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It was the boys club this morning. Danny brought his little boy along and he jumped right in with us on the workouts.
Worked on getting a Push Jerk Max this morning. I was struggling quite a lot and finally ended up with 165. As usual I was not happy with that, sure that I had not done as well as I have in the past but I went to check what I got on this last time and in March and I got 165. I have not lost anything so I am OK with the numbers today although I always want to see them going up.
We worked on the 10M Of Death. Run 10M first minute, 2 10M’s second minute and so on. I made it to 11M’s. I admit that I was really careful on these runs. You had to make a quick turn at each 10M’s and the pavement was damp. Had I thrown caution to the wind I might have been a bit faster but on something like this I am OK going a little slower and avoid going down.
The good part about it is that I got warmed up for my 1.5 mile run after class. I needed to do that for the NGU Challenge on youTube. I hoped to get 15:26 but came in at 17:11. Still a long way from the fat boy that could not even run 200M’s. I captured it on video and will be putting together my entry video for the challenge over the weekend.
Jerry and I ran the 1.2 mile trail at the park on Treaty Line Road last night. We did not time the first run. We walked a bit and then went for a second round. We came out the other end 16:40 later. That is slow but the trail does have multiple steep hills and you really have to watch where you are stepping. Clearly room for improvement in time and distance. Hopefully I was not holding Jerry up too much but my ass was dragging toward the end of the second run.
We are making this a regular thing for Wednesday evenings so if you want to join us feel free to come along. Hopefully Eric will make it next week.
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ONE YEAR AGO
CrossFit at 6AM. The fog was thick as pea soup. This was the heaviest fog I can remember in a very long time. Not just pockets of fog here and there but a solid blanket everywhere.
Stacia, Tina and Tom with Brian coaching. Have not seen Jerry for awhile. I noticed this morning that as I looked in the mirror I almost felt good about myself. Need to have Jerry back in the gym to help me deal with these strange feelings.
Not a very good night for me last night. Very restless and my right heel was really hurting, keeping me awake. I suspect that it was the double unders yesterday that has aggravated it even more than it was.
Our workout this morning had sets of 150 jump ropes and I considered doing some rowing as a substitute to give my heel a break however that would have taxed my arms which were going to have to work hard in the WOD. I went ahead and did the jump ropes but did the smallest jumps possible.
The WOD is very deceiving when you just read it. There was a lot of work. It comes out to
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600 Jump Ropes
60 Push Jerk
60 Power Snatch
60 Push Ups
I seemed to be moving at extra slow speed this morning. My transition from the power snatch to the push up was very slow as I fought a lot of pain getting up and down and my jump ropes were very broken. I know this WOD was designed to be fast but I was not much of a sprinter this morning. Best news was that I did not quit and I finished everything with reasonable form using 95 lbs for the Jerk and Snatch.
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| Warm Up | 10 Pull Ups 10 Squats 10 Sit Ups 3 Rounds |
| Skill | Power Snatch |
| WOD | 150 Single Jump Ropes then 3 rounds each of: 5 Push Jerks 5 Power Snatch 5 Push Ups Repeat for 4 Rounds |
| Results | (95) Terry 29:11 (65) Tom 23:45 (35) Stacia 19:58 (45) Tina 20:42 |
Eating—Staying on plan. Made another batch of red, green, yellow peppers and onion with ground turkey breast yesterday. Hard to believe that tomorrow is weigh in again (and also the last day of July).
What hurts today—Biggest issue it the back of the right heel. Other than feeling like I have been run over by a truck as a result of the WOD I am feeling great.