3 days worth!!

Slacker!! Yes, I am a slacker!! As Yoda would say -" several days behind I am!"  Ok - now that really scares me: I'm channeling a Star Wars character - YIKES! What has happened to me???

Not only am I channeling little, ancient, green....ummm...muppets, but I also seem to be at a bit of a stagnant point when it comes to the heavy lifts.  To add to the strange happenings in the galaxy, while the heavy is just sitting there, the Met-Cons are kickin' it into high gear.

Here's the scoop - Monday, CrossFit Total - 2 attempts.   Let me just start out by saying - this completely threw me for a loop when it was posted.  Last time, I psyched myself up for a week.  This time, doing CFT after work...on a Monday to boot, with no mental preparation, I didn't know if I would surprise myself, or really be as weak as I felt.  Well, it wasn't really either one.

Back squat, 1 rep - 1st try - 235 - made it.  2nd attempt - 245 - miss.  Apparently I should have made this one, because despite me feeling like I was maybe at parallel, I was almost there.   I'm not sure what is going on with my squats, but they've felt off the last several times we've done them. I can't pinpoint exactly why.   Wait... now that I think about it, perhaps it's my cracklin' knees.....the noise throws me....hmmm.
Shoulder Press, 1 rep -  1st try - 110  - got it, and it felt pretty good!    2nd attempt -115 -not so good - I could barely move this sucker!
Deadlift, 1 rep -   1st try - 275 - got it.  2nd try - 300 - I was just trying to repeat my last score on this one, and it just didn't work out so well, in fact it was quite laughable.

So - while I didn't break any records, I at least managed to hit the same levels as last time on the Squat and Shoulder Press.  The good news - I'm still in the 3X  score. YAY!!

Tuesday - Crossfit Stations #2 - 3 rounds
- Wallball 16 #
- Pullups  - minis - low bar
- Slamball 16 #
- Situps
- Box jumps 16"

I did pretty good on this.  I think it was a pretty comparable average score to last time, but I was in minis rather than the red bands.  Overall score was 266  - I believe I hit 94, 88, 84.  It averaged to about 88 per round.  So - happy with that!

Tonight:  200 meter run x 8 rounds   2 minute rest between rounds

Lovely.  Running.   I told myself all day that 200 meters was nothing - it was just a hair longer than the sprints we did over the summer.    Hello  - Reality check to Ellen!! Not even close!  Criminy towards the end, it took everything I had not to walk.......but I didn't.  I ended up, ending with a high of 59 seconds, low of 53.   So, overall pretty happy.  

Of course thinking about it, I was running full tilt, putting every ounce of energy into every step.  If you were to add it all up, and by some incredible miracle I was able to tie all 8 rounds  together at the same speed - it would be about  an 8 minute mile.  Not terrible, but for the amount of energy I put into it, kind of sad, and completely unrealistic for me!  Have I mentioned before that running kills me??