05242019 – CrossFit

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Back to some Friday CrossFit!! I was a touch late, but got the warm-up in just fine. The plan was to find an 8 rep max front squat. After warming up the squat we slowly built up to 8 reps. We did 2, 4, 6, 8. The idea was to hit the 8 right on the first time so that your body didn’t have to do it again. Then we had to do 3×5 at the 8RM weight. I don’t remember the weight and it wasn’t recorded. I think it was 115 or 105… I really can’t remember. 8 reps was a lot though!

After the Front Squat we did a 10 minute EMOM. Each minute was a 10 calorie row followed by a max effort plate from the ground to overhead. I did platinum which was a 45# plate. I did 48 reps. It was hard to be consistent with pacing on the rower and getting up and down quickly to get some reps in.

05082019 – Bike

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This is Bike/Walk to School Day!! It was a little stressful as I had to put the kids on the bus then ride to work. And get ready for our bike event. It ended up working out pretty well. I wasn’t as late to work as I’d expected.

We had about 30 kids walk or bike to school and I know that some of them usually get dropped off so it was fun to see them engage in the event! Unfortunately, due to a big rain storm our afternoon field trip was cancelled. It ended up being a good decision and I actually got picked up after school as it was a wash out!!

5.5 miles of riding for the day.

05072019 – Run & Bike

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Another early morning run!! I’m glad that the sun is coming up now as I finish my runs. It means longer and warmer days are coming! Another set of timed short intervals. 6 x 2 minutes with 3 minutes of rest between and 5 x 1 minute with 1 minute rest. The 1 minute intervals seemed quick which I think was the point.

Overall was 5 miles in 54:24.

I wasn’t able to bike to work, but we did bike for our after-school class. It was the last week so we biked to Dairy Queen. We took everyone (2 are still using their bikes as striders and 1 isn’t very confident on the pedals) so it was a little slower. I went back and forth because we could have taken a long/fun way to DQ but I think it was good to include everyone! After work I took my trailer and positioned it for the big bike field trip tomorrow. So my total riding was 2.5 miles.

05052019 – Run & Kayak

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I started off the morning with a 10k time trial. The Loppet trails were finally open so I thought I would hit them.  The Karate Monkey trails were in great shape, Area 36 was still a little wet and not fully opened. The plan was to do the second 5k faster than the first. I was thrown off a little bit on the distances by the full trails not being open. I checked and the Luce Line was flooded as well so I briefly hit the one set of mountain bike trails to get me back to the main trails.

My first 5K was 30:58 and the second was 28:51. Definitely not as fast as I would like!  The total distance was 7.4 miles in 1:13:10.

In the afternoon I decided to get my new Kayak out for a spin. I put in at Cedar Lake Point Beach and did the perimeter of Brownie Lake and most of Cedar. It was definitnely different than canoeing and sitting in the same position for awhile was tough.  I did about an hour and 2.8 miles.  I did some of it hard and some of it just relaxed especially when I saw the turtle party on Cedar!!  I ended up buying a kayak that could be good for casual paddling with the family for either Christy or I instead of shelling out money for a faster one!