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05262019 – Bike and Kayak

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The Mountain Bike trails opened up yesterday afternoon and I wanted to get some dirt action before the rain on Monday. I also didn’t want to tear up my legs for Murph either so I did the North Loop twice at an easy-ish pace.  The Luce Line is still flooded between Wirth Parkway and the entrance, but I found a nice work around that followed the railroad tracks. I found a trail heading back into the woods and was getting ready to turn on it when a dude came running out and he confirmed it would drop me into the loop. It was in great shape, except one section that was closed due to flooding still, but it had a nice work around.  I did about 6.5 miles and it felt good.

Son had been asking to go kayaking with me so the two kids and I ended up going to Hyland park and kayaking on the lake.  It was fun and sunny – I got burnt. I didn’t record the paddle as it was mostly leisurely.  It was a lot of fun though!! Three kayaks is a lot of logistics, but the kids were great helpers!

05252019 – Bike

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I didn’t really have a plan for my ride. I knew several of my normal trails are closed for light rail construction. My general plan was to do my normal 12ish mile loop. When I got towards the Greenway I realized that I didn’t have anything specific to be home for so I went West instead of East. Then the detours started!! I wasn’t exactly sure where I was and then I recognized that I was close to Aquila Park which is on the Cedar Lake Bike Trail.  Minnetonka Blvd continued to have bike lanes so I decided to stay on that for awhile! Eventually I realized that I was paralleling the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail. That would end in Excelsior or make a super long loop.  I eventually stopped at a map and double checked and found a cut-off that would work and took 101 all the way to the Luce Line. This also went over Lake Minnetonka at Gray’s Bay and I’ve done that a few times before too!! The Luce Line had some construction as well, but I was able to ride through the first part of it. Then instead of turning to stay on the Luce Line in Golden Valley I went straight on Plymouth and ended up catching the detour and making it home!! So much construction. It was a great morning to be out riding and it was nice to have no where to be and nothing to worry about. The only problem really was that I only brought a bottle of water and one energy waffle. I felt fine during the ride, but did eat the waffle around the halfway mark when I was at Gray’s Bay and I had stopped for the picture and texted the family!

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.

05042019 – Bike & CrossFit

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I had been feeling a little sick yesterday and skipped CrossFit as a result. So I wasn’t 100% sure how I’d feel this morning. I woke up feeling better but decided to go for a bike ride instead of running thinking that’d be less strenuous before CrossFit later. All the trails were closed due to some rain overnight so I headed out on the roads. I rode up to Lowry and across to the river before heading down to the Cedar Lake Trail and around Cedar Lake and home. Pretty straight forward, not pushing too hard but trying to maintain a steady pace. I ended up with 13.78 miles in 1 hour.

I was a little disappointed that the Question of the Day was related to Star Wars, but maybe that’s too cliche! After our warmup we worked on a Muscle Snatch and Power Snatch combo. One of each inside an 8 minute EMOM time box. Working up to a challenging weight. It was hard not to bend the knees on the Muscle Snatch especially as it got heavier! I started with 55# and worked up to 95# before stopping. At 95# I was barely able to Muscle Snatch so that felt good, especially after hitting a 2RM last week at 101#.

Our MetCon for the day was 2 movements in a 18-15-12-9 rep scheme. The movements were Toes to Bar and American Swing. We practiced kipping a little bit and I did my best Toes to Shoulder (they were maybe shoulder height but not extended and not coming to the bar) and used a 35# kettlebell. I finished in 5:02 and cheered a few other athletes as they worked hard at their chosen scaling. It was impressive.

04272019 – Bike and CrossFit

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Some of the Mountain Bike trails are slowly opening up. At one point we had snow in the forecast, it had been changed to rain in the late morning. I decided to get the Mountain Bike out and do some of the trails – the one open trail is an Expert. I did it once, but walked a lot of it. No point in trying it.  I rode the Karate Monkey section. It was nice to be out riding the trails.  There was one muddy section and the section by the creek was a little wetter than tacky.  Then I rode hard on the paved trails to the SW section of trails.  This is the Quaking Bog area. Its got a lot of hill and flow sections.  I struggle with confidence on some of the flow stuff but it was still fun to be seeing dirt and mixing up the training.  I definitely felt the heavy squatting yesterday!  After finishing this section I took off on the pavement again and did the Karate Monkey section one more time!  

Finished 8 miles in 57:53. 

Then just over 2 hours until CrossFit!!

We did another nice long warm-up and then started working on Power Snatching to a heavy set of 2. I actually did an overall PR for these! I had about 2 minutes left in the 12 minute time cap and was at 95 pounds. I added the 2.5# plates and a pair of 0.5# plates to bump it over my 100# PR. I could probably have done a little more, but felt better doing the 6# leap instead of a 10# one.

Then another short burner. 2 Rounds for Time (12 minute cap) of

10 Dumbbell (25#) Right arm cleans

10 Dumbbell Overhead Squats Right arm

5 Pull-ups

10 Dumbbell (25#) Left arm cleans

10 Dumbbell Overhead Squats Left arm

5 Pull-ups

This was a good one, we drilled the cleans as full depth so that’s what we tried to do with them. I think the 25# might have been a little light, but the 35# would have been too much. I finished in 7:06.

This afternoon we biked as a neighborhood group down to the Trailhead for their Spring Block Party. We had a lot of fun goofing around and enjoying what turned out to be a beautiful day!