OK

 We played OK, they played better.  Losses all around, but we are definitely playing better, definitely making some dumb mistakes and definitely a lot more to learn and practice.

Turns out

Maybe I just needed a little rest and time to sulk!  Played well today. 

More Bad

 More bad Pickleball, I went to the Sketchers store today (gotta blame it on the shoes) while I was there a child Facetimed me.  

Him:  Where are you Mom?

Me:  I'm at the Sketchers store.

Him: Mom, you are not old enough to be at the Sketchers store!!  (I am) Why are you there? 

Me: I need new Pickleball shoes

Him:  Don't you have Pickleball shoes?  You need some real court shoes.

Me:  But son, they even make slip on Pickleball shoes!

Him:  Mom you gotta get outta that store right now! Just order more No Bull's

Me:  Ok, I was just going to Costco anyway, I'm buying your girls the 20' Sea Serpent Sprinkler, which by the way is going home with you! (I also had to get them a 5 pack of Hello Kitty toothbrushes, while I was there. I don't know how I end up coming home with "stuff" but those toothbrushes are very cute!)

No shoes, but I could take up running through the serpent sprinkler as my next sport.

When It All Comes Together

 Or not!  After Pickleball camp and 9 out of 10 of our private lessons our skills were coming right along, especially with lots of practice almost every day.  Well today it just all went backwards, at least for me...it was one of those days where I just couldn't even hit the ball.  I think I need a new sport.

Pickleball Shoes

 We had a very good Pickleball Lesson today and an open invitation to play at Sun City whenever we want. I'm trying to solve my ongoing shoe issues, should be a fun problem to have right?  My first pair came up too high under my ankles, so those were not good.  Pair #2 NoBull court trainers, I really, really like this pair, it's comfortable under my ankles and I can use them for CrossFit, my only complaint is they are very hot.  They're not mesh and have--I'm not sure how to describe it but a dotty fabric upper which looks really nice, but doesn't breathe and recently the toes on my left foot have felt a little pinched. Pair #3 a pair of hot pink Babbolat's.  Known for being cut low, no problem with the ankles, but also a little on the narrow side, ok, but just not "the" shoe. Pair #4, reviews said cut wide and high in the toe box, sounded good but didn't work for me.  The Tyrol Strikers are heavy, clunky, stiff, and still irritated my toes.  I'm  on the hunt for the perfect pair with no toe squish.  I think I'm ordering a pair of Nike's next and there is a Sketchers store I might check out.

Old Men of Hampden

 

Ally promised Craig she would hook him up with old men pickleballers.  So there you go, even won his matches. First time playing indoors.

19:19

 Row, Deadlift, Burpee a lot of each! Deadlift felt heavy today, 50@75lbs even though I did 50@95lbs for the open.

5 RFT

 Dub Practice

30 Box Jumps

20 Kettlebell Swings

It was nice not to be squatting after yesterdays wall balls! Pickleball lesson this afternoon, Craig got a new paddle and for awhile I had the new paddle disadvantage advantage, sadly for me when I play against him he is quickly adjusting.

Karen

 It's called Karen, translation:  150 Wall Balls, who does 150 wall balls?  I got to 100 it was my goal but I knew I could do the rest, I just didn't want to.  I finished all 150, Time: 12:32.

We also worked on Pistol Progressions which I haven't done, you gotta start somewhere.

Bench Press

 I haven't done bench presses in a long time, and while my numbers were less than impressive it was good to get some fresh stats in the app.

EMOM

 21 minutes

10 Calorie Row

5 Hang Power Cleans (30lbs)

Rest 1 minute

23.4

 Woke up this morning to a text from Brent, he just finished 23.4 and puked.  Hmmm well we'll have to see how this one goes.

5 Rounds of thrusters (35lbs for Masters scaled) or wait was that Foundations weight? I'm not sure, but it's what I did, so 10 thrusters, 10 jumping pull ups etc for 5 rounds. 

Rest 1 minute

5 Rounds 7 thrusters (45lbs) and jumping chest to bar pull ups

My score was 110, I got all of the first 5 rounds done, one set of the heavier thrusters, and some really good attempts at jumping chest to bar, so close.........

7 RFT

 1 Rope Climb

10 Wall Balls

15 Kettlebell Swings

20 Dubs

Better at wrapping the rope around my foot and getting that first step up, 6lb wall balls, I'll start working on the 10's.  18lb kettlebell swings, weight was ok, could probably do heavier if it's not too big of a jump. Good workout this morning.

Betty

 10:33 with a riculously light weight for the shoulder presses.

483

 RX masters was 95lbs for the deadlift, I thought it would be 125, so this was totally doable, I got 4 rounds + some row points.  I didn't attempt dubs, I may try it again with dub attempts or just call it good.

24.2

Row 300

10 Deadlifts

50 Singles

Scaled Weston

 3 Rounds=26:14 time

Row

Farmers Carry

Waiters Carry

26.2-the announcement is out, AMRAP 20

Row 300M

10 Deadlifts (95 lbs for scaled)

50 Singles (that's scaled 'cause dubs is not happening)

I'm concerned about the deadlifts, I can lift 95lbs and probably do a few sets of 10 but past that I'm a little worried. We'll see.....it's the open is what they say.

1-1-1-1-1-1-1

7 Clean and Jerks, max 55lbs, I couldn't do 60 and couldn't do any dubs today either! On a positive note, I'm still losing most of my pickle ball matches.... but I am making some good shots.

Thruster PR

 52.5 for my 1 rep max, it's heavier than 51!

155

That's it, that's my score for 24.1.  It's your time (with a 15 min time cap) or number of reps.  I did not get clear through it, so that's my reps.  I'm ok with it.  I always use 15lb dumbbells but tell myself every time I should step it up to the 20's.  Today's Masters weight was 20lb and I would get way more points doing Masters than if I did scaled with the 15's.  I wan't sure I could do it, but I got farther than I expected.

24.1

 Come on...make that announcement, I gotta go to pickle ball! Ok got it!  I can do this, I just haven't found what the Masters weight is, I'll have to find it later, but I'm actually excited about the workout.

Knee

I wanted to go to CF this morning, it was deadlifts and dubs, not a bad workout, but my knee has decided to bother me.  I think it's the sudden turns in pickle ball, but regardless I suppose I should give it a rest. It was a beautiful morning for a nice walk. 

Squat Snatches

And Ingrid.  Still not liking jumping over the bar.

10 RFT

3 Snatches

3 Burpess over the bar

Time: 8:32

*******And we won some games tonight.  Lost 5-11, Won 11-5, 11-8, 11-6 

I'm thinking the secret to our success tonight was the neighboring courts playlist, pickle ball music perfection!

Way To Start The Week

 Hero WOD

White

5RFT

3 Rope Climbs

10 Toes to Bar

21 Plate Overhead Walking Lunges (15lbs)

Run 400M (300 for me today)

Time: 29:21

*****Closest yet on my toes to bar, still aways to go but progress.

Pickleball scores today 3-11, 5-11, 8-11 those right down the middle shots are killing me.

Lesson 4

Worked on movement and my newfound serve which has suddenly disappeared. Two doubles games after, first one 11-5, second 11-9. 

3 RFT

 3 Rounds:

10 Clean and Jerks (35lbs)

50 Wall Balls

Time: 16:31

WooHoo

 Got to ring that bell today!  Got dubs, well you know a few, but....hopefully I can begin to put them together. Practicing dubs instead of doing 1 1/2 singles in a WOD has been frustrating, but finally paying off.

AMRAP 15

50 Dubs (dub practice)

12 Chest to Bar Pull-ups (jumping)

50 Dubs

12 Toes to Bar

3 Rounds + 54

Pickleball this afternoon and then to watch Kael run the 800, 1600 and 3200 at DHS.

Post Pickleball

 Savoring post pickleball peanut butter and Nutella straight out of the jar with a little sea salt, yeah that's being present, in the moment. 

Tuesday

Keeping my eye on the sunset, instead of the ball.

 

.5 Pood

20 Kettlebell Swings 18lb Kettlebell

400M Run x 5

Scaled the run to 300M Time:  17:46

Pickleball this afternoon, went pretty well.

Lesson 3

 Another great lesson, 2 sets after with Todd and Robert.

Judgement

So if you consistently choose against your better judgement, do you really have better judgement? Nope, probably not.  Signed up for the open today. But hey there'll be tacos and t-shirts so there's that!

Deadlift 5-5-5-5-5

Heaviest round, 110lbs.

6 Rounds

 AMRAP

15 Dumbbell Push Press (15lbs)

12 Jumping Pull Ups

150M Run--that's just about the distance I like!

Pickleball tonight--he signed us up for a league, I am so not ready for that.

A Lot of Drills

 That's all we did today, so I can't brag about my continuous losing streak!

Functional Fitness

 Functional fitness means I can shovel snow.  I would rather be doing other things.  

Common Denominator

 We had Lesson 2 today.  It was very good, and we played 3 doubles sets changing up partners.  The common denominator in all three of my losses with my partners was me.  I'm not sad about it though, I think I played fairly well, all things considered.  Can I ever practice enough?

5-11

 Yeah and I'm grumpy about it.

Juliana

 Juliana is the name of my mountain bike which I have totally neglected for quite some time.  I got her out this morning and rode some of the streets nearby just to get a feel for the bike again.  Every time I ride after not riding for a long time I am amazed at how fun it is and try to remember why I haven't ridden in a long while. Next ride is going to be the trails near our house.

This afternoon we had to call our pickle ball game, after some practice I was up 7-4 but the wind and the clouds are really kicking up.

Lesson 1

 We had a lesson at Sun City PD, they have really great courts.  The lesson was very good, I only had a little dread going in, not like pickle ball camp.  He literally fixed my serve in like 5 minutes, now if I can just keep that consistency going when I practice tomorrow. I'm actually looking forward to practicing this week.

Pickleball Today

 After 45 minutes of the wind blowing our balls into the neighbors court, much to their delight we called it good. First of ten pickle ball lessons tomorrow, somebody keeps trying to get me better.

That Bored

 It's snowing a lot in Big Bear so I'm just really glad we're not there, but we have rain here in the desert so it's just a little boring.  Adding to the boring is the fact we've been trying to eat more protein so there's no great munchyish food in the cupboard. So.....I decided to find a recipe for protein chocolate chip cookies and venture into the kitchen. 

Now as far as my kitchen skills go I'd rather clean, dead lift, bench press, push up, run a 5K, no wait on that 5K I'll make those cookies.

So here's my first batch of cookies. Recipe here: https://eatwithclarity.com/chocolate-chip-protein-cookies/

I had some monk fruit sugar I substituted for the regular sugar, otherwise followed the recipe as written.

They turned out looking good, and tasted good, slightly cakey, surprising since there is no flour in them. 

These (Round 1) are supposed to have 14g of protein per cookie, not bad!

So I found a bag of Kodiak protein flour in the pantry and decided to go for a Round 2 to see what would taste better.

The second batch looked ok, not pretty, they flattened out a lot in the oven and tasted ok.  I don't know what the protein numbers are, but I don't think it's near what the first batch is.  The first batch used protein powder as a base.  So this all led to the third batch....no protein numbers, just a good ole Mrs. Fields knock off recipe. https://www.averiecooks.com/mrs-fields-chocolate-chip-cookies-copycat/

They actually are a little puffier than they look in the picture, as for the taste....well if you really want the grams of protein definitely use the first recipe, but if you just want to enjoy a great chocolate chip cookie, go for the last one, forget about protein and enjoy, don't even bother with the second recipe.

Respectable

 I lost 9-11, I'll just call it a respectable loss and choose to be happy about it.

Saturday@The Courts

Just when I've resolved I need to find a new sport that better supports my lack of skills...I play really well.  Can I repeat it tomorrow?

 

30 Minutes

Alt EMOM

10 Chest to Bar Pull Ups--banded

12 Dumbbell Walking Lunges

10 Burpee Box Jump Overs

It was a long 30 minutes, after a few rounds the numbers were scaled out of my slowness.  The only time there was a little rest was between the walking lunges and the burpee box jump overs, and that quickly went away with more slowness. In hindsight--great workout!
 

Heavier

 

Stupid number of deadlifts, slightly heavier than I usually do in a WOD, but as always not as heavy as I wish I could do. As always, heavier next time.

Squat Day

 5-5-5-5-5 Front Squats with a lot of snap crackle and pop......

40-45-50-55-60

Not a PR but I"m happy with it and my wrists held up better than usual. Form is getting better too.

Is Your Refrigerator Running

 

5 RFT

200M Run

15 Pull Ups (banded and ring rows)

Time: 11:45

Power Snatch 3x1

My last recorded power snatch was 35lbs, today I did 40 with pretty good form, 45 with mediocre form (pushed the bar up at the end) and 50 with crappy form, missed the first try second try I got it but I'm not sure it's countable, so let's just say 40lbs

Thursday

 

Today was a fine, great day of pickle ball.

Pop

 Pop went something when I was kicking up for handstand holds.  It's feeling a little better now, but kinda radiates down my leg.

5 RFT

12 Deadlifts

Wall Handstands

Dub practice

Finished, somewhere in the 20 minute range.

Thrusters

 50lbs on my heavy set of 3, 55lbs on a heavy set of 2.

2017 Qualifier

 100 Dumbbell Snatches

80 Cal Row

60 Burpees

40 Muscle-ups

I did all the dumbbell snatches @15lbs (note to self-do 20 next time)

My rower display wasn't working this morning so I asked the coach to give me a time--he said 4 minutes, yeah I was pretty happy about that!

Burpees--done

21 attempts at ring muscle up

It was a good workout and I'm glad I was there, especially as I was walking out the door.

My Nemesis

I was going to say overhead squats are probably my nemesis, but in reality I guess all of the lifts are. They're never conquered, you just keep adding weight (hopefully...I've been subtracting lately). Today wasn't heavy, but the squats were lower and I didn't drop the damn bar even with a few plates on it. 

KISS

New Year Goals=KISS

1) Lift Heavy

2) Meet Protein Goals 

That's it should be easy in the simplicity!

Today:

3 Rope Climbs

5 Wall Walks

7 Deadlifts

5 Rounds + 4 Wall Walks, should have gone heavier on the deadlifts