CONDUCTING BOARDINGS WITH SAILOR JERRY

So, I got a good week of workouts done this week.  As you may have read below, I ran the Gavin (or if you are from SOUTH Baranof Island-GAVAN) Hill trail; swam on ran and swam Monday, did the CrossFit workout "Murph" Tuesday, cooked dinner and picked up Kai and Tabitha Wednesday (this was much harder than it sounds).

I'm about to go and execute another one of my wife's directed workouts (try to imagine voluntary waterboarding) and then I will be riding the bike into work.  Why is that last piece of info important?  Because it will also allow me to post the first installment of the "Michael Frawley self-induced stroke video series" on Youtube this weekend-don't worry, if you are a follower of this blog like my good friend and professional stunt woman, Dawn York, you will get a heads up from the Interweb that the video is posted.  Please don't hold me responsible if you puke after watching them.

I appreciate all of the supportive comments and suggestions and hope to incorporate some of them as part of my "Emergency Action Plan" in the event that I run into a bear during the run.  This is a large concern for me since Baranof, Kruzof, and Admiralty Islands have the highest bear population apparently on earth.  It is something like one bear per 1.5 square miles.  This is higher then Jellyston-I mean Yellowstone, anywhere in Canada, Montana, and the Kenai Peninsula (sallies).  We actually had a gentleman from the AK Dept of Fish and Game come to work last fall to talk about living safely with brown bears and during the talk, I thought I was an extra in the film Hamburger Hill listening to Dylan McDermott's character talk about Charlie.  I am not making up the following quote from the AK DF&G representative's talk:

"Try to imagine the smartest dog you have ever met, give him paws the size of dinner plates, make him as fast as a quarter-horse in a sprint, uphill or down, and make him weigh between 1500 and 2000 pounds.  This is a brown bear.  As part of the DF&G program I have had to trap black bears and brown bears to try and tag them.  When you snare and tranquilize a black bear, they try to climb trees and run away from you.  When you snare and tranquilize a brown bear, they go into the brush and dig a hole, turn around and wait for what ever was dumb enough to mess with them."

Here was my take-away from that talk:

Bear=Viet Cong

Pretty sweet huh?

Next post, I will outline the latest on the memorial, my progress in preps for the run and its impacts on the profits of Sailor Jerry Navy rum and give an in-depth description of the Memorial Run EAP.  I hope you can't wait, I know I can't.  Oh and Chris York, the run will be the week of 3 June 2011.  More on that later.