Beautiful Weekend.

The last half of this week has brought on some amazing weather and I've been taking full advantage of it.  On Wednesday, two friends and I went up Grouse mountain in the morning.  The sun was out for the first few hours, then some fog rolled in.  Overall it was a great day up the mountain.  The snow was hard packed, but we found some great powder in the Quicksilver terrain park.  Yesterday was sunny as well.  I spent almost the whole day outside with a buddy of mine.  In the morning we did some archery in the forest behind my house.  My friend owns a bow, so we made a make shift buttress out of styrofoam and carpet.  I still need a bit more practice before I can shoot accurately from a distance.  After that we hit the driving range to practice some golf.  Then we went on a bike ride around Stanley Park.  This was the longest ride I've taken on my new road bike, however it was only 25km.  After we got back from our ride, we went to the hobby shop near Capilano Mall and bought a remote controlled airplane.  It took a beating as my friend was learning to fly it.  Near the end of the battery life he started to get the hang of it.  The weather is supposed to hold up tomorrow.  I hope it does because I'm supposed to go on a long trail run.

L-Sit Madness

Had a fun little workout this morning.
Part one was 5 rounds of:
10 ring dips
10 good mornings
60 seconds rest

My dips were feeling a lot better than usual.  I hit the first two sets unbroken.  I got 8 reps on the third set, then the last two deteriorated more.  The second part of the workout was much more painful.

5 rounds of:
10 push press
30 seconds of L-sit
60 seconds rest

I chose to go with 115 lbs for the push press which felt good.  The later sets got a little tough, but I managed to hit all of them unbroken.  The L-sits on the other hand were horrible.  After the first round I was having a hard time holding it for longer than 10 seconds at a time.  I'm taking a day off tomorrow to go snowboarding, and I'm very much looking forward to it.

Trail Running and Squat Cleans

A few members of our gym have signed up for the tough mudder this year.  It is a 10 mile long obstacle course that is going to be set up in whistler.  To train for the event, we've started doing some supplemental endurance running.  We've chosen a trail run that is roughly 5km up by the Cleveland dam.  I ran it this Sunday, with a bit of a hangover, and managed to finish in 32 minutes.  I'll be taking that time down next time I run it for sure.  This morning I got a new personal record on my squat clean and jerk.  My previous best was 185lbs.  I was feeling fairly good today and managed to get 195lbs overhead.  The split jerk was fairly ugly though.  Next time I'm going to focus more on my technique rather than the weight.