This is going to be a slightly different post today, sort of a journal of what I did and felt this weekend. Because a couple of things happened this weekend that were awesome and made me consider my training and lifestyle pretty seriously. And it involves the World’s Toughest Mudder…
Many people who are extreme go-getters in life, and even a lot of people who aren’t, like to live their lives with the idea that sleep is a waste of time. They stay up late, get up early, power chug Monster and Red Bull drinks, joke about the coffee IV…
There’s an old saying: “honesty is the best policy.” True, without a doubt. And we try to be honest with the people around us. We’re surrounded by people every day, people with different motivations, and it’s hard sometimes to keep being honest – but unless you have major issues, you…
For the past few years, I’ve discovered that my vision has been slowly going downhill. I’m becoming farsighted to the point where I need glasses to read most books and stuff on my iPhone, and sometimes even just to work on my computer at my job. I’ve been attributing this…
Two weekends ago, I completed my latest Mud Ninja race. And though it wasn’t my most successful race as far as obstacle completion and time go, it was a complete success from a level that I didn’t even consider at the time, but was a lesson I realized a few days…
I (nearly futilely) wiped the mud from my face and grabbed the rope. Making sure to keep as close to a ninety-degree angle as possible between my body and the wall of the mud pit, I pulled myself up out of the pit and onto the slippery side of the…
