Blackberries, Holiday Weekend and week 2 in the bag!

What a weekend! Friday afternoon I decided to attack the Blackberry patch behind my fence. Our yard goes another 60 feet past our existing fence and it is covered in blackberries. Amazingly tough and huge stocks at least an inch in diameter in places. 3 hours into the ordeal with a power Brush cuter I had cleared a 20' by 30' space, not even 1/16th of what I was planning to do and gave myself blister on 4 fingers. Saturday morning up and at them for Legs and Back and had a breakthrough on Pull ups. I did 39 free form pull ups and 66 assisted to total 105 for my first time over 100 and the highest count of free form I've done to date. There is hope. After a little activity with the wife and Kids, I headed back to the blackberry patch for another 4 hours of outrageous effort. I ended the weekend with about an 1/8th of the area cleared and the wish that I could just burn the suckers out. What amazes me is my physical endurance these days. Yes, I was a little soar and yes I can barely grip anything due to blisters but I got after it. Got Kenpo in on Sunday then headed up to the in laws for some Barbecuing and fun in the sun. I would say that I cheated for a couple of days on the diet but I'll clean it up this week.
Chest and back this morning produced another first...220 Push ups, 5 were done on my knees during Diamond push ups but I wanted the reps! I also got 78 pull ups in. My highest point during round 1 was 186 push ups and 66 pull ups. An 18% improvement on production. Not too shabby.