Body said

Nope, not today.

Deadlifts or Dinner

"More plates is always the goal."  94 today. Killer cardio WOD.

2 Good Things

The warm up was my highlight today, it was a red ball run (to the Target like red ball at the entrance) and 10 push ups.  I did 10 push ups, regular! Benchpress PR 56.  Oh yeah, I got priority registration entrance email for IMAZ 2020, heaven help me.  Didn't I just write about how I was glad I didn't do it this year.

DNS

Today I am a DNS for IMAZ.  I'm sitting here trying to decide whether to beat myself up or congratulate myself.  I will be positive, I didn't spend a year doing 5-6 hour bike rides and 3-4 hour runs every weekend.  I didn't spend countless, mindless hours in the pool or at spin class or the treadmill.  Instead I got those hours to go on hikes, go to the cabin, ski with grandkids and snowmobile with the crew.  We explored Italy and took the grandsons to Hawaii. Weekends were fun going to places like the Center of the World to see the history in granite (ok some weekend adventures were weird).  Mammoth was fantastic, mountain biking in Southern Utah, paddleboarding especially in Newport, beach rides and even cleaning the house on a Saturday morning.  I loved triathlon (notice I put that in the past tense) but it's time to move on. Crossfit is filling the void for now and adventures, this week it'll be time spent with Kyle and Brad in Washington. Today it's a visit to Lululemon  (thankfully Crossfit means I still need to support Lululemon).  Go IMAZ athletes.  Go Lululemon--it's all about the steps, lots of steps navigating Victoria Gardens.  PS: I think I'm going to live in these joggers.

Positive Affirmation

Every morning at 6:00 am I get in the car and say the same thing, "that was hard, but it's done!"  I think it would be nice if when I pushed the button to start the car it just said that to me!
I didn't have my bench press recorded in my notes so here it is 51 I guess we'll just call that a PR.  Note: I did record it a few days ago on here, pr for sure.

Front Squat

55

2 WODS

We did two WOD's today.  Part of the first one was an AMRAP with a set of 10 push presses.  I got three rounds plus one more round of the push presses.  The Rx was 95, yeah 95!  I did 22.  Goals!!  Big goals?

Lunch in Big Bear

Big Bear today to take Kyle and Kael to lunch.  Fire Rock was very good, as is grandparenting.

Hang Squat Cleans

Just one of those moves that doesn't click.  Kept it light (20lbs) and kept at it.

Push ups

I can do pushups, pullups not so much. Bench press 42.

Gap Season

I love the changing seasons, my favorite season of all though, hmmm not what you might guess.  My favorite is "gap season", that season between mountain bike and ski when the die hard decides to go home to visit mom and dad.

20.5 minus 5!

Final Open workout:
40 Pull ups
80 Calorie row
120 Wall ball shots

20 minute time cap--damn 5 calories short on the row!
Ker just texted me her score, she did it in 16:44, fantastic!

One rep max

20 minutes to hit a one rep max.

                                  PR                Previous
Back Squat                77                       65
Shoulder Press          38                       37
Deadlift                      92                       75

I left my phone in the car so I wasn't sure what my previous pr's were.  Maybe that's a good thing!

Hiking Joshua Tree

Ahhh...the beauty of the desert.  I'm not sure what I think is the most beautiful, or my favorite; a few weeks ago it was the clear warm waters of the North Shore, today it's enjoying the rugged survival of plant and animal in this amazing environment. 

October 32

Open 20.4 finished 16:34, I'm happy with my time, but next open I'm hoping that I can do the scaled without scaling.  Austin showed up in costume today and declared it's October 32, prolonging Squatober. I can say my form on squats is definitely better.

Since it's Halloween do-over day enjoy this cute pic.

Look close Reese's scrubs are even monogrammed!

Anyone who can guess how many trick or treaters we had last night gets all of the leftover candy!