I was pretty wiped out after my long drive back from NJ yesterday. 4 hours non-stop but no traffic so that was good. There are times when I really miss the east. It’s like I just fit in there — it’s my home. I had pizza and Italian food too. It was so nice to get away — even a quick trip helps to refresh. We stayed in a very nice hotel across the Hudson from NYC — with a great view. The hotel had an indoor pool and those heavenly beds. It was so nice. Also — if you wanted, you could order up some workout gear and have it delivered to your room to borrow during your stay and go workout at their gym. How cool is that? I of course didn’t do that because I was taking some much needed rest days — but I still thought it was cool.
When I am away on vacation, I don’t go crazy with my strict eating. I’m on vacation and I will not refuse pizza in NJ/NY. Of course I paid for it and then some with the way I felt — A few observations to share — not many restaurants in the Jersey City area are gluten free friendly. I was with a large group of adults and kids, so in the morning we met up at the local COSI. There is hardly anything that would meet Paleo guidelines and it was very frustrating.
My mom was all excited because she told me that we could order scrambled eggs at Cosi, but I am always suspicious. I asked if they were actual eggs and the lady said – no they are from a bag. I asked if they were gluten free? She looked at me like I was crazy… so I said can you check the bag label? She came back and sure enough –GLUTEN. Then I was going to order a fruit smoothie — and I saw he was pouring syrup in it, so I asked if it was gluten free. He asked me what was gluten?!! Yeah — pretty disappointing. So I went with a fruit cup and took a Larabar out of my purse. The fresh fruit cup was seriously the ONLY thing I could find that would be considered real food. Even the natural crunch bars had additives and soy. I was very disappointed and also very enlightened about how people are trained to eat. Here is a major chain and they was no option for those with gluten allergies. COSI fails in my book.
I still have the remnants of a cold — and it has now spread to my ear. I can’t hear out of it and every time I take a deep breath, I cough. So it made today’s workout a bit tough –and I was the dead last finisher! I don’t like to be the dead last finisher. It irks me —
Snatch is the world’s fastest lift and for me, it’s one of the toughest technique wise and it happens to be the only component of the Isabel WOD – one of the ladies of CrossFit I have not yet met –I met her today. If you look at the WOD time — 4:50 you would think it wasn’t that hard of a workout. Try doing 30 of those in a row as fast as you can — yeah it was tough. I would have liked a bonus round of something though afterwards since we were there for an hour — make it count.
Warmupx2
20 Double Unders
10 Push Ups
10 Pass Thurs
10 Good Mornings
10 OHS
Burgener Warmup
Skill
Snatch
WOD
‘Isabel’ (135/95)
30 Snatches for time (65lbs)
time: 4:50
I also did a few handstands and practiced my kip again. It’s getting to the point where it’s ridiculous that I don’t have the kip pull up yet. How many more ways can I try to get it to click with me? Don’t answer that —