Weight: 245
Finally able to get to the gym again! Short and sweet, I did a GXP.
The story (or at least book 1 of it) friend tertius, is in the Starting Strength Events section under Costa Mesa Seminar Report. Although not brief it was in fact summarized because a whole lot more went on than I talked about there. I tried to keep as much of the self referential aggrandizement out of it as I could. Not sure if I succeeded in that or not.
But damn was it great! I was so-fucking-sore on Sunday from doing squats and deads on the same day I had to get down from my chair during lectures a few times and sit on the floor in a figure 4 hamstring stretch. Then again having Ryan and Rip yell me down low enough in the squat just crisped my posterior chain. "Hurling Goddammit, git yer ass down! REACH FOR IT!!!!" I guarandamtee you when Rip is over your shoulder doing that you WILL pull out all the stops to do it. Of course the other 30+ people there watching you just then can make it a point of pride to not wuss out.
I was sore until Tuesday and then my knee started feeling funny in a new place medially. Not sore exactly, just not quite right. It may or may not have been a result of the power snatches. Besides my horrendous inflexibility that made that the go-to move, I overheat easily and didn't wear my training longies until I started to see blood on my shins. So my shins are still scabbed over. I also got pissed when the bar caught on the knee brace, so I ripped that off with a huge roar of tearing heavy duty velcro. Tossed it across the gym to my back pack. Maybe another one of not my smartest moves. Didn't hurt at the time though.
Couple the sore stuff with the time change and a late night at dinner that I lost sleep over and I was cruising the whole weekend on coffee and Tums to kill the coffeee heartburn. I ended up not hydrating properly and so got the ultimate old man's disease. Some terrible constipation that made even the Monday recovery at home and Tuesday back to work something less than stellar. Those things and a crushing set of email traffic on both my PC's at work chained me to my desk and drained me to make jujitsu or lifting a dream. I finally am more or less back on my normal sleep routine.
I have an appointment next week with the ortho to see what's next with Mr. Knee. I'll be happy to expand on more if ya'll are interested. I just didn't want to become to obnoxious about things. I'm still embarassed over having my name come up when you google Starting Strength. This is Rip's site. I just feel lucky to get to post here and shoot the breeze with you guys. It really is a circle of friends the like of which I've never had in my life up to now.