5k Friday..

Well, just as I suspected.  I planned a 5k for the gym in hopes that people would run but without fail, they just never showed.  Everyone has their excuses why they weren't their but it all boils down to one thing.  Dedication.  Dedication to your training to be better.  

So I as I got to the gym thinking I was gonna have some running company, there was no one.  But life goes on and my laces get tied.  My first lap felt pretty good, and the second felt even better.  By lap four and five, I felt like I was flying.  On the 6th and final lap I pushed it as hard as I could get my body to work and it felt good.  I got to the door of the gym in 17:15 which is 40 seconds better than my last.  Can't complain about that.  I will complain that I am slowly getting weaker in my legs and losing power as I train for this 100 miler.  Life goes on though..

Monday-Thursday WODs

Well, I got home on Monday the 9th tired as all heck from the worst driving conditions i've ever been in.  The only workout this body is gonna get is Sleep and sleep I did.  For 20 straight hours.

Tuesday 10MAR2009

WOD: Almost Fran

Everytime I started to do Fran, someone would come into the gym early so I got off the 21 portion twice and gave up.

The second part of my work out came in the evening with Jason.  We did the following

12 Rounds of:

02 - 135lb Sumo DL High Pull

02 - 135lb Thrusters

Wednesday 11MAR2009

WOD:  "TREVOR" For Time

300 Pull Ups

400 Push Ups

500 Sit Ups

600 Squats

Time: 2hrs 10min 58seconds

Thursday 12MAR2009

10 Cleans 135lb

250 Row

9 KB Swings 70lb

250 Row

08 Cleans

250 Row

07 KB Swings

250 Row

06 Cleans

250 Row

05 KB Swings

250 Row

04 Cleans

250 Row

03 KB Swings

250 Row

02 Cleans

250 Row

01 KB Swings

250 Row

Time:  18:00RX

Back off Hiatus

Sorry for not keeping up with the log but Tax season is keeping the man down.  Well, After leaving mom's back in washington I headed south to Portland to visit my good friends Trevor and Kat.  Although I didn't get in any WOD's their I did manage to have the Tackle the Tower part two up in the out of bounds area of Mt Hood at the Ski Bowl.  After having a few beers for a late lunch around 4pm.  We went out to get in 1 to 2 more runs.  Not knowing where I was at, I decided to make a jump run into the trees thinking it was gonna spit me out on a cat track.  Well, lets just say that didn't happen.  I make it about 2000 meters down in the trees where I have know where else to go but in a creek.  I stop and make a phone call to my boy to tell him not to call for help just yet or till atleast 6:30pm.  I said moving, and started making my way up the hill and tracing my path in some crazy snowfall.  I had to reach it before dark or it was going to get ugly.

I'm literally trudging in a bear crawl position with my snowboard using it to dig into the powder.  know my Iphone is going to die, I turn it off to conserve.  I trudge on.  Pushing on for about 45 minutes, I notice that I'm sweating profusely and take my beanie off.  I trudge on thru the snow and ever disappearing light.  I make one more phone call to Trev cause I found my first crash point near the beginning of the run and I start to see the lights from the night skiing runs in the distance.  It is now 6:15 and I hear something and call out Trev.  I get the reply I want to hear.  I move on with a big sweaty smile and frozen solid hair.

I make it out at 6:30pm on the money and we laugh in hysterics and make way to the car and get home to devour some Salmon Cakes and Beer.  It was a good night.  Indeed...

A couple photos from the Tackle The Tower Event Last Weekend.

Murray was so fast they had a hard time getting him in the frame.

I got up this morning a little tight but not too bad.  I think I stayed up too late watching the WEC Fight Night and watch a few sweet fights and knock outs.  I hit the foam roller for a little bit and got dressed and ready to go.  

When I started, it was pretty sunny and about 50 degrees so I dressed down going gloveless, and rolling with a buttpack with 2 bottles of water a zone bar and bags of power beans, and also a hand bottle with water.  All was good and my pace felt smooth.  I was running for the first time with these new Brooks Cascadia trail shoes.  They felt great.  I was going to go for 30 miles and had it mapped out and the roads looked nice with soft grass and trails everywhere.  I was feeling great and about 6 miles into it, it started to rain which was too shocking and I was prepared for that.  But shortly after that, it dropped down about 20-25 degrees and that I was not prepared for.  I ended up doing 16.5 miles and cutting my trip in half due to being so cold I was jackhammering.  It pretty much snowed (wet, icy, and sticky) till I got home and is still snowing as I stare out the window wanting to find the weather guy on tv kick him in the shin for getting the weather completely wrong.  How do you go from partly sunny all day to effing snowing for 2 1/2 hours.  

Besides all that, I actually kept in the pose/chi position and the midfoot striking felt good in the new shoes with the laces only coming undone once.

Total Miles: 16:57

Time: 2hrs 24minutes, nice and slow.

So today, I actually ventured away from a bar and went to Crossfit Tacoma this morning.  Let me back up a second though.  I had a tossed a few back last night but wasn't too drunk, but when I got home I decided to do my Iphone yoga and fell asleep in the corpse (savasana) pose.  I woke up confused as all heck and then giggled my way to bed.

Back to this morning.  On my way to the gym, I decided I needed a triple shot latté(nectar of the gods).  When I pulled up to the drive thru and the window slid open, A nice set of boobs in a bikini popped out and asked me what I would like.  In a split second I was gonna say boobies as I was staring at them and they fell out of her bikini top.  I stared so long that I was in awkward mode and felt obligated to leave a bigger tip since I got such a show.  As I rolled away she said have a great morning and I said you know I will.  "Good Show"!  I went to Crossfit Tacoma and busted a move there after meeting some cool trainers there.  For doing a bit of drinking, I felt fairly good, but by no means fast.

7AM

I did a warm up for about fifteen minutes and then did,

3 sets of 5 weighted strict pull ups with 40lbs 

Rested 3 Minutes.

3Rds for time of:

250M Row

10 HSPU's

05 Sumo DLHP's

Time: 6:03  Pretty slow but definitely fun...

Noon:  

Light 1.5mile run with Bella & Ronin.

Here is a video from the tackle the tower event last Saturday.  I get a quick run by on the camera.  Nothing crazy but I wouldn't have been able to interview anyways cause I was in the zone.  44 trips is no Joke!!!

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

I didn't get to a box like I'd hoped today but I guess thats what hanging with mom will do to ya.  I went on a quick 1.5 mile jog with Bella and Ronin our possible future second dog.  I ate a bunch of good food with mom and then proceeded to a couple of hole in the wall bars and had some beers.  I kept the bar food to a grilled chicken ceasar with avacados.

When we got home I felt guilty and did an hour of yoga and found myself sleeping on the floor in the corpse pose.  That pose is my favorite.

Sunday was all packing and getting ready to roll for my trip.  Half is for family and half is for friends and fun.  Loaded down with boards and quivers of all kinds.  Snowboards, and surfboards.  I crashed in Boise and did a little 7 miler with Bella towing me all over Ann Marie Park chasing down Geese.  It was fun for a bit but the novelty wore off quick.  

I pulled into my brothers pad right around 6pm and realized AT&T doesn't work too well in Tacoma.  Well, its late and I have to get up for a long walk with the dogs and a bodyweight WOD of some sort.  We shall see.