Can't fight the addiction

Well... in addition to the plans I revealed in my last post, about me working towards one day becoming a personal trainer... a whole bunch of other good stuff has happened!

I got my Jeep back!

It was in the shop for a week and a half! Working with the dealer was a big struggle and we really had to push them hard to get results, but now my baby Jeep is back where it belongs :)


This year I will be completing my Spartan Race Trifecta - where you run a Sprint, Super, and Beast in one year and get a special medal. I'm signed up for the Carolina Beast which is pretty close to my home. But then I had to register for the Super in Virginia, a healthy 6.5 hour drive from me. I wasn't thrilled about this, but it was the only option I had to get that blue medal.

So they just announced that there will now be a Super and a Beast on the same weekend in South Carolina. Meaning you'd run the 13+ mile Beast on Saturday, then the 8+ mile Super on Sunday.

Holy crap. This is awesome yet terrifying at the same time.

I'm not sure if I can handle a Super and a Beast in one weekend. I haven't even done a Super yet, just Sprints. But logistically this makes much more sense. No going all the way up to Wintergreen, I'd just have to stay the night around Winnsboro or the Columbia area. Plus I'd have until the end of October to train, and I wouldn't be climbing black diamond ski slopes - just smaller hills at an ATV park. It makes way more sense to transfer to the SC Super. And I more than likely will. But.. whooooh... I am not prepared!!! Time to train my life away!

In other news - I signed up for the Battlefrog 15k obstacle race next weekend in SC! I missed the inaugural race here in GA but I heard amazing things about it. It's a Navy Seals themed OCR, and believe it or not it's actually at the same venue as the previously mentioned Spartan Super/Beast, so I get to scope it out a little early. There was a discussion about this race on the Spartan Chicked Facebook group, and it turns out one of the chicks is running a team and lives in Augusta. So I'm going to run with Team RWB and meet some local Spartan Chicks! I can't wait! Good thing too, I've been kind of jonesing to run another race lately.

And something weird but kinda cool happened today. I was at work and had to carry a bunch of file boxes downstairs and put them in a closet in this hot ass room with no AC. So I got to work hauling them down there - they weren't very heavy to me so it was a breeze. My coworker who is overweight was struggling the entire time, but for me it was like a nice little warm up. So my body thought "Oh, it's time to work out now!!!" and I could feel myself kind of go into "workout mode" as I got this little burst of energy. No no, it's not time to work out. In fact, it was time to do the exact opposite and go back upstairs to sit in my office with AC and stare at a screen for 5 more hours. This was so strange, I've never had anything like this happen to me before. I was like pumped up and ready to go. But sadly it was a false alarm. Spartan problems ....