Helen and some new things.....some painful new things

Saturday was Helen - I've never been a fan of Helen - too much running, but I did kind of want to give it a shot with my new banded kipping move.  I ended up getting through the run torture, and finishing in 15:20 or so.  This time it was the run that took so long.  My pullups weren't uber-fast, but I soooo did not feel the run.   Overall, it was a good day though.

Today was a new diabolical one.  Overhead lunges - 100 for time.  The ridiculous amount of weight to do this as prescribed is 95 lbs for women. HA!! As stated, ridiculous!  I decided I was going to try it at 50lbs, since I didn't really have a starting point, and 100 is alot.  We aren't looking at a mere 20 or even 50.  100.   That is a plethora of lunges even without weight!!  My biggest worry was the balancing thing - because you have 50 lbs held high over your head, while lunging.  By held high over your head, it's not just resting on your back, it's lifted way up over your head, with your shoulders tight and arms locked out straight.   Just an element of pain and difficulty.

So I was going to start at 50, but naturally in my head, that seemed wimpy, so when Jonathan said, "oh, go throw a couple 5' s on there, you can always go down, but most people never go up in the middle of a workout",  I went with it.  60 lbs it was.   In my head, I was going to do 5 sets of 20.  Then we started.  Nope, I got to about 7 then decided I was going to do 10 sets of 10.  At about #48 or so, I lunged forward with my left leg, went to push back up, and it just wasn't going, in fact, it kind of slipped out from underneath me, so I chucked the bar forward, and fell back on my butt!  If I wasn't so tired, I would have busted out laughing because I can just imagine how ridiculous it looked.  On the plus side, I actually DID drop the bar.  The final 20 or so were slow, and my left leg at times just didn't want to bend, it knew what was coming and was fighting the move.  Who knew my leg had a mind of it's own??  In the end I got through it.  Stayed with the 60 lbs through the whole thing, and finished in 16:15.  I can foresee great pain in my future because of this one!!

We tried a new thing during warmups.  L sit on the paralette bars.  My first try was one leg out, one curled under a bit.  The next try, I actually did it.  It wasn't exactly high up on the bars, and when done I kind of flumped down on my butt, but I held it for about 5 seconds!  The coolest part was that there seemed to be a bit of surprise that I could do even that, Rich even made a comment to me, something like "you always amaze me".  I thought was pretty cool, because he's been around enough athletic people that I consider that a pretty big compliment.  YAY!