A Day Of Fun And Reality

First the technical jargon.  Woke up bright and early for a nice jog up the old crazy hill at Sweeney Ridge.  The fog was rolling out and the view was not at it's best, but it was still unreal to be able to look out over the Bay, Ocean and City, even if you couldn't see most of it all.  A great way to get the heart going.  After a nice breakfast it was back to the house to get a little work done and get cracking on some organizing of stuff to be moved.  Then, off to the gym for Dynamic Effort bench and some really solid supplemental work.  Second day of West Side Barbell was WAY more successful than the first day!  After lunch with Brendon (owner at San Mateo Team Elite, formally CrossFit San Mateo) it was a trip up to the City for a little throwdown with the crew at Lalanne Fitness.  It was so great to see all my old friends here!  We caught up as i gazed in awe at their new space, then got in a really fun skills warm up (pistol squats, GHD sit ups, handstand push ups and bar muscle ups) before getting all set up for "Isa-Grace": 30 power snatches followed immediately by 30 clean and jerks both at 135#...ouch!  I was able to bang this out in 6:57 and felt really good with that time seeing how I have not been focusing on Olympic lifting or serious MetCons.  It was just so damn good to see everyone and I can not wait at all to get back up here and workout with them all again!

Perfect little segue to the reality check here...

As I've made painfully clear with my last post, I absolutely love it out here on California.  It was a really tough decision and process that Lindsey and I went through to move back East, and that decision, no matter how many times and angles I look at it, was, and is the right one.  Here's the conclusion I always come to whenever I think about it, or whenever someone brings it up: happiness does not exist unless it's shared (stolen from "Into The Wild").  My own little opinion on this one is that the greatest thing to have in the world is a person you can share your life with.  Someone who supports you through thick and thin, someone who trusts and cares about you, and someone who who wants and needs the same in return from you!  Nothing I can imagine (and I have a crazy imagination) could ever be more important than that to me; not my job, not my training program, and certainly not where I live.  In my mind, I am the luckiest guy on the face of the planet to have found someone who has made me see this reality.

I enjoy and love so much in life.  I love challenges, I love exploring, I love sun, I love good food, I love good, nice people, I love baseball, I love California, I love the great outdoors, I love the thick foliage of the surrounding wild of Washington, DC, and I love the feeling when a smile creeps over my face.  And now, I actually have the opportunity to share all of these things with someone.  This is the reality I clearly see every day.  I ask you this: what could be better?

Never Stop, GET FIT.

Josh Courage