After ½ million push ups then What?

I have been mostly quiet since that test week end in September. After the hard push to complete many of the physical goals for the UBBT, I felt the need to look back and take stock. And a need to change my work out regimen!

I have decided to qualify for the Kona Ironman --- 2009. And the Western States 100 mile run --- also 2009. I will be running 2 50 mile foot races in the spring of ’08.

First up is the Grappler’s Quest BJJ tournament in Las Vegas on Dec. 1^st. I will run the Las Vegas marathon the next day on the 2^nd.

As part of my UBBT test I participated in something called New Warrior Training. This training is designed to bring men back to the community of men in a healthy way and have each of us look at our shadows, to integrate our missing initiations into the mysteries of the world and its inhabitants.

I am actively looking for my path in the world. I am feeling called into the shamanic transformational world. I am feeling called to go back to school for some yet unknown destination.

Francesca and I are pursuing the idea of a Spiritual Warriors Conference --- bring the spirit world back into integration with the mind and the body and the heart--- July 2008 in Northern California.

My first daughter is getting married this weekend in Snohomish Washington. I am not really the “father of the bride” since I did not raise this child. But I am invited and I will be there.

I am feeling a lot like the caterpillar in the cocoon --- all gray and mushy and not myself --- not caterpillar and not butterfly. So I continue to put one foot in front of the other and trusting in the process.

More to come!

Namaste

John