Well Wednesday all evening sessions were cancelled so no WOD. Thursday night I had to work so no WOD.

Friday however was "Ellen's Torture"
50, 40, 30, 20, 10
Jumping Squat 35#
Push Press 35#

Time- 22.04

I can't remember if this is my slowest time ever...but I think it is. Coach says it's because of the increased range of motion on my squats. I suppose that could be part of it. Although last time we did this I was slightly faster and probably at the same depth. I was pretty sore in the shoulders after 2-3 weeks minimum without using my left arm.

I also found out that push press still makes my hand hurt. Not nearly as much as it was but enough that I really have to push through the pain to keep going, even at such a light weight. My hand was shaking even before I finished the 50 round.

Saturday- I hadn't signed up, and I really like the strongman stuff they did. I was either going to call at 0645 and see if either session had an opening or just show up and try my luck, but alas the separation anxiety from the bed was too much to bear. I slept.

Monday- Helen
3 rounds of:

400m run
12 pullups
21 KB swings 16kg

time- 19.22 blue/mini band pullups...400m run round 1, 200 jump rope singles (jumping helen) rounds 2 & 3.

I did the run the first round and the running hasn't been too bad on most WODs lately, but the temp was in the 40s and my breathing disorder kicks in easier in lower temperatures definitely below 50 degrees as warned by the Dr. I thought I would be fine since the running as whole has been getting better and so has the breathing in general with and without my inhaler most of the time. I was wrong.

I got the numb teeth thing at only the 200m mark. This is something that usually doesn't kick in till I am almost finished or just after I finish when I push the breathing to the limit. It really sucked doing 95% of the workout in this manner. I was only able to take shallow breaths so the jump rope wasn't all that much easier. O/well I tried.

The "Heavy Helen" version is eaiser I think. Since there aren't many if any people that can do it unscaled (because of the weighted pullups). We had the discussion that if the WOD was a "Heavy" WOD and pullups were involved especially one where the pullups unscaled are weighted that those of us in bands needed to be doing them as dead hang in the level of least assistance that still allows for the pullups to be full range of motion chin over the bar no stretched neck. However the people that have been doing "Heavy Helen" have been allowed to kip making the lessened number of pullups with no added difficulty "easier" and the run is cut in half so the only thing done "heavier or harder" for most was the kettlebell swings which is only 1-2 sizes larger than normal and again for less reps...

Tonight we did TABATA INTERVALS
Thrusters 65#
Power cleans 65#
Burpees

Total reps- 86 (T=29, PC=41, B=16)

I suck at burpees...if I could do better at the pushup part I might be faster. I could've done more thrusters 1-3 per round except for 1, but my hand really was not liking the thrusters so I picked a number, hit and stopped with several seconds of work time still to go. Better to do this than over do it, not finish the thrusters and potentially cause the power cleans to suffer and have residual pain tomorrow. I did the same thing with the cleans although because I can catch decently on my shoulder (half to 3/4 of the time) these were a little easier on the hand.

If my hand had been at 100% I would've beat Jimmy (who had 87 reps) and had the highest reps of the day:) Next time!