Shybil Sol Dates Aug 1 to Aug 7

Dose of reality. The end of this weeks training culminated with survival training. The setting was simply have the bare essentials consisting of knife, 550 cord, a few layered clothing, and a sleeping bag. While the concepts of building a shelter, making fire, setting snares, etc. were very educational, the physical follow through of each was very fatiguing. You might think this was where the mental part of the experience came in. No. You just had to pace yourself to your ability to follow through. Where the mental piece came into play, was the realization that if you are hungry, there was not ice chest or refrigerator or convenience store to satisfy the pangs. You had to start telling yourself that if you want to eat you have to hunt. Primitive instincts? Yes. Reality? This mindset does not occur overnight. While the course was two nights and roughly three days, my feeling was that it would take more time to get out of the mindset of modern society's comforts to real survival mode. This was a very humbling experience as in just this short amount of time, you realize how many of our living comforts are taken for granted. If I was to have been put into a survival situation without this course, I would surely have perished. With this course, I now would have a better chance of survival. But, this is part of the learning experience. Forget what you see on tv. You have to actually experience the situation in order to fully grasp all the subtleties that will break you down to a lower level on the food chain. I can't remember any other experience that drained me more physically and mentally in such a short amount of time. I do know that I will have a very different look on modern life's conveniences and whether its really worth having such.

Today's run at first seemed easier since I'm probably a few pound lighter. But I only got close to the two mile mark before the weekends repercussions hit.
For the week, without the two days at the end, got in 600 pushups, 600 stomachs, 50 miles bike, an avg. of two miles on 3 days.