Atalanta Rising

…and I have a flower! Courtesy of Charleston, SC.

I think there are a lot of people that look at my life and see this. And that’s how it feels somedays. But at the same time, my life is better than it’s ever been. Not because it makes sense or is particularly functional right now. But because I am being more real than I’ve […]

This will be the lamest of my training log entries. I don’t think you could say that I did much training last week. I did work out a lot, but my head wasn’t on earth and I didn’t write much down: Wednesday: Some rowing, Bench front squat I believe my torso/core is really my weakest […]

This town has a lot more interesting history worth remembering. I only had a few hours in Charleston, and it was a regret that I couldn’t spend more time. I made some goof ups. In planning, we should have tried to go into Charleston during a week day, but we showed up on a St. […]

I know, while pictures are nice, it’s still not the same as being all the way there.

…with a moral. This beautiful abandoned cemetery is over a century old, it has some of the more artful and finely carved headstones I have seen in a graveyard. Clearly the people buried in this graveyard had money -at one time. Yet, it couldn’t save them. They still became lost in the dark woods. And […]

…for my South Carolina trip was to go to the atlantic ocean. I went there once, when I was 19, the day before I left South Carolina to come back to my home state. I toured the USS Yorktown with my mother. Even though we went on that ship I was never able to really […]

Back at it! Squat: 3x air squat warming up 3x air squat with board in front of knee 5x air squat working at a more upright chest with vertical shin (knee killing me; took a break and used a lacrosse ball to roll around my knee, quite effective.) 5x 45# bar w/board 5x 45# Bar […]

Well, fitness wise, my mouth wrote more checks than I was willing to cash while I was out of town. My intention was to hit the local Crossfit daily and keep up with my training and even do the 12.4 Crossfit Open WoD while there. Everyday started out with good intentions, but not once did […]

I was torn between what to show first; the beauty of the rusted wheel or the monochrome old-timey look of this picture. None of my pictures seem to live up to the beauty I was seeing, which is always a little frustrating. But I do love it when the subjects are beautiful enough on their […]