A nice fall run with the leaves mostly still on the trees. It was raining when I started and about 50 degrees. The rain wasn’t heavy, barely getting through the trees.
I ran around Wirth and my legs felt sore and heavy from yesterday’s workouts. I tried nasal breathing but I have been sick with sinus stuff so I wasn’t too surprised by that.
3.5 miles in 39 minutes.
Today was 20.2… a slow long grinder. 20 minutes with three movements – 4 dumbbell thrusters, 6 toes to bars, and 24 double unders. The score sheet thought 30 rounds was do-able. Solcana’s scaled version was a little heavier than the official so I ended up using 25# dumbbells, did hanging knee raises, and single unders. I appreciated that there wasn’t a penalty for single unders (usually the number gets doubled).
I ended up with 24 total rounds of this work in 20 minutes. I went out a little fast, but settled into a pace, the work felt quite repetitive but it was nice that everything was so short so you weren’t really getting bogged down finishing any one movement. The key in mind was to just keep moving and to not go too hard out of the gate. I was quite happy with my effort and was beat at the end!
I came home and rested for a little bit. Today was my “onboarding” session at LifeTime Fitness. We joined so that I could have a place to swim and also so we could have a place with childcare for the kids. Plus we get a sweet discount through work! The trainer I met with was cool and was asking a lot of questions about how 20.2 went, he was doing it later. LifeTime has a sweet area setup for HITT work similar to a CrossFit gym. He offered some nutrition advice and we did an InBody analysis. Basically this is a body composition analysis. My current weight is 202, 96lbs of skeletal muscle mass and 16.4% body fat. We talked about ways to increase muscle mass and decrease the body fat.
After our session I had some time to kill so I did an easy 5 miles on a bike and then rolled out my back and legs. It felt pretty good. Then the kids and I played in the pool for awhile. This particular gym only had a lap pool so we just played around in a lane.
For some reason I mis-read the board and thought we had several metcons. I was glad that we didn’t! We did some stretching before a warm-up that loosened up our shoulders. The weightlifting today was strict shoulder press.
We were working up to a Heavy set of 6 strict press. The plan was to get 4 or 5 rounds in before hitting that number. I ended up with 75#’s. I tried to get 80, but wasn’t able to move it off my shoulders. That was a lot of accumulated work, so I was happy with that. That is also not too far off my strict press PR so that was great!
The MetCon was 5 rounds for time of
12 deadlift
12 pullups
I went for 135# deadlift which had me doing jumping pullups. I was happy with that modification. There was a 12 minute time cap on the work. I finished the work in 7:01. That felt fast, but the jumping pullups were quick. 135 was a challenging weight, but obviously not too hard.
I had thought we were accumulating pullups in a 12 minute time box, so I was quite happy that wasn’t the case!!
Today was the beginning of the 2020 CrossFit Open. Yes, this is 2 opens in one year and yes it is still 2019 but this is the 2020 Open. They changed things up and the Open is now in the fall for qualification into the 2020 Games.
Anyways, 20.1 is no joke!
10 Rounds For Time of:
8 Ground to Overhead
10 Bar Facing Burpees; with a 15 minute time cap.
I did the CrossFit Scaled version which was Solcana’s Gold version. It was 65# on the bar and I stepped over instead of jumping over the barbell. After warming up I judged for Nate before doing mine. His recommendation was to go for several rounds of unbroken snatches, break a few sets up into 2 sets of 4, and then go back to full sets if possible at the end to push through.
I was able to do that, the step overs were great as the burpees really accumulated the fatigue for me. Last night after climbing I felt some soreness in my hip flexor, so I was a little nervous about this workout. It felt a lot better this morning, but not ideal for this workout! I just finished 7 rounds getting the last burpee in as time was called. 65# was a good weight for the snatches. I felt like I could have gone for a little while longer on the snatches, but I was definitely slowing down!
How was your 20.1?
After work I went climbing while the kids were at after-school! I had about an hour and worked up a little sweat! I did a range of circuits including a few green ones. They also have a few circuits up from BoulderFest North. I did 2 of them. Those circuits are tricky because they can be off color, so a beginner color was actually super hard! I got a couple of circuits that I had struggled with earlier in the week. It was a nice way to end the work day.