I'm baaaaack! Kinda...

So after much rest last Thursday and a quick trip to San Fran Friday through Sunday, my neck is feeling much better. Its still sore when I move it certain ways - which I have overcome by just not moving in that direction ;) I started back at District yesterday and went in at 8am.  I love working out at 8am because NO ONE shows up, usually.  So I get 1:1 time with my coach and this particular day Andrew let me pick my workout.  The WOD for the group involved overhead squats and I wasn't touching that with a 10 foot pole.  So, we worked on double unders and toes-to-bar.  Yeah, I am taking crazy pills I CHOOSE those exercises.  The good news is that I can string my double unders now!!  YEAH ME!!!  I like to think its my crazy  workout powers, but in reality I think it has a lot to do with my fancy new jump rope (lighter weight) and plain, straight-up, repetitive practice.  Toes to bar was difficult for me because my kip wasn't jiving. And I actually think thats because of the width of our pull-up bars - I just couldn't get a good grip. Andrew tells me the new (and smaller) pull-up bars will be installed by tomorrow. I am looking forward to working on toes-to-bar then (and pull-ups of course).  After practicing my skills, Andrew told me I was doing Annie rx'd and to try to get under 10 minutes.  Well, I did it... just not under 10 minutes :)

WOD
Annie
50 double unders
50 sit-ups
40 double unders
40 sit-ups
30 double unders
30 sit-ups
20 double unders
20 sit-ups
10 double unders
10 sit-ups

Results
17 minutes (I may have been a little under, may have been a little over - can't remember but was within 30 seconds of 17 minutes)

Analysis
It was the double unders that took me forever.  I could string them but once I got tired it was hard - and I got tired fast!  I started the du's by breaking them up in sets of 5 - towards the end of the WOD I was able to bang them out in sets of 8 and 10. I think I was able to do this because I just wanted it done - but knowing that I could do 10 in a row tells me I need to push myself to do it in future WODs!  This was a fun one and a good benchmark for me to do again in a month.  I wish I had gone faster but am so excited I did the WOD rx'd and I was able to string double unders :)

Life is pain, Highness!

Wednesday's WOD was slightly disastrous.  I was feeling ok going in but tired out quickly on my overhead squats - the last one of which ended up on top of my head and then dropping behind me.  Yes indeed.  So onto the WOD, I was feeling less stronger than usual but with Andrew's encouragement decided to go with a nice, heavy weight for my clean and jerk. It was heavy, but definitely the right weight for me.  Unfortunately, during my first set of clean and jerks, I moved my the neck the wrong way while cleaning my weight up. Result - immediate contracting of the muscle (ie. my neck) and a feeling that I can only relate to a waking up with a stiff neck.  I completed one more clean and jerk and then couldn't move.  It hurt so freakin' bad!!  But I didn't want to be that girl that cried in the box (there's no crying in baseball right?!) so every time Andrew tried to talk to me, I just had to walk away.  I painfully drove the car over to pick-up Shawn and immediately burst into tears in the car and again when I saw him.  The rest of the night was about ice and ibuprofen and tears and this morning, I woke up feeling a bit better but still with limited and painful movement.  Soooo, tomorrow's cross country flight will be interesting (if I still can't turn my head) and today I worked from home with an ice pack on my neck.  I am not upset, this is going to happen when I push myself.  I just wish I could have gotten one more WOD in before I left for travel this weekend (that's kinda twisted ;).  Oh well, I look forward to starting back up on Monday.

WOD

Overhead Squat
3-2-1-1-1

40 Double Unders
4 Ground to Overhead (which I attempted as a clean and jerk)
30 Double unders
3 Ground to Overhead
20 Double unders
2 Ground to Overhead
10 Double Unders
1 Ground to Overhead

Ground to Overhead is 70% of your 1RM Clean and Jerk.

RESULTS

OHS 65, 75 (x3) 85 (x2), 95 (x1), 105 (f @1)

WOD @ 85lbs. stopped after first round