Monday 090126

woke up at 5:30am.  sore!

5:45am: spark and arganine extreme into water, muscle strength.

6:15am: 3 catalyst.

6:45am: crossfit WOD.

8:00am: 2 tacodeli tacos: 1 migas, and 1 sirloin, egg, and cheese.  1 cup black coffee.

11:00am: 1 zone perfect bar.  water.

12:30pm: lunch @ cpk: 1 cup chicken chowder, 1/2 bbq chicken salad with avocado.  iced tea.

meetings from 1:30-4:45 straight through with no chance to find food.  just had water.

5:15pm: spark and 3 catalyst.

5:30pm: teach spin @ 24.

7:45pm: turkey jerky.

8:15pm: another meeting!

8:45pm: 1 buffalo chicken wrap, small side salad, 1 beer.

Today’s WOD

  • crossfit: 3 rounds of 21 kb snatch (per arm), 15 pull-ups, 12 db snatch (per arm), 400m run.  21:30, using a light kb and a 15-lb db.  recovery week… gotta scale back!
  • teach spin @ 24.
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Monday 090119

woke up at 5:30 with allergies kicking my ass.  again.  it’s time for some new drugs.

5:45am: spark, arganine extreme into water. 3 muscle strength.

6:20am: 3 catalyst.

6:45am: crossfit WOD.

8:00am: 2 bacon, egg, avocado breakfast tacos with corn tortillas and medium salsa. 1 cup black coffee.  legs still shaky from the WOD.  lower back is not pleased with my choice of chair at work.

10:15am: 1 zone perfect bar (forgot my snack… fixed that at lunch by buying more food).

11:30am: 3 catalyst.

12:15pm: 1 bowl chicken sausage, lentil, kale soup. Mixed green salad with thai dressing, random veggies, and soy nuggets.  water.

3:30pm: buffalo jerky (pretty good!), fresh berries and pineapple, water.  don’t have any fat to eat in my office at the moment… meh.

5:00pm: 3 catalyst.

5:30pm: 2/3 bottle diet turbo green tea, water.

6:45pm: 1 chocolate muscle milk.

8:00pm: seared ahi, mashed yams with cranberries.  1 glass red wine.

Today’s WOD

  • Crossfit: 800m run, 5 rounds {15 deadlift @ 185, 30 sit-ups}, 800m run. 18:56.
  • Teach spin @ 24.
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Monday January 12 2009

woke up at 5:10 and my stomach wasn’t quite right, but the coffee fixed that up ;-)

5:15am: 1 cup black coffee.

7:30am: 2 sirloin, avocado, and egg breakfast tacos on corn tortillas, black coffee.

10:05am: beef jerky, macadamia nuts, dried blueberries, dried cranberries.

12:00pm: panang curry with chicken, broccoli, bell peppers, and zucchini.  water.

2:00pm: 1 double espresso.

3:25pm: beef jerky, macadamia nuts, dried blueberries, dried cranberries.

5:30pm: most of a bottle of diet turbo green tea, water.

6:30pm: 1 bottle muscle milk light.

8:00pm: spinach salad with bell peppers and onions, seared ahi with sweet chili sauce and mashed yams with cranberries, water.


Today’s WOD

  • 4 rounds 400m run, 50 squats; 12:17
  • Teach spin @ 24
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cycle 80 playlist

I’ve been using this playlist a few times lately for my recent cycle classes, and it seems to give folks a tough workout.  The profile of the class is fast and flat with a time trial in the middle (high-intensity effort) and intervals and hills in the end.  About 45 minutes of work.

  1. Life In Technicolor II – Coldplay (warm up)
  2. The Metro – Berlin
  3. The Electric Version – The New Pornographers
  4. 11h30 (DatA remix) – Danger
  5. Anywhere – The Presets
  6. Postcards From Far Away – Coldplay
  7. She’s My Winona – Fall Out Boy
  8. Prayer Of The Refugee – Rise Against
  9. Dirt Room – Blue October
  10. The Mixed Tape – Jack’s Mannequin
  11. Move Along – The All-American Rejects
  12. 3′s & 7′s – Queens Of The Stone Age
  13. Stranger Things Have Happened – Foo Fighters (cool down)
  14. Gravity – John Mayer (cool down)
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Monday January 05 2009

woke up at 5:05 feeling a bit sluggish, allergies have been terrible the last couple days.

5:45am crossfit: 1 cup black coffee

7:30am breakfast: 2 sirloin, avocado, and cheese breakfast tacos (I asked for eggs, and instead found cheese…  meh.), 1 cup black coffee, 10 oz water.

snack: skipped… i didn’t have any food to eat — will change that soon.

2:30pm lunch: 2 pork spare ribs; 1 spinach salad with tofu, corn, carrots, celery, green onions, balsamic dressing; 1 bottle mint+honey green tea.

5:45pm 24cycle: 1 bottle of pure sport, 1 bottle of pure sport recovery

dinner: 3 chicken strips, mustard sauce, large salad with balsamic on the side.  3 beers (hey, the fiesta bowl was on and i was at a bar… that’s the last of the drinking for a while ;-) .  1 large glass of water.

Today’s WOD

Angie: completed in 21:45… my hands got frozen and sore on the pull-up bar, so I reverted to jumping pullups after about 41 kipping pull-ups.  I need to get a butterfly pull-up going so that I can stay on the bar longer and get through these faster.

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