checking the guys and gals in
I was going to go into work in the afternoon
but I actually got the whole day off
so now I hope when everyone is checked in I can roam around and scout out the event
and just take everything in
I'll be snaping pics and shooting some video of my day
Big V Tv will be on location ha ha
the forecast is temps around 45 to 50 degrees with a 50% chance of rain
I can't wait
it will give me that mental picture of what I'll be aiming for
my yearlong project
I've already started getting a little more serious with my exercising
I didn't need much
I've always kept myself in "adventure" shape
I've always hit the track and the gym whenever I can
I've always had the thought that in order to play hard you need to work hard
yes I do drink a lot
but anyone that knows me knows that I have endurance to spare
the people at work know about this event next year
and somehow they also know that I'm a heavy drinker
somehow because I hardly talk to anyone at my job but yet these stories find a way to get around
so one of my bosses asked if I'm going to cut the drinking out while I train
I told him,"no"
I said "I can train just as hard without cutting alchohol out of my life"
he asked "but what about hangovers and your diet, protien and all that"
my friend Adrienne butted in at this time and said, "Vince is a different breed of man."
ha ha thanks for that AB
example
this past summer I started working out here
now after a few months of me throwing myself around this playground I went home to visit Mom and Dad
on the first night I went over to my former sidekick's pad
and proceeded to finish half a bottle of rum
then drank beer the rest of the night into the wee hours of the morning
my dad had told me he needed help with something early
so after the sun had been out for a few hours I went over to the folks' house
my dad needed me to help him cut some falling branches at the rental house
so for about 5 or 6 hours we cut and sawed branches and loaded the brush in "Blackie"(my first truck I ever owned that I gave to my dad)
all of this without any sleep
there was a pretty thick branch that needed to come down
but it was at a wierd angle
I needed to climb a ladder and use the chainsaw
but the ladder wasn't that sturdy
the only way was to hold on to the tree when at the top of the ladder and use the chainsaw one handed
my dad asked if I thought I could do it
he asked me that while I was already half way up the ladder
it was a piece of cake
sort of
ok one more ha ha before I go
I started riding my bike to work recently
the first time I did it
it was 4 am and pretty cold man
since I'm at work for 9 hours on Saturday I always pack a lunch
so I had one of those recycle shopping bags that I never use
I packed my lunch and threw in this jug of iced tea
I flung it on the handle bar and off I went
well the bag was hanging a little too low and somehow the bag tore from the friction from the wheel
then my right foot turned the lid to the jar everytime I hit it
next the jug poked out of the hole and my foot gave the lid one last turn and my tea spilled along the road as I peddled on
I never stopped
I just looked down and watched all of my tea spill
then looked up and asked aloud," how the hell did that happen?"
oh well, I am a work in progress
as Nietzsche says, "One cannot fly into flying"
Akeem also reminds us of that in Coming to America
so to answer that question at the start here
with the current shape that I am in and the lack of strong swimming skills, I can only sit at a table and check people in
next year I will have gained new stamina, skill, strenght, and endurance
someone will be checking me in
and I'll be on the other side of that table
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