Training Log Archive: Becks

Fantastic weekend in NYC with Jesse and her man and lovely friends. We went to Smorgasburg (amazing), Fette Sau (who'd have thought queuing for almost two hours for barbecued meats would actually be worth it?), Momofuku Noodle Bar and Milk Bar, and had lots of lovely chat in between. The only thing we missed was bowling, thanks to the late night meat sweats :)

When are the rest of you coming to visit? I'm looking at you, Misses M and HB!

Cycling to Cross Fit. Had to go pretty fast, which wasn't aided by my rear tyre being almost empty of air. My poor wheel rims. There was a guy doing some kind of time trial (I presume) cycling really fast with a motorised conical shaped kart driving in front of him, either to pace or make sure people cleared out of the way. That was a bit weird.

Took it easy today. Flipped some tyres, some light kettle bell swings, then 3 sets of 10 ball slams, 10 deadlifts and 50 double unders, which I did double single double single until I thought about it too much and had to switch to singles and penalty burpees.

Cycling home, being a bit more careful of my poor rims. All tyres on all bikes now pumped up.

Ran into work. I was tired. It was an amazing morning, nice and cool in the shade.

Rob is in a phase of ultra productivity, which is great, but means SQL marathons until 3 in the morning. I did not sleep well therefore, last night. Got up late, then decided I would go into work when Fedex tracking showed the drug I needed to do any experiments was delivered. At 10, tracking shows up as delivery failed, and I spend 30 mins on the phone to Fedex (stupid voice recognition doesn't do Yorkshire accents) and finally get through to a lovely lady in Wallingford who tells me I can come and pick it up from the depot. So finally got to work around 11.30, and spectacularly managed to finish today's experiments, nip out to pick up my first CSA goodies (many many greens), and get to Cross Fit by 7. Win!

Team survival WOD with Isabel. We had to complete 100 deadlifts (103#), 150 wall balls (13#), 200 sit ups and 250 walking lunges any way we liked, but every 5 mins we had to run round the building. Isabel is an amazing lifter but not too great at running, so I got a nice rest on every lap and started each exercise. It worked pretty well, and we were done in about 36 mins. I still don't like doing fast deadlifts though. I like team workouts, they're fun.

C • Fast deadlifts 1

Ran home from Cross Fit as it got dark. Gorgeous evening, cool breeze and fading light. Lower back a little tight but eased up, particularly with the uphills.

Even when tired I am feeling a bit stronger. Not that it felt like that in the woods on Sunday!

There are rabbits everywhere in Spring Glen at dusk. I think I know what nibbled the whole top off my sage.

One thing I'm going to miss when we leave here is running in the warm rain. It was pouring down in the second half of my run today, but I was perfectly happy doing strides and stretches whilst being pelted. It was pretty fun in fact. Half a mile at tempo. This was too fast but felt easier than whenever the last time was (ages ago, planning fail).

Forgot my watch. Crossfit was a bit badly organised today, Dan kept talking about giraffes and he's changed the lengths of all the skipping ropes so I took most of the warm up trying to find one that worked. 4 rounds of (5 x 2) tough rope rows, shuttle run, 8 squat cleans, shuttle run. He spent a lot of time coaching my squat cleans which was great, but the main problem was that my shoulders are still tired from Murph so there wasn't much in the way of shrugging going on. Kind of fun with George, Rob and Isabel, but some serious posturing from the tough guys too.