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Assassination Contract: Dracula Complicated castle? Filled with spikey traps? And horrifying underlings? Yeah. No. Assassin's don't use the front door. I'm going straight up to the throne room. Then Drac's going down. There's just one teenie tiny problem. I'm not strong enough to climb walls!!! Quest Scale the walls of Dracula's castle to assassinate him by Halloween Objective #1: (Keep Energy Bar Up) - track weight & calories daily Objective #2: (Gain Climbing Strength) - train strength 3x per week; pullups & dips 2x per week Objective #3: (Prepare for Return Trip) - train safety drops & rolls 1x per week, because what climbs up must come down Successful Assassination = can climb a 6' (1.8m) vertical wall, & safely jump back down

Meesa Dives into an Australian Spring [Level 2] So Spring has just begin to sing for Australia in 2014. My Soccer season is over. And my running race season is just beginning. Here are the Races I’m running over the next 3 months. 21st September Health.com.au Spring into Shape 1 - 10km 12th October Melbourne Marathon Festival - 21.1km (my first half marathon) 26th October Health.com.au Spring into Shape 2 - 10km 16th November City2Sea - 14km 23rd November Health.com.au Spring into Shape 3 - 10km There’s a lot of running in the next few months and I am in no way as prepared as I should be. One reason being the soccer training makes it hard to train any serious distance with training 2 days a week and the game on Sunday. But now that’s done. Main Quest Complete my first half marathon and focus on the building of my body weight strength during the soccer off season. Goal 1. Training Now that I’m not doubling up with soccer training anymore I can set myself something firmer to work with. I will still be playing indoor soccer for the next few months. Its a lot faster. The dives and the saves and drops are faster and more constant so it is definitely a workout. Almost like 40 minutes of bodyweight interval training. Once I’ve built the basic strength and running fitness I’ll be able to start moving towards more complicated one hand rolls and dives (gotta hold the ball will something). For this challenge my weeks should basically look a bit like this. 3x a week before work: Interval running and Body Weight Work. As a side goal I’d really like to be able to do a full push up by the end of this challenge. At this stage I’m still on my knees which bugs me. 2x a week before work. Stretching only exercises to work on my flexibility and keep everything in the right place. And get to know my foam roller well. 1x on a weekday and 1 x on a weekend day: Long Run of at least 10km during the week and 14km on the Weekend Sunday Nights. Indoor soccer. In race weeks I will taper so I can do the race properly. I want to maintain the thing I had going where I was waking up at 530 before work. I feel a lot better at work and I fade far later in the day when I get up at 530 AND workout. But I also need to learn to manage my time better after work. I tend to push myself really hard and find ways to keep busy and just end up too tired. Goal 2. Racing I have 3 10km’s to run. 2 of them in this challenge. My goal is for each of them to be faster than the previous. Or roughly the same time. I’d like them all to beat my previous PB of 1:21:36. Ideally I’d love to be getting in under the 1:15:00 mark. For my half marathon I really just need to finish it; but my really aim is to get it in under 3:00:00. I’ll be raising money over all these runs for the charity I work in (I won’t be the annoying person who posts the link here); but hopefully that gives me some extra motivation. Goal 3. Eating My one constant failing is diet. Its not that I eat badly. I just get disorganised and buy food at the supermarket near work rather than making food to bring. Which is expensive. I do also tend to snack at work because I get hungry - so I need to make and decide on a bunch of healthy snacks to have. I’m a bit of a grazer so sometimes just eating wakes me up - whether its chocolate or celery sticks. I just have to get organised. My diet goal for this challenge is 6 days a week to cook or (or reheat where necessary) dinner ⅘ working days I will bring lunch from home ⅘ working days I will eat the food I have in my desk for breakfast (usually its a loaf of bread and I have it with peanut butter and honey; I can’t eat before I get on the train) 5/5 working days I will have healthy snacks On the weekend I can have one ‘not-so-great-kind-of-a-cheat-meal’ thing for dinner or lunch; I will be more relaxed with my breakfasts so I can have a sleep in. But ¾ of my main meals need to be healthy. Notes I learnt a lot during my level one challenge. I still have a lot to go in terms of building my fitness base before next season. I want to take the first part of the off season to build my running capability. After that I can work on maintaining it over the summer (which can get hard to do in an Australian Summer when we get heatwaves of 1+weeks of temps of 40c+ with overnight lows of only like 30c) and work more on Strength and body weight as well as on losing weight. I mean the weight loss comes naturally with the other things. My goal before the next outdoor season starts up proper is to build a really strong base of running; strength and core so that I can do a lot more skills work. I know for a fact that I am currently the most unfit player on the team - but I make up for that in my role with a complete lack of self preservation and being REALLY loud. Next season I want to be able to compete fitness wise and not be embarrassed. I took up soccer to get fit. But next season I need to already be fit so I can work on skill.

After being contacted by another member of the rebellion, we decided to start our own beginning Parkour training club. We meet 530PM on Wednesdays, at the park on the corner of S.1st Street and Emerald Wood, Austin TX 78745. Open to all, please come! Tonight (2/27/13)we'll be practicing precisions, rolls, and general flexibility.