KETTLEBELLGUY

8 degrees with a dusting of snow this morning. I know that we are doing OK compared with the east coast but I am so tired of the bitter cold and snow everyday. I guess in the end this will make us appreciate the spring and summer. Heidi and Sable were both restless last night, getting up to go to the bathroom almost as much as me. Very little and very broken up sleep last night.

Just Eric and I this morning with Brian coaching. I was super sore and stiff this morning. It was interesting that my squats were passable this morning. Yesterday I could hardly squat at all. I have yet to get a clue on what makes each day so different.

For our warm up we did various Kettlebell walks. These come very easy to me and I just turn into a pack horse.

We worked on thrusters for our skill. I was doing OK on those with just a bar. Although the squatting was marginal I did get down on several of them.

When the WOD went on the board I knew I was in trouble. 20 sit ups is a lot for me and I knew Eric would be able to smash me on those. I do a very slow sit up.

We loaded the bars up to 65 lbs for the thrusters. I can do about 5 without an issue but then I would get tired. I really struggled with these throughout the workout. My upper body form was OK (I think) but there was no getting down for the squat portion of the thruster. My squatter was simply not there.

Toward the end of round 2 I noticed that my left arm was starting to itch. I would scratch it when I could and it got red. As the workout when on my right arm started doing the same thing. At the finish of the WOD I realized that my left arm was covered in Hives along with other parts of my body. The only thing I can come up with is the fact I took a shower about 4:30AM. I normally do not shower before going to Crossfit but I did this morning thinking it would make me feel better and more refreshed. Perhaps it was just dry skin from the morning shower.

Regardless, I was very uncomfortable and got my stuff together to get out and into the truck thinking that the sudden change in air temp might take my mind off the hives.

I made the uncomfortable trip home with the itching seeming to subside a small amount. Once I got into the house and started doing my normal morning routine I became a bit lightheaded and the itching struck again. I took a “Ben-a-drill” to help with the itching.

It all passed finally. I still feel wiped out. The only remaining symptom is my upper lip which is swollen about twice the size. Looks like I had fat injected into it. It seems to be reducing and I expect that soon it will be back to normal and go away as quickly as it came.

Was all this just because of the shower? Did I push too hard this morning? I know that I was worried about throwing up but my stomach never truly reached that point. I have had hives in the past on occasion so this is not something that has never happened to me.

I may not be able to determine the root cause on this incident. Assuming that the swelling in my upper lip subsides I should be ready to go back at it.

You can tell by the times that I was really struggling. Although I understood from the beginning of the WOD that Eric was going to have a better time than me, just based upon the movements, I did not expect to be 6 minutes behind.

In the end I worked hard and got it done so that is about the best I can do, at least for this morning.

Warm Up Kettlebell Carry Farmers Rack Waiter Farmer/Waiter

Skill Thruster

WOD 20 Sit Ups 15 Thrusters 10 Each Rows 5 Each KB Snatch Repeat 4 time 4 time

Results Eric 10:24 Terry 16:40

The original title of todays workout was “The Chipper” however Brian renamed it “The Hive” in honer of my hive attack.