It’s an “easy” day hike, starting near Ashcroft and only about 2.8 miles to Cathedral Lake. You climb almost 2,000 vertical feet, though, so it’s not for flatlanders or those unadjusted to altitude. I haven’t had a hard time adjusting to much about the altitude, but this hike kicked my ass! It’s a National Forest,…
Tag: tough
Who loves mud?
Mud + Racing is apparently all the rage these days. Muddy Buddy was this past weekend, and this INSANE Mudder race has been announced. Check it out: The newly announced TOUGH MUDDER is pretty epic. It says on its website that it’s being launched because there is not a race in America that tests toughness,…
Holy Mud
A new mud race event challenge thing I just heard about seems pretty similar to CrossFit … the TOUGH MUDDER race series just launched this year and is a 7-mile obstacle course with 17 obstacles designed by British Special Forces to test all around toughness, strength, stamina, fitness, camaraderie, and mental grit. Yikes! The website says,…
Doubling up the Crossfit Fun
I did 6:30pm last night and 6:30am this morning of the free Crossfit Austin workouts … super fun! Remember that this is FREE Crossfit workouts put on by two of my friends, Austin natives, until they open their NEW South Austin Crossfit gym in mid-to-late November. Yay building delays=free workouts! So last night’s workout was…