Trippin'

Almost went to be without putting up a post on todays WOD.  Where are my manners?  I hope you're doing well, and had a great weekend.  Mine was pretty good.  Nothing of note, actually, I have car issues, but thats just another issue for another day. 

Man, it was a good WOD.  Legs are a bit wobbly.  This whole push from your heels thing is starting to get old, but I said my goal for the month was better form, thats part of the package...so quit complaining.  Right?

So the skill/strength part of today workout was a 3 part piece.  Not quite an EMOM, but a go at you own pace, 60 seconds rest between activities type of day.  Rear squats, ring rows, and these things called partner leg tosses.  To warm up for the squats, we started at a lower weight and were building up to something approaching the 60%.  5 sets of 3.  In between each set, do 3 negative moment pullups.  Got to 105 for my 60%...no idea if this is accurate, but we're about to start going. 

Take a second to say my knees feel good.  I mean they're creaky, but good, nothing like they used to be.  Warm up squats were good, stayed back on the heels for the most part.  Form is getting better. 

First set of squats, they're rough, I'm struggling now.  What happened?  Warmup was good, maybe I went to heavy?  Idk.  Linz is here.  Thats Adrian's girl, she happens to work where I work, though until today, I'd never met her.  These two are the consensus Oly lifters.  Adrian is fantastic, and everyone tells me he's the best Olympic lifter/form guy of the coaches.  They've also told me that as awesome as Adrian is, Linz is better.  Maybe she'll coach someday? Either way, happy to have their feedback. 

The rep scheme for this was 8 rear squats, 60 second rest, 6-8 ring rows, 60 sec rest, 15-20 partner leg tosses, rest 60 seconds.  x3.  I get 6 squats in and have to re-rack.  Adrian suggest I go wider with my stance... no box to squat on, instead, lets make it wider.  Ok, sure.  I do an air squat.  He and Linz nod.  Say go a little wider.  Another air squat.  Adrian tells me "thats the best squat I've seen you do yet".  Hmmm.  Guess wider is better...  I'm sure this will change as I get smaller, but for now, we're going wide.  Finish the last 2 of the set, and both he and Linz are pleased, they apparently look much better. 

I'm happy for this feedback.  My quads are getting killed out here, but I really want this to be done right, safely, and...well right.  LOL.  Better squats=better everything.  Might have unlocked a whole new WOD experience with this revelation.  Time will tell.  

Ring rows...I'm still the king, nothing to say here.  These partner leg tosses though...I don't have the words tonight to explain it...if you don't know, watch this.  These things...I think they're supposed to be ab intensive.  I must have killer abs, because that wasn't my problem.  My quads though...these roasted them.  Around number 7, my legs are on fire.  It takes everything I have to get to 10 without stopping.  I get that 10th, it's over, I'm done with those.  I lay flat on my back for about 10 seconds, just long enough for the pain to go away, then it's back to squats...which also abuse my quads...

This second round of squats was gnarly.  I struggled, at one point I was at the bottom, and was starting to move forward... I fought back up to standing and re racked.  No sense thinking about a near miss.  Get back in and finish my 8.  Adrian has clearly seen my struggles.  By the time I'm ready for round 3, he's got my 25's instead of 35's on the end of my bar.  Need to finish strong, and I did.  Wow.  My legs are nice and shredded.  Whats that you say?  There is more?  Awesome. 

METCON is 8 minutes long.  2 minutes row for max calorie count, 2 minutes box jump overs.  Repeat.  The first 2 minutes were terrible.  I struggled to stay in a rhythm.  My legs wanted me to stop.  They told me on more than one occasion that they'd fall off if I didn't listen.  I can tell you now that they are liars.  They didn't fall off.  pfft. 

My box jump overs...rather than doing the step up and over I'd been doing, I wanted to get better about jumping, so I'm using two plates to jump on then over.  Baby steps.  More than a few times I had to just step up and over.  I've got 4 more minutes of this stuff?  Man!

The second bout of rowing didn't go so well, I gave it the good fight, but I was gassed, fighting for air.  I didn't hit my initial rowing calorie count, taking the time to go from plates to the rower robbed me of some extra time.  I also stopped a few times just to let the pain subside a wee bit.  That last 20 though, I pulled like it was my life on the line, those calories started jumping up.  Time!

The plates are now mountains to jump onto.  I do a few steps, do a few jumps, then it happened.  I tripped.  I wasn't concentrating.  I though this is it, I'm going to eat it.  No.  Didn't happen, those tired legs, combined with my cat like reflexes saved me from eating a curb of concrete...yeah, forgot to mention we did this part outdoors.... I ended up stumbling into the grass.  Coach J is wodding with us.  See's the whole thing.  "You ok Dan?"  Yeah, I'm fine, I give him the nod and Fonz-esque thumbs up.


From then on, I put everything in the jumps.  Didn't want to risk face planting, and quite frankly I was behind now.  Got close to the target I set...seems I can always do a little more.  Need to get that mentality on all the time.  Hope this is a lesson learned for box jumping.  I don't really want to eat it when I make it to real boxes.  

I finished...everyone finished.  I wanted to sit down...heck, I wanted to lay down, but thats never been my thing.  Couldn't put a finger on it, but it was never something I felt I needed to do.  Box happened to put this out there today.

http://70sbig.com/blog/2014/06/stop-flopping-after-a-wod/

I don't know that it's worth sharing, but at the same time, it is.  Take it or leave it, either way.  I didn't even sit down after that torture.  Put up my rower, weights, etc, and walked around a bit to cool down.  Brutal and awesome at the same time.  Shoulda worn the Olys.  Maybe next time...

Reserve fuel

Got an early start to the day and the weekend, went to the 9:30 class.  I have to say I was looking forward to this WOD.  Several people have been sharing some really good articles on FB that were CrossFit related, and I while I read just about everything put in front of me, I don't always bookmark it...so I've only got one to share, and for the purposes of this post, it's the only one that matters.  Thanks to CrossFit Diamond State for sharing. 

http://www.boxlifemagazine.com/community/rx-or-scaled-how-do-i-decide

If you have TLDR (too long didn't read) syndrome, the very brief overview, and what I focused on today, was doing the METCON with more intensity and being less concerned with it being RX.  Yesterdays WOD I was more concerned with the weight than getting it done with a scaled option, and whether or not that was the right approach for the nastiness that was yesterday, it's something I plan to keep in mind from here on out. 

This WOD started out easy enough, warmup stuff, some PVC stretching, things like that.  Then we grabbed the KBs.  The workout piece was going to be an EMOM of 6 KB snatches, left side, then right for 12 minutes total.  We did a some stretching and different lifts to warm up and get everything activated.  I'm already sweating like crazy.  EMOM was easy enough, might have gone up in weight,  but I worked on the form, I didn't want to swap weights in the middle, and I feel like the form is going to be important when I jump that weight up.  Thoughts for another day perhaps. 

The METCON was an AMRAP full of fun.  Wallballs, burpees, chest to bar's x2 spending 2 minutes on each activity.  So WB, BU, C2B, WB, BU, C2B.  One whole, glorious minute was set aside as rest between each set.  The early AM class's numbers were on the board.  One number on the board stood out, and I told Andy (the coach of the day) that I was aiming for that, going to beat it.  He then wrote something up there that was like 50 counts less, and asked me what I was going to go for now.  I get what he's saying, but I like to compete... either way I'm going to give it what I've got. 

Wallballs get ugly quick.  It's amazing how much heavier a 20lb ball is to a 14 or a 10.  I stated with a 10, I wanted to get as many done as I could.  Now is a good time to say that my thighs/quads are still sore from this whole pushing off the heels bit yesterday.  So I'm trying to keep that form up with the wallballs, build that as muscle memory so it's the only way I do it from now on... My count suffered, as did I, but it's going to get better...it has to, right?  

The rest comes, and it's too short.  Burpees.  By now you should know my fondness for these.  I guarantee if you're still reading this is 2 years, I'll probably say that I actually love burpees, but for now, it's mortal kombat.  10.  Thats all I do.  I can't say I sandbagged, I probably could have gotten 1 or 2 more had I had someone yelling at me...maybe.  Rest is great, now it's C2Bs...or for me, the wonderful ring rows. 

The paradox of doing as many as possible with a time limit hit me here.  I set a low bar of 20, and got there doing them 4 at a time.  My mental game needs work, clearly.  I stopped once I hit 20, had 15 seconds left before the break.  I was thinking with the extra time, I'll regroup and get ready for round two.  It worked a little.  First round, went 25, 10, 20.  I can do better.  I wont bore you with the details, I just dug deeper, and found some more.  30, 11, 26.  I miscounted when I put it on the board at the end, but even with the right count, I still came up a little short of the other guy.  Everyone else beat me by 25 or more.

Does that frustrate me?  Maybe a little, but not in a way that is bad.  It stokes that competitive fire, I want to be better than them, which means I need to be better than I am now.  I've grown a little lazy in my CrossFitting in that I've set my goals a little lower than the should be in my everyday workouts.  Wouldn't know it by the sweat and effort that goes into them, but if I'm being honest about it I fee like I leave a little bit in the tank, that reserve fuel.  Need to burn it all. 

Enough introspection.  Today was rough, but fun.  I gave it more than I would have the day before, and looking back now, I could have given it a bit more.  Might have to start a shirt business of my own with little hashtags or slogans.  First one was WOD So Hard University, next one is something like #noreserves

Maybe I'll just make those for me.  #shrug

Fall down go boom.

WOW.  It's been 5 days since my last WOD.  I could feel it today....feel it now as a matter of fact.  First, the injury, seems to be all good.  @Iamthehealer said that it was some subluxation in the shoulder.  Great.  But it made sense, I slept on my left side for the first time in a while, just trying to change it up, so it makes sense that that would happen....well, no, it makes sense thats what did it, but not that that would make that happen.  Anyway. 

I actually went to the box on Tuesday, was thinking of trying to do it all anyway, pain or not.  Smartie that I am, I talked to Coach J and told him whats up.  I think he would have let me go for it had I pressed him, but I know better than that, and so we shook on it and I split.  Went to literally the other side of KC (Look up Liberty, MO to Olathe, KS, you'll see), saw my man, got adjusted, life is good. 

Back to the present.  Getting on the rower for the warm up felt so dang good.  It usually does after an extended period away.  The first 2-4 pulls, the body starts to remember what it's supposed to do, joints starting firing up, things are moving, yeah baby, it's time to go!  LOVE that feeling.  Then the warm up happened.  I say it like that, because the rest of the warmup didn't feel so good.  LOL.  By the end I was dripping sweat from my arms.  FROM MY ARMS!  It's freaking hot, I need to get under 400 lbs quick man, this two shirt thing is really out of control....well, 400lbs is out of control, but we're working on that.  

The WOD was simple today...it was called the Nancy Grace.  I don't know all the girls, but I suspect this is actually a combo of the two... This is straight from the website, picture and all:


3 rounds
-400m Run
-15 Overhead Squat
-15 Clean and Jerks 95/65

Actually, I'm ahead of myself, to warm up for this, we did 1RM for Split Jerks.  I went up in weight fairly quick, but somewhere from 95 to 125, it got a lot harder.  Had new coach Torry (sp?) come over and I was asking what the deal was.  Guess I was pushing it up like a press more than a jerk.  I added 20 more and he said that the form was looking better.  So I stopped at 145.  I don't think it's a true 1RM, I know I could have done more, but I'm rocked at this point, and a little worried about my shoulder.  It's all mental, the shoulder is fine, but I used it as a crutch to stop at.  145 it still more than I've every done before, someone at CFDS ring that bell for me.

Nancy Grace....was awful.  I didn't bother running again, did the rowing.  Easy enough, sub 2 minutes is acceptable for 400m (I think).  I made a mistake, that I'm only just now realizing as I write this, we'll get to it a hot second.  For the overhead squats, I've got a bar, it's 65#s.  I get it up, and I've got the weight above my head...and I pause.  Mentally blocked.  My first 2 squats aren't even really squats.  3rd it better, 4th is good, but I'm wobbling, 5th one is great.  I'm gassed now, and frustrated, because when I get done with the 5th.  I put the bar down, I'm scared to pick it back up.  We're already like 5 minutes in... I decide to move one.  Clean and Jerks....I decide on the split jerk.  I'm going slow, I get to 10, and everyone is already back running.  I admit it, I punked out, put the bar down and got on the rower, no 15 today.  

Less than 2 minutes later, I'm up, and back at the bar.  Up.  Squat.  Shaky.  Up.  Squat.  Good.  Up.  Squat.  I tipped forward some, squatted up off the balls of my feet.  I put the bar down.  Here is where I should have remembered the last time I did these with weight, only got 3 in before I took the weights off and used the bar.  COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT.  I grab the bar, focused, this one is going to be right.  Up.  Squat.  I went deeper than before, probably deeper than I've ever squatted with weight.  I'm trying to push up, use that posterior chain.  I get it started, go up about 5 inches, and the bar goes forward, I've lost my balance.  Bar is gone forward, I'm going backwards.  Fall down go boom.

I laid on my back for maybe 5 seconds.  Laughing and swearing at myself.  First time I've ever fallen down.  New coach comes over quick, "you ok?".  I've sat up by now.   I look at him smiling and shook my head... yeah man, I'm fine, first time I've ever fallen down is all.  Flip over and hop up.  Andy is leading the class, hands me a PVC pipe.  I crank out the rest of the 15.  Still mad right now...as I write this, that I didn't remember to use just the bar.  I made the PVC ones appropriate.  I still push up from the mid foot (I''m flat footed mind you), for these, I lifted the toes and used the posterior chain.  That may be stronger than midfoot for most people, but that stuff is harder for me... lots to lift!.  On to cleans and jerks.  10 more.  15 minutes passed.  Got a 20 minute cap.   Hit the rower with a little more urgency. 

My soul is tired now.  I still get the rowing done in 1:50, but I had to stop 3 times.  3 minutes and change to finish before the cap.  Squats.  Set of 4, stop.  Set of 3, stop.  Set of 4, stopped.  I wanted to quit, say I was done...I tried to quit actually, but pride kicked in, and the fact that I was one of the last ones... 5 more done.  My thighs will forgive me tomorrow right?  I hope so.  2 minutes left.  At this point I want to DNF so bad.  I can't though.  10, I'm going to do 10.  2 minutes, should be easy enough.  1 clean... well, really, I wasn't even cleaning properly.  I'm picking the weight up and doing the motions, without much of the knee bending.  Thats how tired I am.  Split jerk.  Wow.  The pain and agony of that.  Not pain like ouch I'm hurt, but that muscle pain thats saying "oooof, this hurts, this is hard, you should stop now".  Can't stop.  Wont stop.  Again.  Get 2 more done.  Bar to the floor.  10 seconds later the bar is back in my hands, back in rack, split jerk, then to rack.  I decided as it's coming down that I'm going to touch and go it.  I do.  Complete the next one.  Thats 4 down.  1:10 left.  Going to have to fly.   Minute left.  Why aren't you moving.  I'm dealing with a bodily revolt at this point.  My mind is telling me I can't do it...and the body goes where the mind does.  I only get 2 more get done.  Slowly at that.  There were touch and go style at least.  I drop the bar.  18 seconds left.  I quit.  Didn't make my 10, but I was done.  Nancy Grace, you suck.

I went over to the rig, and sat down and leaned against it.  I've never been so tired that I've just sat on the floor.  Never fallen over and lost the bar.  Never split jerked 145 either, so not all the firsts I've had today are bad.  I look at my shins, they're covered in sweat, my arms are glistening... I'm a hot mess.  Underneath all this pain and misery, is a guy doing a happy dance.  I'm back, the rust has been knocked off, and I'm doing something I love with people I love....or at least like a lot.  :)  Tired, but happy. 

One thing of note, during some of these PVC squats, my knee was popping/making noise.  Never done that before.  It's in the area that fool doc put the shot.  So it's either liquid, or maybe new cartilage...or old cartilage giving way...idk.  Didn't hurt, just noisy...at least to me.  Something to monitor. 

Alright, I'm all done with this today.  Let me ask you a question, what would you like to hear about?  My thoughts and opinions are waiting to be heard.  I can give you this "big mans" perspective on whatever, so if you've got questions, or burning questions...or really just questions or curiosities like "how do you deal with ____" or whatever comes to mind, let me know, you can even be anonymous. :D

Cheers!

Injuries

Being hurt sucks.  Not being able to WOD, doubly so.  To compound the issue further, I didn't even do it...at least not really.  What?  How does that happen Dan?  Great question, I don't know.  I pulled something while I was sleeping.  Woke up on Monday with this pull/strain feeling in my shoulder/back/neck area.   Left scapula, between it and the spine.  Think thats also the trapezius muscle area.  Here it is Tuesday, no better.  Going to have to see my man @Iamthehealer tonight, can't keep this up, it's cramping my style.

I mean really...getting hurt while you sleep...how do you do that.  Irritating.  Today's WOD is Diane with a mile run up this gnarly hill afterwards.  I wanted to go, somewhat badly.  I want to do deadlifts.  I don't know why, I've only done them in 1 WOD, but for some reason they call to me.  I've discovered a love for weightlifting I guess, maybe after tonights chiro visit, I'll be ready for Wednesday. 

Figure today is a good enough time to go over the goals I set forth almost 2 months ago and my thoughts around each one:

1 real pushup--I've got a weak upper body...at least for now.
**I'm probably real close to this, been doing barbell and ring pushups, might have to try this out during a warmup in the future.  And I mean elbow back, not out for the "real" part of that**

1 pullup, working towards 1 strict pullup
**This is ambition by the end of the year, I may try bands in the coming weeks to see if I've come that far yet.  Lots of ring rows in my future I fear, but it's ok, I'm the King. **

Drop 30 lbs before my work takes me away from CFDS
**This didn't happen, not long after I put this out there, I got pulled.  I was down 23 lbs in 7 weeks though, and I should be on the scales this Friday, hopefully down another 7 lbs to make this one at least done...ish**

Find a max for every move we've got
**This may have been a goal made by someone who didn't quite know what he's talking about, and it's probably not something I'll have done for a while.  Keeping at it**

Drop 60 lbs by the end of the year ( I really expect to keep moving this one back)
** I fully expect to crush this, especially if I hit that 30lbs in 10 weeks.  **

Get to RX (or whatever it is) for every move
**Work in progress, still trying to get that form looking better**

Show improvement on half the benchmark workouts I get into Wodify.
**Don't have Wodify in KC yet, but I'm sure I've improved everything, I'm stronger than when I started**

The rest of the goals were more of a 2 year set, and while I've made progress on them, I'm still a ways off. 

Deep thought of the day: Limits, like fears, are often an illusion. 

CrossFit has taught me that the limits I and other people have, are often mental.  I have to confess, I usually find myself in a bit of awe during that moment when a cliche comes to life.  So when I say something like...or hear something like "it's all mental" or "it's 10% physical, 90% mental", I finally get it.  Sometimes it takes a while, moms always said I learned things the hard way... 

Give you a personal example.  If I told you that you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?  I heard this a lot in cartoons, movies, and jokes growing up.  Didn't get it, was always like "why would she hold it against you dummy, that's a complement".  See?  I think I was...maybe 21 (22?)  when it clicked.  I don't remember where I was, I think working, but it just clicked, and I stopped what I was doing, had a big smile on my face, and just looked at the ground for a second shaking my head.  So simple, yet here I am at 21 (or 22) and I'm just now getting it... #smh

I'm now stuck in the past going over some of those incidents, maybe I'll share them later...for now I'm getting some popcorn and enjoying these memories. 







J/k on the popcorn. 

The click

Oh man.  5 in a row, and I'm beat.  Today was tough, I didn't get enough sleep the night before, and I'm carrying some fatigue from the days before.  Oh, and then there is the fact I'm on my 4th or maybe 5th choice of shirts/shorts for working out....I missed the laundry bell and am scraping the bottom of my clothing options.  Laymans terms, I'm wearing hotter stuff than normal.  So it's hot and steamy in the box, and I'm wearing some of the heaviest clothes I own... and I'm tired.  Challenge accepted. 

Todays workout was pretty straight forward.  Front squats.  Did a lighter weight, but focused on the form... and it's getting better.  Squats were still tough, still working on getting those elbows up.  Even the "light" weight I was doing was rough today, but I got it done, and had pretty good form throughout.  Knees are feeling great, was getting low, awesome.  Happy with it, even if it was challenging.  

Three rounds for time, 14 wall balls, 14 pullups.  Knees aren't feeling so good now.  LOL.  Scaled the pullups to my favorite activity, ring rows.  *insert eye roll*  I think one day soon, I may try a couple of bands together, and see if maybe, just maaaaybe I can do a banded pullup.  Could still be a while out, we'll see.  Back to the WOD...it kicked my butt...heck, it kicked everyones butt.  Lots of  "we made it" smiles at the end of the WOD.  Great attitudes for being in the greenhouse of a box we were in.  A real sweatopia. 

Actually, I had an epiphany...no, wrong word I think, anyway...I've been having these things fairly regularly now...while I was doing wall balls, I had "the click".  Let me explain.  I tend to watch videos a few times a week on lifts, technique, things like that.  One of the things I've seen, and had explained to me about wall balls, was making sure you use the posterior chain to push your butt back up.  I have a bad habit of pushing from my mid foot, so I leave some of that power on the table.  A few times today, towards the end, I forgot everything I knew, and just tried it the way I've been told....and it was different, better...and it clicked, I was like 'ah ha', thats what I'm supposed to be doing.  Feeling the whole posterior chain work was awesome.  Only lasted a few movements, then fatigue pulled me out of that grove, but it was great to feel/experience that.  Having those moments where my ability and movement mirrors the technique I'm taught... it's awesome. 

Parting thoughts, could have used the oly's today, but I still don't have them laced up, it was a late night last night.  Soon though.  Ready to get my nano's as well.  Probably go with the inexpensive 2.0's.  I've already got the color scheme in my head. 

Have a great weekend, whatever you're doing.

tcn

New Gear

Lots of shoulder work this week.  I know I've said burpees are my nemesis, but I think that is now Turkish Get Ups.  Those were a struggle yesterday, I mean I couldn't even do it correctly on the right side.  Could have been the buy in of 1600m rowing with a heavy push press... but that shouldn't have really impacted my ability to bridge up and slide my left leg under tduring the get up on that right side... Idk, maybe it's fatigue.  Left side was better, but those things whip my butt like burpees....and I'm not half as good at them as I am at burpees (and I'm not that good at burpees). 

Combining days today.  Didn't have the drive to get this out yesterday, was sore, tired, and had other plans after the WOD.  You guys are absolutely worth the effort, but I wasn't able to to get it to you then, so you get it now.


One thing I wish I would have had yesterday was my new Oly's.  They came in about 20 minutes before I had to leave for the box.  I got time enough to try them on, but not really lace them up and see what they were about.  Going to let them sit around for a day or two to make sure they're good to go.  Also, the right foot seems to have become bigger than the left... not sure what thats about, maybe it's just "swole".  haha, lifter humor at it's finest.

A question I have for you is this: What kind of supplements, if any do you use?  I know with this summer, I may splurge on some Progenex recovery packets, but right now I'm just using the pre-made Myoplex after workouts.  In the mornings, it's GNC's Mega Mens Sport Green pack, 2 1000mg fish oils, 800mg Ibuprofen, and recently added Osteo BiFlex.  Some old man feeling stuff there.  Here is what my morning routine looks like.  Have to use a few oz of almond milk, get it all in the first swallow too...the milk helps. 



All those pills, one gulp.  Cmon, it's a little impressive right?  Whatever. 

Today (Thursdays) WOD is something else. 20 box jumps, 100m run (row), 20 toes to bar, 100m, 20 plate to ground overheads, 100m, 20 wall balls, 100m, 20 air squats, 100m, 20 double unders, 100m, 20 burpee plate overs.  Devastated but accomplished when it's all said and done.  We actually did some (jump) rope work before hand.  Some of this hopping on one foot.  I struggle doing it on two feet.   LOL.  I tried, and I got a few of them, but I'm just now getting some rope confidence...found one I like.

Box jumps for tonight... didn't do the box, but did it on two plates.  Figure this is better than step ups.  Might aim for three plates next time, have to see, towards the end of 20 I felt like I was coming up short...it's still all in my head.   This is probably the "best" WOD I've done to date.  I did everything, to the number.  I may have stiffed a few wall balls, they were far enough down the list that I just wanted to finish... tired body, tired mind.

Used chalk for the first time too....it was still early in, but when I grabbed the bar, I was sweating all over it.  No grip here.  Went and grabbed some chalk, then it was all good...or good enough.  I'm getting tired just trying to go over this is a sensible manner.  Its supposed to be a break from all the shoulder stuff we've been doing....and it was a break, but oof.  Took the fastest guy 9:46.  Took me 19:23.  Those damn burpees man.  Broke them up into 3's and 4's.  By the end of the WOD, everyone is around me doing burpees with me, in time.  I hate that.  Love it too.  No man left behind.  If you haven't figured it out by now, I love these people, love this thing called CrossFit, and love trying to blog about it.  ha!

Was talking with Andy about tomorrow...was like man, maybe once I see the WOD.  You see, I've never gone 5 days in a row.  Tomorrow will be the first time.  We were talking, and I started it with "I'm not a cherrypicker...." and he's just looking at me, so I stopped.  He said something like "If you start the sentence with I'm not a cherrypicker...it probably means...", "Shut up man".  I know what he's saying, he's laughing... dammit.  I mumbled something like "I'll be here".  I'm not a cherry picker. :(

C'mon, if you're not laughing at this, you need to do a few more burpees yourself.

Alright, I'm out, have a quality weekend!

TCN