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.

Catch-22 Redux

I'm gradually regaining control of my life. The last two weeks have illustrated to me how much a creature of habit I have become, as the disruption of my regular routine has tended to make me very cranky. Particularly with my workouts. From SoCal to the cold to Aromas, I've lost two weeks out of the strength routine and missed a boatload of workouts, and while the rational part of my brain tells me that it's fine - maybe even good to mix it up - the irrational part is yelling at me that I'm falling behind, getting lazy, yada yada. Both jobs are also very crazy and behind schedule on their projects, which stresses me out - but this is not a blog about work.

Max wanted to give CFEB a taste of the Qualifier workout, so he concocted a version of Catch-22 that we'd be able to do at Ironworks:

For time:

22 Deadlifts 250#/185#
Run 400m with 10#/8# dumbbells
Single Kettlebell Carry 200m 2P/1.5P
22 KB Swing 2P/1.5P
Single Kettlebell Carry 200m 2P/1.5P
22 Chest to Bar Pull-Ups
Run 800m with 10#/8# dumbbells
22 Wall-Ball 20#/14#
22 Burpees
Run 400m (unweighted)

30 minute time limit.

32:09 RX (technically a DNF)

Very brutal, and a disappointing time. I gamed this one extremely poorly. It was the KB Carry that did me in. After the deadlifts (which were more or less fine, considering it was the heaviest I'd ever gone with deadlifts for reps), I did most of the carry holding the kettlebell by its handle behind my back, so it hit my butt on every step. This was exceedingly unwise, although I didn't know it at the time. The deadlifts and kettlebell completely shattered my grip, so that by the time I got to the pullups I could barely even hang off the bar - I did the pullups mostly in singles with long rests, which took forEVER. The rest went fairly quickly, but by then it was too late - I wasn't fast enough to finish it in under 30 minutes. If I could do it again, I'd carry the kettlebell on my shoulder, in such a way as to keep it there without working my grip. This one change, I think, would substantially improve my time.

It was a good workout, though. Felt MUCH harder than the scaled version of Catch-22 that I did on Sunday, but that's not too surprising.

It feels really good to be healthy and back on track.