Countdown to 30: 12 Days to Go

4/1: 157.0
4/2: 155.0
4/3: 155.2
4/4: 154.6
4/5: 154.8
4/6: 154.2
4/7: 153.2
4/8: 154.8
4/9: 152.6
4/10: 151.2
4/11: 153.2
4/12: 152.2
4/13: 152.2
4/14: 152.4
4/15: 153.2
4/16: 152.2
4/17: 152.0
4/18: 151.8
4/19: 152.0
4/20: 152.0
4/21: 152.0
4/22: 152.6
4/23: 151.4

After a few days of felling less-than-awesome physically it was nice to feel really on my game yesterday. Sunday & Monday I was just a bit tired, which is unusual compared to how great I've been feeling lately--I attribute it to my monthly hormonal variations and Seattle weather, which has been flipping between gorgeous and crappy all week. Tuesday was a wonderful rest day, and it was really rewarding to come back hard on Wednesday with that PR deadlift.

Today I knew what was in store for me off the Crossfit Mainsite: The Filthy 50! This is one of the first WODs I ever did, and it remains one of my absolute favorites. I think the first time I did the Filthy my time was around 45 minutes. Alison and I went at this one pretty hard. I was hoping for a sub-30.

Here's the Rx Workout, with my subs and notes in parentheses.
50 Box jump, 24 inch box (18" box)
50 Jumping pull-ups
50 Kettlebell swings, 1 pood (35# gripper plate)
Walking Lunge, 50 steps
50 Knees to elbows (most ended up closer to knees-t0-armpit)
50 Push press, 45 pounds
50 Back extensions (straight back extension station was in use, so I did these on the angled back extension bench. I'm sure my back appreciated the break.)
50 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball (12# ball, probably 9 foot target)
50 Burpees (broke these up into 10 sets of 5 and seriously powered through them...my best burpee experience yet.)
50 Double unders (I knew at this point that double unders were not possible without a bathroom break, so I subbed out 150 single unders instead. I'll spend some time on double under form in the next week or so until I can figure 'em out.)

Total Time: 25:40. WAY under 30:00! Yeah! Next Time: Sub 25! (Or let's say sub 27 if I'm doing real double unders).

Alison rocked it out with 35 of each activity. Here's her workout, modified because she's new to Crossfit, but still plenty challenging, thank you very much.

35 Box jump, 12" box
35 Jumping pull-ups
35 Kettlebell swings, 15 pound dumbbell
Walking Lunge, 35 steps
35 Ab-mat sit-ups (I think she did these un-anchored, but I'm not positive.)
35 Push press, 20 pounds
35 Back extensions (Straight back extension station.)
35 Wall ball shots, 10 pound ball for first half, then subbed to 8 pound ball, 9 foot target
35 Burpees (A suck-fest no matter how you look at it.)
105 Single unders (Alison geared up and got it done with a 3:1 sub, even though jumping rope is not her favorite. At all.)

Alison's Time To Beat: 26:47 Next time she'll move up in either weight or reps....a few more crossfit workouts and she'll be doing this one as rx. Alison has the right kind of dogged stubbornness that will make her a damn fine crossfitter, should she chose to keep it up. (Dogged stubbornness is a trait I recognize in others because I am so overly endowed with it myself.) She might be in massive amounts of pain and she might be hating life but you just know she's not going to give up. That's so cool. Great job, Alison!

Good workout!