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that's a thought, but i'm afraid of being any more distracted than i already am. happy to keep working my jump rope skills during warm ups for now.

tonight:

- SMR/stretching x 40 mins
focused on ankles/calves and wrists. and t-spine.

two dreams from the past week:

i was sitting around a camp fire with some people, just hanging out. everyone was being kind of quiet. at some point i realized that a new person had come and joined but was sitting on the ground right outside the circle, kind of behind and to my right. i turned around and it was pau gasol. no one else seemed to notice or care that he was there so i turned around and talked with him for a while. asked what he thought about marc being named defensive POY, he said he was very proud, very happy for him. we had kind of a long conversation. nice guy. then i woke up.

***

couple of nights later, i was in a forest and caught up in a big mock-battle over who could, in teams, climb to the top of these very tall trees and retrieve some kind of object first. my team had taken a lot of casualties just getting to the trees, so we were behind. the only way to climb up was via a rope and using your hands and legs to grip, and you needed at least three people to get up or you couldn't bring the object down. i saw one girl from my old gym who flander would get a chubby for (jacked but not ripped, big ass, big natural boobs, pretty) jump back down off the rope and her hands were shaking from the extertion, she almost couldn't close them anymore. so me and a couple teammates started up our tree and people were throwing spears at us and shooting arrows and stuff. that's all i remember.

i never get tired of watching that jump.

last night:

WEIGHT: 176
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: a little tired, happy

- warm up

- snatch drills
worked up to 40kg power snatch but i've still got plenty of hitches in my giddyup. will continue to work this until i've got it down. back to pendlay's videos later today.

- HB squat deep with pause 245 x 5,5
second set ended a bit challenging. lightheaded.

- circuit
-- reverse hyper 40 x 8,8,8,8
-- pull up x 7,7,7,8(+1)
-- DB push press 50s x 5,5,5,5
-- ab pull down x 15,15,15,15

later

- stretch

went to try out my gym's new location, in a fancy hotel in west end. not sure it's worth going over there.

what is a machine glute raise? trying to picture it and failing.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThKHhtlwoX8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThKHhtlwoX8</a>

josh smith...oh dear.

feet more straightforward allow more torque to be applied up the legs through the hips. not to mention you're more stable.

the mile time falls into, as it says on the list, "other goals that are not important, just things i'd like to do at some point." the first set are all things that i think will help me with my primary goal, or at least not counteract it.

here's a good question for you, t0ddday: if i ran the 60m in 8.3x yesterday, what's a reasonable newbie goal for the summer? i'm going to try to get a more accurate time soon, at the very least measured on a track and not grass. but pretend it's 8.3x. realistic to shoot for 7.8x? too ambitious?