CrossFit Day 100
Today’s workout was a big milestone for me. This is my 100th CrossFit workout. I started on September 18, 2007 with a pair of ten pound dumbbells and the determination to give this program an honest attempt. On that day, I weighed 181 pounds and was still marginally overweight. I stopped attempting to lose weight in January, when I bottomed out at 147.5 pounds. Since then, I’ve held around 150 pounds. The idea is to work hard, maintain this weight, ramp up the protein and the workouts, and burn off a little more body fat before slowly massing up. So, between July 27 and January 6, I lost 48.5 pounds. That’s probably enough.
I’ve been making lots of excuses lately, allowing myself and other people to push me off my workout regimen. As I get into better and better shape, I realize that these are all choices that I’m making. So, I’m resolving to reduce the number of missed workouts. Let’s lock it back down and do amazing things.
Here’s today’s work. It’s five rounds for time of:
- 400 m run (actually, about 430 m)
- 50 squats
- 30 standing back extensions (25# dumbbell)
Remembering the other day’s redline lesson, I aimed at 2 minute laps today, hoping to finish today’s work in about half an hour. I gave myself 15 seconds in front of the run to catch my breath before starting the lap. I missed the 30 minute mark by only 6 seconds, but that’s because I forgot what I was doing on the fourth round and did 50 standing back extensions, instead of the required 30. I think if I had counted correctly, I’d have finished about 40 seconds faster.
My HRM: 30:13, 1:44 zone (hard); HR: 171 avg, 186 max; 451 cal
Stopwatch: 30:06.81
Rounds:
- 05:05.59
- 05:49.66
- 06:05.75
- 07:28.42
- 05:37.39
- Fast round: 05:05.59 (1)
- Slow round: 07:28.42 (4)
- Average round: 06:01.36
Onward, friends!
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