training

Yesterday @ Crossfit Fast Factory

3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 - front squat
70% of 1RM for all 7 sets
for load: 225

21-15-9
pistols /leg
ring dips
for time: 6:25

today:

row 5k @ 85%
18:27.8

daily report

     Was fun to check out one of the better boxes in St. Cloud yesterday. Great facility and community going on there. Front squats felt good, ring dips need improvement. Lightening up a bit will go a long ways there. 5k row was decent. Recovered I could hit 17:30 I think.

• Body: Legs are sore.
• Mind: Good. Carbs last night but otherwise strictly zone. Eating more during the day needs to be a priority.
• Spirit: This sums things up nicely: (Hamlet. Act I. Scene IV.)

Ay, marry, is't:
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase
Soil our addition; and indeed it takes
From our achievements, though perform'd at height,
The pith and marrow of our attribute.
So, oft it chances in particular men,
That for some vicious mole of nature in them,
As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,
Since nature cannot choose his origin--
By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,
Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens
The form of plausive manners, that these men,
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--
Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,
As infinite as man may undergo--
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault: the dram of eale
Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
To his own scandal.

HORATIO
Look, my lord, it comes!
[Enter Ghost]

HAMLET
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,
To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous; and we fools of nature
So horridly to shake our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?

[Ghost beckons HAMLET]

update

Welp, here I am again after awhile away from logging. I have lost my rhythm a bit with everything going on at school and in my personal life but have still made time to train. I enjoy training most when I have some place to log and share it so I am going to remember that going forward.

This past weekend I ran a half marathon that I didn't train too specifically for. It was mentally challenging but I made it through in 1:56::58. I would most certainly participate in another one, though I realize that nutrition and hydration is more than half of the battle. Having to poop on mile 4 was one of the worst feelings of my life. I did, however, make the entire distance without stopping and for that I am proud.

I've been roughly following OPT's big dawgs training, and I plan to continue with that. I would like to see a significant increase in my clean&jerk and snatch so this will be a fairly good program at helping me with that along with increasing my abilities in other GPP type activities.

For nutrition, I am going to be zoning for at least the next week. I am only one meal through but I can see the best in myself come out when I eat clean and see myself sticking to it. I will report back. Beach season is among us, at least, and that is certainly motivation in itself.

Lastly, the weather has been really crummy here in Minnesota. It is April 22 and there is still snow on the ground. I hope to get my bike going as soon as the snow melts. In any case, I think the weather will be fair for the Triathlon this Friday that I will be participating in and I look forward to that.

Body: Legs are sore from the run. Otherwise pretty good.
Mind: Clear. Zoning rewires your relationship to food and I am living the benefits of weighing and measuring. Not long term, but at least for a week. Maybe two.
Spirit: My classes right now are some of the best I have ever had. Ethics and Metaphysics never cease to inspire a new outlook on life. The Magus alone had a profound impact on how I comprehend our subjectivity and what it means to live freely within out limitations.
m/f/s (mood/fatigue/soreness, lower is better): 2/2/4