Musical Chairs was the name of the game today. Works like this. Everyone runs an opening lap on the track and then grabs an open exercise station. Since there are 9 participants and only 7 exercise stations, the 2 losers who missed out on a station must keep running laps until something opens up.  When you have finished a station you immediately run a lap and then find a new exercise station.  Repeat this until you are out of exercises and then keep running laps until everyone is finished. Do not forget to yell obscenities at people who are slacking. More »

Work-out: Power endurance

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Its funny (in a sick and twisted way) how often the word “death” gets used as an adjective while climbing…”hey Buster, are you on the death flake?” “Oh man, I can’t wait to do the death march back to the car tonight.” “That Death traverse was sooooo fun!” But Death in the mountains, along with poverty, injustice, and war, are all things of the past now that Obama is president. That’s why we never took the rope or any gear out of our packs during our mile long, 5.5 hour ascent of Mt. Ypsilon’s Blitzen ridge, although the extra weight did make it more “fun.” But really people, who needs a rope when you’ve got hope?

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Work-out: Grind

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On January 18th, 2009 Charles Ince and Albert Yu-Min Lin woke at 3:30 am to embark upon what may have been the first winter “ukulele” ascent of Mount Whitney’s East Face.  The Video below is the story of that climb… More »

Work Out: Operation Destroy
Each station is performed as a whole for time. One participant per station at a time. The entire circuit of four stations is completed once. Puking entitles you to skip one station of your choice.

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“Tienen drugas?”
“Tienen armas?”
These were the questions the Mexican cop asked us as he patted us down with our hands on the side of Buster’s Mini-van, The Silver Bullet (TSB). The four of us, my roommate Pete, Jeff, Buster, and myself, had been driving for 23 hours from Boulder, CO without incident, and now, with the Potero just a dozen Kilometers away, it seemed our luck had run out. More »