Woeful Wednesday

Monday night was another XFit ladies night out. We all met at Gina DeMeo's house where she had some tasty appetizers (baked brie) and she made at least 10 different quiches. I tried a small piece of three different ones and the crab quiche was my favorite. But I should have left the crust behind because the gluten did bother me a little. Good thing I had small pieces!

At XFit, I got first place for the women for Tuesday's WOD - only because not many of the women like to run... but hey, I'll take it!

Tuesday's WOD was Tabata Pull-Ups (I did the blue band with my knee in it), Push-Ups (girlie), Abmat Situps, and Air Squats. I was going to do the push-ups on my toes but was so tired after the pull-ups that I went straight to girlie push-ups... and I shouldn't have, my reps were too high. Here's how I did:

Pull-ups: 9, 8, 7 , 6, 5, 6, 5, 6

Push Ups: 24, 21, 17, 14, 13, 14, 14, 11

Abmat Situps: 11, 11, 11, 11, 10, 10, 9, 9

Air Squats: 16, 15, 15, 14, 14, 14, 15, 15

TOTAL: 380 points

Tuesday was a really tough work day - way too much to do with deadlines looming. Tim was a real sweetheart and came by to take me out to lunch (Evo's). Then I worked a little late so he took me out to dinner too - wow twice in one day! We went to Bowled for dinner and I had their Cioppino Bowl with mussels, clams, baby gulf shrimp, calamari & mahi-mahi in a light saffron tomato-fennel broth served over soft polenta. It came with bread but I gave that to Tim. I can definitely tell the difference not having gluten in my diet!

This morning I wanted to sleep in. Last week, Dawn and I took Wednesday off and we both felt so much better with the rest. But I figured I'll be out of town a lot the next couple of weeks and really didn't want to miss too much. But, I decided that I wanted a workout that focused on running since I feel like I'm a little behind on my marathon training.

I told DL that I would do 4 rounds for time of 400 meter run and 50 double unders. He wanted me to do today's weight training day but we ended out with a compromise - much to his liking and not mine. Instead of 4 rounds, I did 5 and he also added 25 x push press at 55# after the double unders.

Right off the bat, my legs felt so tired from Monday's run and Tuesday's tabata (air squats) so I was running so slowly. But my double unders were much better... I got 16 in a row today. DL had the push press at 65# for the first round - which took me forever so he lowered it to 55# and that was still tough. Doing double-unders and push press is NOT a great combo - both fatigue the arms!! It took me 46:44 to get through this workout!!

Now to get through another hectic work day... ugh!