Dice WoD - Nov 26

10 rolls of the dice, or 15 minutes total. When we got to 7 rolls, just said, "do the 10 no matter how long it takes." 19.57 to finish. 2x20 pull ups, 2x15 ring push ups, 30 squats, 10 cleans, 25 kb swings, 15 ring push ups, 10 cleans, 15 ring push ups. Nice!

7 + 2 hours. PE: 7. 20 total. 218/14.

S Run - V-tach Bluff - Nov 23

One of those clear-air days in Bako where you can see every tree on Breckenridge. When you can breathe it, you gotta get out in it. Cast off the planned Cl day and drove for Calvary's parking lot.

Easy 7 minutes to the bottom of the old MHR test hill. Hiked it once in 2.35, and felt the kinks - 170 BPM. Turned right around at the bottom and goat-trotted half and hiked half in 2.26 - not much faster, but 200 BPM. Since that trail leans uphill to down, left leg was really getting worked. Ran up the nose route to the East and down the canyon for the last rep. Easy 7 minutes back. Still nagging lock-up in the lower back, but much better than two days ago.

4 + 3 hours/24 hours. 33 minutes total, PE: 9.

Wa - Shhh, They're Watching - Nov 22

Buy in:
3x20
Hyperflexions/Knees to Elbows/Push Up Pikes

Antagonists
7x10
Descending DB Presses w/ 50#
Chin ups-Pull ups
Rest one min. between couplets

Couple mosaics doing flat bench DB presses with 25's, talking about me cheating on the pull ups. Didn't have a lot to say about my work on the flat bench though. 50's is hotel-gym slacking, not really pushing it and making shure I got in all 10 good reps. January I'll start pulling bigger DBs off the rack.

Just for fun
3x10 SDhigh pulls @ 75#

I was pretty done by the time the high pulls rolled in. Was considering blowing them off, just because I'm bouncing back and don't need to overdo it. But that's just weakness talking. And if you're in the gym, weakness needs to be silenced.

7 hours, 24 hours. PE: 7. 46 total. 218/15.

R - New Tires Needed - Nov 21

Put on the running shoes and tooled over to Costco to pick up the car, once the new awesome Bridgestones got themselves slapped on. 10 minute mile pace is hard, when each step is a back spasm. Gonna get this lower back twitch sorted out through stretching, strengthening and (am I saying this again?) dropping a few lbs.

7 hours, 72+ hours. PE: 6. 15 total. 218/12.

Wl - Pissing off the Pool - Nov 18

Easy day. Hotel gym. Didn't get in the saltwater pool, instead made Hope do three rounds of this, after I'd finished. Anemic, I was weak and sweaty. After this. Sigh.

4 rounds:
x10 Ext
x10 Seated curl
x20 Air Squats
x max reps (6) Neutral grip pulls
...then 2 more:
x20 Air Squats
x max reps (6) Neutral grip pulls

7 - 1 hours. PE: 6. 20 mins total.

Not Whining. Recapitulating in Stream of Consciousness.

So, first it's just some nagging tendonitis (read: hurts like a mother incapacitating f*cker and won't go away) in both elbows, then it's a quick double-up on an upper respiratory infection and - are you kidding me? - shingles. Let the shingles linger a bit, not as long as the tendonitis, but who cares? with shingles, you don't get to do anything. Sit there and turn into a mushroom and wish you were dead.
Then, cut my neck open and rip out the alien cancer in there, and now, tell me I'm anemic.

No wonder FGB! felt like shite. No wonder Volkslauf didn't have any pop. I'm dying on my feet here.

Which, I suppose, for the best of us, is the human condition. We're all dying by inches. The best, by inches, with no whining. Some are dying and making certain all those around them are dying by inches as well, dragging them into a common grave with their grumpy death-rattle attitudes. Some are dying by mph, those who are destined to get smashed by busses, but for the rest of humanity, we either are going gently into that good night ... or are railing and kicking and fighting all the way.

I'm just hoping to prolong the inevitable a bit, I think. I know it's coming. I held up a bit of newsprint a few months ago and had to hold it further away to focus on it - for the first time. Oh my lands, I've got Santa Claus' vision now. Next step: rectangular lenses in wire frames.

The one thing that I've been able to rely on is the Mind over Matter bit, and now even that is fading. You know, where you're tired/sick/hung/lazy, but your inner self says, "Saddle the freak up!" and the physical you is forced to follow suit. And does.
But not now. Now the overmind says, "Ring dips, now," and the elbows say, "Feel this." And the mind says, "Holy shite, that hurts." The will wilts, you end up calling it a day. And you die by another inch.

Damn it all, I'm getting old. I'm feeling old. And I'm acknowledging that the better days are behind me. Sucks.

So, in the face of it all, I'm creating the next 6 months of periodized training. Planned pain. Knowing that I'm not setting any PRs this year. Knowing that it's gonna suck, mostly. Knowing that it's going to take at least 6 months just to get back to a desultory training base. Knowing that if I run into training partners, they're going to think little of me, or that I'm slacking off, or ... or who cares what they might think. This is about me. Keeping from turning into a grumpy old codger with a hunchback who can only bitch about kids these days and talk about how good he was. I know who I'm dealing with now. Me - rolling downhill on the over-the-hill-side-of-the-hill, but rage, raging against the dying of the light.

I mean well. I mean to do what best I can. I don't want to take anything from anyone else, and only want to suffer what portion I can each day. I'm only asking for the opportunity to show some consistency in training, and put together a good string of workouts and recoveries so I can get back to a base. One more base camp on the way down the mountain.

WoD - Cindy, Get Yer Bar - Nov 9

10 rounds for time:
5 pull ups
10 push ups
15 ov squats with the jr bar

Just mixing it up a little and underscoring the core/hip drive goodnass. I'm not all there, still, but taking it one day and one step at a time.

1: 1.18
2: 1.30
3: 1.38
4: 1.47
5: 1.55
6: 1.45
7: 1.48
8: 2.32
9: 1.51
10: 1.54
18.01

7 hours, 24 hours. PE: 8. 18 total.

Wl - The Whole Package - Nov 8

Buy in:
4x15 Hyperflexions/Knees to elbows

Main set:
4x
10 extensions 170/195/210
11 seated curl 115/130
15 calves on the A-frame @ 5
11 goblet squats w/ 40#

Squats are still painful; lower back is locked up some still, for the last week, it's really sucked.

9 + 1 hours, 72 hours. PE: 6. 24 total. 217/16-221/11.

Ca - Kablamish - Nov 5

On the minute throughout (where possible, missed three)
6x10 Mixed grip pulls
5x10 DB thrusters 30/35/40/45/50

Rest two minutes to stretch and get the old Volkslauf grit out of your shoes

Then
On the minute
4x10 Life fitness recline pull down machine @ 150#
4x12 Push ups

7 hours, 36 hours. PE: 7. 25 total.

Cl - Dummy Susan - Nov 4

Buy in:
Antagonists
4x10 Extensions/Seated Curl

Main set
3 rounds
400 on the treadmill at 7 mph-2% grade
10 KB swings with 45# DB
10 goblet squats with same
12.14

First WoD with any intensity since being down with the shingles. See how it feels later today.

8.5 hours, 24 hours. PE: 8. 21.35 total.

Wa - Pull Push - Nov 3

8 Pull ups for max reps, mixed grips.
7x10 Declining DB presses @ 50#

Cash out with
3x10 Ov Squats with bare bar / knees to elbows

7 hours. PE: 6. 25 total.