Monday, 01.02.12

"I Like Suites"

We went to Japan Town in San Francisco and I came across this bowl written in "Engrish" - cracks me up!

I should have bought the bowl for myself because it is totally true - and it's a problem! I don't know if all of you have noticed (Ha ha, "all of you" implies that multiple people read this. Just plain "you"probably would have sufficed) but I have severely neglected my food log.  No excuses -  I just flat out haven't done it.  If I had been faithful in keeping it, I guarantee you there would have been a lot of "suites" on it.

I'm not really big on making New Year's resolutions, in fact I kind of rebel against it so my timing on wanting to start up my log again now, at the beginning of the year, is a mere coincidence.  In fact, I am purposely waiting a couple of days to start so it's further from the first of the year, so stay tuned. Like I said, I rebel against it.

Friday, 12.30.11

FRAN!!

So today I started with working up to a 1RM thruster. I got up to 115 and then tried twice to get 125 but failed.  I was disappointed because my previous PR was 120 and I had thought back then that I could have hit 125.

My wrists were really bothering me today - residual pain from the kettle bell thruster workout I did over a week ago.  I had a hard time transitioning from holding the weight in a front squat position to the overhead thruster. I had the weight just on the tips of my fingers and then when coming up out of the squat, I tried to jump it into the palm of my hand to grip it for the overhead thruster.  That didn't work so well.  I think if I had a better grip on the weight, I could have finished the lift.

Fran...8:40...I think?  I know didn't beat my previous PR of 8:31.  I thought I was doing pretty well - was able to string the first 21 thrusters together, but I must of been slow with my pull-ups.  I also couldn't even string the last 9 thrusters together.  I guess after the first 21 I fell apart.

I still need to do the Compound Total - I think I will next week. Hopefully I will have better results than my 5K and Fran.  I'm pretty disappointed in my results but that just means I need to try harder! Getting sick really threw me off  - at least that's my excuse!

Thursday, 12.29.11

I'm still not feeling 100% so I took yesterday off and then today just did the scheduled strength and conditioning recovery workout and worked on trying to get a strict pull-up (still not there):

Conditioning: Strength and Conditioning Recovery for Quality (from CrossFit Endurance):
3 rounds:
-GHD Sit-ups x 15
-Hip Extensions x 15
-Kettlebell Swings x 15 (35 lbs)
-Push Ups or Bench Press x 15
-Ring Rows x 15


This was a perfect workout to try and get back into things after being sick, and to prepare for Fran tomorrow!!

Tuesday, 12.27.11

After being sick for a couple of days (in bed on Christmas Day!) with the stomach flu,  I decided I needed to get out and do SOMETHING so I went for a run.

As I started my run, I felt surprisingly good, despite not eating much of anything for a couple of days.  With this week being "benchmark week" I had already missed the Compound Total and I knew the 5K was coming up so I decided to go ahead and run the 5K.

My time ended up being 27:50 - about 2 minutes longer than the last 5K I ran in November.  So, not very good but the best I could do considering the situation.  I also haven't been running a whole lot this month.