It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and I wanted to skate flat today and the Santa Ana River Trail was the perfect choice.

I started out from home and headed to Back Bay and went under the Jamboree bridge to the SART. This is a great trail that goes on for many miles and is one of the best places to skate long in Orange County. Today, I did a 60 minute skate out and back to the metal bridge near the hockey rink. The distance was 12.75 miles which of course, is the same as my mph. I started off easy to to work and loosen the adductors and I had no pain on the left side. Today, the right side gave me some problems, so I started off easier and the first 15 minutes were warm-up. No big bursts of speed today as this was completely aerobic and I was giving movement to assist the adductors in healing, While the addie was noticed throughout, it was a good workout and an enjoyable skate. 

Each time I do the WOD, I come away saying, "yeah, I need to work more on that", or "I have to do better than this". The reality of it is that as long as you do this, that or on a path to mastery in any endeavor, it only ends when you do, so it is helpful to simply enjoy the journey otherwise you will be unsatisfied and unfulfilled, like going into a French chocolate and pastry shop after a filling, but ordinary dinner as I did with Val and Brent the other evening. My visual and olfactory senses were going wild, but they did not receive the satisfaction they craved.

I believe all that, really, I do. But, then there was today with the weighted pull-ups WOD (check out this video) then look at the  puny numbers I put up. You’ll understand what I am talking about. I have all I can do to crank out a few regular bodyweight pull-ups. Seriously, these guys are mutants or, rather,  "I need to work on that more"!

My  session  included a 20# weighted vest and I used a 3# leather and chain thingy (kinky, huh?) to hold additional weights. After warming up with hangs and bodyweight pull-ups, I donned the vest and did
1×20/2×20 then singles of 33/38/43/38/38/. After that, I did 6×33# negatives and held it up for as long as I could which wasn’t long at all! I hadn’t even seen that video until after my workout. I wanted to go back and "try" it again using the heavy iron! But it was fun. It was a good workout and my pull-ups will improve. Think I’ll go skate this afternoon. It is the closest thing I do that is "weightless".