Sean Hilsdon: A special 100 miler addition to the 50/400 Club
We would like to welcome our good friend Sean Hilsdon into the 50/400 club. He doesn't just make it into the 50/400 club, he does it with the special notation that he ran 100 miles instead of 50! This entry to the 50/400 club is special to me. We have a lot of really...
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Empathic Strength – 2020
It's been a hell of a year. It has been a year completely full of some of the biggest WHAT THE F!@# experiences I've ever had in my life. It's been a life threatening year and a life changing year. The "life threatening" probably influencing the "life changing" more...
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Grief
Grief. Google tells me that it means "deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death." It can also mean "trouble or annoyance." 2019 seems to have served up a heaping helping of grief. It has also, at least for me, served up a little bit of trauma and some...
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Empathic Strength – 08072019
I'm on twitter a lot (@vonralls HMU!). On twitter if you aren't super liberal you're an intolerant racist and if you aren't super conservative you're a snowflake that wants to ban guns and make everyone gay. There is no middle ground on twitter. Everything and...
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Empathic Strength – 07302019
Believe it or not I do not have all the answers. It's possible I have no answers. Well, maybe I have answers, but they are probably wrong half the time. Who even knows? Nobody. Nobody really knows. We're all just trying to (hopefully) make ourselves better. If you had...
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Empathic Strength – 07292019
I'm tired and don't have a lot to say. But I did some chin ups and bench pressing today! More weight than last week, so getting stronger. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0hP_peALpQ/ Today's Training Strength - Pressing A: Barbell Bench Press 3/3 x 5 @ 90 sec B: DB...
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Empathic Strength – 07252019
Someone said something to/about my wife yesterday that was really bothering her. It was just eating away at her all day and night. I definitely know that feeling. It's totally fine to take a couple of minutes and consider how something someone said about you makes you...
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Empathic Strength – 07232019
Where were you when you were 21? What were you doing? I got to do a Find My Way podcast with one of the men that made it all the way through The Process at the Special Forces Experience. His name is Stephan Faiazza and he is a 21 year old CrossFit Coach at CrossFit...
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Empathic Strength – 07202019
I got to coach a big class this morning at the gym. It looked like this: I got up pretty early today and got to the gym around 6:30AM. Class starts at 9AM so I had plenty of time to train and someone wanted to come in and get their workout done before class so I got...
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Empathic Strength – 07152019
Something really cool happened this past Friday. I decided to go do a class at the gym (Olive Branch CrossFit). We have a fantastic coach named Steven Mathis, and he is also a good friend. We got to talking about me trying to build strength back and easing back into...
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