Countdown to 30: 9 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
4/24: 151.4
4/25: 151.6
4/26: 151.8

Had another great breakfast today, and had to take a pic:


That's sweet potato and apple hash with ginger, curry & almonds. Also had some green beans, just cause I like green beans.

Rest day and lots of food yesterday did me good, and I feel really great today. Just got back from the gym, where I did a series of workouts that took the better part of two hours. I'm confident I will sleep well tonight.

Started with some snatch practice with an empty bar, then did a variation of the Crossfit Mainsite WOD:

Here's the rx workout:

21/15/9 reps for time of:
95# Snatch
Pull-ups

I'm not about to go doing 21 snatches in a row when I'm not really sure I know how to do them properly. So until more technique practice can be done, I did this:

21/15/9 reps for time of:
65# Overhead Squat
Pull-ups

Took 7:15, which was a good 15 seconds more than I would have liked. Intensity wasn't where it should have been, and I lost some time figuring out how to rack jerk the bar up on the OHS.

Then I did some bench work with Nick. I was really happy not to have lost strength in the bench since my strength building phase. I went for 5 x 5 at 95, 100, 105, 110, and 115. 115 is my previous bench PR but I'm not totally confident I got the full 5-reps in when I last pressed 115. So this might be a new 5-rep max. I've never done a 1-rep on bench, but I'd like to try one day.

Then Nick went for a long walk and I thought I might as well do something with the hour of childcare I had left, so I rested a bit and devised my own WOD, which I am calling the Terrible Ten.

Terrible Ten:
Ten rounds for time. Do 10 reps the first round, 9 reps the second, 8 reps the third and so on, decrementing 1 rep per round until 1 rep the 10th round.

135# Squat
18" Box Jump
45# Swing
Chin-ups
27.5# Alternating Renegade Row with Push-up
55# Weighted Lunge (a 27.5# DB per arm, held at sides)
Burpees
Ab-mat Sit-Ups
27.5# Alternating Single Arm Snatch (I originally tried with the 45# DB but almost dropped it on my head so I wimped out on weight)
100# Deadlift

No joke, this took me--are you ready?--50:12. To be fair I dicked around with my phone's timer for 10-20 seconds at the end, trying to stop the closk, so most likely I was actually sub-50, but just barely. It was just really hard. The squats on rounds 3 and 4, when I was doing 8 and 7 reps, were brutal. I really felt the OHS I had done earlier. Once I got down to the 4-rep range things were easier all around, but I was just so fatigued, there was only so fast I could move. I'll put it this way: this was sucky enough that Burpees felt like a break.