Fitness-The Weekend and 9/14

The Weekend

I was in Chelan all weekend for a wedding and to enjoy some r and r. That didn't stop me from getting a couple short workouts in. I had been daydreaming for some time about a wod that incorporated swimming and so I jumped at the creative opportunity to construct one while I was staying at the lake. On Saturday, 9/12, I did the following wod for time (I roped my good buddy Drew D. into fighting through this one along side, thanks for pushing me brother):

3 rounds for time
-10 pullups (on swingset)
-20 knees to elbows (on swingset)
-run 50m to end of boat dock
-20 air squats
-swim 25m to ski dock, front crawl
-10 burpees on ski dock
-swim 25m back to boat dock, breast stroke
-10 muscle-ups, out of water onto boat dock
-15m walking lunge
-20 vups
-30m run to swingset

time=30:18

This was a killer, the swimming was brutal. I had to reduce the pull-ups and knees to elbows by half after the first round becuase we were doing them from a wooden beam on the swingset and our hands got tore up. The muscle-ups, with a little water assistance, were awesome. This is now a new Chelan classic wod. I'll look forward to this one again, the next time I'm in town.

On Sunday, 9/13, I roped Drew into another one though not quite as intense. We went after a hill run for time. We ran from where we were staying on the lake up to the public golf course nearby. I wish I would have measured the distance with a car but totally spaced it. I would say it's in the neighborhood of 1.25 to 1.5 miles and climbs a "steep in places" 300-500ft of vertical. I had only run this course once before, last summer, 2008. My time then to the top was right about 17:30.

9/13 time=12:50

A pretty solid run here. Was helpful to have Drew on my heels the whole time. At one point, after completing a long climb, I stopped and turned around to see where Drew was and to catch my breath. In hindsight, especially seeing as the grade had just leveled, I really should have pushed the pace here and made it hurt. I think I would have come in under 12 minutes. Still was a good run.

And on Monday, 9/14, my body was feeling it from the weekend wods and some "not so great" nutritional choices. So I fasted and rested. Ready to get after it this week.