I love burpees

Sat, Mar 22, 2014

Sat, 22 Mar 2014 06:00:00

Oh man, I need to catch up! Guess I'll be doing some half effort back logging tonight!

Today was not a good one for me. We had a girl get hurt (I know it happens, but it just sucks) at my training group. I was worried about her the whole time as a few of them took her to instacare. She ended up hurting her sternum cause she had fallen but was otherwise ok.

I had set up a nice course for a large group that was coming and was pretty excited. We ran down into Cholla creek, and had lots of obstacles, including our new one - the 60 lb tractor pull. They did amazing, no one got lost, and I was inspired and proud to see them all working so hard.

But by the time I got to my own workout afterwards, I was exausted and pretty disheartened. I had to start my run like that:( This is one workout that I actually don't think benefited me at all. I only got 7 miles in, but did tons of obstacles. I didn't feel like pushing anything, and even walked a bit on the way home. I just wasnt into it. I'll rest up and hopefully start refreshed next week.

Fri, Mar 21, 2014

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:00:00

I didn't register for the Crossfit Open, but I decided to do 14.4 today. i wish I had attempted a few muscle ups before the workout - I wasn't even sure I would get to them before I started. Here's the workout.

14 min - get as much done as you can

Row- 60 cal (took me 3.5 min)

50 Toe to Bar - Brutal! 15 unboken, and then 5 or so at a time

40 Wall Balls - 30 unbroken, then 10

30 Power Cleans 135 - men 95 lb- women - 10 unbroken, 4-5 at a time after

20 Ring Muscle Ups - nada

I got all the way to the muscle ups - I had 1 min to attempt them. I can do them on the bar, just never practice on the rings. I was so bummed that I had so much time and couldn't get any! I would've gotten a decent score I'm sure. - but I guess I'll take 180

We started with workout with front squats - 85 lb every min do a clean and then 5 - 10 min

Thu, Mar 20, 2014

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:00:00

Treadmill run - still super tired from last sat

I got this from a track coach - wanted to see how I liked it.

All done at 6.0 on treadmill with 7lb weight vest, 1/2 time rest

10%-6 min/ 3 min rest

11% - 5 min

12% - 4min

13% - 3 min

14% - 2 min

15% - 1 min

This was longer than my typically treadmill workout, and so was difficult in another way. It wasn't intense, just long suffering. Without weight vest, could've done the whole thing much faster.

Wed, Mar 19, 2014

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:00:00

I got to teach Zumba on my new day of the week and I loved it!

Jim was with me, so we went to crossfit after the class. Oh man, I'm still so exhausted from last saturday's race!

Our warmup:)

2000 m row as a team, 30 lbs kettlebell farmer carry, 7 wall balls - x 3!

then

see how many you can do in 1 min - no break between

1 min push ups - (I got 32)

1 min air squats - (48)

1 min pull ups- (22)

THEN

25 burpees

25 thrusters - 85 for women

25 burpees

every min you have to stop and do 7 sit ups!

I was dying by the end - seriously!

Tue, Mar 18, 2014

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:00:00

I wanted more of an easy workout since I was tired from sat, but ended up with a not so easy one.

My plan was:

1 mile warm up

400m

pick up atlas stone- 75 lbs - walk/drop pick up - x 6 times

400 m

pull tire to me - 4 x

400 m

carry bucket'

400 m

tractor pull with tire

Repeat all 3 x

Well I only made it 2 x and felt like my body wasn't ready to push

I ran an extra 4 miles - but 2 were straight back into a nasty cold head wind. I was miserable and in a bad mood by the time I got home. Ugh

Mon, Mar 17, 2014

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 06:00:00

I'm not often completely frustrated at crossfit, but today i was almost in tears. It is sooo rediculous, but I can't even get one double under now (the rope goes under your feet 2 times for each jump). It's all about timing, I just don't feel it yet.

So today we did "Annie" and i didn't even finish it! Here's the workout

50-40-30-20-10

Double unders

sit ups

you do 50 DU, then 50 Sit ups, then 40 DU and so on.

I had to stick around and just do other things to get a workout it.

3 sets

bench press - 75 - 8 reps

1 leg decline lunges - 50 lbs

Later in the day, I ran the water tower trail as a recovery run

Sat, Mar 15, 2014

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:00:00

I was going to start this blog out saying "I think I could've done better here" or "Here's where I should've improved" - But quite frankly I'm surprised I did as well as I did.

I raced the Georgie Atlanta Spartan Sprint last week, and I was still pretty fatigued. In fact on Thurs I tried adding a measely 800 m at race pace into my run, and I was too breathy to complete it.

Plus, I didn't feel like I had the "fight" in me - It usually takes a few weeks to get that back after racing

So I came in with no expectations (well maybe a little) and a hope to be able to hold a respectable time.

2nd place overall and a gift certificate to st George Running Center!

Standing at the starting line felt a bit foreign - I hadn't ran a 10k, or a non obstacle race, in over a year. i hadn't trained for this - tempo runs and most street runs weren't even part of my workout anymore. I stood there with my running center girls - Amber Green, Marci Jacobsen, Jessica Brazzeel and it felt good to be part of the "family" again. I'm not gonna lie - it was a far different starting line than a Spartan. The men had runner's bodies - not the chisseled abs and bulging muscles I was used to seeing haha. Same goes for the women. I'm not saying anything bad about it - It was just different.

So we started off - and it felt GOOD to be able to get into a rhythm and go. The first mile has a pretty good downhill, and then they roll after that. It is ran through a BEAUTIFUL Snow Canyon State Park, and then out into surrounding neighborhoods. The second half has more inclines than declines. Here are my splits.

5:20

5:44

5:40

5:55

6:18 (eke!)

6:05

So the wheels came off a little at the end,and I was feeling the past week's fatigue. I ran a little too conservatively on the downhill portions to make up the split between 1st place (Amber Green) and I. She really took off from the get go, and I just couldn't close the gap.

But considering how I felt 2 days prior, I need to be SUPER happy with my performance and chalk it up to a great training run.

2nd place and a $50 gift certificate to St George Running Center!