Aug 14 - 20

8/14: 6.5mi run with stroller. Yes I miscalculated the distance. Doing this the day after Palomar was inadvisable, but this is how I roll. Inadvisably!

8/15: Legs are done (stick a fork in them, etc.) so this had to be an upper body (i.e. Monkey) day. Warm-up on monkey bars (just 2 lengths) and then 100 pull ups, 100 push ups, 50 KTEs, and 10 L-pull-ups. I did the main set in this weird paired pyramid, which made it more palatable:

Round 1: 10 pull ups, 20 push ups
Round 2: 10 pull ups, 20 push ups
Round 3: 15 pull ups, 15 push ups
Round 4: 15 pull ups, 15 push ups
Round 5: 20 pull ups, 10 push ups
Round 6: 20 pull ups, 10 push ups
Round 7: 10 pull ups, 10 push ups

The one-arm pull ups are basically one hand on horiz bar and other hand on the vertical bar to assist. It's still hard but..well, doable!

8/16: 3.1mi run with stroller, 2 good hills.
8/17-8/18: Nothing..lazy and busy with chores. Every time I want to take Nat out for a jog, it starts to rain. God must be telling me to sit here and eat cookies.

8/20: Xfit and stairs with Nikki! Wahoo! I haven't touched bars with any seriousness since I went into my 3rd trimester. We worked on snatches and cleans for at least an hour.
This is what a snatch end position is supposed to look like ----->

And this is what I actually looked like:










Then we did a workout like this: (for time, no rest)
Round 1: 21 Deadlifts, 21 Box jumps
Round 2: 15 of each
Round 3: 9 of each

I was only using #135 with the DL but it was still hard and I still tore my stupid hands. Nikki was swinging around a kettlebell for her DLs like a lumberjack on crack and finished in record time. In retrospect maybe that would have been easier on the blisters... Chalk, where were you! Cleared 24 inches on the box, but have to work on jumping off...would've been faster.




THEN we went to Exorcist stairs for 5 laps on that beast. The 75 stairs and its three landings are the equivalent of a five story building (but we tried to not focus on that).

Then we went to buy furniture. Nikki - I should count that stroll up 2 flights with the couch as Step #3 of Saturday Madness, no? :] (that is a nerd smile)

Aug 7- 13

8/7: 1hr run with Sveta (my inimitable sibling) where we got hopelessly lost in the enchanted suburbia that is Ashburn. Best part was running through back packing lot of church trying to find out way back. Yes on Sunday. Yes, weaving through dozens of nice-looking people. We were not dressed for church. I hope they did not judge us.8/8-9: Rest
8/10: 2.8mi run with Dave. He is draaaaaggging butt that dog! Too slow!
8/11: Trapeze class, 3hrs. I almost didn't put this here but it made me sore so it counts! We also did silk ropes (at which I was not bad but also not as great as I thought) and trampoline (at which I was godawful).

8/12: 2 mi walk w/ Dave. Yes walk - it was HOT he would've died if I made him run. :/

8/13: SealFit Palomar with Megan. Um...she's a firefighter. This was... It WAS, ok? 2.5hrs long and I skipped the 3mi run at the end! Here's the workout from their website:

Baseline: ROM Drills. Run 800M, then 21 – 15 – 9 wall balls (14#), push-ups

Work Capacity: for time:

• 5 x Man-Makers (50#), 15 x Curtis P (75#), Run 400M
• 10 x Man Makers (40#), 10 x Curtis P, Run 800M
• 15 x Man Makers (40#), 5 x Curtis P, Run 1 mile

Strength: 10 – 8 – 6 – 4 – 3 – 3 – 3 Front Squat (My max was just 105#... I think I could've done more but was definitely scared by the next section...)

Stamina: Chipper: 15 x FS @ 90% of 3RM, 75 x jumping back squats (65/45#), 6 x sprint starts.

Durability: (3 mile run @ moderate pace)-CUT. 100 x sit-ups, plank hold 2 x 3 minutes. Active Stretch or Yoga

• What is a Man Maker? --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gczI5sINn9U
• WTF is a Curtis P (Curtis Press)? --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLff8fhPIQg
  

They should be called Jello-Makers...cos that's how my legs felt the next day.

July 31 - Aug 6

OMG Lazy Week! I must have hit a wall with that last Saturday beast. Heel started hurting, motivation on vacation, etc.

• 7/31, 8/1: Rest (see July 30 entry goddamit)
• 8/2: 3.1mi run, 2 good hills
• 8/3: More Rest!
• 8/4: 2.5mi at strong pace, followed by 25 burpee pull ups and 25 24" box jumps.
• 8/5: My notes say "2 min. plank." That is ALL. Surely...I didn't... Or did I?!?... Well I can't remember what the F else I did so that's what I am putting. WOD = 2 min plank. I am coming for you, Tough Mudderrrr!!!
  
• 8/6: Rest and shop (at mom's, baby in good hands, wahoo!)
  

July 24-30

Ok new plan. I am entering a week at a time otherwise I will go crazy. I keep forgetting to write stuff down or I write it down on scratch paper and then Dave eats it (for real). So here goes:

• 7/24-27: I don't remember! (See above) :[
• 7/28: 6 rounds of 10 reps each of: pull ups; dips; KTEs; box jumps (definitely over 20"...maybe 24"? Have to check height)
• 7/29: 50 mountain climbers and 100 KB swings (#25) and then workout got cut short....guests coming.
• 7/30: SATURDAY W MANNI. a) Run 1 mile to trail, 9 nassssty hill repeats (0.2mi each), run 1 mile back.
  

• Then b)
  
  EMOM x 30 minutes

  
  

  5 Burpees

  10 KettleBell Swings (24kg/16kg)
  5 V-Ups

The KB swings just... killed us. We apparently sucked so much the coach told us to forget about doing it "every minute on the minute" after about 15min and just to do as many rounds as possible in the 30min time slot. I think I squeezed 17 or so in there but I had to babysit the dog at the same time (so that's my excuse). This is the "post" picture. Yeah that's me in the back, holding my head in my hands...

July 22-23 - Rest

a) too hot
b) TKD kicked my tooshie. Supersore.

July 21 - TKD

Went to TKD class for 2hrs. Survived, barely. That hip from yesterday stopped complying about 5mins before class ended and of coooourse I tore up my foot a bit, no calluses. Want to go again and suck a little less. Kicking = XD.

July 20 - KB work

10 burpees
100 KB Swings
10 burpees
100 push ups
10 burpees
2min plank
10 burpees
10 TGUs each side*
10 burpees

KB = 25

*Only did 7 TGUs on the L. Hip went out as I was moving. JOINTS TOO LOOSE DAMMIT!!!