Yay Tuesday!

I decided this morning on my way to workout that I am going to embrace the law of opposites. You know...the theory that there cannot be good unless there is bad; you can't feel happy if you don't understand sad. This morning I got up at 4:45AM. I'm not gonna lie - it kinda sucked (though it is definitely getting easier). As I sat at the table eating my peanut butter toast and drinking my coffee I got to thinking about the conversation I had with an instructor yesterday. He was talking about how it was kinda nuts I was going to do his crossfit class after spin and I told him it was cool because I slept in that morning. He said 'so you slept till like 9'. I laughed and shook my head. 'No. I got to sleep until 6:30 this AM. Felt like I wasted half my day'. He just stared at me blankly. What does this have to do with the law of opposites. Well I realized this AM what getting up at 4:45AM is good for - making getting up at 6:30AM feel like sleeping your day away. So from now on I celebrate 4:45AM for the good of it! (I also celebrate 105 degree days because they make those rare 98 degree days feel like a cool spring day!!)

On to the workout.....

Normal warm up (high knee, fast fee, jacks, squats, push ups, rotations, repeat. High knee, butt kick, lunge, 400M run).
Set - 5 TIMES!!!
Walking Overhead Barbell Lunges
15 Push ups
Walking Overhead Lunges
25 Squats

Gotta admit - I was feeling kinda studly today. Did my first set with the women's bar (35lbs) then in the middle of my squats some bitch stole it and there were no more left. Shit! Guess it was the men's bar after that (45lbs). Not gonna lie here either - my shoulders are farking weak! And it was hard. But once I did one set with the men's bar I remembered that I was there to get stronger not to be my usual wussy self so I stuck with it. And I finished 3rd - woot! Then while the rest of the people were finishing up I threw in a quick 400M run for the hell of it. Then we did some crazy ass abs.

It was lightning before and during the workout and started to rain at the end so I called off our MTB ride for this AM. BOOOOO!!!!! I dont mind being in the rain but it is not good for the trails and sitting on a metal bike in a lightning storm might not be the brightest idea.

After our stretch I threw on my iPod and hit the BRC. I am happy to say I beat last week's time (for the same distance) by over 3 minutes - WTF was I doing last week? I also added in a little extra to make it really 2 miles and finished that up in 18:28. Yeah. Still slow as molasses but much much better than last week. Not going to run after Thursday's workout since I am riding right after it (followed by some delicious screwdrivers). But starting next week I will move to 3 miles after each workout.

Yay for Tuesday!

Carry on.