Sat, Dec 4 -- COMPETITION DAY!!

Today was my first Crossfit Team Competition!! We had a really good time, and actually wound up "wrecking shop", to quote Michael (team member). Our team in the intermediate division placed 2nd, and the elite team placed 3rd. We were all quite proud of ourselves. See the pics & video below for what my camera captured. There were several cameras out there, so hopefully we'll get to see everyone's at some point.

BF = 1 taquito

Snack = 2 tangerines

Lunch = small Very Berry smoothie from Smoothie Factory + 1 smoothie

Dinner = Fuzzy's!! Very good taco joint. Had chips & queso + a soft shredded pork taco + root beer.

WOD

WOD 1 = 30 burpees w/ partner clap (1-legged for elite), 2 ppl push Ford F250 50m, 30 more burpees (1-legged again for elite), other 2 ppl push Ford F250 50m more

WOD 2 = FRAN, (elite:  95/65#, intermediate:  75/55#)
                 21-15-9 of thrusters & pull-ups

WOD 3 (elite) =  Chinese fire drill out of the Ford Fusion, run to tire foot drills, wall climbs, partner carry, 2000m team row, each person 15 ring push ups (25 burpee penalty if rower handle doesn't make it in its holder slot)

RESULT:   Intermediate team took 2nd place out of 12 teams; Elite took 3rd out of 6th teams (they'd have gotten 2nd but had penalty burpees at end of wod3). Great job by everyone!!

Carey & Randy had the coolest socks!!

Amy mid-thrusters

Taylor doing thruster

Ellen doing thruster

Carey doing thruster

Taylor doing thruster, & Amy's backside

Carey doing thruster again

Ellen doing another thruster

Carey doing thruster

Carey again doing thruster

Micahel, mid pullup w/ Randy looking on

Randy's alternate grip pullup

Ellen pullups (Randy assisting)

Corey's self-mutilation due to pullup competition (OUCH)

Ouch again -- Corey's pullup wounds

Elite team about to do the 3rd wod

Monica & Amy ready to go! (Do they look like they already did 2 WODs?)

Taylor pimpin the Ford Fusion

No... it's not a hold-up or police raid. It's the beginning of the wod

Amy rowing in 3rd wod

Pull, Amy, pull!

Monica pulling like there's no tomorrow

Corey man-handling the rower

Taylor mid-row

Intermediate team took 2nd place (L to R:  Rep Nazi, Ellen, Michael, Randy, Carey)

Elite team took 3rd place (L to R:  Taylor, Monica, Amy, Corey, Rep Nazi)

The Elites enjoying their new status!

Hanging winners (L to R:  Randy, Carey, Michael, Amy, Ellen, Corey, Monica, Taylor)

Fear No Athlete (it's what the back of our shirts said)

 

1-legged burpees

Judge explaining rules to intermediate team

Dude carrying another BIG dude

hello!

Carey doing pullups in back

Getting ready to watch elite divisions compete in WOD 1

Randy about to pass off to Michael

Intermediate receiving 2nd place medals

Intermediate burpees (Ellen & Michael up, Randy & Carey down, rep nazis on each side)

All, midway burpees

Hut, hut!! hehe

Michael holding the weight while I do pullups

It says Fear No Athlete, but I think Monica fears the rep Nazi

Randy UP thruster

Randy, Carey burpees

Michael looking serious

Intermediate team strategizing

Loyalty - enough said

Both teams, preWODs

Both teams, pre WODs close-up

Elite team round 1 of push

Elite team round 2 of pushing

Intermediate team round 2 pushing

Spectating

Fri, Dec 3

Wow, last night was a late night. Went straight from work to Owen's daycare to hear him sing Christmas songs (he was great!), then over to a fellow karate kai's house to assemble black belt goodie bags. I didn't get home until after 10pm. Then I went straight to bed and got a couple hours of sleep before the hubby's snore-fest began. *sigh*  Oh well. A full day today with a decent bedtime tonight should have me geared up for tomorrow's competition! I'm excited and nervous all at the same time. I'm just glad we have a backup male team mate ready to step in for poor James (bad disc in his back took him out of the running). A "thanks" shout out to Michael for stepping up & to Randy for having the patience to stick

FOOD

BF = banana, 2 donuts, 1 bacon taquito (flour tortilla)

Lunch = 1 taquito + 2 tangerines




Dinner =  chips & salsa


WOD

No wod. Resting before the team competition tomorrow!

Thur, Dec 2

Still no fish burps! I'm just gonna go out on a limb today and say that the day started of with a banana and 3 buttermilk donuts, and ended with 4 mini-pumpkin muffins. Everything else in between was just sheer madness (with a few Paleo exceptions thrown in for good measure). But I am not repeating here what I consumed yesterday. For SHAME!

Starting Saturday, I am going back to a more Paleo-style eating. Not as strict as the 30-day challenge, but I'll stick to it as closely as possible.

No WOD today.

Watched Owen sing "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" at his daycare's Xmas Lighting event. SO cute! Yeah, I'm a wee bit proud of him.  ;)

Stay tuned for a more 'normal' posting tomorrow.

Wed, Dec 1

Today I realized there are only 23 more shopping days left for Christmas. I started early but I still have a ways to go before being done. I plan on NOT making it a stressful event!!


Good news -- still no fish burps. Surprising, since I'm combining the fish pills with a multi-vitamin, Niacin, and a calcium chew. I still keep waiting....


FOOD


BF = 7 paleo pancakes, 5 pieces of bacon, swig of freshly-squeezed grapefruit/oj combination


Snack = small piece of bday cake


Lunch = turkey, grapes, applesauce, 12oz freshly-squeezed gf/oj juice, small piece of pumpkin pie


Snack = more grapes, 5 half-dollar-sized paleo cookies, 1 square 78% dark cacao


Dinner =  6 paleo meatballs (turned out really good!!) + fruit/spinach smoothie, 2.5 sugar cookies




WOD 


WU:
2x CFWU - no pull ups


Challenge:  December 2 minute Challenge! Each month we are going to have a "2 minute challenge", this month it is Max Double Unders in 2 mins. Today you will spend some time working on DU and then complete as many double unders in 2 mins as possible. This MUST be DU, no single skips. It is OK if your number is low or even zero. Each day you can work on doubleunders for a few mins improving your skills. Feel free to do your max in 2 mins as much as you want. All through out the month keep track of your max DU's. You have 30 days to try and set the high score or to improve your own score. Even if you start with none you have a whole month to improve!! There will be a prize for whoever has the max DU and whoever has most improved.


Skill:




RESULT = 6:21 - 20# KB, 100 DUs

Carey & Tami swinging KBs

Pull ups:

Negatives -10 second holds x 10

Kipping, butterfly, weighted, etc

WOD
150 KB swings
for time

Tues, Nov 30

Last day of November. Where has the year gone? So I've started taking fish oil pills (3000mg a day). We will see if that doesn't help improve shoulder mobility as 3 doctors now have told me it should. Tami swears by them. It's been 2 days now, and I haven't had a fish burp yet....

FOOD

BF = 7 paleo pancakes, handful of m&ms

Snack = small piece of bday cake (can't wait for it to be all gone -- brought it to work to have others help me eat it)

Lunch =  some turkey, fajita steak meat w/ avocado, fresh squeezed orange/grapefruit juice

Snack =  2 tangerines, 5 paleo cookies, small piece of bday cake, apple

Dinner = banana w/ almond butter


WOD

WU:
run 400
3x
10 Lunges
10 ring dips
10 pass throughs
10 OHS with pvc

Skill:
Hollows
3x

5 second hold x 8

WOD

"300"
25 pull ups
50 deadlifts #135/95
50 Box jumps
50 Windshield wipers #135/95 (must touch toes to both sides for 1 rep)
50 DB/ KB - Clean and Jerks #35/20 (25 per arm)
25 pull ups
50 burpees

RESULT = 20:37, but did 55# on the floor sweepers (windshield wipers), and did ring rows instead of pull-ups.

 95# DLs

Box jumps

1-arm DB clean & jerk

Floor sweepers or windshield wipers, 55#