Sorry.

One of my favorite moments of the summer was how it kicked off with a pig roast at my buddy Szymons's.

Yeah, pretty rough image, right? How about a baby squirrel pallet cleanser?

Okay now I feel better. This guy hung out on our patio everyday for a few weeks. Adorable.

Warrior Dash

On June 13th, my lady friend and I competed in the Pennsylvania leg of the Warrior Dash. The race we attended was a 3.5 mile obstacle course erected on the Skirmish Paintball fields about 2 hours from our apartment.

Now I have to note that while I am aware of the existence of the Muddy Mile, The Mud Runner, the mud bah blah blah and the ten other mud related obstacle course races that took place this summer... I fucking hate running. Sorry but I do. I wanted to push myself a little and have some fun while doing it, and I figured a race that was only the length of a 5k and gave you a viking helmet at the end was the way to go. These Marine inspired 10 mile marathons are for people that are either actual soldiers or ran track in high school, both things I have strong moral stances against.

I doubt Heather and Hayley would be smiling after a 10K in their silly viking helmets. Plus after spending an hour running in the woods (actually a hair under 56 minutes), I actually like running a little more now. Especially if the finish of my run looks like this:

Maybe now I'll consider a few of those 5k charity runs, and maybe I'll consider another one of those mud runs that are getting so popular. There's no doubt however, that I'm signing up for the Warrior Dash again next year.

jesus christ!!

wow, so its pretty hard to do an adventure blog when you work full time and spend the rest of your time on adventures. (and by adventure i mean sitting by my pool or at the beach) also when you change the name of your blog and forget to tell..... anyone.

well i guess i should apologize to the people that read this page.... sandy and anyone that stumbled upon it because of a link to that hipster on a tall bike.

sorry.

awesome.... so moving forward ill be posting some picks and stories from this summer's escapades while at the same time remembering to use capital letters and punctuation. There we go. Much better.

Now for a quick preview of what you can expect in the all new BackSlacker.

Look, it's Mike, Wira, Hayley and me after the Warrrior Dash!

(the muscle pose was supposed to be ironic but I look kinda like a dick)

Look, it's Greg on a bike!

Look, it's me in a kayak!

Fantastic. Now that we got that first blog out of the way we can get back to the way things were.