Had a bit of a rough start to the week, with a few late nights and 2 sleep ins. Good news is that I finally got the report done for our client, meaning that my official stint in Brisbane is over. I expect I'll be back for short periods to wrap this job up, but hopefully most of the work is now done! What a relief.
I managed to wake up for a run on Thursday morning and a crossfit sesh today.
Thursday's run was 12.7km in 48minutes (average 3:48min/km) according to the Suunto. I still haven't calibrated the new watch, but I don't think it's far off when compared to MapMyRun. I did the usual route along the river to the rowing club and back, but did it as a random fartlek session. Basically, I started slow, then whenever I saw a logical stretch I went hard for a few hundred meters (up to about 800m I'd say). Kind of like a very random Pain in the Domain, but on my own, at odd points, and along the river. Anyway, I enjoyed it and the average pace was pretty good.
This morning I did yesteday's Crossfit North Manly WOD. It was a 1-11rep ladder of the following:
40kg squat clean
40kg thruster
40kg overhead squat
So, you do 1 rep of each, then 2 reps, then 3 reps, etc. up to 11. Man, it was tough! Working up in reps is mentally hard. Funnily enough, none of the individual exercises were too hard, but it was the cumulative effect that killed me. Even the overhead squats themselves were OK (hopefully I was going deep enough). I did it in 35:02 and wished I was able to throw the weight around, because controlling it at the end of the last OHS set was hard! Anyway, I feel like my Oly lifting is improving, and hopefully with some direction from the coaches next week I'll start getting even better.
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