An occasion for knee socks!

WOD

For time:
5 Rope Climbs
50 Pushups
4 Rope Climbs
40 Pushups
3 Rope Climbs
30 Pushups
2 Rope Climbs
20 Pushups
1 Rope Climb
10 Pushups

RESULTS

Rope Climb 10', hand release push-ups

21:54

ANALYSIS

Loved this WOD. Definitely hit muscle failure towards the end - not too bad but did make me nervous climbing up the rope. Either way fun! I need to work on getting DOWN the rope.  I kinda just go down about three notches and drop.  Probs not the best technique :)

The day I made a teenage girl cry.

One of the things about running outside of the box thats tough is that all the people you are passing 1. don't know what kind of pain you have been in and/or are still in and 2.the tourists don't have sidewalk courtesy.  Well, yesterday, during the Farmers Carry Round 2 (living high in pain city btw) I ran into a gaggle of HS girls visiting from somewhere. I saw them laugh and NOT move out of the way for the person in front of me and then laugh and NOT move out of the way for me. And without thinking, I just screamed "Get out of the f*cking way!! Its not that hard for f*cks sake!"  Oye.  On my way back I saw the girl crying and her Mom instructing the group of 6 girls to move before I hurt them. Double OYE!  I did feel bad, but I have let that go. Maybe they have learned how to walk on sidewalks in the city? ;) LOL

WOD
Max Pullups.

“Get a Grip”
3 Rounds:
2 Rope Climbs
20 Hang Power Cleans 75/55
200m Farmers Carry
(50/30)

RESULTS

PUs: BB, 14

16:34 (Round 1: rx'd; Round 2 and 3: 15 pull-ups, 10# FC)

ANALYSIS

I was really nervous to do this RX'd. I don't feel 100% confident with my rope climbing abilities especially when maxing my grip out during the rest of the WOD.  The 35# farmers carry stripped me of that little bit of confidence. I had to stop FOUR TIMES on the first round to rest the weight and when I got on the bar for the pull-ups (which btw I should have stuck with rope climb - it would have been easier I think!!), I couldn't grip the bar. In fact, I got on the bar to do a pull-up and when I attempted to pull-up I fell off the bar.  Yeah.  So I downgraded to 10# weights for farmers carry with Andrew's blessing and zipped through the remaining round(s).  

The second piece to this, I had no heart in working out today - and it made a difference.  We found out Isis was in acute kidney failure that morning and with everything else going on last week, that news zapped all passion from my body. But I needed to get out of the house and focus on something else... I am proud of myself for being at the box and completing the work (at any level).  I am looking forward to a 4x/week week this week! :)

Rope Climbs! YEA!!

Today is my rest day as I prep for Fran tmrw morning. We have a January challenge and I am hoping to really improve on my time. Last time I did Fran was in the summer with a green band and I completed it in 9:06.  Tmrw will set the benchmark time for me to improve on across the next four weeks and I will be using the red band.  Christy and Andrew are doing it with me so I will be chasing BIG time - at least for the first 3 mins ;)


WOD
Floor Press 12x2 @65% of Monday


4 minutes for reps of Rope Climb
3 minutes for reps of Burpees
2 minutes for reps of KB Swings (16)
1 minute for reps of Double Unders
*no rest between minutes


RESULTS
Floor Press @65# (Mon max was 105#)


Rope - 3
Burpees - 35
KB Swings - 30
DUs - 19
TOTAL - 87


ANALYSIS
This was the first time I have rope climbed since working out in Kalorama with Christy.  I got the "how to" down really fast, kinda like riding a bike I guess, but couldn't keep my foot grip tight enough to make it to the top of the rope each time. SO, I made it all the way to the top once and then 3/4 way to the top 4 times.  I am not discouraged, next time I just need to wear shorts and knee high socks instead of slippy stretch pants.  Next time I will get to the top 4x.  Burpees as always suck the life out of me and I wish I had pushed myself harder on the KBs - I am usually really good at those!  I am VERY proud of my double unders. By the end of the WOD I was sucking wind big time so I just did sets of 5 and was able to string them together no problem.  Theme of the week - cardio is my weakness right now.  I am going to start doing some speed training on my rest days (Sunday and 1/ mid-week) to see if that helps.