Wednesday, July 30, 2008

I am pretty sure I was still half asleep this morning when I entered the blue room. I thought about making today my rest day but its Wednesday and I work from home so don't have to rush out after the WOD. My traps were really sore today from cleans yesterday, guess I was doing them not totally with my arms. Ok, so I told myself to suck it up and knock out the WOD

250 m row
25 box jump
25 kettle bell swing (1 pood or 52#)
25 dumbbell thrusters (20 or 25#)
25 ab mat situps

3 rounds for time.

Jerry said the firebreathers could go for 4-5 rounds. Part of me thought about it but I knew it was going to be tough and wanted to push it for 3 rounds really hard. I substituted jumping squats for thrusters and used either a 30#or 25# dumbbell depending on what was available at the time. I did the Rx'd weight for kettle bell swings but did only one arm. Still nursing the shoulder injury. We had to stagger the start and I started with jumping squats. I felt really good once we started. My lower bag felt weak and I started to round my back on jumping squats (Jerry let me know I was rounded) but I corrected it throughout the circuit. I minimized my rest, skipped putting my shoes on for rowing and just rowed in socks, and ended up killing the circuit in 17:06. Leslie finished next in 18:38. I was beat, I am not sure I could have gone any harder and was really happy with my time. When I was half way through my 3rd round Jerry said sub 20 was an awesome time for the circuit, so I kicked it up a notch not knowing where I was in terms of time.

Because it was Wednesday I stuck around and watched 6:45 go through the workout. I needed to do my 17 burpees, and work on deadlifts. Let's face it the real reason was I wanted to see how my time held up. Mel got the best time at 6:45, she got 17:35. I was getting ready to leave and the 7:30 class started. I saw that Jack was there and was curious how he would do on the circuit against my benchmark.

In the mean time before they started the circuit I had Keturah time me do the 100 perfect pushup test for time. I have been thinking about doing this test for a few weeks and knew I could put up a good time. I even strategized that I should start with sets of 20 and adjust. The best time was 3:18 by Mike H. I started off with great form and knocked out my first 20, took a 5 second break and continued. I got through 60 but definitely was feeling it. I knocked out another 10 and then realized I would have to do sets of 5. I barely got my last one and yelled time, I got 3:26. Missed the class record by 8 seconds. Damn I was a little bummed. I guess that is the competitor in me, I wrote my time and just realized I have something to improve on. I sat down and just took a quick status on Jack and others on the circuit and realized my time should hold up.

I waited all day for the post and ended up back at CJJ to roll after an appt with Dr. Bills and checked out the white board. I did have the best time, I was definitely satisfied for today. Here is to tomorrow, and never being completely satisfied.

I rolled/sparred for about 30 minutes tonight. I didn't even notice my shoulder. I am a little sore as I write this but am headed to the freezer to grab the ice bag.