Cherry Picking in Cherry Blossom Time
So, after the great WOD last Monday, our coach was informed by the local authorities that our box’s building has a possible asbestos situation and nobody can go inside until the inspection and analysis is completed. Another space on the old Hazemeyer complex had been organized for us but the Box 074 and almost all the equipment is on lockdown until further notice.
Crossfitters are nothing if not adaptable. Running and condition trainings were put together at very short notice by Lichelle Scholing , a top Dutch athlete These were scheduled in the evening so I gave them a miss. I’ve been busy giving my house an old-fashioned spring cleaning during the day and had nothing over for any evening training and especially not running. All day up and down a ladder, washing windows, cleaning the parquet, oiling the furniture, polishing the furniture, washing all the bedding….Sue me, I cherry picked. Everybody else was very enthousiastic about Lichelle’s trainings though. I’ll admit to a tiny twinge of regret for not going.
Temporary locale , but we have barbells and bumper plates and kettlebells!
Via a Facebook post , a selection of weight lifting equipment was made available on loan and I, for one am delighted to report that nobody had wallballs to spare! Back to business as usual today. My Deadlift Skelly t-shirt looked great.
WOD
7 min AMRAP Deadlifts
(I scaled to 25 kg)
5 mins rest
7 min AMRAP Powercleans
5 mins rest
7 min AMRAP Front squats
95-39-80
and all that after warming up with a run around Hazemeyer.
It was a good day.
Deadlift Skelly, a Boo-boo and Damn the Torpedos
Last week was a bad week. My eyes were bothering me, my hands were pretty useless for opening even a twist-off cap from a wine bottle and I didn’t get one good night’s rest. Decided to take a reset-week and did a little running, tagged along to Vincent’s workout with the personal trainer on Saturday, walked with the dogs almost every day…
To scale or not to scale, THAT is the question
The weekend was great, sleeping went much better, woke up this morning and the hands and eyeballs were less bad than last week, so I headed off to Crossfit. Naturally without looking at the posted workout, because sometimes it is better not to know. I’m told that Sjögren’s patients should avoid stress and going into a workout blissfully unaware lowers the stress level immeasurably. If I look at workouts posted late the night before, I can spend hours tossing and turning, debating with myself “to scale or not to scale”. Call me the Crossfit Hamlet. If I decide to scale, then another few hours of tossing and turning go by trying to figure out the best scaling strategy and I wake up unrefreshed. Better not to know.
Deadlift Skelly
Today was a nice surprise: Deadlifts for skill and strength! Deficit deadlifts! It would have been a great opportunity to wear my new Skelly Deadlift shirt, but I hadn’t looked ahead. Skelly will be living in the gym bag from now on for just in case. It was a 10 round EMOM for 3 deficit deadlifts every minute. I went with 45 kg. because my form needed some adjusting.
After the deadlifts we moved straight on into the WOD. Not my WOD, but I figured I’d see how I did for 5 rounds.
10 Rounds for Time
10 Toes to Bar
10 Box Jumps
10 Pushups
I still can’t do Toes to Bar but my toes are coming up higher than hip level these days so that was ok. I don’t do Box Jumps. I can do Box Jumps, but the weather is turning nice, I like to wear dresses and I’d rather not walk around with a gash in my shin for a couple of weeks, so I stepped up and off. Pushups aren’t a problem. Yes, I do them strict.
5 rounds went by pretty quickly, I was behind the rest, but not embarrassingly so and decided, damn the torpedos, I was in for 10. The crew were all coaching me on my last round and as I rubbed the sweat out of my eyes before I grabbed onto the climbing frame for the last Toes to Bar (Toes above the hips), I noticed I was bleeding. The sight of blood creeps me out; especially when it is mine.
Chalk really does stem the blood flow!
What the hell? I wasn’t about to stop now. More chalk, it’ll stem the blood. Tried not to look at my hand when I was doing the box step, was grateful for the strict pushups, not hand-release which would have allowed me to peek at the wound every time and finished at 24:26
Nuckin' Futz 
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