Firetending:
Friday:
Woodbusting: 3 hours
Our ATV was unavailable, but we had an old dump truck that we used to move wood from the harvesting site to the pit. I got a lot of dragging in. I strapped an old belt to the fallen trees, and dragged them out to the road (about 25-40 feet with a 10 foot hill at the end and up to the road.) My legs were sore from the Bas workout, but they decided to get unsore really quickly when they realized I wasn't going to cut them any slack.
A little bit of axe work, but most of it was dragging, flipping, zercher log carrying, etc. What made all of this brutal was the 95-100 degree temperature.
We built a small fire, as none of the attendees wanted anything too hot (we missed and ended up having a 10-15 foot flame coming off the thing for an hour or so).
Firetended all night, but nothing major to report physically. I did try something out though. This talk of supplements led me to try creatine for water retention. I took a scoop out of an old Creatine Monohydrate bottle, mixed it with grape juice, and then drank 2/3rds a gallon of water. The theory being that the creatine would force the water into my cells, basically making me a camel. It seemed to work okay, but I'm not sure of the scientific validity of this method.
Saturday:
Swimming: 1 hour.
We ended up going to a nearbye lake for a swim to escape the heat, which kept climbing. As soon as we get there, it starts raining and drops 20 degrees. It was near perfect. Rain, thunder, lightning, swimming, and tomfoolery were the themes. I did a lot of underwater frogstroke and backstroke, my two favorites. When we got back, the hog (this event was a fundraiser/ hog roast) was nearly done, so we had a huge dinner.
Woodbusting: 3 hours
After that, it was back to the woods. We dropped a couple of dead trees and harvested some fallen ones, and stood up a 7 foot chimney as the center piece for the bonfire.
Unfortunately, I had to leave (work on Sunday) so I don't know how it turned out.
Impressions:
I was pleased with my endurance in these conditions. I can see a marked improvement since the beginning of the festival season (May). Log flipping, dragging, etc wore me out, but it took much longer than when I began.
In other news, the Ringside 180" Mexiwraps are like pieces of heaven on my hands as opposed to the Everlast cotton 108"s. Also, did anyone else have a nigh-uncontrollable urge to do dumbell snatches and pullups after reading "Infinite Intensity"?
