Friday, May 7: Front Line Assembly

Artist: Front Line Assembly, Album: Improvised. Electronic. Device. (I.E.D)

Featured Track: Hostage

Thursday, May 6: Wintersleep

Artist: Wintersleep, Album: New Inheritors

Featured Track: New Inheritors

My personal favorite Wintersleep track is either "Drunk on Aluminum" or "Nerves Normal. Breath Normal"

Drunk On Aluminum lyrics

Oh my, are you the beast again?
Is it the violence you like?
Oh my, I feel it crawling in
Gnawing, reptilian
In the lost, loney night
I wanna know
Cut out the sickness
Cut it in self defense
Cut the yellowing eyes
Skylines, bloody and cancerous
Color the dead patches
Make it white, make it white

Wild eyes, I feel the teeth again
Gnawing and imminent
In the lost, loney night
Oh my, give me the words again
Paint it aluminum

Nerves Normal. Breath Normal lyrics

There were floods
There was violence
Words to God
There was something
I'll be calm
Like an organ
Fading out
Tired of beating
Hurry up
Keep it moving
Am I alive?
Am I still breathing?

Worry not...

Wednesday, May 5: Rosetta

Artist: Rosetta, Album: A Determinism Of Morality

Featured Track: Revolve

Also highly recommended is Rosetta's Wake/Lift, check them out!

Tuesday, May 4: UNKLE

Artist: UNKLE, Album: Where Did The Night Fall

Featured Track: Natural Selection

Manday, May 3: Back Home to the Grind

Going to take it easy and studying over the next week for my CCRN exam, but I'll be posting so upcoming CD's that are coming out that are totally going to rock... hopefully.


Artist: Holy F***, Album: Latin

Featured Track: Latin America

Don't let their name fool you... they'er good!

Sunday, May 2: Regionals Final WOD

This one was going to kill me and I knew it. My time for 30 135lb snatches is around 6 minutes so upping the weight to 145lbs and putting at the end of a tough WOD was going to be damn near impossible for me to be competative on, but oh well. I just have to get stronger.

On a side not I can say with total confidence and pride that I was the only guy at regionals to do both sets of my CTB pull-ups unbroken! Not too mention my time on the middle portion of the WOD aside from the snatches was 5:23. So if I could fire out snatches like all those other beasts there I'd be right up there with the rest of them.


Final Event
For time:
10 Snatches, 145lbs
20 CTB Pull-ups
30 Stick Jumps, 24"
40 Ball Slams, 45lbs
30 Stick Jumps, 24"
20 CTB Pull-ups
10 Snatches, 145lbs


Jacob 15:16

It took me 1:45 seconds to do my first 10 snatches, 5:23 to do the 20-30-40-30-20 portion, then 8 minutes to get my last 10 reps. I totally sucked it up on this one! The blog must be acting up I'm unable to post videos of the pull-ups and my clean and jerk... I'll try again later.

Saturday, May 1: Regional's, the Good, the bad and the Ugly!

Well Day 1 at regionals was a less stellar then expected, but I did do some good things though.

Event 1:
1400m Run



Jacob 4:51

I figured I'd be slower at this in Denver, but still I'm a bit disappointed overall.

Event 2:
Max Weight Floor to Overhead



Jacob 245lbs (PR)


I was happy with this lift and know I got more in me. It was a power clean to jerk.

Event 3:
3 Rounds for time of:
500m Row
12 Overhead Squats, 115lbs
50 Double Unders


Jacob 13:10 (Did this one at Fletchers in 10:33)

I totally fell apart on this one and even used a different rope on the double unders which I think might have screwed me, but I did get all the OHS unbroken and snatched each first rep. Kyle Kasperbauer who finished 4th last year even had a hard time with this one, so beating his time made me feel a little better.


So I'm not doing too well overall, but there were some people who couldn't even finish, so I just have to chip away at things and pride myself on the fact that I made it through the day.