Crazy fun weekend ski and birthday trip to Reno and a ski lodge, extending into Monday. I'll start with Friday night. I combined two days into one to free up the weekend and did SSB squats at night after log and axle pressing during the day (which I already recorded back then).

SSB squats were 400x3x5, which was pretty easy, followed by banded-resisted good mornings. Finished this up in an hour by about 9:00pm and then went straight to my car in a t-shirt and sweats despite the rain (I was hot) and picked up a Thai food order for the birthday celebrations, which was delicious.

For the trip I had ordered another entire case of Orgain protein shakes, which I once again nearly finished for the second weekend in a row. Ate really good food at restaurants too, but in-between that I had jerky strips, RX protein bars, and various flavored pistachios and peanuts (buffalo wing flavor was my favorite).

Skiing kicked ass. It was my first time but since I've done board sports for much of my life balancing was really easy. I fell three times and was leery about my legs getting twisted and my knees feeling some strain, but it was no worse than a BJJ practice match. I was careful about falling properly. Kept getting told I'd be really sore in the morning - I wasn't, at all. Since it wasn't all downhill skiing my conditioning was liable to be to be tested and I was prepared to tough it out, but it was a walk in the park. This is good, since my cardio sessions have fallen in frequency.

Really sucked having to work remotely on two days of the trip from the hotel though but I made it work.