I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day, even if you’re averse to celebrating such a Hallmark holiday.

I did, and my husband sure knows how to treat me – dark chocolate, the new Spoon album and two years of hosting on Dreamhost!

You know what that means?  I can officially launch my new blog engine on a hosting server that doesn’t take more than a minute to load.  Yay!  We’ll be setting up a redirect in the future, but please head over to http://www.brummerblogs.com/redintheface and bookmark it, follow it in your favorite RSS reader, because that’s where I’ll be writing from now on.  You’ll find all of my archives there, too, plus some embedded video and photo galleries – exciting for me, as this blog engine is a little too clunky for that.

Check in with you at Red In The Face!

Today is a good day, and it's about time I've actually thought that.

The sun is shining.  It's cold as heck out there, but I'm warm.  My muscles are tired, but only that one glut muscle is bothering me, so I'm OK.  I'm not exhausted for once in my life, and my stomach doesn't feel sick, so I ate a real breakfast for the first time in weeks, rather than a couple of small snacks.  I didn't have to get Luke dressed this morning, AND we got everything done and STILL didn't have to rush out the door to leave for school.

It's a good day.

And, I finally got around to changing the look of my blog, which I have renamed "Red in the Face."  It just feels like a better fit.  I have been waiting to relaunch my blog in WordPress, but the server engine has been too slow to handle it (Thank you, WebHost4Life!) So instead of waiting, I finally decided to change the old one and later I'll make the move over to the fancy, new-fangled one.

Ahh, yes, good day.

I wasn't so sure it would be a good day when I saw the WOD this morning.

"Karen"
150 wall ball shots

&

1k Row

Hmmmmm..... well, I did say I need to work on wall balls, did I not?  I started with the row, which went pretty well.  I wouldn't call my rowing "sprinting," but I was putting out some significant effort.  Time: 4:49.

I was feeling very apprehensive about the wall balls as we waited for the other group to finish.  Rx weight was 14# for women (20# for men).  I decided to use 12#.  There's another Cindy in my class, and I joked to her that I would pretend Zach was yelling at her, and she could pretend Zach was yelling at me.  The first 25 were strong, then it got really hard.  I started to fall apart, but eventually I would do 5, catch my breath for 5 seconds, and start again. My shots started getting lower and lower on the wall, and they weren't high to begin with.  I was praying that Zach wouldn't call me out for the couple of times it landed only just above the red square, because that is REALLY low.  Luckily, Zach's been laying off me lately.  I wonder why ;).

I don't know how I finished in 9:37.  Did I miscount?  No, I couldn't have, but sometimes I wonder.

I did an challenge workout with Andy last night when I got home from work.

AMRAP 12min
10 Dumbbell deadlift
10 Dumbbell shoulder press
10 Dumbbell hang clean

I wanted to go fast, and shoulder press is a weakness, so I chose the intermediate weight -- 10#.  I wasn't disappointed with my final total: 8 rounds + 3 deadlift.

Andy loves these workouts and wants to continue doing some twice a week after the challenge is over.  I'm up for it, but I think I'll take a week off.  I need rest.

I wish my current relationship with food was better than it is.  Lately I have been shunning all of my favorites, and despite eating Paleo for months now -- barely craving bready carbs all that time -- for weeks I have been craving everything I'm not supposed to eat during this challenge.

There was ice cream in the freezer at work yesterday -- a gift of 4 new flavors from Blue Bell in honor of National Meteorologist Day.  It was calling my name.  Terri brought cookies to work.  Usually I don't have trouble walking past them -- this week, I paused, sniffed, and wished.

About the only thing I'm also craving that falls in the "It's OK to eat this" category is Chipotle.  I visited Chipotle for a chicken salad three times this week (Mmmmm -- greens, chicken, fajita veggies, salsa and GUACAMOLE).  The folks over at the Anderson store now know me.

And my appetite in inexplicable.  I used to eat on a regular schedule -- 3 meals, 2 snacks.  I would be hungry at each one and eat until satisfied.  Now, at some meals, I feel RAVENOUS.   Like this morning, I devoured so much food at breakfast, so fast, I was hurting at the end of breakfast.  But at other meals, I'm just not hungry at all.  Twice this week, I skipped dinner because I just wasn't hungry.

It's taking some adjustment learning to listen to my body just enough to feed it good food, but not enough to listen to it tell me to grab a huge handful out of every sample basket in the bread department of Central Market, which is what I wanted to do this morning.  Stupid brain.

The good news is, I'm staying on track and I finished my last workout for week 4!  We're over the hump!  That Hut's burger and scoop of Amy's Ice Cream is only a month away now!

For time:
Power swings  20, 18, 16 ... 6, 4, 2
Sprawls 2, 4, 6 ... 16, 18, 20
Finish with 5 40 yard sprints

Time: 9:27 @ 15#

This WOD fooled me.  I thought the swings would be hard.  Turns out the sprawls were much harder.

Now for a snack....

The sun is finally out today as I write this.  I’m so happy to see the sun, which has been gone for the better part of a week.  I don’t think I’d last long in the North if I have this much trouble without the sun.

Yep, it’s been cold and wet – one reason why I almost skipped a group workout last night… but more on that in a moment.

Thursday morning’s WOD was all about lifting, which I generally love.

Jen C.
7 deadlift
5 hang power clean
3 push jerk
*5 attempts
Bar cannot be put down

I was paired up with Sally and Lory for this one, two women who I don’t know very well but are bad asses.

We loaded our bar with 65# to start.  Here’s how it broke down for me:

65-70-75-75-75

Yes, I failed on all three attempts at 75.  The deadlift was no problem – it was the hang clean that got me, but after talking with my friends later, I realized I wasn’t the only one.

Hang cleans can be hard if you try to use your arms to flip the weight up.  Zach showed us all after class that we have to think about our arms as straps that connect out shoulders to the bar.  The body shrugs up and pulls the bar – not the arms.  All we have to do is pull our bodies under the bar and flip the elbows up.

I would say that this is a form that I need more practice on.

In the evening, my friends planned to take on this week’s endurance WOD just down the road along Shoal Creek.  At first I bowed out because of the rain, but they kept the pressure on, and I finally decided to go.  It was raining, and the water was rushing down the sidewalks and streets, and I wasn’t too happy to be there at first.  But it turned out to be good I went.

Mile repeats
Run 1 mile x 3

Rest for half the time it took to run the previous mile

My times broke down like this:

8:58
9:00
9:20

I was the slowest of the group… But not too far behind.  What was really cool was being “called home.”  Pam and Maggie ran out to me for the last 400 meters or so to help push me in.

Two workouts in one day wore me out (I fell asleep around 8pm) but I’m glad I got the endurance WOD done.  It wouldn’t have been as fun by myself.

Isn’t it funny how friends can make all the difference?

I've been rushing about the house in the hours since my workout ended this morning, and I haven't had much time to reflect on how I did.  Now, sipping my tea, I can think about it, even though the dogs are running through the house, playing, and making a huge racket.

They're fun to watch.

Where was I?  Oh yeah, the WOD:

Fight Gone Bad
1 min max reps
Row
Wall Balls (W 14#)
Sumo Deadlift High Pull (W 55#)
Box Jumps
Push Press (W 55#)

My reps per exercise were written down on my sheet that gets kept in my folder at the gym, and I neglected to write them down. I do know my total reps: 121.

It was low compared to my class, and a little lower than the last time I did 2 rounds of Fight Gone Bad three months ago (126).  Disappointing at first glance.  But here's why I'm not disappointed.  This time I did the whole thing as prescribed.  I used the Rx weight and I jumped on the box -- I did not scale it to step ups, which is what I did last time.  Jumps are slower for me, so I'm not surprised the reps went down.  The fact that they only went down by 5 is amazing to me, considering how crappy I felt this morning.

I felt stronger on push press, which is where I started the rounds, but I felt weaker on the SDLHP.  Wall balls continue to be a struggle for me -- something else I need to work on -- because I was hitting so low on the wall.

I'll take 121.

Last night I took on a challenge WOD at home.  Andy did this one with me, and I must have been really off, because I really struggled.

AMRAP 12 min
8 shoulder press (15#)
12 renegade rows
15 situps

I only got through 4 rounds.  Yikes!  Of course, I didn't read the directions all the way through, which stated clearly that you should do 6 rows with one arm and 6 with the other each set.  I did 12 with both.  No wonder I was slow.  Oh well, great workout.

I also returned to Kung Fu yesterday morning for the first time in 2 weeks.  Testing is getting really close, and I really shouldn't take any more time off between now and then.  I have my material, but I need to make sure it's solid and fluid.  I'll probably start practicing weekends at home in the backyard for a few weeks. 

There's no backing out now -- Master Joe knows I'm testing, and he's expecting me to be there.  Plus, why back out if I'm ready?

I've never been so happy that a week of the challenge is over.  Between being sick and having to put off the WODs until the end of the week, I was fried.

On Friday morning, with my stomach aching and the rain pounding away outside, I decided to do this challenge workout inside:

For time:
100 dumbbell snatches (15#)

I found the form hard to master, and I struggled, but I finished in 8:47.

On Saturday, I still had one more challenge WOD to do, but I also promised I was going to show up to the free UTB workout on Saturday morning.  You know me -- when I say I'm going to be somewhere, only a major act of nature can stand in my way.

After warm-ups we did:

4 rounds
45 sec wall balls
45 sec chest pumps/fast feet

Then, with a partner and a medicine ball we did:

2x 20 around-the-worlds (each partner)
2x 20 chest passes (each partner)
2x 20 overhead throws (each partner)

To round it off,  we did 25 squats and ran as fast as we could to the other side of the MoPac pedestrian bridge and back.

I was worn out after that workout.  I was happy to take a nap later in the day.  I only intended to sleep 30 minutes, but I woke up 2 hours later.  Yikes!  And I still had that challenge workout to do!  It was one I had been dreading all week.

Army PT Test (all levels)
2 min max reps sit-ups
2 min rest
2 min max reps push-ups
2 min rest
2 mile run for time

Considering how worn out I was, I did better than I thought -- 53 situps, 40 pushups (chest to deck of course) and a 17:50 run.  I ran around my neighborhood and got back just before it got dark.  Whew! 

It was a rough week, and I'm hoping this week goes better.  I'm taking Sunday off.  No workouts.  The only thing I'll be doing is cleaning my house and sending the boys off to a birthday party so I can have some peace and quiet.

Crossfit Central's Facebook status today started out with "Is this a typo?"

Uh-oh.

It actually wasn't that bad.  It was hard, sure, but in hindsight, not too bad.

21-15-9
Toes-to-bar
Overhead squats (M 95# / W 65#)
Supermans
Burpees
Box jumps

Class was crowded this morning.  We were all crammed in with all of our equipment.  Supermans and burpees had to be outside.  Fortunately, it wasn't raining... at first.

I tried loading the bar with 65#, but it just wasn't happening today.  I didn't have time to find weights to put 55# on, so I stuck with the bar.  It turned out that was challenging enough.  I need to work on my strength for holding a weight overhead, and this really helped.

I had to scale the toes-to-bar -- I'm just not there, as much as I try.  It was raised knees for me.

But I'll tell you what I was really happy about -- I JUMPED ON THE BOX.  EVERY.  TIME.

Yay!  It helped that I wore my Vibrums.  I felt like I was able to grab the box more confidently, even when I was tired.  And I didn't even care that it slowed me down to jump rather than step.  That didn't matter, as long as I was jumping.

First obstacle hurdled!  Now to keep at it and keep working on form and speed.  

Wow.  It's such a relief to have overcome something that's been dogging me for a while. Of course, I'm sure I'll have to continue to work on jumps.  There will be days I don't want to jump.  But I'm gonna do it.

Oh!  Time for this workout -- 17:05

This has been a very rough week for me.  I'm slowly starting to feel more like myself after that virus hit me hard.  I took off Monday to rest and recover another day before starting back with my normal schedule.  My appetite is still wacky, but my energy is returning. 

Good thing too, because this was what we did Tuesday morning:

5 rounds for time
400m run
12 Handstand push ups
21 in-and-outs (with parallette bars)

I believe my words were, "If ever I'm going to puke, it's going to be today."

I didn't, but I sure pushed myself to finish this workout.  I wasn't sure I would.  It was a toughie!  And I couldn't even do it prescribed.  I scaled the HSPU to a box, and I had trouble getting depth, although I'm improving. The in-and-outs were killer.  A few times the only parallette bars that were open were the taller ones and I jumped on them.  I expected Zach to yell at me to move to the shorter ones, but he didn't.

I couldn't believe it when I got back from the run on round 5 and there were 2 minutes left in the workout.  I worked like hell.  I yelled time at 24:59.

That workout was hard.

I have yet to complete most of my extra workouts for the week for the challenge.  I agreed to meet up with some of the gals from my class Wednesday evening to do the endurance WOD.  It was the one evening I was off at 5pm, and it felt so nice to be outside in the cool air before dark.

We met at Murchison Middle School to run the hill behind the track.  

Hill Repeats
8 hill runs max intensity

We were tasked to find a hill we could run up without stopping.  This hill isn't very long, but it's very steep, and it was incredibly challenging. We ran to the top of the hill, and recovered by walking down.

I am kicking myself for not grabbing my stopwatch out of the car, because I have no idea how long each sprint took.  D'oh!!!  I only have an overall time: 2:26.   That made my hill runs an average of 18:25 seconds.  That's not bad -- it's kind of like tabatas.

Well, to bed with me.  I need all the recovery I can get before Thursday morning's WOD, whatever it may be.

This sickness is playing havoc with both my appetite and my nutrition.

A recap.  Yes, cedar is at its worst this week in Austin, but I don't have allergies.  I'm one of those lucky people who just don't have to deal with them... yet.  Of course, I started to wonder on Friday when my throat got sore, my nose clogged and I started to cough.

Um, no.  The symptoms now appear to be more like what my son came down with earlier in the week.  The doctor told us it was viral bronchial-pneumonia.  I really hope I am just suffering from some other virus, because that sounds NASTY.  My icky virus sucked all the energy right out of my body and destroyed my appetite.  And by destroyed, I mean it made me crave bread, muffins, pasta, donuts... all of the carbs I'm not supposed to eat, and especially during the challenge.

Fortunately, I managed to overcome the urges, and instead I ate fruit.  Lots and lots of fruit.  We're not supposed to eat a lot of fruit either, but when the choice is between bread, hurling up a salad or feeling satisfied with a tasty blood orange, you can bet I'm choosing the orange.  Fruit became my comfort food, and it was so welcome.  

The other thing that happened was my body asked to sleep... and I let it.  Boy did I let it!  I slept for 12 hours on Friday night and 13 hours on Saturday!  That doesn't happen very often to this working mamma!  Thanks to Andy, my incredibly patient husband, I had no chores to take care of and I was allowed to sleep.

I'll probably sleep long and hard again tonight, as I'm just not feeling myself yet.  Just walking around the house wears me out.

The good news is, I am finally starting to feel better.  The bad news -- today just has to be another rest day, which means cramming Week 3 WODs into Monday-Friday.  SIGH.

My husband likes to remind me that my hands wouldn't be torn up so bad if I had decent form on my pull-ups.

I guess, technically, I shouldn't be gripping the bar with my palms.  According to him, my grip should be strong enough to support my weight without rubbing my palms.

Well, I'm not there yet.  And my callouses... my lovely callouses that have been protecting me for months finally gave out this week with all the pull-ups in our WODs.

A word to the wise.  Alcohol-based hand-sanitizer and torn up hands do not mix.  Seriously.  Avoid the pain and the laughter of your friends by not mixing these two items.

Anyway, I happen to LOVE the WOD we did today... partly because it's my namesake:

"Cindy"
AMRAP 20 min.
5 pull-ups
10 push-ups
15 squats

We were encouraged to choose a band that is a little less strong, and I thought I chose a plain blue, but it turns out it was black and tighter than the green... not what I need!  So I picked out three purple.

And we were off!

I was wearing my 5-fingers again today, and I felt light and springy.  It was so much easier getting in and out of the band.  Unfortunately, brain was just not cooperating, and I lost track of my rounds a couple of times.  I ended up backtracking a little, and officially I wrote down 13 rounds + 5 pullups + 10 pushups.  But I think it really was 14 rounds, + 5 pullups + 10 pushups.

That's fewer rounds than last time, when I did this in Ryon's class at Kung Fu, but then I was doing jumping pullups, so I'm definitely stronger.

I was really feeling those squats, too.  I didn't give my legs a break Wednesday, when I took on a 3rd EPOC workout at home:

3 rounds for time
60 jump rope swings
30 squats
15 push-ups

My time came out to 5:17.  I was really trying to come out under 6 minutes on this one; although, Andy was standing there with the stopwatch, pushing me to finish in under 5.  ALMOST made it...

After my sneak peak of Tuesday's WOD, I decided I would finally wear my Vibrums to class.  Not only do I want to strengthen the muscles in my feet, but I also hate slipping around in my shoes when I lift heavy weights.  It's not just a hindrance -- it's dangerous!

WOD

5 rounds for time
10 Front Squats (155# M / 115# W)
25 pull-ups

We were told to choose a weight that we can power clean from the ground.  Luckily, I just happen to know that amount.  85#.  Barely.  Well, maybe I should scale from there.  75#.  Ehhh... that's a struggle too.  65#.  Yes, definitely.  I can do that.  (Honestly, I probably could have gone with 75#, since my squats are strong.  Next time, I'll be ready to up the weight.)  I chose the blue and purple bands for pull-ups.

The class was really crowded this morning.  I felt like we were all on top of one another.  We took up 3/4 of the gym, barely giving the women's class room, and each pull-up bar bay had 4 people in it.  It was no nig deal.  We all know each other well enough that it was more of a laugh to be so close.

Let me just say that I hope to never go back to wearing my running shoes for lifts.  Not slipping in my shoes made a HUGE difference.  I felt like I really gripped the ground, and I was able to focus on the top part of my body -- keeping my elbows up -- rather than on keeping my balance.

I also feel like I rocked the pull-ups.  I was cheering on my "bar" mates.  "Five more!  Let's just do 5!"  I hope it didn't annoy them, but sometimes, when your arms are so tired, you have to talk yourself through to keep moving.  I was working hard on my kipping form, and the hip movement saved me in the last few rounds.  Without the "kip," my arms just weren't having it.  A couple of times, I just couldn't pull myself up.  But when I had a solid kip, it happened.

I finished in 17:10.  That's solid for me.  And I'm pretty happy with that.

Just a quick note before I collapse for the night of the workout Andy and I took on tonight.

I love that Andy wants to do these EPOC challenge WODs with me, but he's a nighttime exerciser, so scheduling can be an issue.  Tonight, we managed to work it all out for:

12min AMRAP
3 shoulder press
6 broad jumps
9 supermans

I chose the intermediate weight, because the point of the challenge WODs is to burn through them quickly.  The elite weight is 25lbs for women, which is still a struggle for me, so I went with 15lbs.

Funniest part of the WOD: the shadow of me doing a broad jump.  It was out ahead of me, and it was amusing to see my butt look like that.  Grossest part of the WOD: I used a towel to do the supermans on the deck.  Thank goodness!  I think I need the throw the porch rug away!  GROOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSS smell!!!!!!!!

I finished 13 rounds + 3 presses + 6 broad jumps.

Off to bed.  Tomorrow is an early day.

As part of the I Am Crossfit EPOC Challenge, I was tasked with setting three goals I want to accomplish in the 8 weeks.

To recap, my challenge goals are:

1. Finish the benchmark WOD
2. Execute 3 consecutive kipping pull-ups
   
3. Execute a 1 1/2 bodyweight deadlift
   

We spent our first meeting learning about the challenge and also did an exercise on goal-making.  The basic rule of the exercise was:

Have utter belief in what you want.  FAITH

It was about throwing off this mantle of realism that we wear as adults and to think like we did when we were kids -- when we believed all things were possible.  The exercise set my mind in motion, thinking about the future as well as about my attitude in the past.

Over the years, I've become much more jaded about what I believed possible for myself.  My friends in whom I've shared my hopes in dreams have also heard me say, "But it will never happen.  I'm stuck.  Nothing's going to change."

Whoever came up with "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" was WRONG!  Words can hurt!  Telling myself that I have no control over my own destiny has made it so!

But it doesn't always have to be like that.  I am the captain of this ship, and I can guide it wherever I want to go.  That sounds cheesy, but it's true.

And so, I hereby declare 2010 to be the year of taking control.  I've been doing some soul-searching about what I really want, and I've come up with some goals.  Well, actually one goal -- and just about everything else falls under it in relation to achieving that one big goal.

I don't really want to divulge that goal, as it's kind of just for me and my family -- it's not a health goal.  But suffice it to say, it's huge, and it's going to take some risk-taking.   I've been reluctant to take risks in the past because of my fear of harming my family.  But now I see that NOT taking risks is harming them.  So I haven't really protected them at all.

The next 7 weeks will test me, but the will also toughen me up.  I am strong.  I can do this.

I decided not to subject my running buddy to this week's endurance WOD, so we met Sunday morning for a short run around Town Lake.

It was the perfect temperature for a run -- about 40 degrees -- but we walked for a little bit before starting to run in order to warm up.  Our breaths made huge clouds in front of us as we walked and talked.  It didn't take long to go the distance of the loop between the Pfluger Bridge and the MoPac pedestrian bridge.  We probably ran 2 1/2 miles.

Later in the day, though, Andy and I piled Luke in the car with a ball, snacks, water and assorted workout gear for a short ride to the McCallum High School track.  I wanted to take care of this week's endurance WOD early, and Andy agreed to time me.  Here's what I did.

8 rounds:
Sprint 200 m
Rest 3:1 (3 times the amount of time it took to run the last round)

It took me a total of 24:13 to do this WOD.  Here's how the sprints broke down:

I should have warmed up more before starting.  I thought the previous 3 hours of yardwork would have me warmed enough.

The prospect of sprinting 8 rounds was also a little daunting, and I definitely paced myself on the first 2 rounds.  It wasn't until my 3rd round when I really started to open up and run.  And then, on round 8, I didn't let anything hold me back.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with how I did.

So here I am in the second week of the I AM Crossfit EPOC Challenge, and I'm finding my resolve under fire.  Eight weeks seems like a long time to be so strict with my nutrition and workout so hard so many days a week. My goals also feel very unreachable right now, because I'm so tired.  I will march on, but I'm definitely feeling some pressure.

Have you ever had one of those ends-of-the-day when you sit down and the SIGH seeps out of your chest without you even willing it?

That's the kind of evening I'm having.  It's been a wonderful, yet exhausting day, and all I can think about is the cool, clean sheets I just put on my bed, even though it's only 8 p.m. I'm keeping myself awake to read a story to Luke, hang with my awesome, patient, and extremely understanding husband, and write this blog post.  And oh yeah, I'm going to eat an apple with coconut butter because I am craving something sweet!

I can't really blame my workout today for this tiredness.  I woke up this morning and yawned for an hour.  Even though I've been sleeping 7, 8, and 9 hours a night for months now, it just hasn't felt like enough.  But I woke up after we ate at our favorite breakfast haunt (why, Kerby Lane, of course!) and I got a couple of cups of black coffee into me with a side of eggs, bacon and fruit.

There was a workout at noon today for Team 1, which consists of my coach, JDP, plus Carey and Crystal Nelson.  It turned out to be a chance to work skills as well as put in a hard workout.

We ran what I guess to be 3/4 mile right after the warm-up -- running all the way down the hill to the dead end and back.  I was really happy that I didn't stop to walk.  Then we spent 10 minutes working on pull-ups.  Carey encouraged us to use a band lighter than what we usually use.  I put up a blue and purple, but I traded off with my friend Lisa who put up just a blue band.  I was really happy that I was able to kip up over the bar with just the blue, even though it was significantly harder.

We teamed up with a partner and a bar for 30 minutes to work on power cleans.

1 x 12 @ bar
1 x 10 @ + 20
1 x 8 @ +10
2 x 5 @ +10
1 x 1 @ heavy weight

I had a tough time getting the form just right on the power cleans.  At 65#, the weight was challenging, but I could pull it off.  Once we added another 10#, it was much harder.  Form makes a difference!  My partner and I didn't have time to do the 4th round, so we ended up making 85# our single heavy rep.  I barely pulled it off, so I'm happy we were done.

Then, we did one of the EPOC workouts for the week -- the one I hadn't chosen to do.

5 rounds
10 Dumbbell cleans (M 45# / W 25#)
5 20 yard sprints
(Cutoff -- 10 minutes)

That was painful, to say the least.  I was using 20# dumbbells, and my butt was doing some serious protesting after the WOD.  I didn't finish.  But I was so close.  I only had 4 runs on round 5 left.  Ah well, c'est la vie.

But I did give my body a treat today.  I made an appointment with my favorite massage therapist, Heidi, who does Kung Fu with me.  She's awesome!  My goal for this year is to not wait as long to go see her!

Quick note: Here's the WOD I did Friday, for my 2nd EPOC workout of week 1.

100ft lunges
50 sit-ups
100ft lunges
40 sit-ups
100ft lunges
30 sit-ups
100ft lunges
20 sit-ups
100ft lunges
10 sit-ups

My time: 10:36.  Fortunately, I was able to do this inside, because it rained all day.

Now, it's time to get that apple.  And then, I think I might collapse.  But then again, I might just do some crossword puzzles for a while and listen to the radio.  That would be nice.  Ahhhh......