65 Days left...and I am tired!
Monday's WOD was a great one! I actually love Kettlebell swings (though I swear I am going to lose my grip one day and it is going to go flying out and hit someone in the head) and while I should have pushed myself to do 35# instead of 25#, I was nervous about the 100 reps that we had to do (oh yeah, I definitely should have done Rx!) I always do that to myself; get so nervous about the amount of reps that I have to do so I drop the weight out of fear of pain and then I end up wishing I had done more. After the 100 kb swings it was an 800m row (run for the normal, more coordinated folks) and then 50 pushups and 50 pullups. There was an 18 minute time cap so I managed to get through the kbs, row, pushups and 24 of the pullups. I was pretty happy! I did lose count on the KB swings at one point so I threw in an extra 10 just to be sure but I felt great afterwards. Honestly, I am really amp'ing myself up to get excited to go in during the week. I try to be super pumped and ready however I am finding that I dread it. Don't get me wrong, I love to lift heavy shit and I do not mind the WODS at all...except Karen. That Bitch is just mean...I mean, come on! 150 wall balls? Really?!
I dread it because I am HORRIBLY shy and withdrawn when I am there. I love the people there and all of them are great but I have a hard time talking to them so I end up just sneaking out the front which perpetuates the cycle. It helps when Denise is there or I workout with someone else I know fairly well and can meld easily into their circle but when I am left adrift in a sea of unfamiliar (or familiar but standoffish faces) then I want to run away. Unfortunately, I see the bonds that my family has with their own crossfit gym. Friendships that are close and fun between huge, vastly different groups of people all there with the same goal in mind. So what is it that makes my situation so much different than, say, my brother's or my mom's? I am truly envious of the people who can walk in, talk to anyone, and make friends so incredibly easily. I know a lot of it is me but I am not really sure what to do to fix that. A few people have told me to find another gym but I don't think that is the answer...the shyness will just follow me. Ha, Q told me to just get over it...if only it were that easy. All I can do is just keep going, try to smile more (except when lifting and then who knows what my face is, I am trying to concentrate on not hurting myself in some way!) and maybe one day break out of my shell...maybe...
Now Tuesday was fun! I love playing games and hanging out with my roommates. We are making it a weekly thing where we go and play some badmitton on the tennis courts with Daisy and then walk over to the track to run/jog/walk to prepare us for the 5k (in 65 days...yikes!) I don't think I could have found a better group to be friends with. We are almost always laughing and planning some crazy event or other. We really mesh well and can usually work through our differences and issues. Usually ;)
Well this particular Tuesday was awesome because I now have a bright yellow/green soccer ball that the guys were playing with on the football field. Daisy was in Heaven!! She was chasing it, them and every thing that moved. My wild, crazy, and never tired Border Collie slept through the night without her normal wake up call at 5. She actually let me sleep in until 5:45! I may have been in Heaven as well!
With 65 days left, there is so much that I still need to get ironed out and work better on (story of my life really haha) I am on the path to meet my goal of 3 days of CF this week and 3 days of jogging/walking as well. So far, so good!
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
67 Days left to prepare for the 5k
Wow...time is flying by and I am less prepared than I had hoped to be. I still have time to get ready for it and I am making strides everyday but I wanted to be farther along. I keep getting distracted by things (people) that I need to really just stop concentrating on and focus back on me. It. Is. So. Freaking. Hard! My mind never turns off...I am constantly analyzing and trying to figure every little nuance out and it is incredibly annoying. Yesterday I was finally able to escape myself and spend some much needed time with Daisy and the beach. I took her for a long walk along the waterfront and then sat on the pier with her, watching the kites in the wind and the white caps out on the water. It was so cathartic and necessary. It makes me really appreciate living in the Northwest. When I was in Texas, I would miss the smell of the salt water and sound of the ferries. Now that I am home (and have been home for 5 years) it still calms me down and makes me happy. I don't know if I could ever live anywhere else.
Anyways, back to my lack of preparation. I have a feeling that if I do not actually buckle down and get my ass in gear, I am really going to regret it in 67 days! So my goal this week will be a minimum of 3 days of CrossFit though I am going to push for 4 and either go on Thursday or Saturday morning. I did get a ton of walking in this weekend!!
Oooh speaking of this weekend...One of the best weekends ever! The plan was to go to Seattle in the mid to late afternoon, walk from SCCA to Pike's Place, wander around and then walk from there to the Sounders game. I had envisioned shopping and drinking and fun. What really happened, while still fun, was so not the plan...it is kind of ironic that when I was asked what the plan was, I had said spontaneity and that is what it ended up being. Ok so what really happened: We find a great parking spot in Seattle and begin the first leg of the urban walking trek. We are about 6 blocksish (though I thought we were a lot closer) when it dawned on us that I didn't pay for parking. So we made the decision to walk back. My lovely guide took us on another route so that it wasn't the same scenes that we would be walking passed and we avoided the park so that my allergies wouldn't go crazy again. Well, as we were walking, my heel started to really hurt so I looked down and found that my shoe had worn out the back of my heel. I was bleeding all down the back of my sock, onto the back of my shoe and the other foot wasn't far behind. That put a bit of a crimp in our plans but we still persevered and got back to the car, drove closer to Pike's (he found superb parking and I am kind of envious of his skills) and went in search of a drug store for band aids. This is where the typical klutziness took hold and literally, as I was crossing the street, I fell down. He was all gallant and blamed the manhole that I walked over but no, it was just me. So now I have a bloody heel, bruised and skinned knees and a bruised up elbow. Once I cleaned myself up, placed band aids on my feet and replaced my socks, we began walking to the game.
Ok first...there are some very crazy people in Seattle. That being said, the craziest was the woman who searched my bag. Of course the guy gets off easy and doesn't need to be searched or questioned as he walks through; being a girl, I had all of my belongings manhandled. Well, it wasn't really that bad but as she was looking through my purse, she is asking her normal questions "Do you have any water bottles in here? Booze? Knives? Boyfriend?" Ummm....no? Is the word single tattooed on my forehead? Actually, she winked at me while asking so maybe I was missing something? Ha! Perhaps she figured out something that the rest of us are too oblivious to notice...Anyways...OMG the game was so incredible! It was intense and crazy! I LOVED it! I never thought I would get this much into a sport before but I was on the edge of my seat. Definitely will be going to a lot more this season! Sounders won 3-2 against the Whitecaps which was awesome. We had really good seats (thank you Mark!) and ended up having Sounders fans in our row and Whitecaps fans all behind us. They were sure rowdy the first half of the game when they were up by one but once the Sounders caught up and then pulled ahead, they didn't make a peep! It was great! Wow...What a game!
After the game we met up with some of his friends and my new bff at a neat karaoke bar in Magnolia. Craziness quickly ensued. 1. Wow, the guy can sing and he is very entertaining! 2. His friends are hilarious. 3. I really need to stop making friends at the bar. Actually, I did run in to one of the workers from Rikki Rikki (their warehouse is next to my office and I talk to them all of the time) and it was fun talking to him! Kind of crazy too because there was this really weird guy at the bar talking to me while I was ordering the drinks and he would not leave me alone and then Rikki Rikki (I cannot remember his first name) came over and rescued me. Small world when you run into someone that you work with in Redmond at a small bar outside of Seattle. It was really neat though! I also met some other very entertaining characters and played a lovely game of jenga with them. At one point they convinced me to take a picture of them singing and then text it to them...bad idea as they then had my number but they were a fun group of guys...sometimes. They did get a bit annoying as the night progressed and a bit more touchy than I was comfortable with but all was good and the group I was actually part of managed to move a bit further from them.
After seeing some epic singing (the people I was with are pretty phenomenal and entertaining) the two of us went and got some breakfast. I was starving and it was delicious.
Overall, this weekend was amazing. I would say awesome but I have been told that I use it too much...though I am fairly certain that amazing is used almost as much. It was such a fun weekend despite all of the little things like blood and bruises.
67 days left...better really get a move on! Thank God for CrossFit tonight!
Love this song - Thompson Square's song is playing as I write this "Are you gonna to kiss me or not? Are we going to do this or what? I think you know I like you a lot but you're about to miss your shot...are you gonna kiss me or not?"
Wow...time is flying by and I am less prepared than I had hoped to be. I still have time to get ready for it and I am making strides everyday but I wanted to be farther along. I keep getting distracted by things (people) that I need to really just stop concentrating on and focus back on me. It. Is. So. Freaking. Hard! My mind never turns off...I am constantly analyzing and trying to figure every little nuance out and it is incredibly annoying. Yesterday I was finally able to escape myself and spend some much needed time with Daisy and the beach. I took her for a long walk along the waterfront and then sat on the pier with her, watching the kites in the wind and the white caps out on the water. It was so cathartic and necessary. It makes me really appreciate living in the Northwest. When I was in Texas, I would miss the smell of the salt water and sound of the ferries. Now that I am home (and have been home for 5 years) it still calms me down and makes me happy. I don't know if I could ever live anywhere else.
Anyways, back to my lack of preparation. I have a feeling that if I do not actually buckle down and get my ass in gear, I am really going to regret it in 67 days! So my goal this week will be a minimum of 3 days of CrossFit though I am going to push for 4 and either go on Thursday or Saturday morning. I did get a ton of walking in this weekend!!
Oooh speaking of this weekend...One of the best weekends ever! The plan was to go to Seattle in the mid to late afternoon, walk from SCCA to Pike's Place, wander around and then walk from there to the Sounders game. I had envisioned shopping and drinking and fun. What really happened, while still fun, was so not the plan...it is kind of ironic that when I was asked what the plan was, I had said spontaneity and that is what it ended up being. Ok so what really happened: We find a great parking spot in Seattle and begin the first leg of the urban walking trek. We are about 6 blocksish (though I thought we were a lot closer) when it dawned on us that I didn't pay for parking. So we made the decision to walk back. My lovely guide took us on another route so that it wasn't the same scenes that we would be walking passed and we avoided the park so that my allergies wouldn't go crazy again. Well, as we were walking, my heel started to really hurt so I looked down and found that my shoe had worn out the back of my heel. I was bleeding all down the back of my sock, onto the back of my shoe and the other foot wasn't far behind. That put a bit of a crimp in our plans but we still persevered and got back to the car, drove closer to Pike's (he found superb parking and I am kind of envious of his skills) and went in search of a drug store for band aids. This is where the typical klutziness took hold and literally, as I was crossing the street, I fell down. He was all gallant and blamed the manhole that I walked over but no, it was just me. So now I have a bloody heel, bruised and skinned knees and a bruised up elbow. Once I cleaned myself up, placed band aids on my feet and replaced my socks, we began walking to the game.
Ok first...there are some very crazy people in Seattle. That being said, the craziest was the woman who searched my bag. Of course the guy gets off easy and doesn't need to be searched or questioned as he walks through; being a girl, I had all of my belongings manhandled. Well, it wasn't really that bad but as she was looking through my purse, she is asking her normal questions "Do you have any water bottles in here? Booze? Knives? Boyfriend?" Ummm....no? Is the word single tattooed on my forehead? Actually, she winked at me while asking so maybe I was missing something? Ha! Perhaps she figured out something that the rest of us are too oblivious to notice...Anyways...OMG the game was so incredible! It was intense and crazy! I LOVED it! I never thought I would get this much into a sport before but I was on the edge of my seat. Definitely will be going to a lot more this season! Sounders won 3-2 against the Whitecaps which was awesome. We had really good seats (thank you Mark!) and ended up having Sounders fans in our row and Whitecaps fans all behind us. They were sure rowdy the first half of the game when they were up by one but once the Sounders caught up and then pulled ahead, they didn't make a peep! It was great! Wow...What a game!
After the game we met up with some of his friends and my new bff at a neat karaoke bar in Magnolia. Craziness quickly ensued. 1. Wow, the guy can sing and he is very entertaining! 2. His friends are hilarious. 3. I really need to stop making friends at the bar. Actually, I did run in to one of the workers from Rikki Rikki (their warehouse is next to my office and I talk to them all of the time) and it was fun talking to him! Kind of crazy too because there was this really weird guy at the bar talking to me while I was ordering the drinks and he would not leave me alone and then Rikki Rikki (I cannot remember his first name) came over and rescued me. Small world when you run into someone that you work with in Redmond at a small bar outside of Seattle. It was really neat though! I also met some other very entertaining characters and played a lovely game of jenga with them. At one point they convinced me to take a picture of them singing and then text it to them...bad idea as they then had my number but they were a fun group of guys...sometimes. They did get a bit annoying as the night progressed and a bit more touchy than I was comfortable with but all was good and the group I was actually part of managed to move a bit further from them.
After seeing some epic singing (the people I was with are pretty phenomenal and entertaining) the two of us went and got some breakfast. I was starving and it was delicious.
Overall, this weekend was amazing. I would say awesome but I have been told that I use it too much...though I am fairly certain that amazing is used almost as much. It was such a fun weekend despite all of the little things like blood and bruises.
67 days left...better really get a move on! Thank God for CrossFit tonight!
Love this song - Thompson Square's song is playing as I write this "Are you gonna to kiss me or not? Are we going to do this or what? I think you know I like you a lot but you're about to miss your shot...are you gonna kiss me or not?"
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