So we had a fantastic weekend, including a big party Saturday with all of our friends. I’m not sure there’s a better way to spend your Saturday night than playing lawn games, chatting around a camp fire, and making s’mores. Nope, pretty sure there’s not.
Does anyone else feel like summer JUST STARTED and all of a sudden stores are putting out FALL and HALLOWEEN decorations!!?? What the crap!? What is wrong with America that you can’t simply enjoy the season that you’re in? I for one am going to suck every last drop of life out of summer days before the days turn crisp and I have to dig out sweaters. I adore fall, but only when it’s TIME FOR FALL. And it is not yet time for fall. It’s still the middle of August. Good grief. It’s 80 degrees today and Wegmans has Halloween candy out.
Anyways, before that rant, I was going to say that we have a busy week this week so we’re actually only making dinner tonight & tomorrow night (grilling sausages tonight & burgers/chicken tomorrow night) — we’ve got fun plans Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and then Saturday I head back to Bradford for my 10 year high school reunion.
But despite the busy week, we’re trying to make healthy choices because of the many indulgences on Saturday. My trick to staying healthy over lunch time even if we’re going out for dinner a lot? Salads. Big-ass salads. With grilled chicken (I’m going to grill some up tomorrow night when we grill up hamburgers) and lots of veggies. They’re easy, they’re delicious. and it’s really hard to make a home-made salad unhealthy.
Remember a long time ago, I made a goal to get double unders? And toes to bar? Well, I finally HAVE DOUBLE UNDERS. No lie. I’m pretty sure the best moment of last week was when I strung 20 in a row during a WOD and Jeff (our box owner & coach) said something to the effect of, “Holy crap, Meg!” and I smiled and said I had been practicing. We all say that Jeff is like the box dad because we all want to get his praise, and that moment was worth the multiple whip marks, crappy low WOD scores from promising myself I would only do double unders from here on out, and sore calves. Hooray for finally practicing something and seeing results.
I love Ryan. I love this meme. I’m sorry for repeating this but I can’t help it.
Those toes to bar? Well, those will take a while. I finally started getting knees to elbows, so as long as I force myself to do them right, maybe by the end of the year? Eh, you can’t win them all.
Oh, and one other recent victory. We had a CFE a few weeks ago that was an AMRAP that included 20 push-ups. I ended up with 117 push-ups, which are the MOST push-ups I have ever done in my life. That was pretty cool. I couldn’t use my arms for a few days, but it was a small price to pay to be able to brag to co-workers that I could do that many REAL push-ups.
Sorry, one more update. I’ve been running again (slowly) and trying to get in a few runs over my lunch break during the week. I’ve been trying to do one CFE and one 3 miler to get my body used to running more than a mile. I’m a lot slower than I thought I was, which is really frustrating. I’d like to chalk it up to the fact that I’ve been running at noon when it’s hottest and super humid, but I can’t imagine that’s all there is to it. Bummer. Taking time off of running really messed up my long-term endurance.
This is my attempt at another selfie today over lunch before running. It’s so bad I had to share it. It’s fuzzy and WHERE DO YOU HOLD THE PHONE!? And also, note the awesome mis-matched running clothes. It’s time to do some laundry.
Now I just need to get my butt back to CrossFit. I haven’t been since Thursday. I laid in bed wide awake from 2am to 4am this morning so I elected to skip the WOD. I later found out that it was a 5k row. I’m not sorry I slept in. I’ve only done a 5k row once, and it was terrible. It’s so boring. It’s the same reason I hate running on a treadmill. I must have a slight case of ADD because when I cannot last longer than a mile on a treadmill unless I’m doing intervals.
What gains have you been seeing lately in your fitness? Are you trying to hit any goals?
Bob
Meg
(Not As) Big Bob 