meetings and paperwork and legalities, oh my!

+ i made it to CF at 4, which added an extra hour to my evening of time to spend with donny and penelope. and sytycd comes on tonight.

today was a long day at work, although i hardly got to see any of my kiddos. had two meetings, one of which was somewhat long and stressful and required lots of preparation. that makes 3 so far this week, and one more is scheduled for friday. definitely not a typical week, at least for the fall semester. but all went smoothly today, in the end.

donny and i had a short talk tonight and decided that we are for sure going to move this summer. i have been telling people it's all but certain, but now donny is completely on board as well. he says he doesn't care where, in texas or elsewhere. so, i'm going to start looking at job salaries for speech therapists in all different places, as well as costs of living and whatnot. yay for a big adventure yet to come, as married folk :)

CrossFit 10.21.09

warm-up

400m row

15 squats

strength

3-2-1-1-1 push press

max weight= 72 lbs

this is a 10 lb increase from two weeks ago! and last time, it took me 3 attempts to get 62 lbs up. today, it took me 2 attempts for 62 lbs, but i got 67 lbs and 72 lbs up on my first attempts! definitely significant progress on this, so i'm pleased.

WOD

tabata burpees (20 seconds of work, 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes)

cumulative total= 49 burpees

my first and only tabata experience before today was with bottom-to-bottom squats, where the "rest"wasn't actually rest, and our total for the workout was the total from our worst round of work. today, the rest was actual rest and we got to keep a cumulative total. i was really happy with my performance on this workout. now granted it's not a competition, but i typically set my goals and measure my performance by comparing it to what all of the other women are able to do. i'm usually the weakest strength-wise, and never the fastest. but today, my total was higher than any other female's. and my push press weight was NOT at the bottom, so i'm really starting to see some measurable progress/results.

bachelorette party, here i come!!

+ i'm leaving first thing tomorrow morning to go to austin, where my bachelorette party will officially commence on saturday morning!! tomorrow i'll get to spend all day with my beautiful loving friend april, and best of all, i WON'T be at work ;)

today was a moderately stressful, and somewhat unproductive, day at work. but hey, you can't win 'em all. at least i know that next week will most likely be better (although it will be a full 5 day week). i did make a revelation that had me tickled... on monday on the way to work i was listening to one of the local radio morning shows and they had called a girl to have her tell her story of what happened to her over the weekend- she had gotten engaged. on tuesday, i got to work at the intermediate school and one of the teachers i work a lot with told me he had proposed to his girlfriend over the weekend. i was really excited for him and congratulated him and all. but i certainly didn't connect the two situations- until today, when he showed some of us the video of him proposing, and it happened the exact way that the girl on the radio had described... sure enough, his fiancee was the one i heard on the radio on monday! what a small world... or at least a small town that i live in :)

last night donny and i had a wonderful time seeing toy story 1 and 2 in 3d... we ate popcorn and gummi bears and relived our childhood for a good 3 and a half hours... not bad for a wednesday night. tonight, we are going country western dancing with a group of our friends/donny's coworkers. our dear friend tiff is moving to houston this weekend with her almost-husband, and while we are happy for them, we are not pleased that she's leaving. so tonight is kind of a last college station hurrah... bittersweet, i suppose.

4th consecutive day of CF, yet another first! first yesterday's workout, then today's...

CrossFit 10.7.09

warm-up

250m row

strength

1-1-1-1-1 push press

max weight= 62 lbs

it took me 3 tries to get this weight up, but i finally got it. i felt ok with this amount- of course not one of the best, but for me, not too shabby.

WOD

3 rounds of:

10 turkish get ups

30 tuck jumps

time= 7:45

if you are wondering what the hell turkish get ups are, so was i! they are so much more difficult than they sound/look. it will be hard to explain, but there are plenty of youtube videos that show it... you start on the ground on your back holding a weight in one hand straight over your head, arm fully extended. using your other arm and your legs, you get up off of the ground and stand up, keeping the weight directly over head, without letting your elbow bend and without taking your eyes off of the weight. it takes so much concentration to do this correctly, not to mention the physical exertion! i used a 10lb weight (for reference, the two guys there used a 20 or 25 lb weight) for the turkish get ups. the tuck jumps were just jumping and trying to get your knees to your chest, without stopping in between jumps. these were pretty exhausting! (i lost count of the turkish get ups twice during this WOD and think i might have been short one or two, so i added 20 secs to my time to get the time listed above)

CrossFit 10.8.09

warm-up

250m row

3x 10 squats

3x 10 lunges

no strength- rest day

WOD

3 rounds, AMRAP (as many reps as possible) in:

1 minute cleans (42 lbs)

1 minute push-ups

1 minute sit-ups

1 minute rest

total per round is the total of all 3 exercises combined

total= 59/58/59

this may have been the toughest workout this week. my muscles were wanting to give out during push-ups in round 2. by round 3, my form all around was suffering significantly- my squats during cleans weren't as low, my push-ups were embarrassing, and i had to use pretty much my whole body to propel myself up for sit-ups. most rounds broke down about like this: 10-12 cleans, 22-25 push-ups, 22-26 sit-ups. glad i'm taking tomorrow off because i am going to be SORE.