My drinking buddy

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Also known as my BevMo angel.

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The unexpected Velocity

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Yesterday's velocity was three rounds of:

Box jumps
Leg lift pushdowns
Med ball claps
V ups
Jump rope
Plyo pushups
Dead lifts to curl to press

The box jumps were normal. The leg lifts were done lying on a bench, with our legs extended straight out, our hands anchoring our upper bodies to the bench over our shoulders. We lifted our legs up to 90°, then lowered them back to parallel to the floor. When we lowered them, Damien pushed down and asked us to resist, very reminiscent of the ASA workouts.

The med ball claps were done with handled med balls. Standing in a wide stance, lowered position (but not a squat), we pulled the medballs from our sides into a clap in front of us.

The plyo pushups were done between the two lowest jump boxes set about a foot appart with a 12# medball on the floor between them. In a plank position, with our hands on the boxes, we pushed up into the air and landed with our hands on the med ball, then did a pushup. From the lowered pushup position, we pushed off hard, high enough that we could land with our hands back on the jump boxes. I was unable to do this pushup from my feet, and only barely managed from my knees.

The deadlift to curl to press was done with a barbell on the ground. We lifted it in a deadlift, then bent over and did a bent-over row with the bar. Straightening back up, we then curled the bar (using momentum, if needed) to get the bar to our shoulders. We then pressed the bar overhead. The return was shoulders, reverse curl, bend over, set the bar back down.

The 7 minutes of ultimate afterward was 3 on 2 and very short.

Doing my part

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Doing my part for the economy today, I spent $31 on a knee brace, which was $15 more than I expected to spend, $2.60 on breakfast stuff at Starbucks, and $3.50 at Jamba Juice. Kris and I have been particularly bad about food as of late, ordering out more and more. I'm not so sure it has anything to do with the economy, but rather, more to do with our work schedules. I am, as usual, 100% full up with activities, and am to the point where, well, something broke. Time to gather in, reassess priorities and start over.

Probably should have done this at the new year. Maybe I can declare February 14th a new year, and start then.

Maybe the 15th.

Figured it out first

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Way back when, I saw the movie The Crying Game with a college friend of mine. We had heard the hype and had deliberately plugged our ears LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU when people were talking about the spoiler in the movie. Whatever it was, we wanted to experience it first hand.

So off to the theatre we went, purchasing popcorn along the way, but not drinks, because drinks meant possibly having to pee in the middle of the movie, and that wouldn't work at all. What if we missed the twist? No, no, no, we couldn't have that.

So, we sat watching the movie.

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