I should have read last year’s summary earlier.
March 6th, 2010 @ 10:48 pm
Today’s fitness challenge was practically the same story again.
Still 4th out of 5 and the 5th wasn’t the woman in our group.
Still saved by rowing, cause the multiplied the calories by 2 – would have been 5th if they didn’t.
Again, the 3rd round was a bit of a vacation. You know, the type where you’re struggling to breathe and survive and your legs are noodles yet you have people yelling at you to keep trying to do stuff that really seems very dangerous at the time. That 45 pound bar that just banged into your chin? Lift it back over your head again. Again!
Still wondering what Shawn would do if he actually signed up.
Turned out this year he was just heckling me at the wall ball, which given my tunnel vision due to lack of functioning sensory systems, is surprising that I even heard. But I also attributed the comment to the other volunteer next to me and it got in my head because I was struggling with my form/living and didn’t need another element to focus on. What did he say? “Don’t break the bench.” Or something like that. The message was clear, I was not a light butterfly on my way down – but his wife had told me before we even started “your butt has to touch”. So come on, we can’t have it both ways when there’s 210 pounds of exhausted involved.
New this year, was me wondering what I had to add to beat people. For most, if we add our donations to the total, I win (thanks everyone). But for our lady friend, I think I’d need to add our weights to our score. You know, cause my body weight effects my burpees and jumps and wall balls. But no one was really down with altering the rules so that I’d beat them. Go figure.
And I guess I recovered faster this year. First year, it was a day before I was the same. Last year, maybe 4 hours till the dizzy spells ended. This year, I ate a whole pizza (designed for 2+ people) before 1pm. Whoo-hoo! Sorta.
So I’m back to promising 500 next year. But since I was only at 370-ish this year, that’s a big order of extra burpees, jumps, wall balls and push presses. Though my first round was at 166 – which is a 500 pace. Just that I couldn’t keep it. Dropped like a rock. Still, it’s just working on the cardio to be able to do 3 sets of the same stuff. And I kinda took the burpees off. Can’t do that next time. They’re x2 even!
Montgomery, the one that doesn’t work out regularly with a fanatic was the one that won. Youth triumphs over age again. We’ll see if youth triumphs over 4 months of training next time. Or if youth will just stomp all over a faulty memory/lazy dude…
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