Under the weather

No training just resting and work.  I will spare you the details

Run over by a truck

My plan in the run up to the games qualifiers is to treat my Saturdays as a game day.  Everyone at the Craic house was planning their week so that they were well rested for Grace.  My approach was quite the opposite.    I was planning on hitting the Crossfit New England Sweatfest WOD: 

” Paleo Whiskey”
5 Rounds For Time:
200 Meter Run
20 Pull Ups
200 Meter Run
20 Push Ups
200 Meter Run
20 Sit Ups
200 Meter Run
20 Squats

It is essentially Angie with 2.5 miles of running.  Even though I had been up since 4am (woke up and couldn't get back to sleep) I felt this would be a good workout for me.   As always its great to see all my old pals and to train with some of the new studs.     First run felt good as well as the first set of movements.  By round three i was getting passed and the wheels were starting to come off.   I felt nauseous to the point of almost throwing up.  This never happens.  Worse was that I was getting dizzy and my head was pounding.    I ended up getting through it, finished 4th in the class but the time was nothing to write home about.  Total time 36:38    

I have never felt so bad after a workout in my entire life.  I needed to get home quickly as my heat for "Grace"  was only 45 minutes away.   At this point I wasnt even sure I was going to do the WOD.  I was nt recovering.   Usually I feel better withing a few minutes.   I tried to hydrate and get some caffeine in me so I had some spark.   Susie and I walked over and I was debating whether I had it in me or not.  I finally decided that I would bail out if I wasnt feeling it.  

I had check my score in the morning and I have never broken 7 minutes.  That is pretty slow compared to the big boys.   Derek and Daigle have sub 1:30's

I did one warm up and decided it didnt feel too bad and decided to just pace myself and come in under the 10 minute cutoff.   I was matching Glen's time and finished in sub 4. I think it was 3:56.  Happy considering how bad I felt after the first wod.

I spent the rest of the day in bed with a fever and utter exhaustion.  Feeling a little better this evening but no where near 100%. 

Modified WOD

Super busy day.   Took the kids to school so I wasnt able to wod in the am.   All for good as I was able to join Susie in the evening class.  

WOD
5 rounds for time
10 Pullups
30 Air Squats

 The workout didnt seem that bad until John walked over and said you should do muscle-ups instead of pull-ups.  I was completely game as I really need to continue to work on them.   They are finally coming around and I have a lot more confidence in my technique.  Im actually not scared of them anymore.

Modifed WOD

5 Rounds of
5 Muscle-Ups
30 Air Squats

I tried to pace myself on the squats so I could have enough recovery before the next round of muscle ups.  I was very happy as i did the first 4 rounds unbroken on the muscle ups and then got 4 in the last round before failing.   Final time 6:35  Pretty happy with that.  For the day I did 29 MU's i think the most I have ever done in  a day.

River North Crossfit

I have been training at Atlas Crossfit when I have been in Chicago but noticed a new box River North Crossfit.   I checked out the WODs and saw that RNCF had a better wod for me as it included a strength element.

Warm Up

500m Row
line drills - bounds, but kicks, lunges etc...


Strength 
DEADLIFT 5 X 5 X 5 X 5 X 5

135 (10) Warm Up
225
255
275
305
325


WOD:  10 – 8- 6 – 4 – 2

• SNATCH (95/65)
• TOES TO BAR
• FRONT SQUAT (95/65)
• BURPEE 

Total Time: 7:08

Travel Day to Chicago - Rest Day

Travel to Chicago - Early trip to airport and then late night dinner.

CDG to BOS Travel Day but a WOD

Finally a travel day with a WOD.  We left Paris this morning and landed at Logan around 3:20pm. We should have carried our bags on as we cleared customs and then stood around for 45 minutes waiting for our bags and then handing our passport control in. 

Craic workout
Warm-Up
Band Squats
Pistols

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Strength:

Bar Dips
3x Max Effort

15, 15, 15 - good depth every time

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WOD: for time
21 – 15 – 9
Front Squat (115lbs/85lbs)
Burpees

*10 Minute Time Cap

The time on the board to beat was Paul's sub 4 minute mark.   Since I know that I wouldnt be able to do my strength building stuff I decided to scale up to 135LB.

Time 4:38

 Happy with that time. all unbroken but some breaks at the bar before I began

Post WOD

Snatch and Snatch Balances

Day 3 Paris

Eglise de la Madeleine

Finally getting used to the time change and got up around 9am I time to make mass at Église de la Madeleine This Church is enormous by US standards but not that noteworthy compared to Notre Dame de Paris or Basilique du Sacré-Cœur.

The mass was quick so I decided to get a run in regardless of the rain as it was only a mist. I had no idea where I was going to run as I was hoping to make it an exploratory run. Along the run I found a race course which I later discovered was the Paris 20k race. The link which can be found here.

I joined the course at the 16km and for kicks tried to see if I could stay with the leaders even for 400meters. No way these guys were flying. Just to be clear I was on the sidewalk not on the course so I didn't get in their way, I ran to the finish at the Eiffel Toerless peeling off before the finish and then taking a bridge over the river to pick up around the 13km mark. Now the run was fun but I was running way behind as we were meeting friends for lunch who were coming over from London via the train. got in around 8k 30 plus minutes.

We had lunch at Brasserie Bofinger. 7 rue de la Bastille, Paris. Another very good meal.

Susie, Martha, me and the kids split a bit early and headed over to to Musée du Louvre. We spent more time outside than I inside as it was super crowded and really really hot inside.

We convinced the in laws to cancel our reservations as we were all very tired and decided to have group room service night in the in laws suite.