Minnesota. That’s about 1200 miles too far north for me!
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That’s a little more north then where I am, lol.
Just a little. One of my neighbors lives in Omaha. He’s a snowbird. Comes down every winter.He hydrates quite well…lol
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But… we don’t REALLY get winter here.
Just the hint of winter.
I can guaranty 50 degree weather by just trying to set up an ice rink outside…
That’s just global warming…lol See a little farther north and you could have one! Oh wait! No… those are lakes not ice rinks.
Edit: this damn phone types in hillbilly.
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20160914 - Hockey
Skating Lessons - 1 hour
Scrimmage - 1 hour
Tonight there was an hour wait between skating lessons and the scrimmage. Next week it will be a 1.5 hour wait, and it will be like that until youth hockey has finished.
Made a couple of good passes, including one for an assist during the scrimmage. Worked on taking longer strides on the ice and bending my knees more for speed.
Well you’re smack dab in the middle of the US no? So you can see the west to east coast, north and south of the borders just with binoculars? Ok well maybe a drone with a telescope?
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20160915 - 531 C30W2 Bench and Squat
Bench Press
95 lbs x 5
120 lbs x 5
145 lbs x 3
165 lbs x 3
190 lbs x 3
215 lbs x 4 - Rep PR
Accessory Bench Press
155 lbs x 10 x 5
Squats
115 lbs x 5
140 lbs x 5
165 lbs x 3
195 lbs x 3
220 lbs x 3
250 lbs x 4 - Knees hurt
Tried dips but my shoulders just said no.
Called it a night.
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Congratulations on your rep PR!
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Congrats on the bench PR. I can totally empathize with the knee pain squatting.
All that skating each week has to have you in great condition. Plenty of admiration for you picking up the sport late and killing it.
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Thanks, DB.
It’s humbling. There are so many minor details in it to be a better player. And to get to do them without thinking is hard.
It’ll keep me busy learning for a long time, lol
That’s awesome. Learning a game late is tough and add the difficulty of skating fast adds exponentially to the difficulty.
I tried to pick up skating when my son started playing hockey at 6-years-old. I could skate with him for about a year and since then the gap has steadily widened.
20160916 - Hockey
Scrimmage - 1 hour
Birthday scrimmage for friend. A lot of lower level skaters, so had some fun, offered ssome encouragement.
Pressured the better players to make them work harder.
Much rehydration afterwards. 
Nice!!!..and congrats on the bench PR
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WHOOT!!! Nice.
Glad to see the hockey is still going on in here. It’s nice to have something you enjoy like that.
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Thanks Puff!
It does give me something to loo forward too.
20160918 - Hockey
League game - 1 hour
Lost 1-4. The captain put on the goalie gear for this game… Needless to say, he did a good job.
Had several good shots on net, a couple of good clears on the short side of a power play.
Was told I did a good job by the team.
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20160919 - 531 - C30W3 - Military Press and Deadlifts
Military Press
60 lbs x 5
70 lbs x 5
85 lbs x 3
115 lbs x 5 - It was supposed to be 105 lbs, but I put on 10 lbs plates instead of 5 lbs plates. Oops.
120 lbs x 3
135 lbs x 4 - Matched my best reps ever at 135 lbs.
Supersetted with Dead lifts
135 lbs x 5
160 lbs x 5
195 lbs x 3
240 lbs x 5
275 lbs x 3
305 lbs x 4
Accessory was more of the same
Military Press 95 lbs x 10 x 5
Supersetted with Deadlifts
185 lbs x 10 x 5
Weighed in at 207 lbs.
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20160921 - Hockey
Skating Lessons - 1 hour
Scrimmage - 1 hour
Knees felt the best they have in a long time.
Lesson went well.
Scrimmage was a lot of good passes, defensive plays. A couple of hard shots on net.
One of the players from the other bench called me speedy, lol.
I had fun.
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