Saturday, February 7, 2009

A Fine couple of Gals - Annie & Fran

Apparently I do quite well when I'm fighting a cold - or actually have one but am in denial.
Yesterday we did Annie 50/40/30/20/10 Double Unders and Situps.  I looked at my last time, and it was 26 minutes and some odd seconds.  I looked at a time I had when I substituted 1/2 the number of burpees for Double unders and I was only at 25 minutes....isn't that odd??
Double unders are a challenge, and last time I did this one I ended up with whip marks up and down my arms, I've succeeded once in getting 5 without stopping.  This time, I actually did pretty good.  I got 5 in a row a couple times.  When I say in a row, it's actually - single, single, DU, single, DU, single, DU....and so on.  Only stringing together 5 max can make for a long time to complete 50.  I actually ended up finishing in 18:13.  Jumpin' Jehosephat!!  I managed to take 8 minutes off my time??? 
Today was Fran - 21/15/9 - 65# Thrusters, pullups.  I woke up today thinking that the fight was over, and this cold had probably won.  Very thick throat.  ...and to top it off, I was working out at 8am on a Saturday.  That is freakin' early!!  Somehow I managed to get through this and knock off two minutes.  I completed it in 6 minutes and I have no idea how many seconds.  But 2 minutes faster than last time!!   Actually the thrusters were no problem for me - I didn't do all 21 in a row, but I got to 15 before pausing, which I think is the most I've done in a row.  Pullups were still on the low bar red bands.  As good as my time sounds, I still feel it's completely misleading because they aren't real pullups.  So - overall nice Fran time, but not really brag worthy.    That's it, I guess I'm not overly creative today.

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