Man hands are not cute

So I think it was last Monday the WOD was Murph which I did Rx'd for the first time ever. Right in the middle of the WOD my hands ripped and like a trooper I completed with ripped hands. My time: 53:43. It  was awesome until the next few days I couldn't do much because of the rips. I have done everything under the sun to try and get these things to heal faster. It's no fun when all your friends are having a good time sweating it out and you are having to scale or completely skip gym. So yesterday I did a little research on the topic.

I had read this before but previous rips were never that bad to where I had to consider such a thing.
Never in my life would I ever thought I would share this nor openly share this even to a close friend...

Hemorrhoid cream is the best thing that has ever happened to me...In a ripped hands sorta way.

Some how it speeds up the healing process. I remember a long time ago this lady saying she used it as a face moisturizer and well, she looked pretty good. It seems a little temping. If this stuff dramatically improved my callus rip what else could this miracle cream fix?

Below is my rip on the ring finger. Yesterday it was red and every time I opened my hand all the way it would crack open and hurt so bad. Today I can not only open my hand all the way but I can push my fingers back and everything! So awesome!

Tri searches

Registration has already opened for this. I think I might sign up. It's in September so that gives me plenty of time to get back into riding and most of my running stuff will be over by then. Not sure what I would do about the swimming since I don't have my membership at the Y anymore. Maybe someone will let me borrow their pool.

Tie Dye Tri


And if some reason I don't make that one I can do this one that's in October.

Monster Denton Triathlon

Lunch

Lunch: Turkey burger - bun = yum!

I got this from Texadelphia. It came with chips and I'm not ashamed to say they will be eaten and thoroughly enjoyed.

Green foam

An update from an earlier post about the moth. It finally left I'm happy to report. I was getting nervous it was going to fly in one day and I'd have to battle it out with him in my apt to either get him to fly out or kill him. I'm glad it didn't go that way.

I have a little confession to make. I found on Netflix they had The Hills...I've been watching them in the morning after I walk Penny and sometimes I'll watch a few episodes at night. I know, I know, I'm too old to be watching that stuff but I can't help it. Watching reminds me of how important having a good set of girlfriends can be. And that a guy should NEVER rule your life. This is something I should know by now but I guess I need a refresher on how to be not so dependent on a mans opinion of me. And unlike The Wonder Years I can semi watch and knit. With The Wonder Years I have to be fully focused so I don't get distracted. I feel as if that show is going to open a door to how I should be looking at life.

Here is today's special:
1 cucumber
3 handfuls of spinach
1 fuji apple
3 celery stalks
2 carrots
1 scoop barley greens

Upcoming adventures

I just signed up for a few things and wanted to share.

 The Pub Run

Anarchy in the OK


This is the next event that I might sign up for.

Okahoma's Crossfit Challenge

I have a feeling there is another one that I have forgotten. If I remember I'll post it.

Mothman

After watching episodes 10-15 of the 5th season of The Wonder Years I decided it was time to go to bed. The closer I get to the last season the more sad I get that I'm almost out of episodes.  I always think I'll go back and watch my favorites but when I really think about it they all are my favorites. 
Anyway,  before going to bed I take Penny out for her last potty opportunity.  I open the door and turn to shut and lock it when this dark spot in the bricks catches my eye. I try not to yell out since its kinda late but I let out a "holy geez, that's a big moth!!" In a loud whisper. I took Penny to the grass and I pray that the moth is gone and blame my neighbor for always leaving their porch light on and how it's attracting all these bugs....eeewww! When we make it back to the door I keep my eyes on it the entire time (except when I was fumbling with getting the key in the lock). I open the door just enough to get in and slam it shut! After my mini freakout I decide I need to get a picture of this thing. No way was I going to put a reference object so you can understand its true size. You will just have to trust me on this one,  I promise it was almost 3 inches long....gross right?! Sorry if its a bit blurry but no way was I going to get a close up of him!

My Sunday treat

I watched The Avengers with the family today. I thought it was pretty good. I laughed a lot and decided I need a man like Thor. Maybe minus the longish hair.
On to the shot. As a treat since today is Sunday I made goat cheese stuffed peppadew peppers and paired it with... more cheese, St. Mary's grass fed gouda. Talk about yum!
Not pictured is the chicken breast I  had. Just plain nothing fancy.
My barley greens came in the mail yesterday.
Breakfast today:
2 cucumbers
3 carrots
1 red delicious apple
1 teaspoon barley greens
Oh, and at the movies I had popcorn and approximately 4 cups of diet Pepsi. 

Super moon

Penny and I went out to the lake for a walk to check out the super moon. It's a great night for it, there's no clouds out. I heard on the radio that tonight its closer to the earth so its supposed to look bigger. I'm not too sure it looks bigger but it certainly looks brighter. Something about sunsets and the moon that's so pretty.
I tried to get a picture with Penny's ears and the super moon but I don't have a flash on my phone so it looked like I was taking a picture if a white dot. When I got in the car I was happy to see that you could kinda see her silhouette and the moon.

Series of events

With my 2012 not starting on a great foot I decided I would make the best of it and enter in everything, try anything and document with pictures as best as possible.

So far with the year being halfway over I have:

Participated in an Olympic Weightlifting workshop
Participated in an Olympic Weightlifting meet and received an award....a participants award mind you, ha ha!
Completed the Original Mud Run in Dallas for the 2nd time
Participated in the Memorial Half Marathon in Okc for the 2nd time and was only 20 minutes behind my last years time. Pretty good for not training.
Started taking steps towards becoming a trainer at the gym.

For the second half of  the year:
McNellie's Pub Run in May. I just signed up for this....like 1 minute ago.
In two months my friends and I plan to fly out to Napa to run in the Napa to Sonoma Half Marathon.
24 The Hard Way in October. I plan on signing up for the 6 hour run unless I can con some others into doing the 24 hour relay.

I haven't been on my bike but I'm thinking this might be the year I do a tri. Just a baby sprint to get my feet wet. If I can get a trainer, I may talk a buddy into doing one this year. Maybe a duathlon or something.

Since doing the half and talking with those that did a/the full it got me thinking, I should participate in a full marathon once in my life. While I'm on this roll of trying new things this year why not carry this on over to next year and try bigger things.  I might as well give this a shot just so I can say I've done it. I've been looking at the Rock n' Roll series and I think the Strip at Night marathon in Vegas would be tons of fun. Also, Pike Peak ascent...I've been thinking about doing this one since last year when I did the Memorial Half.

I'm not even halfway through the year and I'm already planning next years adventures.
The more I look into different races and talk to friends the more really fun runs I find and want to do. Too bad I wasn't this totally awesome runner that got paid to train and win.

Links below are potential runs and I threw some wish list runs in too.
Strip at Night
Pikes Peak
24 The Hard Way
Zombie run
The Color Run
Trirock
Tough Mudder

Late night chuckle

Just finished watching a very weird Will Ferrell movie. Can't remember what it's called. Its not worth recommending anyway.
After That I checked the stats on the Asia Regionals. They haven't posted any scores, what the heck?! Went to the twitter feed and they didn't have many pictures.  I realize it's way way way past my bed time and shut everything down. I turn around and I guess Penny thought the movie sucked too...she had already went to bed. I think its funny when she uses the pillow.

You guessed it

I'm changing things up a bit diet wise and going back to juicing. Not doing a total juice fast. I'm just juicing for breakfast and sometimes lunch. I'm never really hungry in the mornings and trying to choke down eggs is hard when I don't feel like eating anyway.
Like most of the things I make, I follow no real recipe. 
Breakfast juice:
1 cucumber
2 handfuls of spinach
1 sprig of kale
Approximately 5 carrots
1 red delicious apple
I bought another tub of barley greens. When that comes in the mail I'll start adding a scoop to my juice.

My roommate

This here is Penny. She shares my tiny living space with me. I drag her to just about everything I do. That includes the gym. How am I supposed to get any new PR's when she's always looking at everyone like this?! Everyone asks why is she sad? And I have no clue! I take her everywhere! I'm starting to think that's her look she gives when she's bored and ready to go. Summer is coming up and I'll be working on my beach body, she better get used to being at the gym!

New Start

So after hours on building Brice's blog I got to thinking about mine....Not sure what excuse I could use on why I have neglected it. Partly I kept forgetting to take shots of my meals and I guess I was in a bit of a food funk.
I've decided to start using this again. But this go round its going to be more than just food posting. When I was looking for inspiration for Brice's I was getting jealous of other's blogs and how cool they were and all the little fun pictures and comments. I think turning this more into a life blog instead of just a food blog will work better for me. Besides this is what you all have been telling me I should be doing in the first place.