crlgrl’s BodyBlog

I had the alarm set for 0430 but started waking up at 0300…don’t you just hate that, when you wake up every 15 minutes to check an early alarm! The plan was to be out the door by 0500 with three teenageers in tow. Not an easy task I would think on a Saturday morning, but they all set alarms and did it without Mommy! I have to say, I have a couple of great sons. They both took off work so they could go watch me run, without me asking them to. Then my oldest son worked until 0200 Friday night, which meant he slept for about 3 hours before he got up. I must have done something right along the way and being there for friends and family is a great quality for them to have picked up! The race is 2 hour drive and we went to check out the course on Thursday, while we were in the city. And  we drove the exact same road I was using yesterday, paying close attention to signs and landmarks so that when I drove myself….I wouldn’t get lost. Yeah, I got lost! Really, I blame FP and FNB, I saw the airport I’ll be leaving in 19 days to go to the Arnold and finally meet my buddies in real live person, so I was picturing the screaming and jumping up and down and screaming and hugging and jumping up and down and when I woke from my daydream, I was like, "I don’t remember a pawn and pancake hut." So, I drove on a little ways, to make sure I was lost and make sure I was lost GOOD, apparently. The race started at 0800 and I was right on schedule to be there at 0730 so now I was pissed and freaking out!! Ever notice when you miss and exit, that even though you’ve seen one every 50 yards for the last 50 miles, it was always the last one. So I drive and cuss and drive and cuss, I hit my cussing quota for the week in about 10 minutes so no more cussing this week..dammit. When I did finally find an exit to turn around on, it had a pay toll both ways! Threw my 2 quarters in the first one, no problem, threw my 2 quarters in the 2nd one a little too hard I guess and banked one! Aggghhh, get out another quarter and gently toss it in. We make it back to the interstate but now I’m going in the oppisite direction so I don’t know if I’ll recognize the exit. All 3 teens are awake now, for some reason, and the clock is ticking…it’s 0745. My oldest son asks me why I didn’t print off some directions but shrunk back in the seat and started rocking back and forth when I gave him the Mom, "I’m about to go ballistic all up in this MO FO look." We figure out where we need to be going, I use the "emergency vehicles only" median crossing saying, "Don’t ever do that!" and pull into the park with 4 minutes to start time. I stopped at the port-a-potty ’cause I’ve had coffee, superpump and water and power pee! The boys dump me out in the road and say, "Don’t worry about anything except getting there. We’ll get everything else." Which, silly me thought would include the camera." My warm up before for the race consisted of running to the start line and then running back to the chip table because they reminded us to have one on. My first race was not chip timed so I had no idea of how to use one and no time to learn. I just asked some guy, "Will you put this one me?" I never miss an opportunity to have a random guy kneeling at my feet!   Back to the start line and literally 30 seconds later the gun goes off! The only part I was worried about was getting out in the start but I had no problem. The run went well up until about the 3K mark, when my mind said, "Wouldn’t it be nice to just take a little break?" So, I go through my checklist….are your feet hurting? No. Are your calves tired? No. Are your quads on FIYAH? They are a little warm…..OK, ok NO! "So then let’s giddy up girl!!" I try to zone out for a bit by watching the persons shoes in front of me, which happens to be a boy of about 7 years old…yeah, I said in front of me. I hit the 4k mark and know it’s time to start picking it up so I start just stretching out my stride a little and then I see the finish line and about 2 to 300 yards out start to build up some speed until I hit mach super-duper hyper speed. Riiiggghhhht! But I did pass 10 or so people on the way there and feel like I could have kicked a little earlier which will be something I work on now. So, I wanted to finsih in under 24 minutes, which I did at 23:33. I got 1st place in my age division and came in 15th overall out of 338 other women. Not too bad for an old girl running her second race!! Next run……The Arnold with Frogprincess72 and hopefully Nursenic! Thanks to everyone who wished me luck and supported me along the way!!

Yesterday was probably my last workouts for the week,  probably,  and I went out with a small bang..maybe more like a bing. : ) I did my easy 2 miles and then did the CF WOD which was max deadlifts. 1-135#, 1-145#, 1-150#, 1-155#, 1-160#, 1-165# and finished at 1-170#. Wish me luck on not working out!

Yesterday was Cindy on the CF main site and I was excited, she is one of my favorite girls!!! The WOD is 5 pull ups, 10 push ups and 15 squats as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes. I got 14 rounds using a chair under my feet for some of the pull ups to push at the very end of the movement. Sunday I went out to the trail and ran 6 miles and change, probably close to 7 in 53 minutes. It was so nice outside, with at tempature of 72 and sunny. Of course, after being used to running in 40 degrees  it felt about 100 but I’ll take it!! Saturday we hit the mountain biking trails..it’s been toooo long!! The trail we went to is a fairly easy one that you can just really blow it out on and that is exactly what I did!!

Saturday is my race, so I was asking coach Sonja if I should do my speedwork that my training plan calls for. She said just do my easy 2 miles on Tuesday and skip the speedwork and then she said……and I wouldn’t do any Crossfit either. Bu…bu…but what do you mean, just don’t do any before the race?? The day before? This week?? OMG..what are you saying?? I know she is probably right, that’s why she’s the coach. Soooo I’m going to the gym this morning for my easy 2 mile run and the CF WOD of max weight Deadlifts BUT I probably will take off W-T-F or at least T-F. : )

Specifically a push jerk! I finally got it! Yessterdays Crossfit work out was shoulder press, push press and push jerk. I’ve only been able to do a push jerk a few times when I felt like my form was actually right and productive. So here’s the breakdown…..

Shoulder press

1-60,  1-65,  1-65,  1-70, and 1-70.

Push press

3-70, 3-70, 3-75, 3-75 and 1-80..failed.

Push jerk

5-65, 5-65, 5-70, 5-70 and 5-75

Getting these down feels GR8!!

Now, time for the mountain bike trails!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crossfit is so sadistic sometimes…well most of the time! After yesterdays sprinting, box jumps and wall ball squats, the next WOD up was back squats 5-5-5-5-5. Geez, like my gluteus maxi-medi-mini-mus wasn’t sore enough!! But, seeing as I’m part sadist, I did it anyway and liked it!! I started off with 95#, 115#, 125#, 130# and ended with 135#. Tomorrow is my least favorite type of run….tempo day!! UGH. So I’ll be up at 5 am chugging the pump and eating the bagel and off to the TM before work. I’m so ready for spring!!!

Yesterday was my easy 2 mile run day and one of the WOD’s I missed a few days ago was, Kelly, which was run 400 meters, 30- 24 inch box jumps and 30- 20# wall ball squats for 5 rounds. So I figured I’d combine the 2 and call it good! I took my homemade wall ball to the gym, set the 24 inch bench and hit the TM. The one bad thing about doing a running WOD on the TM is that you have to get the TM going and up to speed everytime you come back to it…probably coulda deducted 5 or 10 minutes off my time. (: Or not! First round I did all my box jumps on the 24 but after about 10 on round 2, I clipped the bench a couple of times with my foot and had flash backs of breaking my finger as I jammed it into the wall..so I dropped down to 20 inches. Then round 3, UGH, I ran my 400’s at a 7 mile pace and I sooo wanted to stop the 3rd sprint but I just kept telling myself "just finish this one." Box jumps went good and then the wall ball squats…I almost got my first pukie patch, my innnards felt like they were all smushed up and my Superpump was threatening to be out like Mount Vesuvius on a peasant!! And lest you think, innards is not a word, rememeber people, I’m a highly medical proffessional. (: Anyway, I stopped for about 10 seconds and started again. This was just the type of work out I like, really gets everything pumping and I was dripping with sweat..I mean perspiration, everybody knows a lady doesn’t sweat. So, yeah, I was sweating all over the place (: but it felt GR8. MY TIME, for those of you who NEED to know….was 25:16, DOC. (;

Sunday morning, I’m up at 5:00 getting my bagel and Superpump down so it has enough time to settle before I run. And then I wait. Sunday is my long run day and today is 6 miles, I work 9-9 and the gym isn’t open so I don’t have access to a TM, sooooo the track is my only option. But there are no lights so I have to wait for enough natural to come out. I get there about 6:20 and start to go in circles and I was immediately in the zone! Not my usual struggle for a mile or 2 mile before I settle into a comfortable pace. And why do I have to fight it everytime??  The 6 miles was pretty uneventful, I went round and round and round! It felt good to have gotten it done, in spite of life and work.

Today’s CF WOD was 30 muscle ups or in my case 120 pull ups and 120 dips. I broke it down into sets of 10 and the last 3 rounds did jumping pull ups. My arms and forearms felt like they were gonna bust!!