Boring. Pistols. I suck as Pistols.

15min Amrap
6-HSPU
8-T2B
10-PISTOLS

200M RUN

4 rounds + 6.

There’s a reason that today is Day 222, isn’t there? I don’t know.. but regardless, today was an awesome WOD.

Worked on our Snatch Periodization today and then moved into it.

21-15-9
OHS (95/65)
Burpees

Low and behold, it was quite a small class.. guess nobody wanted to do overhead squats and burpees at 7a, but I finished in 7 min 15 sec. Just after Eric, and just before Joe. 🙂

I love being able to RX these! 222 is a good number.

As I posted on Facebook, Workouts like today’s rekindle my faith in my strengths and abilities. I left the gym feeling awesome, happy and accomplished. 🙂

We did a challenging workout. One of those ones that most people can’t do unbroken.  It was called the Unbroken Barbell.  

It was 
35 hang cleans
35 front squats
35 push presses
35 back squats

If you put the bar down or dropped it at any time, you had to do 5 burpees. I really dislike burpees, although I don’t fear them anymore, but the idea was to do as few burpees as possible. This is one of those WODs that’s challenging like the 100 kettlebell swings WOD. I was up for it!

I RXed it, first of all, at 65lbs.  I got all the way through my hang cleans and my front squats, and finally had to stop and put the bar down. My forearms were BURNING. I did my 5 burpees, and tried to tell myself I could get through the rest.

I DID!!! I only had to stop that one time and drop the bar. I got through it in 10:55. YEAH!!!!

My first real rest day. I didn’t work out, I didn’t run. I got up at 6a to go to crossfit, but I just didn’t feel good. Usually I’m just a little achy and still half asleep at 6a when I wake up for CF, but today it didn’t feel right. I checked my email, saw that Holly had to pick up a shift (I didn’t feel badly then, since had she gone, I would’ve felt like I bailed on her!) dicked around on my phone for a min, and went back to sleep. Ahhhh… ended up waking up at 9a.

The problem with this is… when I sleep until 9a, I feel groggy, have a headache, my back hurts, blah blah. When I wake up at 6a, I feel a little sleepy, but not achy, not tired. I don’t have a headache, and I’m up and awake within minutes. I get my coffee going, let the dogs out, get ready for crossfit, etc. The 6a start to my day is usually really amazing. I even contemplated staying up this morning when I woke up, just because I dreaded the feeling I’d get if I slept for another 3 hours. But then I thought about how comfy and warm the bed would be, and well, that won.

I’m hoping tomorrow I’m ready to get up and go at it. With the way I feel now, I think tomorrow will be awesome.

In response to yesterday’s post. WTF. I’ve thought about deleting the post and pretending like it never happened, just because when I go back and read it, all I see is this crazy chick rambling about being emotional and whatnot. Today I don’t feel that way at all. I’ll just chalk it up to batshit crazy girl hormones, and be thankful that it has passed.  Everyone else will be thankful too. Me as a visibly emotional basketcase is rare, and it’s something I try to keep others from experiencing.

I opted to leave it, because it’s really how I felt. Those were my emotions from this weekend. I’m not typically a girly girl, all crying and whatnot, but it still happens from time to time. I can’t help it, I can’t control it, it’s just how it is. I wish I could control my hormones and emotions, and I fought it for 3 days. I’m just glad it’s over with.

I need to take a break or do something differently here. I keep going in and expecting to attain this high that I’m used to experiencing from going twice a day, but I feel like my body is caving in from the sheer madness I’m putting it through. Or my head’s not in the right place. Or I’m just being a girl. I fucking hate having to deal with girly hormones and emotions.

So instead of doing the WOD yesterday, I go in and run instead, and these little milestones I keep reaching are great and all, like yesterday I ran 2km without stopping, in 14 min, and the few people I share it with get excited for me, but in reality, I don’t even want to share it though. In my head, the typical reaction should be more like, oh yeah cool, great. You can just now do what everyone else has been able to do forever.. congrats. Way to catch up, oh wait, you’re still a slow as shit runner. So I finish and get excited, and then I have a fallen feeling like oh.. nobody cares. I don’t have anyone to share this with.. and I get my stuff and go.

Do people notice when I’m not there??? Do they even notice that I left?

Today I went in and ran 2.2km instead. Further, and in just under 17 min. So I was happy with that. But again, I go in, and I feel like if I share it with anyone, they just get excited for me because they feel obligated to, which makes me not want to bother anyone with my stupid milestones. Nobody gives a shit anyway.

Tom, my trainer, had 270lbs on the bar, and I wanted to hop on and see if I could backsquat it. Stupid of me. A) I interrupted his sets, even though he said I could, and B) I totally got the first one, but my squat wasn’t deep enough, so I didn’t rest long enough before I tried it again and dumped the bar. Except that I was falling forward, and couldn’t lean back enough for the bar to roll off my back. Instead, I tumbled forward and ducked really fast to have the bar go over my head. I was lucky enough to not get hurt, but still. That was just fucking stupid of me. I wasted his time and I could’ve really hurt myself.

I’m full of frustration today. I need to snap out of this shit. I want to go in and blend in and not stand out, not take longer than anyone else, not be faster than anyone else.. I just want to go in, smile, not talk, not complain through whatever stretches we have, not make stupid small talk that nobody cares about.. just go in, do the workout, get my stuff and leave.

I’m really down right now and I don’t know how to fix it. I really hope it is just hormones, but if it is, I wish I knew how to control them better and make this stupid shit go away. Because right now I feel like I’m screaming inside my head, and nobody can hear me, and even if they did, they’d be like.. oh god.. what’s her problem now? *rolleyes* I feel like just talking to people about how I feel is a burden on them, and that I’ll get through it anyway, regardless of who I talk to, so I might as well keep my shit to myself. 

This one was a killer..

I started my morning out with a mile run. I went in at 10a to do just that.

I went back in the evening with Holly to do the actual WOD of the day. It was all kinds of awful! I needed it.

For time
100 DU buy in (300 singles)
then
3 rounds
15 Box Jumps 24/20 FGB
15 Wall Balls
20DU (60 singles)

then
3 Rounds
15 T2B
15 OHS 75/55 (I did front squats at 75lbs)
20DU (60 singles)

I really need to work on my DUs. 🙁

My time sucked on this one too.. 26:15. I SHOULD BE BETTER THAN THIS. WTF. This is SO FRUSTRATING.

Stupid Valentines Day.

We did the following today:
Elizabeth
21-15-9
Squat Clean 135/95#
Ring dips

I busted through all of it and finished at 11:50, but had excruciating muscle tightness/pain in my lower right side of my back during the squat cleans. What gives?

The day before, I had also had really bad back pain, and I attributed to my shoes, my New Balance W730v1s. But I’ve found when I wear my New Balance WR20s, I dont have any pain at all in my lower back. Hmmmm.. I went ahead and ordered 2 more pairs. 😀

We redid the baseline/beastline WOD today, to compare to our times a month ago. Mine was skewed from the start, since I didn’t do GHD situps the second time around, and it slowed me way down. Bleh. I dont even want to talk about it. I couldn’t even deadlift heavy when I was done either. Major disappointment.

This made me start thinking that maybe I’m overtraining? Am I doing too much? Do I need to scale back? But I’m sleeping so well!!! I’m feeling good about myself! I’m noticing results! But my strengths are faltering… maybe it’s just a bump in the road? I dunno.. Whatever.

I’m gonna go every day unless I feel like I need a break.

Yesterday…. almost caught up here!

Yesterday was an individual work out, even though it was another Bring a Friend day. I went in the morning for the WOD.

12 min AMRAP
6 push presses (95/65) I actually did them, even though it hurt my wrist. I feel that when I’m using it and stretching it, that it feels better.
8 ball slams
10 sit ups

I finished 8 + 18.

Went to run another mile and decided to stop and walk during the 3rd lap. Had killer back pain and didn’t know why. I felt so defeated and awful, especially since Patrick and Shannon made it a point to run along with me. I felt like a failure. 🙁

I realized tonight that it’s probably from the shoes. The shoes I WAS wearing were like, 1/2 size too small, but if I laced them differently, it gave me the room I needed in them. Well, even though they were New Balance minimus shoes (WR20), they had a tiny bit of arch support in them, which allowed for my back to feel pretty good during the previous runs. BUT.. today I had on my regular NB shoes.. My 730v1 shoes, which have zero arch support.  I’m going to try my other ones again and see if I notice a difference again. Hopefully it’s an easy fix.

My friend Holly brought her friend from where she works, and introduced him to CF. FUN.

It was a partner WOD, but I ended up being the 3rd wheel to Linda and Julie, since we had an odd number of people. Worked out fine though.

30 burpees, then as many box jumps as you can do while the other person does 30 burpees

30 KB swings (I used 40lb), then as many pull ups as you could do while the other person did 30 KB swings.

400m run, then as many push ups as you could do in the time the other person did their 400m run.

Total score is the number of reps in each 2nd activity. I totaled 55. Lower than I would’ve liked. I’ve been super tired lately. Gee I wonder why???

Came back that evening and ran another mile with Julie and Shannon. Best time yet of 11 minutes flat. 8.8km/hr