Congratulations Jen and everyone on your well-earned headbands!! I hope to join your team one of these races!

Happy Tuesday Folks! Hope all is well with all of you. Recovery after the Tough Mudder is going better this time. Probably will go for a good moderate pace walk later today, Have to get a headlight changed on the car and get some groceries today. Back to work tomorrow, Will get and post pics of Headband here.

My original intent was to do one every 10 years until I'm 120. Well got two in one year so I could wait til I'm 80 to be right. May revised that and do ONE every 5 years or so but may do something like the warrior dash in between if there is any Gun Runner Interest in doing the WD in Spring in Ga let me know if not no worries.

Just wanted to thank everybody for such a good time. I know the stripper pole pictures are out there but no worries Zena would understand. I checked with the gal you saw me singing karaoke with with and she's doing ok, no injuries if we woke you I'm sorry. Anyway won't say anymore since what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay there right??

Have a great day folks!

I am tired but not as bad as I thought I would be and the best thing is that I'm not hurting as much as I thought I would have. The only thing that sucks is that my new foster was dropped off Monday so I was not done with the unpacking/cleaning. She is a sweet girl, young, untrained, energetic, the usual.

I didn't participate the TM Obstacles just walked with team and take videos, I did do the "Arctic Enema" which is a water slide into ice water. That was just fun!! Keep in mind that I haven't done any obstacles and it I was overheating, others might not share the same sentiment
I had a great time! I thought everybody did great, all of them went outside their comfort zone and accomplished things that they normally wouldn't have. I'm not sure how much if any I filmed LOL
The terrain is high desert, no shade just endless uphill, downhill and there seemed to be uphill than downhill.. nonetheless I find it challenging and fun at the end of the day.

Yes, Bill is a rock star! He did some tough American ninja style s***
Arturo thinks I can do a TM after seeing all the obstacles, (if my knees keep improving), I would have to skip some obstacles. So we'll see where my knees are at at the end of the year.
However I have more interest in the goruck challenge if I can do a obstacle race.... Check out goruck.com Its different from all the obstacle race out there.
Thank you Carol for organizing this and John and Jen for coming. I had such a great time! Its such a pleasure to have finally met you guys.

Did you guys check out any of the video yet?

I have to mention the "epic road trip" It took us 17hours to drive to Vegas (normally it takes 9) because it rained and since its so dry in California, it caused havoc! Mudslides, accidents, roads flooded out.
this incident made me realize that we need to update our emergency kit.

I'm coming down with something, trying to nip it in the bud, kinda hard to rest with an energetic and not house broken 1.5 year dog but act like a puppy. Usually Arturo will pick up the slack but there's a big convention coming up and he is swamped.

Heron, you could definitely do the TM. I mean come one, I did and look how out of shape I am! Hehehe... My goal for my next one is to try more obstacles, maybe even a climbing one or two. But I know I can finish a 10+ mile course and that's a huge accomplishment by itself.

I have looked over the videos Arturo did. The video you did Heron is sooooooo much that I've only look at a few so far. Who knew that we were big time and would have our own embedded media personnel? Hehehe.. I'll get some footage out of both to create a highlight video. I'll be working on it this weekend.

I hope you can keep healthy and work with the new pup. Oh and great idea on the car emergency kit reevaluation. You usually don't know if kits are complete until you get in a situation when you need one.

John, should be back to work for you today, if I remember right. I guess all of us are back to our regular lives now.

Thursday!!!!

Ok, I've committed myself (yes, that sounds wrong, I know). May 21st in 'Chicago' (Rockford, IL, actually), Tough Mudder Chicago. I'll be there! Why? Because Carol 'forced' me to participate in Vegas and now I want to do another one! Sooooooooooo... I'm doing the darn thing and if anybody wants to join me, PLEASE DO!!! I can't do this thing alone. The fun of these events is having a group to participate with. I know it's a few months away (7 actually) and committing now isn't necessarily an option. I'm recruiting some of my friends from Facebook and even coworkers. We'll see who's crazy enough to join.

Have a great day everybody!

Happy Friday Folks! Hope all is well with all of you. I've got a quick turn around coming tonight so will stay in a Super 8 tonight. Last day of my 3 shift so food tomorrow will be easy even on the road. Have a group coining in tomorrow to do a Facility Wide BBQ of the Vets. So EZ Peazy day for me. So with all the travel and when I got home from Vegas didn't have any carbs in the house so extended my 5 shift by a day, was too tired to go out shopping. So today is day three of my 3 shift and I am below my starting weight for the shift set, and still have a day of carbs to go. Feeling pretty good about this protocol.

Jen - Rock it Lass! Have a great time.

All righty then Jam time comin'!