Let's Get It Started!

Been contemplating doing a blog for quite some time now and decided its time to make it happen.  One valuable lesson I have learned the last two years is that nothing changes unless something changes and the first step is the hardest but once that step is made a great variety of doors and opportunity follows.  Or maybe I just call it “Just Do it”  That being said its time to open another door and see where it leads.  Not sure where I am headed with this blog but what I do know it is off the “back burner” and something I am going to pursue. 

Been training Strongman for 14 months now and have enjoyed every day of it.  To clarify to many out there that don’t know much about the sport or what I do I am a member of North American Strongman Corporation which is the premier amateur strongman corporation in the world.  Last year was my first year competing as I competed in 5 contests.  I actually thought I was strong as I entered my first contest in Huntington Beach.  As I left Huntington after the comp I was humbled at the bar of strength I needed to be at to hang in this sport.  I didn’t let being at the time weighing 40-45 lbs less than my competition or being around 15 years younger stop me.  (I say “at the time” because I weighed in at 185 and today I weighed 194).  I choose to move on and get stronger.  I ended up competing in 4 more competitions with the hi-lite competing in Master’s Nationals in New York in October.  Three weeks later I would compete in San Diego.  I was hesitant to compete with such a short period of time between contests but with the nudge and help of fellow strongman Ron Strahan I did it.  BTW Ron is the closest thing I have to a training partner.  He lives in Lake Plumas, California and makes his way to Reno a few times to month.  The San Diego contest gave me great confidence heading into the 2011 NAS season.  It took that little nudge, that little “just do it” that I mentioned at the start that opens up doors. 

My next competition I plan on competing is in Meridian, Idaho in February then back to Huntington Beach in March.  I use the word “plan” because you never know what could happen.  Training strongman is very painful to the body.  The goals I have for the 2011 NAS season are to compete in both Master’s Nationals and Open National Championships.