OMG a POST!!

Ok - yeah. it's been kinda a while since i last actually posted. The last couple weeks have been crazy and I've been feeling less than motivated. Sleep has been bad, food has been bad (due mostly to high time of stress at work but also to being out of town a lot), and thus workouts have been bad, and it is way less fun to blog bad stuff than good stuff.

I'm going to try to go back and make up the posts I've missed - but I have to start somewhere, so I'll start with today.

Warmup:
Some OHS with a dowel, about 2000m running, helping to set up the equipment.

WOD:
For time:

22 Deadlifts 250#/185# *subbed 105#
Run 400m with 10#/8# dumbbells
Single Kettlebell Carry 200m 2P/1.5P *subbed 1P for all KB
22 KB Swing 2P/1.5P
Single Kettlebell Carry 200m 2P/1.5P
22 Chest to Bar Pull-Ups *subbed jumping (as close to C2B as I could manage)
Run 800m with 10#/8# dumbbells
22 Wall-Ball 20#/14# *subbed 33# thrusters
22Bupees
Run 400m

30 minute time limit.

Results:

Round	Time	Elapsed
22 Deadlifts	2:14	2:14
400m Weighted Run	4:04	6:18
200m KB Carry	3:11	9:29
22 KB Swings	1:58	11:27
200m KB Carry	3:38	15:05
22 Pullups	4:44	19:49
800m Weighted Run	8:14	28:03
22 Thrusters	4:01	32:04
22 Burpees	3:43	35:47
400m Run	3:02	38:49

Comments:
This was a major slog fest, but it was a good slog fest, and it felt great to 'get back on the horse'.

At 30 minutes - when I'd finished thruster #8, Max said "Ok you're done - DNF." I sat down for about 20 seconds and realized that - dammit I was NOT done - I got back up and finished. I was essentially done with equipment, wouldn't be taking up anybody's space. It sucked but it was a good kind of suck. My 'discomfort tolerance' seems to have decreased somewhat. My mantra on the 800m run was - "it's only uncomfortable, just run, dummy" - obviously - at 8 minutes - I didn't run as much as I shoud have. The main problem on these was my grip. Holding dumbells while running is hard and unnatural and makes for a weird gait.

The deadlifts actually went pretty well. The swings went pretty well, too - even though I had to do them in sets of 3-5 due to my arms being fried from carrying that thing 200m first. I tried to see whether you can do KB swings with an alternating grip ... turns out not so much.

The pull ups were aggravating. There was no way I was going to be able to hang onto the bar for kip attempts - my hands were fried - so I decided I wanted to try to do jumping C2B pullups. but even jumping I can't quite get my C 2 the B. I got close, I had the height - particularly on the last 4 or 5 when I switched to a chin-up grip i jwas just always about an inch from the bar. I think I actually managed it on the last one. My shoulders definitely touched the bar - i just don't know if it was low enough.

Overall, it was hard, but it felt great to be back.