Playing with the big kids...

Yesterday was my first WOD in Level 2....Oh my granny!! It was also Haley and Sarah's first day of Crossfit. I am so excited that they are joining me on this journey and can't wait to see how they progress as they go through it. I was so focused on their first workout, I really did not look closely at mine yesterday.

Skill
Hip Snatch Waveload 5-3-5-3-5-3
*Rest :90 btwn sets
*Increase each rep range

then….

WOD
5 Rounds:
5 Power Cleans
5 Barbell Lunges/leg
400 M Run
*M: 115 W: 85

Since I didn't know exactly what the skill session meant I just glazed past it and scanned the WOD, What I saw, stuff and a 400 meter run (row for me)...hmm I can do that! What I didn't see 'gulp' 5 ROUNDS! OMG, I missed that part completely. While I was watching the class before me finish up I realized that I was in trouble and it was too late to leave. So I just decided I would do my best and that is what I would do.

Jenny introduced me to all of the others in the class, (all boys who could lift a small car), and off we went. It was a hard warmup and hard skill session but felt good. I got a compliment on my squat and that felt good. I really think that good form is the most important part of CrossFit. If your forms sucks then you will get hurt and I am already climbing up the hardest side of the hill with my weight and age, so I don't need any more deficits. Therefore, I will take all of the coaching I am offered and fix everything that they tell me. Sometimes I need a few things fixed in a row because my brain gets confused between the lifts, so when I get told hold your hands closer together or put the bar closer to your body/legs I do it because I just plain forget! Arrogant I am not...teachable I am!

After selecting my clean weight and Boone deciding that I should not use weight on my lunges, we were off. After my first round, Boone said "I think I am only going to have you do 3 rounds." I said "I think I will let you do that!" He may have been afraid that I might splat on the new gym floor :) Either way, I did 3 rounds and I was wiped out! Thank you Jenny and Boone for all of the encouragement! (I am sure there were others but in my exhausted state I don't remember!)

Haley and Sarah did GREAT with Wes for their first workout, they will be back at it on Wednesday.

Today I came in ready, I knew what most of the WOD meant and knew that all of it meant STRENGTH DAY!

It is fun lifting with these guys, having the freedom to feel my way around what works best for me, jumping in at the end with Jenny and Erica to try my hand at a few reps of heavy weights, getting great coaching from everyone, and learning a good way to maximize a scaled move so I can get the best workout for me. Level 2 may kick my bootie, but I will learn every day what it takes inside of me to be strong. Also along the way I am making new friends and learning to love me again.

A side note, stress has been running rampant through my house and body the last few weeks. My grandmother passed away, I was sick for a week, our water heater went out, we had some major work on my Saturn, came home this Sunday to a water leak in the yard (we thought), it has turned out to be a leak under the house in the very middle of the house, sold my Saturn, and today bought a car. It has been a blessing to have CrossFit to turn to, not food, which was my drug of choice before.

Today my sister posted a bible verse that really spoke to me and I wanted to share it, so I will end with this:

Colossions 1:11 We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul - not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy

This is my strength, I may grit my teeth and hold my breath during my workouts, but my inner strength comes from the Lord.