How Did I Get Here?

Wednesday

I managed to drag my ass out of the rack at 0500 this morning which, I will let you all in a little behind-the scenes action here, folks, really sucks donkey.

I am not a “wake up at 0500” type of guy and getting up to go hurt myself as a prelude to the day is way WAY out of character for me. “Builds character” you say?

Eat shit.

Anyway, this is what I was looking at this morning:

3 Rounds for time of:

20lb Ball Clean/Wall-ball x 30
5 L-Pull-ups
25 Pull-ups

The wall ball thing was just squatting, pickup up the ball, hoisting it up like a power clean (ending up in a squat), and then powering up to launch it ten feet up the wall. This was really easy, until about 10 and then it became like Mideast peace talks or Chinese math.

The L-Pullup are keeping your legs bent at the waist 90 degrees while doing a dead hang pull up.

Not a lot of success here. I even used the big rubber bands for my feet to help but in the end, it was enough to make a grown man cry and wish for the sweet release of death.

I had a little more success with the 25 pull-ups since I can kip.

But in the end, it was a bit of a competitive let down because there was a guy competing for “Not Last” with me and on the third set, I beat him away from the wall ball so all I had to do was crank out the 25 pull ups to “win.”

I was reduced to sets of 5 and he pulled ahead (pulled…I’m friggin’ hilarious…) and beat me by 15 seconds.

Last again but I finished.

At work, I was supposed to go watch a shotgun shoot but the coordination got messed up and by the time I got out to the range, they were done. A lot of driving for nothing but it was fortunate because there was a brief at 1000 with the Commanding General I was supposed the be at that I would have missed if I would have gone to the shoot.

Just general advice people: when you stay late at work past when everyone else is there, sending out an email that says “Don’t forget about the meeting tomorrow” will most likely be read the next day so that “tomorrow” could be misinterpreted to the day AFTER the meeting.

I’m just sayin’!

The brief was about the Christmas concert at MCRD and I wish I could have videotaped it:

Military planning, organization, and logistical bickering for a festive tree-lighting and Christmas concert.

Just the world I live in.

Free Advice for Today: “Take a ride in a glider.”