I KNOW! He's 28, 5 months younger than me. I blame that for why he's faster. Darn kids!

Now he's like "Oh, I should run a 5k, I could probably win one!" Finished 38th of around 500, 5th in the male 20's age bracket, so pretty respectable. We had 4-5 people in the full marathon qualify for Boston 2014 though, so that was pretty neat!

The record for the OKC half is 1:08:06.
I think it will be safe from me this weekend.

For those that have been sitting around and pondering that age old question,"Can I break a graphite composite racquet on my own shin?"....
Yes you can!

OWWW!

Yes, exactly. Ow indeed.
I responded with explicatives, such as "pooh", "Darn" and "oh heck".....

Does your shin look like a ball?? You should probably look into that.

Well it did right after I hit it..... Swollen and blue!

Sounds like a dumb thing to try if you ask me.

Well sure, now it does!

In keeping with the spirit of this thread I did 27 pushups this morning. That's it. My armpits were burning and I stopped. I believe I may be somewhat out of shape....

About once a week I do a few just to remind myself that yes, that really does still hurt my shoulder.

Or maybe just quit using Atomic Balm for deodorant?

This! I do about 5 every week to check and see if my rotator cuff is healed yet. Nope. I ought to quit that.

Post-healing 2014 Pushup Challenge, here I come!

today was 145 pushups for tose that are still counting/doing them....

Same to you!

Its day 161!
Hello...?
anybody......?

I ate a couple last night

Nope, nobody! I'll do some tomorrow, not enough to matter though.

Hannibal?
Is that you?

They all matter!
I am still doing the challenge with a friend here. It has made a real difference on him. Last year we did a Mudder and he barely finished. Had to lift him over all of the wall obstacles
or any thing that required him to lift himself off the ground. this year it has gotten him fired up! He is on 161 today, he is doing chinups and we are going to do a Tri together later this summer. Its been fun to watch his transition. I dont think he has lost as much weight or is as fast as you Matt, but its been a great transition.

some days it feels like I am pushing paper up hill for hours.

Does that count?

Chinups are a necessity if you want to be a man at those type of events. If you can't pull yourself over a wall, then you can't help push all the pretty girls up and over, thus there's no point in even going

This year they added a new type of wall, it's angled out about 45 degrees so you can't get a running start and use the wall to help climb up it. That relied entirely on being able to jump it or being lifted to the edge then pulling yourself up the rest of the way.

My bro-in-law did a 5k one on Sunday, he was it was disappointing after doing the big one with me. Just too short and easy

I need a challenge.

Before reading this I actually dropped and did 10. Maybe I should do one more since it's the 11th of June and go from there??

My daily routine includes pushups, chinups, and running. Somedays include traditional weightlfting, some include racquetball, some cycling. I also still do the goofball stuff like swinging the sledgehammer and throwing tires.
I found a less expensive suspension training set up (similar to TRX) that I am looking into.

have some Pringles