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2010-07-12 (Monday)

Jul 122010

Badwater

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.

CrossFit

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.

Swimming

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).

2010-07-07 (Wednesday)

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Jul 072010

Pukey Brewster

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:

Swimming

Went for a quick swim at lunch time. Just did 22 minutes for a total distance of 1050m.