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At Crossfit at 6AM.

Eric, Gretchen, Jason, Conner, Steve, John and Stacia with Brian coaching.

Had a rough night sleeping. Went to bed at 10, up at 1 and tossed and turned for the rest of the night. Lots of lower back pain and left shoulder pain kept waking me.

Stomach has been upset but I know that is because of my eating. Going to stay on track today. Feeling this bad is not worth the food I am eating.

We lifted heavy things today so I felt good. Lifting heavy things is something I can do. Eric and I worked together and got up to our max of 235 on the front squat.

It was really fun to see Steve get excited about his lifting this morning. He was doing back squats because of some issues with his arms that prevented him from doing front squats. At the end he said “I can’t believe I did that!” in reference to the weight he lifted. One of the cool things about Crossfit is that you can get excited for your own accomplishments and the accomplishments of others. Steve has only been with us about 2 months and it was cool to see his excitement.

I did OK on the WOD. I was next to Eric and I knew he would pull ahead of me quickly on these movements. I tried to keep up as long as I could but soon just had to focus on myself. I did “real” push ups, no knees on the ground. I don’t know that my shoulders will ever allow me to go down to the deck on my push ups but they have improved. My Med Ball Cleans were solid.

When the WOD was over I was surprised to see that I was right in the middle of the pack. I had not done as bad as I thought I had.

Eating—I can feel that my recent period of bad eating is coming to an end. I have not felt well. I have been using Tums. That is a sure sign that my eating is impacting me. Looking forward to a good eating day.

What hurts today—Very bad night. I think the burpees from yesterday might have set off my back. I had a really hard time getting up from them yesterday. The continual ache in my left arm is getting better. I don’t notice it as much. The left shoulder is still a big issue. When I was putting on my t-shirt I moved the wrong way and really got a stabbing pain in the shoulder. Just lasts for a moment but is quite severe.

Brian is going to be in charge of the judging for the NEO Crossfit Challenge on June 6th. I am starting to get a little concerned about the Challenge. I just don’t want to look to ridiculous. Of course, if it were not for people like me there would be no way to determine the fittest person in NE Ohio. They have to have someone to come in last.

New pair of fivefingers I ordered another pair of fivefingers. They are in transit to me now so I expect them tomorrow or Thursday. I went for the KSO style. Settled for plain black. They look strange enough without going with the wild colors. The reason I went with the KSO style was because on occasion my heel will slip out of my classics. Does not look real cool having to pull your shoe back on while doing pull ups.

The KSO’s are $85.00 + $4.95 shipping.