Nothing left at a reasonable price that isn’t entirely sketchy.
Ugh. This is going to hurt.
So I’m doing it. Signed up today. Michael did too. I’m a bit wary of a challenge like this because I don’t want to become obsessed with the scale again, but I’ve put on several pounds I’d like to lose before marathon training and hopefully this will be a reminder over the next four weeks to make better choices. $25 is a lot to lose!
Weigh-in tomorrow. In the meantime: beer me.
Warm-up.
15 minutes to focus on a particular strength exercise: today was push press, 5/5/5, 45#/50#/55#
Short metcon: 4x50m chain drag (scaled to 50#)
I know dat push press looks hella wimpy (and it is), but I have come a long way. I looked in my notebook at the last time I did push press a couple months ago and my 3-rep max was 45#, and I failed the next set at 50#. I was definitely struggling a bit on that last set today, but there was never a doubt in my mind that I wouldn’t make it.
Sigh. CrossFit, I’m gonna miss you these next few months. But surely absence will make the heart grow fonder, eh?
One of today’s projects. Race bibs finally got too numerous to feature all of them on the bulletin board, so now they go on the wall. In their place now stands my marathon training plan (OMGWTFBBQ), which starts June 10. I’m going to rock the Higdon Novice 2, which I think will serve me well for a first full mary (4 days of running + cross as opposed to 5 days of running, which was a big part of me deciding not to do the Intermediate 1 plan).
In making up this schedule, I also finally came to grips that CrossFit just probably isn’t going to fit into it in a way that could let me justify the monthly cost, so I emailed my box owner to tell him as of the beginning of June that I’m temporarily suspending my membership. I know it could be my cross-training (though currently cross happens on Sunday, a day when there are no scheduled WODs), and I could trade one of my rest days for another day of cross, but I know myself and know that: a) the plan as written will probably be enough to exhaust me, and b) the stress/guilt of only going to CF twice a week (at best) is not worth continuing to pay for it. So the hope is that I’ll rejoin after the marathon, but in the meantime, I have to set myself up for success.
Yahoo Inc.’s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.
EFF.
