I'm no Superman

hey all!
So this week will finish out my first month back at Crossfit Initiative and, by my calculations, I have hit the gym 13 times already with at least 3 more times to go this week! that will be about 4 more times per month than I did last time. I was really impressed with myself when I realized those numbers...until last night...

You see, Ty Jones (I hope he doesn't mind the name-drop) is owner of Crossfit Initiative...he is also a fellow brother in Christ and a semi-distance relative through marriage...as I am about to start my workout the conversation goes something like this....

Ty: Alright Josh, If you get 2 rounds that would be great, if you get 3 rounds that would be incredible.

Josh: So I'm gonna get 4 rounds, right? (smirk)

Ty. If you get 4 complete rounds, that would be Super!

See, for quite some time Ty has given me a hard time, in jest, about my Superman obsession...especially when almost every time he sees me, I have a Superman T-shirt....He will pass by me and simply say "I guess NOT"...If you do not get the reference, look up "Dane Cook Superman"...basicly..."Don't wear the shirt if you are not, in fact, bullet proof...wear a shirt that says "I bleed if you shoot me in the chest plate"". So Ty and I go back and forth..he says his phrase, I shake my head, and murmur "yeah, yeah...whatever" and we go our separate ways.

So when I finished last nights WOD with only 3 complete rounds I already was frustrated...and here comes Ty....he continues to tell me "well, then I guess you're not SUPERMAN....you're good...but not THAT goood...maybe like a shrimp eating, mimosa drinking Mr. Incredible". I know what he said was in jest...but it did hit me....hard...For those of you who do not get the reference, ask any kid under 12 or so about the incredibles....basicly Mr. Incredible starts off as a washed up, fat, lazy, has-been super hero...and that is where Ty was saying I was.....but, It did ring true....

I have had some unrealistic views/goals/ideas about myself....I get all excited, which isn't bad in and of itself, but then the excitement allows me to dream HUGE! and some of the time, unrealisticly...This time back at Crossfit is no different...I have had this self image of myself one day being The Real Life Superman! when, in reality, I am probably a Mr. Incredible...and I need to keep that in mind...Does this crush my dreams of SOMEDAY becoming the Superman I know I can be? not at all....but right now I need to accept that I am probably close to Mr. Incredible...I need to put away the mimosas and cocktail shrimp...I need to get to work...and I need to realize AND ACCEPT that it may be a long, hard road befor ANYONE will call me Clark Kent....so, I am no Superman...I am probably not even a Mr. incredible...but I believe I can do incredible things and they will lead me to some SUPER times!