4 rounds for time of:
Time: 13:04
Pushed pretty hard on the WOD. I gained a bunch of time on everyone during the first 400m run, then maintained my lead throughout. People caught up to me toward the end but I pushed hard on the last run and came in first by 2 seconds.
4 rounds of:
I did 4x5@65lb Press and 8,7,5,5 ring pushups
Three 4min AMRAPS, 2min rest between each.
I did 3 rounds + 3 rows @ 14lb wallball and 20lb dumbbells
3 rounds + 1 rep @ 65lb bar and 10lb slam ball
2 rounds + 27 taps
In some ways the worst Wildwood yet. Cops were super annoying, got a $333 ticket for open display of alcohol. Played quite poorly most of the time. Shrooms didn’t do much. Diana wasn’t there.
In another sense, tourney was pretty good. Weather was great - not scorching hot, not pouring rain. Cline’s dance party at Stardust was sick. Stayed up till 4am both nights, got quite drunk but wasn’t hung over. Partied with lots of people I like. Played well against Rabs and Humiliswag. Saved a bunch of money by sleeping in my car (the ppl whose house I slept in front of were not too happy). Chilled with Jennie, Barb, Robb and Max a good amount.
Played a lot, esp on Saturday. Weather was super hot. Started off well, then went crazy and couldn’t stop hucking it away. Sunday was hotter and more humid, but we had a few subs and I felt way better. Didn’t cramp at all, had 0 turns, played fairly well.
We beat Muff N' Men in the finals to win the tourney.
1:48
Two days of fun in the sun with the sharkfuckers. Played 7 games with a combined point diff of 94-45. Wasn’t too tired because we didn’t have that many points to play. I had some silly turns of Sat but tightened it up on Sunday. The finals was my best game - no turns, at least 4 assists, a handful of Ds, and a hand block followed by a Rochester for the goal. We won $1000, threw it in the air, swam in it naked and swaggered around as much as we could.
5 rounds of:
Based on my last deadlift set (5@295), I estimated my 1RM at 345lb. So I went with 205lb for the deadlifts. It was fairly heavy but I don’t think I struggled on any rep. I used 10lb for the twists - definitely too light.
For time:
I used 105lb for the cleans and finished in 7:03 .
5 rounds for time:
~36 min
We did it as a partner workout, so my partner and I each did half of everything (except we ran the 400m together). He was an older guy, pushing 60, so he wend slower than I did and I had a good amount of rest. Still, he pushed hard and I went as fast as I could on the exercises, so a good workout.
20-30 minutes of back squats, working up to a heavy single. I started at 5x135lb and worked up to 1x225lb .
AMRAP in 7 minutes:
I did 6 rounds + 7 air squats .
4 rounds for time of:
Halfway through (after 2 rounds), do 20 burpees.
My time was 12:19
Met Miriam at Bayview Park for a quick workout. Did a bunch of ladder drills and resisted sprints. Turns out you can make a great resistance band by tying two bike tubes together. After that, we worked on lateral skips (also resisted) and sprint starts. Finished with half an hour of throwing.
Went to a free trial class at CrossFit New Haven. Class was not as intense as a real session, but a good intro. I pretty much intended to go there already, so this was more like a sanity check to make sure they’re not crazy (and get a free workout in).
AMRAP in 10 min of:
I did 7 rounds plus 3 burpees.
Didn’t do too much in the way of workouts conditioning. Mostly played ultimate:
Today, a return to real workouts. Threw with Miriam at Wooster Square for over an hour. Worked on torso torque on my flicks, spin on my leftie backhands, and flight path on my hammers.
Two days of low-level pickup. Sri Lanka doesn’t have much of an ultimate scene, but a few players are trying to get it off the ground. They run pickup several times a week in Colombo, and occasionally travel to other cities to play. A few of the players have been to tournaments outside the country (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia) but most are casual players.
The pickup itself was fun. The weather was really hot and humid. I didn’t have cleats, so I played in my barefoot shoes. There wasn’t much stacking or force-holding, but everyone knew the rules and played with a lot of spirit and competitiveness.
Diana and I picked up with teams for a day of ultimate at the Grizzly Open. Diana played with the local powerhouse Care Bears. I played with (and even captained) a team of pickup players from the area. We both had a lot of fun playing and teaching. Diana even won the tourney in a very close game.
Three days of ultimate, partying and foolishness. We played mostly ok, considering the shitty weather, non-seriousness, and future water consumption. Our ladies (esp Sachie, Hanna, Raha) were consistently great. The rest of us had our moments of greatness and bogusness, but overall it was a glorious time. We lost in the semis of the middle bracket, played 8 games on the weekend, and sang “Everything is Drinking” at least 50 times. Max also got birthdayed at the sushi place and Markham won the party.
The rest of the guys actually have another week to go, but I’m busy next week so this was my last session. I skipped some of the normal workouts to get my post-tests in. I didn’t do great in the tests, but have been doing really well in just about all the non-tested lifts.
Rolling, stretches, glutivation.
8x5yd crossover shuffle - 10 seconds on, 10 seconds off.
Da’s it!
Played Delaware in the WL chumpionship. Our team played quite well overall, and I finally had a game where I’m happy with pretty much everything I did. I subbed fast, I only threw one turnover, and I was fairly effective on O and D. I even threw Diana a huck for a goal and intentionally macked a hammer to Furf for a goal (against the rules, I know, but it was awesome). I’d say the biggest difference between that game and our semis game was the feeling of relaxation. I did not feel pressure, I did not rush my throws or decisions, everything was more relaxed and smoother. I don’t know how much of that is because we weren’t in contention to win the league, how much was because of skill differences (Del was not bad, but they play a slower college style), how much was something else. I will meditate on this some more.
Rolling, stretches, glutivation.
Skips, frankensteins, SLDLs, etc.
3 sets of heavy sled march (probably 270lb) and 10 med ball slams.
Played Bill’s Team (Rag Tag) in the semis. Lost by one point (just like the first time we played them) but the game went a bit differently. This time, we were down most of the way and went on a 6-point run at the end to bring it within 1. We were missing Furf, Raha and Diana. The game was a lot of fun. Butter instructed me to win with my legs, and I did that fairly well (perhaps too well - I didn’t sub enough and got caught tired at moments). Ben’s fitness seems to have helped, but I stil had some bad throwaways. Billy and Sachie played especially well, and Truskin was unstoppable in the air. I threw the last throw - a blade to Tom in the endzone - that Owen D'ed very nicely to prevent us from going into overtime.