Over the weekend the Crossfit RFM crew headed down to Lahaina to compete in a workout against other gyms. I kinda wanted to go but had two concerns: money and work.
I had zero cash and didn't feel like mooching off my gym buddies. That and I was afraid to go anywhere because I knew I was probably going to get a call from the media about weather clean-up.
Sure enough, I did. So I had to go into the office anyway on Saturday.
Both of these problems should clear up towards the end of the month when I finally (1) get paid and (2) get my county Blackberry. That way I can access work email finally and write stuff from wherever.
And it's not like the County is having payroll problems. It's just the way government jobs work or so I'm told .You take a whole month to get processed or something like that.
Whatever. Back to the competition. I promise, here and now, that I will enter the next Crossfit workout competition. I was feelin the power cleans finally last week and saw that it was on the competition list and was wondering how I would have done.
Okay, next time. I'm hittin it. Yea.
Anyway, we had our MLK Day workout which wasn't bad. First some bench presses, 145, 185 and 215 cranked out bam bam bam. I could have done more than 5 reps for the last set (of 215) but my back gets tweeked when I do that funky four points of contact thing on the bench. I wonder if Bumper will let me just lay my back down flat. I think it'll work better or at least hurt less. Either that or I'm just making excuses because bench still freaks me out. We'll see I guess.
Then our main workout, 6 upside down pushups, 10 pistol squats and a 200 yard run, as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes. I did 5 rounds and 6 reps. I was doing well at first and ahead of the pack but of course Derek and Bob start rippin it on the run at about round 3. Damn it again, I've got to figure out this back thing because it just tightens up and screws me on every workout. Ah.
And freaking pistol squats are a problem too. My legs need to get stronger. Period.
But hey, I'm getting the hang of ring dips, conquered kipping pullups and am less afraid of power cleans so . . . this shouldn't be a problem either, right?
Yeah, 2011 is already a great year.
Now if I could only get paid, that would make it even better.
Rod
