I find this picture very uplifting. One of the things I have been doing whenever we go on a family trip or adventure, is to take a pic of my kids jumping. I got this idea from a CF friend of mine and I love it. So far we have one in front of Monticello and one in front of Mount Vernon. It’s just a fun way to create a memory. It’s our family thing now — those kids can jump too!
So today’s workout was humbling for me and uplifting at the same time. I am not used to finishing the WODs last. Plain and simple. I have worked hard to be in shape and although I am not particularly uber competitive, I certainly don’t like being a bottom finisher. But sometimes — it happens. Today – although technically I wasn’t if you look at the weights being used — I finished last in the main workout. I don’t like that feeling —
Warmup
25 Double Unders –which I need to practice.
–2x
bear crawl
10 ring rows
10 pass throughs
10 squats
Skill
Wall balls
WOD
‘Karen’
150 Wall Balls (20/14)
– time: 11:44
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Max Effort Sit Ups 2m — 81 reps.
I did the wall balls Rx’d which was pretty damn hard. Wall Balls are one of those exercises that literally feels like torture to me. I can’t breathe right off the bat and then it just gets worse. At about rep 60, I seriously already felt defeated and didn’t want to go on. The only thing that made me go on was seeing the athletes on either side of me motoring on. Kath and Jeff were there – barreling through the same exact workout as I and I know it wasn’t easy on them either. That’s one of the reasons I love CrossFit – I am not alone and when I need some inner strength to fight on, I just look around and see fellow friends plowing through. Seeing them gives me inspiration to just go on. We are in this together, until they are done and I am still working on it — and working on it — and working on it. But you get the idea….
I also love that there can be one exercise that feels like hell to you –and another that you can do all day long, whistling if you have to. Sit Ups are my ‘thing’. I can do them until the cows come home — They hurt and at a point, it’s not pleasant but I can close everything out, including my eyes and keep doing it like a machine. If I can somehow suck out that layer of fat over my abs, I know there is a six pack under it.
I saw this quote today and thought it was a good one:
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. — Marcel Pagnol