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.