It has been a bit over a week since my last blog entry. Much has been going on over the time for my family and I. My job has kept me quite busy, as our schedule is full of orders to manufacture and that is quite good for business. Halcon is doing quite well and has been a great place to work. I spent some time working on our awesome Mesa conference table product.
I have been working out very consistently over the last 3 weeks or so. My workouts consist of Crossfit at Crossfit Credence twice per week, Swimming 3 times per week at the Y, biking on my Kinetic trainer at home, and running. Crossfit has been a challenge for me. I am working to improve my upper body strength, something I have had trouble with my entire life. I stink at pull-ups and push-ups for the most part. So, I work on this area pretty hard right now. I am using bands at Crossfit to help me get more reps out of my pull-ups:
The Paleo diet has been going well. Just finished my 2nd full week of following this diet. The food has mostly been pretty good, but I am starting to get tired of the almond taste of many of the recipes that I have made. Almond flour is a common ingredient in recipes. Yesterday we had a breakfast called "No Oat Oatmeal". Seriously! The stuff used almond flour as a key ingredient. The mixed berries were the only thing that allowed me to get through this meal. The stuff looked like something our cat would have have barfed up to be honest. I tried not to look at it. Tasted OK though.
The positives of this week were many. I have lost 11 lbs so far on this journey and I have noticed my pants are feeling looser. That is reason to be excited for sure. I have so much further to go though, so I chalk this week up as a small victory, but with the realization of so many more weeks to push on.
This weekend was a great weekend for my son Zach! Friday night we drove down to Austin High School for the NYWA District Qualifier Wrestling Tournament. Zach weighed in at 57 lbs. in the 4th Grade division. He wrestled great. He earned another pin and in photo he is holding up his NYWA Regional Qualifier paper. So, his 1st Wrestling season will be extended another week for us to travel to Byron for the Regional tournament.
I want to thank all of Zach's wrestling coaches from Rochester Century Panther Club for making Zach's first year of wrestling such a great learning experience. Coaches Scott, Kevin, Matt, Chad, and Brendan have helped Zach and his teammates improve so much this year.
This weekend I took my Webelos Den to Prairie Walls to do a class called Vertical Journeys. Dave Brandt, Owner of Prairie Walls, help me to plan a special climbing class for our boys to experience. The boys were taught Top Rope Climbing and Bouldering. Little did I know that Zach would find his calling of sport for him. I can't believe how easily he took to this sport. We will be going back there quite a bit for sure. Anyway, I took them to climb to challenge them to face their fears and build their courage to overcome. They all did so awesome! I am such a proud Den Leader and Father!
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