wod 13.1 - done and done!

poor fig!  we killed him again!  lunge jumps AND box jumps in the same workout - 120 reps of each.  it was just nasty!

and finally, it was wednesday - the day we'd all been waiting for - the announcement of wod 13.1 for the 2013 crossfit games.   i dashed up to my computer at 8pm and just about shit when i read what we had to do - burpees - fuck - are you kidding me - didn't we do them LAST year - and snatches - fuck - are you kidding me - my weakest lift - in the same format as last year.  seriously guys, a little originality would be nice.   regardless, it had to be done, but not until saturday ...

so thursday i went for a run in palgrave.  trails were in great shape ...

and i even stretched out my snatch muscles a bit ...

friday night club was super fun!  katie, recently a mississauga member, moved to newmarket and is now hanging out with us!  check out her little girl madison ...

good group as always!

and before we knew it, it was saturday - show time!   the wod went like this ...

17 minute AMRAP of:
40 burpees
30 snatch @ 45lbs
30 burpees
30 snatch @ 75lbs
20 burpees
30 snatch @ 100lbs

well, i don't need to go any further, as my max snatch is only 80lbs.   but you get the idea!   my goal - to finish the round of 20 burpees.  the energy in the gym was insane!  everyone was so nervous!   it was krazy!  and as the mighty one counted us down, 3,2,1 ...   i did my first burpee and all nerves were gone.   get the job done!   i got through the first 40 in under 3 minutes i think, and then on to the 45lb snatches - not too bad.   back to the burpees - fuck these were getting hard, especially on the legs!  okay, done, adjust the weight on the bar and start my 75lb snatches.   these were heavy but i tried to keep moving.  ted, who was counting for me, kept encouraging me to keep going and push through it!  (thanks ted).  i finally finished these in 15:10.  with what energy i had left, i got through the 20 burpees with about 10 seconds to spare.   good gawd!   my score - 150!  exactly what i was hoping for.   as i looked around, i saw just about everyone lying on the ground in a heap - that was EVIL ! i can't remember the scores, but we all did amazing!  so after the first wod, in the female 50-54 age group, i am ranked 10th in canada east and 88th worldwide.  i'm okay with that !!  bring on 13.2 !!

oh ya - my friend kathy scored an insane 193 points!  what a beast!  she is my hero!!  she ranked 4th worldwide in the 40-44 age group.   keep rolling sister!

sunday, after a big feed of paleo pancakes, i headed into the forest for a sweet 2+ hour run.

 

 

despite the snow, trails were in pretty good shape, only getting a bit spongy towards the end ...

i felt GREAT!

finished off the evening watching miss lilian stalk a bunch of wild turkeys up by the house.

she almost got them ...

and now, we get to wait until wednesday, and do it all over again !!!

sparring with fig ...

tuesday was nice enough i could wear shorts AND get a bit of sun on the pasty white legs.  

trails were in amazing shape and i had a huge shit-ass grin on my face!   even busted out the pink sox ...

but then came a bunch of sloppy wet snow ...

i know - pretty - but whatever ...

after 90 minutes, i was pretty baked - snowshoe running in this stuff is exhausting!

ahaa!   remember last friday's pic ...

we did the reverse this week ...

and then i mustered up the nerve to try some sparring with fig at the karate studio.   loved watching him and jeremy mess around ...

this is my adorable friend jose who, incidently, was just awarded his purple belt in jiu jitsu!

haa!  christina had no trouble keeping fig on his toes ...

and then me - yikes - once fig got me calmed down, it was really fun.  he kept yelling at me for 'squeaking' every time i hit him.  'kendra - stop apologizing for hitting me!!!'

i tried to remember all the stuff me and darryl had been working on, but it sure is a different story when someone's actually trying to smack you upside the head!  but fig was great - real patient - and just kept me moving.   and yes, his arms REALLY are that big!

after the ghetto girls on saturday, and then a session with the grumpy little portuguese, i finally made my way out into palgrave - expecting the worst after the snow on wednesday ...

 but i was pleasantly surprised - trails were in good shape!  i guess the cold had compressed them a bit, so they were totally runnable!  my legs felt awesome and i stayed out for almost 2 hours!

then just hung out watching season one of the drew carey show with miss lilian ...

and with one final run sunday in palgrave with everhard, as the sun sets, the weekend is pretty much over.
 

 *sigh*

BUT WAIT - only 3 more days until they announce the first wod for this year's open!   i am so excited i could almost shit my pants!   this is gonna be FUN !!!!

congrats kathy !!!

hitting some solid numbers at crossfit last week.  upped my 3 rep max front squat to 135 (not bad considering my heaviest is 150), my 2 rep max split jerk to 115, my hang clean to 100 (yes, it was ugly), and my 3 rep max back squat to 160.   can't wait to try one rep max's soon!!

great shot of me, fig and christina doing overheads ...

and the incredible fig doing his back squats ...

haaa!  it took some doing, but we managed a really kool pyramid shot for friday night club!  note i'm the ONLY one not showing cleavage ...

and yippee!   the beautiful mrs p and the mighty one had their baby!  a little girl on wednesday!  liana!  isn't she tiny ...

finally, i want to congratulate my amazing friend kathy who came first - yes FIRST - at the garage games in georgia last weekend!!!   you rock lady!!!

only 9 more days till the open !!!   can't wait!!!

UG's winterfest

now THAT was fun!  on saturday me, lisa, jay and thomas drove to collingwood for the UG's winterfest challenge hosted by crossfit indestri.  after a bit of a kerfuffle with the wiper fluid, and a pee stop, we made it to the mountain with time to spare.  we boarded a big old school bus painted black and were escorted to valley ridge farm - this gorgeous chunk of property up by the scenic caves.  registration took place inside a large riding arena so we hung around in there and got ready to race!!

once everybody figured out the snowshoes, we were good to go, or so we thought!  first event was a 4x200 meter relay race.  while we were standing there trying to decide who was going first, we realized that everyone had started already - doh!  so i took off and managed to catch 1 person!  haaa!  once we all finished this, we headed out onto the course - a 6km loop that included 8 more wods. 

 wod #2 consisted of doing 10 thrusters with an 8 foot log, and then flipping it  we each had to do this twice!  there was a bit of a wait when we got there, but once on the field, we went really fast!!

with those done, we got back on the course, and snowshoed over to wod #3 - a hatchet throw!

we sucked at this!!  it was hilarious!  none of us managed to hit the target, and lisa threw so hard she launched the axe right over it and into the snow.  it took her a bit to find it and dig it out!!  too funny!

wod #4 was a bow saw cut - good gawd!   jay went first, taking no time at all to saw through this big log.   i figured i wouldn't be too bad at this, having had some experience hacking down trees when i worked as a landscaper - NOT!  what a mess!  lisa couldn't stop laughing as my cut started to go on such an angle that the blade eventually got jammed and we couldn't get it out!  the judge helped us, and just told lisa to go next.  she hit my original cut, and also got the blade stuck!  finally thomas took over and had it done in about a minute!   what a laugh!  we quickly made our way out of there!!!

unfortunately when we got to wod #5 there was a big wait to start.  we finally got going after about 25 minutes, and it didn't take long to get warmed back up.  we each had to do 3 rounds of 10 burpees - in our snowshoes - and 20 log swings.   jay went first again and was SO fast he was kicking snow up behind him - hitting everyone standing within 20 feet!  it was hilarious!!!  this wod was really fun!

wod #6 was a rope drag.  we had to pull a log for 50', tug-of-war style, run the rope back to the start, and repeat for 8 rounds!   thomas did most of the work, and even pulled the bloody thing half-way on one rep before we managed to grab the rope!!  haaa!  this went by so fast i wasn't able to get a picture!

next up, a 360 degree log walk ...

we had to hoist the log up on our shoulder, and then complete 5 full loops.   this was fun too!

i had been dreading wod #8 all day - the toboggan run!   an incident in my teens involving an inner tube, a really steep icy hill, a huge jump and a trip to the hospital left me somewhat nervous about getting back on a sled!   but this wasn't bad at all!  we went down in tubes and then dragged them back up for 2 reps each!

push me thomas - i'm stuck!

and after this, it was back to the barn for 3 more wods ...

we got inside, removed our snowshoes and outer layers, and got ready for wod #9 - heavy stone carry and rope climb.  we had to pick up these big awkward stones, carry them 30' and put them on top of a high box.  not so good for lisa, whose chin barely made it to the top of them!  but she's strong as shit, so she made it happen !

we then had to do a 15' rope climb!  yikes!  i had never done one before but figured i'd give it a go.  it went not too bad at first, but about 6" from the top, no matter how hard i tried, i couldn't get any further - my muscles totally failed me!   i had to slide back down!   fuck!

thomas and jay had no trouble with these, so they did our 8 reps!

 i think that wod #11 was my favorite.  we had to throw a big sandbag on our back and do 10 getups (down to knees and up), 20' of walking lunges, 10 squats, and then drag it back to the start!  not sure how heavy it was, but we're guessing close to 100lbs.

the final wod was 5 ground to overheads with a big log and a flintstone walk.  we had to carry this thing - 4 logs stuck together in a square - for 40'.  it was so awkward and heavy that we each grabbed a corner and just lifted it up!

stoopid flintstone walk! 
  

the whole thing took us about 3:45, but with the waiting around between wods, i would say closer to 3 hours.  here we are at the finish - looking really happy and really dirty!!

once again i was blessed to have such amazing teammates!   we worked really really well together and i loved spending the day stomping around in the woods and lifting heavy shit with them!

lisa, jay, thomas -   thanks for adding another incredible and memorable adventure to my life!!