Wed, Oct 13

Good news! My shoulder feels better than expected today. In the past when it hurt like it did last night, just having hands on the steering wheel the next day would hurt. But I'm happy to report no added negative effects have been felt today. Still need to work on getting to bed sooner though. Last night's WOD unfortunately ran way long. I think I'll be glad to have WUs done as a group to help keep things on schedule.

FOOD

BF = 2 scrambled eggs with 5 pieces bacon

Lunch = cheat meal:  chicken tortilla soup w/ chips & salsa, handful m&ms

Snacks = grapes, handful m&ms

Dinner = pork chop, fruit/spinach smoothie


WOD

WU:

3x

10 ring dips

10 Pass throughs

10 lunges

10 "spiderman"
5 "inchworms"

Recovery day = 5000k row

Result = 24:33

I worked my shoulder a bit after the WU, and now as I type it has a dull ache. But I have hope it won't bother me tomorrow. Crossing fingers....

Um, I probably could've rowed faster tonight but it was supposed to be a recovery row, so I kinda took it easy for the first couple of 1ks. I was still singing with the music, even! You gotta keep a positive attitude during one of these wods. Ugh. I like doing lots of things so I don't have time to focus on negatives. Maybe that's why I no longer like running. Truthfully, I think it has more to do with my impatience than anything. This Crossfit stuff keeps me going so much, it's a good day when I can just keep up with counting or get the addition right when it comes to putting weights on the bars!

I still don't understand the rowing concept. I hear rumor that longer pulls are better, but when I do it seems my s/m ratio goes down than if I pull shorter, but not too short. So I kinda did a round robin thing to experiment:  I'd do 3-5 really long pulls, then 3-5 short but hard pulls, 3-5 usual pulls, 3-5 underhand pulls, 3-5 opposite hand pulls, 3-5 switch up the opposite hand pulls, etc. It helped the meters go by. My forearms are always sore afterwards though. Soon, Popeye may have some competition in that arena!

Tonight's lovely participants were Clinton, Carey, Arleene, and Tami. Way to go folks! My complaint (cuz it is my blog, so I'll allow it) is WTF is up with heel blisters every time I row??

ARGH!

But to end on a positive note:  I was outta the box at 20:58!!

Good night.