12 days of Big Island

Just returned from a 12 day sojourn on the Big Island of Hawai'i. The plans just fell together perfectly. While there, my wife and I renewed our vows. Before leaving Texas, I looked for a box to get in a wod or two,
BUT after arriving and taking a couple of days to settle in, I decided I was
going to 'relax'.

This was my daily routine starting the second day there:
wake up @ 5:30 am

surf from 6-8:30
eat breakfast
nap
eat lunch
nap
snorkel/dive 2-5:00pm
eat dinner
sleep
repeat x 10

I did 3 wods at Kim's uncles place. I found a 26 inch concrete platform to do some box jumps, and threw in some pistols, air squats, & push-ups for good measure (no burpees). Also did a few trail runs out and about. Did some snorkeling almost every afternoon with my bro-in-law (Will) . We would swim out to the reefs and dive as deep as we could. This was a blast and challenging. Thank GOD for snorkels & fins. It got a little sketchy a few times when I inadvertently took in a few mouthfuls of water but I got better the more I did it. Really had to keep your breathing in check.

I must say that I was extremely impressed by the way our host lived (Kim's & Will's Uncle John). It wasn't extravagant by any means, more like conservative and "self-sustaining". The house we stayed in wasn't even on the electrical grid, it was powered by solar panels and a gas generator. The panels and battery array were very modern. I could tell that John got a kick out of giving us the lowdown on the design, cost and maintenance of the system. Definitely made you aware of using anything electrical because if the batteries would completely discharge you would be S.O.L., which actually occurred on several occasions. Then you would have to find other means of entertainment until the generator charged the system back up. It wasn't too primitive either, John had a 28" flat screen tv and a satellite dish that we would spend an hour or two watching sports each night.



As for our diet, we ate out only while we were traveling, the rest of the days we ate produce from the farmers market and grass fed beef that John "acquired". Every tropical fruit you could imagine was available in South Point or Captain Cook. Mango's, pineapple's and apple banana's, (yep apple BANANA's, not sure why they called them that). Plenty of locally grown varieties of fruit and veggies were available and not too expensive.





Overall spent 2 days traveling and about 12 days on the Big Island. The real world beckoned us back and from the sound of it our family missed us too. Called my buddy Zach when I got back and drove over to do a chipper wod with Noah and a few others in Ingleside at CUTTHROAT BARBELL CLUB.


This is how Zach greeted me when I got back:

barbell lunges (45#)
farmers walk (100 #)
30 wallballs (20lbs)
30 squats
30 pullups
30 ringdips
30 box jumps
30 GHD's
30 true pushups
30 squats

with a 300m run between each.

my time 37:07

feeling sore today...

Merry CHRISTmas ya'll!!!