Today was the first meeting of the Kingwood Fit running club for the 2010-2011 season. This year I am one of the coaches for the yellow pace group. We had a really good turn-out for today’s meeting. Here are a couple of pics.
I stopped by NW Cyclery today to pick up my packet for tomorrow’s Katy Flatlands Century ride. I saw this daring fellow in the parking lot out front:
Folks today is the start of the 2010 Badwater ultra-marathon. For those not familiar with this event – It is a 135 mile run from Death Valley to Mount Whitney. Damn.
Made the 06:00 workout at UniversalCrossfit this morning. Today we did 5 circuits of:
clean & jerk x 5 (95) deadlift x 5 (225) pull-ups x 5 run 300 m
My time was 24:17 and I was a sweaty dog at the end of it.
Took a short lunch break and swam for 30 minutes over at LA Fitness (which is about 2 blocks from the office). Total distance = 1600m (just under a mile).
The last two days have been very frustrating with regards to being able to get in a CrossFit workout. I had been planning on making the class at 18:30 on Friday, but got stuck late at the office helping a co-worker solve an issue with one of our end-user applications. Then, this morning, I had planned on getting to the 09:30 class. Left the house in what I thought was plenty of time. But found that the entire south-bound side of HWY 59 was closed for road construction. Finally got around that and thought that I could still make it to class in time, but then found out that the I-10 westbound exit was closed as well for road construction and by the time I managed to find away around all of that it was already time for class to start and I was still 10 minutes away. So I ended up driving back home, doing a few chores, and then going for a run.
This morning’s CrossFit WOD was Pukey Brewster. It was deceptively simple: 150 Burpee’s (the last 15 with dumb-bells). My time was an appalling 27:23 (probably not too bad for a CF newbie).
Had my very first CrossFit workout. It was really intense. I went to Universal CrossFit, which is a cool place located at the intersection of Roy and Maxie Streets in what I think would be considered the Heights area of Houston. Our instructor was Jimmy. He went out of his way to make sure I understood all of the exercises and also the basic science and philosophy of CrossFit. I met Daniel, Victoria, and Jonathan. Our Workout Of the Day (WOD) was 5 sets of:
5 back squats 5 box jumps 5 wall ball 100m sprint 200m jog jump rope x 2 min
Here is a (blurry) shot of the gym (box?):
Right around the corner of the gym was a couple of very cool lots that had some metal art / art car action going on:
Went for a quick swim at lunch time. Just did 22 minutes for a total distance of 1050m.