Hello Fellow ALIVERS and HIVERS!
I found the opportunity to throw up another post and since it's my rest day and I didn't get to put my body through the high intensity interval training session, that it's accustomed to; I am going with a flashback of such torturous actions. All in a good way. I put my body through this stuff, but I never feel like I'm risking debilitating bodily harm. It's to keep fit for the long-term.
So, since I didn't have an ActiFit kind of day. I've been sitting at my work computer keeping busy for my employers and taking rest day seriously and minimizing movement, my off-chain social media feed came up with today's flashbacks and a 2019 goody came up.
3 years ago today, I participated in my second Rugged Maniac.
For those who don't know what it is, I'm sure you know some form of it; as it's not a new concept, whatsoever.
ruggedmaniac.com for those curious to know.
It's actually one of the most insane things I did in my later years and totally had wished I had done at a much younger age. Not because, I wasn't able to handle it, because I did well; for the most part. I'm just saying, that I may have done a bunch of them, if I was younger. Just so that I could have been much more of a beast knocking out the obstacles.
Here are just some of the name of the challenges:
Frog Hop
The Warped Wall
Cliffhanger
Vertigo
Spiderweb
and so much more.
Imagine weaving, crawling, twisting and tumbling to get through the Spiderweb in very hot Central Florida weather. It doesn't help to be muddied up, soggy shoes and socks, underwear riding up your ass and just pure sweat dripping down your back.
I mean that is just one of the challenges. There are a bunch of them and the cool thing is, that if you go with a bunch of folks like I did, then we all help each other out; in certain situations. The goal is to finish and that is always a great accomplished feeling and earning a MEDAL, of course (no pun intended).
I'm very proud to have earned the Rugged Maniac medals:
Before the pandemic, there were a lot of things I felt much stronger tiding and even that first year of the lockdown and all that came with it; was so much easier for me to tackle. When I got COVID a year in after escaping it for a year, it aged me. I mean, I can still do things I'm sure many people my age won't do like get up at 4am most mornings to go do a 60 minute HIIT workout or run 5K's and 10K's every other week, etc.
The difference is, that I feel like I'm playing catch up instead of being in the zone I was at, before COVID.
Anyway, it's not about that. It's about reminiscing and knowing that anything is possible. That we can kick ass, no matter what age we are or whatever circumstance we may be in.
It's about Alive and Thriving.
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