Jarhead's Running Myths & Misadventures

It wasn’t as terrible as I was thinking it was going to be.  For the ‘Buy-in’ I did a 1000m row in 3′35″ then took about 10 minutes of rest while KDF was doing her 2000m row before getting into the WOD which was:

• 50 Pull-ups
• 50 Burpees

…for time

It took me 10′39″ to finish the WOD.  The pull-ups weren’t that bad, my kip is coming along and I was able to just work through them, but the burpees were killer.  I had done 130 in my warm-up in an attempt to catch up on my 100 Day Burpee Challenge deficit and trying to play catch up with my burpees before the WOD had me just slugging through the burpees in the WOD.  In all I kicked out 200 burpees yesterday.

I’m not going to be able to make it to Crossfit Zone tonight so Im falling behind on my burpee count again and will owe 180 tomorrow.

Check out this video of Joseph Warren just killing the OPT Big Dawg Pullup-Burpee WOD

I was able to fit in a run on Friday but got no training done on Saturday or Sunday due to the move and as of yesterday I owed 305 burpees…  I did WOD last night and did burpees as my warm-up so got 120 done so I still owe 249 today.

Yesterday’s WOD was “Annie”:
50-40-30-20-10 reps of:

• Double unders
• Ab-mat Sit-ups

and I got it done in 13′59″

Today I ran an interval workout on the track at Vic High at lunch – 6 X 400m.  I felt good with my pacing and the times were consistent.

1. 1:24.3
2. 1:22.9
3. 1:23.5
4. 1:25.5
5. 1:23.9
6. 1:25.5

Next up is a WOD at Crossfit Zone tonight.  I’m feeling a little nervous about tonight’s WOD tho’ it’s called:
“OPT Big Dawg Pullup-Burpee”
For Time:

• 50 Chest to bar pull-ups (I’ll have to scale these to normal pull-ups)
• 50 Burpees (I can hopefully rock out a bunch in my warm-up too)

The ‘Buy in’ is a 800m, 1000m or 2000m row then 10-15 minutes rest before doing the WOD, we’ll see how this goes…

The last couple of days have hummed by… and the next few are going to do much the same.

This week I was able to get in 4 WOD’s at Crossfit Zone and have run every day including a wicked hill circuit and a mile in the Park yesterday and some 400m intervals on the Vic High track on Tuesday.

I haven’t been able to get to Crossfit Zone since Wednesday tho’ and with me moving tomorrow and still having way too much packing and organizing to do the chances of me making it tonight or tomorrow are pretty slim.  My owed burpee count is going to be ridiculous come Monday unless I can motivate myself to rock some out on the weekend

Also not too sure about running over the weekend, will have to see how things go tomorrow and then see what fits.

I really enjoyed the WOD at Crossfit Zone this afternoon with Coach Toby!  We stated with a ‘Buy In’ of max Wall Balls in 2 minutes, I got 35, and then the WOD -”To the Max” which was 5 rounds (not for time) of:

• Max push-ups (My best max: 20 reps)
• 3 rep max overhead squat (My best max: 120#)
• Max double unders (My best max: 20 reps)
• Vertical jump (My best: 17″)
• 100m row (My best: 9 calories)

I will be heading back to CFZ after work to catch up on my burpees, I did 110 yesterday and 20 before today’s WOD so still owe 120

I’ll sneak in a run after the burpees and before joining the gang for the 6:30pm “Bring a friend night!” class.  Should make for a great night

Once again I’ve fallen behind on my burpees for the 100 Day Burpee Challenge.  I missed Saturday and Sunday then only got 30 done yesterday so today I owe 192…  I’ll head to Crossfit Zone a little early tonight and get caught up again.

Yesterday was a scheduled double day with an easier run at lunch followed up with a WOD at Crossfit Zone after work.  The WOD was called “Rápido Repetición” and consisted of:

• Run 500M (1 block)

Rest 2 Min.

Then AMRAP in 10 minutes:

• 15 KB Swings (55#)
• 15 Ab Mat Situps

* The running portion of the workout was scored by subtracting your time from 5 minutes.  A 2 min 500m would get you a score of 180 (3min) .   If the run was 5 minutes or longer you scored 0 points.  You then added your running score to the total reps of the couplet for the total workout score.

I completed 7 full round of the AMRAP +1 KB Swing for a rep count of 211 which when added to my run score  of 183 (1′57″ or 117 seconds subtracted from 300 = 183)  equaled 394 points.

Packman has decided to test himself once a week in his “Get on the board’ Monday’s” attempts at the Zone and yesterday he went for the double under record and got 57.  I’m not sure that’s quite enough to get him on the Leaderboard but it’s definitely a ton of double unders!  I, of course, am following along and tried my hand at getting on the Leaderboard yesterday as well but went for a lift instead, the overhead squat, and was able to complete one at 125#  which does puts me up there!