Building

This past Monday was my 25th birthday, I did not do much to celebrate and that was fine by me. What I did do was use it as an excuse to carry the excesses from Saturday night right through Monday's pizza, beer and sweet potato fries lunch/dinner. Some of the crossfiters I have trained with tell me how they are never satisfied after cheat meals and it is never as good as they expect it to be. That was not the case for me. I had a great dinner on Valentine ’s Day and a great lunch on Saturday.

Prior to that weekend I had consistently stuck to my 17 blocks with two (sometimes three cheat meals) a week. It has been effective in decreasing my times and increasing energy and recovery but I wanted more. So after doing some reading and research (robbwolf.com) I have decided to drop my carbohydrate blocks down to 8 and increase my fats to 42. I was expecting to be dragging on Wednesday but by about 3pm I felt like I was going to tear through my own skin I was so amped. It felt like I had been pounding redbull all day. Today I am experiencing a similar feeling. I am actually a little light headed. I like it.

As far as workouts:

2/16
AMRAP in 20 min of
10 95# squat cleans
15 push-ups

I did 11 rounds.

I was happy with that number and was only slightly out done by one guy in the class. He did 11 and change, I did just 11.

2/17
7 rounds of 1 Squat Cleans
I pr'ed at 215#'s and it felt pretty good.

2/18
I meet up with Phil like it was last summer all over again and we invaded the land of the Jimmy’s. We strolled into a packed Globo Gym and did WOD from last year’s CF Games:

5x 275# Dead-Lift
10 Burpees

I'm not totally sure what my time was the last time I did this but I wanted to get close to 5min (top 50 at the games).

Pat: 5:29
Phil: 4:09

I went first and drew a ton of attention (and scorn) from the people in the crowded gym, especially from the fat-ass who could not comfortably do his seated calf raises, yes that’s what I said he was mad because I was so close to him while he did seated fucking calf raises. After I finished one of the trainers walked over and I could see the satisfaction on the people’s faces “now that asshole is going to get it! They should throw his ass out and revoke his membership for actually doing work in a gym. How am I supposed to concentrate on my lat crunch things with a 45# plate in one hand while some guy drops 275#s repeatedly.” But he is a friend of ours and only wanted to know my time. People were genially pissed that he did kick us out.

I am glad I went first because the effort Phil put in was humbling and I would not want to follow a 4:09.

Rest day today then a trail run on Friday and not sure about Saturday. Till then I will try not to make my shoulder any worse than it is.