February 2011
2 posts
Pancakes in the Age of Enlightenment: Chief... →
My friend Gabe’s brush with greatness this weekend!
gacarrera:
Yesterday my friend and I went to the Starbucks across from school for a quick coffee break during our journal Editorial Board interviews. When we walked in, I caught a quick glance of a man who looked familiar but thought nothing of it and got in to the long line with my friend. After a few…
“This is a running club, not a jogging club.”
January 2011
9 posts
slippery slope
Last night I met my friend at our favorite restaurant, where I ate mussels. Well, I can’t eat mussels without bread. Period. So I broke paleo, for realz. Not like “cream in my coffee broke.” Broke Rule No. 1. No bread.
Tonight I met a friend from out of town at an Italian restaurant (her choice), where I had bread again. I planned my menu ahead of time; I ordered sausage and...
Today I:
Went to running team for the WOD. Originally LC’ers (long-coursers: people whose races are longer than 1 hour) were supposed to run a 10K, but a bunch of people were complaining of soreness (I seemed to be favoring my right foot a little bit) so we all ran a 5K. Coach: “I don’t want to see anyone roll through here with a 30- or 35-minute 5K. This is supposed to be...
This morning’s WOD was tough:
AMRAP in 10’: 1x clean + 10x front squats + 1x jerk. I managed 7 rounds + 8 reps with a 65-lb. bar. Then another AMRAP of 20x pushups + 30x double-unders. I of course had to sub incline pushups and tuck jumps and still managed only 3 rounds + 5 pushups.
But the real news is that Saturday was the first running team group workout. I joined the running team...
mr365 asked: thanks for the reblog, glad you enjoyed it! what exactly is "Project 30"?
#365 to 30: #307 - running →
This was a really fun read.
365to30:
Vibram Five Fingers + Couch to 5k Week 1, Run 1
WHEN THE HELL DID RUNNING GET HARD AGAIN?!?
i honestly didn’t even find it hard because of the shoes. i found the shoes graceful and fun and made me feel like a badass during the runs. like Natty Bumpo running through the wilderness.
no, the hard…
We did back squats at Crossfit today, and my max weight was 65 lbs. It was RIDICULOUSLY EASY. I guess we were supposed to be concentrating on “form” but I just ended up irritated. I have shit to do, you know?? I need to break a sweat. Of course, afterward we did max pullups and weighted pushups, and I got TWO per round in the green band, and I had to do incline pushups.
Sometimes I...
1.3.11 WOD
First WOD of 2011!
“Elizabeth“ for time: 21-15-9 squat clean @ 135/95-lbs. ring dip
sub: 20-lb dbs, 1x pushup
13:17
December 2010
16 posts
Running in Amsterdam →
I just ran this (there and back). It felt longer than a mile and a half at the time.
back to square one
I did knee pushups in the WOD tonight. Now I’m kicking myself. I could have pushed harder. I would have had to do repetition debts but I should have just done it.
Complete 80 intervals of 15 seconds of work where:
the first 16 intervals are: swing @ 55/35-lbs.
the second 16 intervals are: single-arm snatch @ 55/35-lbs.
the third 16 intervals are: pushup
the fourth 16 intervals are: box...
I actively avoid any type of confrontation, especially on the Internet, but I just saw something that made my blood boil, so I wanted to comment on it. To do so, I had to “like” Tara Costa (from Biggest Loser) on Facebook, which was painful in itself, because I really do not “like” her. But I think in terms of Biggest Loser competitors, she is the truest athlete among them,...
I got pushups today. REAL pushups. No knees, no wide stance (hee hee).
We did Cindy, which is a 20’ AMRAP of: 5 pullups 10 pushups 15 squats
I did bodyrows, of course. BUT I GOT PUSHUPS! I only got 8 rounds + 9 pushups, but now I have a baseline.
We also did Tabata planks (20 seconds elbows, 10 seconds hands, 8 rounds) and I didn’t break once. When the coach asked at the end who...
don't forget!
You only have SIX MORE DAYS to bid on my stuff :)
So, awesome news (if you like your awesome news to be sprinkled with a little bit of fear dust, like I clearly do): I got into the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler! So that’s two big races in the spring: CB and the Country Music Half at the end of April.
Now, to get back to training. And I saw snow on the ground when I left my apartment this morning. Great timing.
from my closet to yours
Size 8-12 ladies: I put some clothes on eBay tonight, and whenever I can get a second away from reading for finals, I’ll be putting more up. Please check out my listings!
12/9 WOD
AMRAP in 15 minutes:
15x unbroken* thrusters 200m run
* any broken thrusters (where the bar falls from the front-rack position) results in 5x burpees immediately following the thrusters.
This was tough. The whole time I was concentrating on not putting the bar down, so if I needed to pause I held it in a press or at the front rack. I was not going to do burpees if I could help it. My score was...
After I came in from a mile run this morning, high off of what I thought was a pretty respectable showing in the WOD (5-10-15 back squats (75lbs) and box jumps (20”)), my coach called me on the carpet.
“Campbell, are you still doing paleo?”
I said yes, and then shook my hand. “Pretty much.”
She got the look for which she is infamous on her face and said,...
DAMMIT
Like a freaking idiot, I loaded my bar wrong today, so I lifted 45 pounds for the 30x clean-and-jerk, rather than 55. I’m super pissed at myself.
How crazy is it to be reading some random blog and see Ben’s video? I want to e-mail them and be like, I SAW IT FIRST
The Fear
Do you ever get the Fear before a workout? The thought, “I definitely can’t do this. I don’t even want to try.” I get it all the time, and was beset by it both yesterday (pushups WOD) and today (burpee, thruster, pullups WOD). There are certain things that set it off for me: long runs, burpees. Mostly conditioning-related. I don’t second-guess my lifting ability, I...
Single Tear, Part II
Information you may not need, but I need you to know:
Pushups at the gym aren’t like pushups real people do. Your chest has to touch the ground. I used to pride myself on the fact that I could do “real” pushups, and then I got laughed out of Crossfit.
So that’s that. I did 50 really freaking hard pushups this morning. Not as hard as if I could do them without the help of...
I cried at the gym today. A tiny little tear escaped my eye (a cliche, according to my high school creative writing teacher). No one saw, because I realized crying at the gym is a quick way to get your ass handed to you, so I stopped that shit. But still. I was mad and frustrated and sad.
Today’s WOD was 150 pushups, and everytime you broke position you had to do 10 box jumps. I was told at...
EXCITEMENT
My do life t-shirt came! I am going to be sporting it at Crossfit tomorrow. I hope I get many questions and compliments.
November 2010
21 posts
sasstacular asked: I hate being an adult :(
I’m so sad about all the WODs I’m missing this week. They look so fun. And I brought workout clothes to my dad’s and I didn’t so much as go for a walk. And I feel gross and ready to get back and get to it.
BLAH!
I signed up for a briefing on my gym’s new running and barbell teams. I’m terrified they’re going to see that I signed up and think, “No thanks.” I was going to e-mail and ask what kind of skill is required, but I really want to work on being confident (at least outwardly), so I figured, who cares what they think. The briefing is where I’ll get my questions...
11.24.10 WOD
Max overhead squat (10-10-10-10-10)
25-35-45-60x-55
The butternut squash soup I just made is epic, and I haven’t even added the coconut milk yet. Totally paleo, of course.
10 burpees. go eff yourself. try 105.
BOOO.
My Crossfit counterpart finished today’s WOD in 14:36. I finished in 15:50, and I thought I was fast.
I took too long on the wall balls. But still. I am harboring a deep, irrational belief that she cheated.
Kidding.
Sort of.
We were circling up before the WOD today and the head coach (pretty grumpy guy even on his best days) suddenly bursts out: “Who’s wearing Bengay???”
And this guy I’d never seen before goes, “Me.” And John goes “Don’t ever wear that shit in here again.” And Bengay goes, “I’m hurtin’.” And John goes, “I don’t...
There's a lot of Kool-Aid to be drunk in the...
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My first mile run at Crossfit tomorrow. :(
I really don’t want to. I am going to be so embarrassed.
There is a woman at Crossfit that I compete with — she doesn’t really know it, but I do.* We started around the same time (well, when I re-started in September, she had just started) and so we usually start around the same weights. She’s smaller than me (who isn’t) so I feel like she’s faster than me in the conditioning WODs, but I am stronger than her, so I can usually...
Lame question, but …
Should I go see a doctor about my dents? Or just let them heal?
GAH
I haven’t been feeling well the past couple of days. I think I got a cold that’s going around. Sore throat, sneezing. Nothing too crazy.
My Crossfit schedule is MWFS, so in I went today for the WOD at noon. I ate an apple at 11. We did push presses and then a workout of box jumps and single leg squats. I finally graduated to the 24” box. I was so excited.
But on the second...
meh
I weighed AGAIN and I’m back to my starting weight AGAIN. 169.2. Thanks for staying out of the 170s, but jeez. Let’s make something happen, metabolic system.
Also: I’m sad. The Crossfit gym I go to uses a different photo of athletes (members) every day on the website, and I have never even been photographed. I think it’s because I’m fat and unattractive. I know that...
We had a pretty tough WOD today for a non-conditioning day, which I usually consider the easier days. 3 jerks+6 OHs+12 back squats. During one of the OHs I dropped my bar, and the coach used it as an opportunity to rebuke me for not eating breakfast (in my defense, I wake up before a WOD and just go in. I got no time for breakfast!). She said she monitors the paleo blog and noticed I haven’t...
I just had my first homemade protein shake! Almond milk, Whole Foods berry medley, and a scoop of whey protein. Totally not paleo since the protein powder has dairy. But it was actually delicious!
September 2010
23 posts
holy eff.
Hardest workout I’ve done in a long time. We had to learn a new technique for KB swings because there is no way to do the traditional swing and still make it to 30 in a minute. Even so, I only made it to 30 once.
The rowing was pure pain. About halfway through I let the words pass my lips:
I can’t do it.
I don’t say those words, ever. I don’t like to legitimize weakness...
I must be crazy
Because I am super excited for tomorrow’s workout:
five one-minute rounds; rest exactly one minute between rounds: 30x swing* @ 70/55-lbs.
*Rowing debt accrues in 1000m intervals, each time all 30 swings are not completed in the designated one-minute time period.
This workout is scored by the total swings completed, and the total distance rowed.
It’s been since before Turkey...