HEY HEY NEW HOME

O' dear crossfit blog, how I have neglected you. Since last we spoke I've graduated college, packed all my belongings, moved to a new town, unpacked my belongings in my new home and started a brand new chapter in my life story. It's a good story, I'm telling you. I couldn't be more thrilled about my new job or where I'm living. There are parks and rural roads and even a nearby crossfit gym!!

Yesterday I played tennis with one of my new roommates for 2 hours.

Today I rode 3.6 miles to a park, ran 2 miles, did 10 pull ups and rode the 3.6 miles back. Several beast hills. Feels good to be getting into a rhythm with the outdoors with summer on the horizon.

Fartleks in the forest

As my final day with undergraduate status, I decided to do something completely new to aid in my transition anxieties. I went for a run on the cross country course but treated it as a fartlek run, sprinting to several tree trunks, bushes, fence posts with no premeditated number of sprints internally agreed upon. I estimate that I did about ten sprint intervals or so. I tended to sprint up long hills and decrease the tempo on downhills. My run was about 4 miles in distance, but on my way back I stopped at the gym to do some core and upper body work.

2 rounds:

30 sit ups on incline

10 pull ups

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ab ladder, 50 counts per "rung" (OW!)

equilibrium

So, working out has not been my top priority this week. At all. I have been leaving my schedule to the mercy of all my best friends who have been continually planning to make this last week pack with fun and good times. It is my last week with many of them, after all. Today though, I had about an hour free and didn't feel like packing, so I went for a 40 minute workout at the track.

6 rounds of:

300m run

100m sprint

30 walking lunges

50 crunches/sit ups/bicycles

16 to-the-ground push ups

Felt really great. I really want to get back into my workout routine after this weekend. Graduation weekend, that is. WOOOO!!

planting/suckering

today I went to a nearby organic vegetable farm and volunteered with some friends for the afternoon. We planted 3 rows of basil plants, suckered 3 LONG rows of tomato plants, and harvested 2 LONG rows of spinach. hard work and a farmer's tan, y'all.

shallow ford, haw river

I went trail running with my good friend, Hunter, at a small park 10 minutes north of campus. We ran ~4 miles on this humid, overcast yet beautiful afternoon. It felt wonderful running fast trails again, and we both reminisced about our old cross country glory days. Today was my last day of undergrad, by the way. No better way to celebrate than with woodsy adventures!

Last Day of CLASSES!!

ran 4 miles on the cross country course then

did 10x100m sprints too (on my old stompin' grounds, the rugby pitch!)

Hooray!

midday

I got out of ceramics class early so I had time to workout before work today! I jogged to the gym and did a nice hard one.

3 rounds of:

10 thrusters, 65#

10 burpees

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20 kangaroo kicks

Sunny summer day!

Well, almost summer. It may as well be, with the glorious-feeling weather outside today. No humidity, gentle breeze, bout 76 degrees. Ah, bliss.

10x100 m sprints, jog 50m in between

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3 rounds of:

30 sit ups

10 pull ups (no assistance)

Backwards

buncha plyometrics

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Run 800m

Run 400m backwards

Run 800m

Run 400m backwards

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100 crunches

10 pushups

FIVE

5 rounds:

5 burpee pull ups

30 sit ups

6 front squats (55#-65-75-85-95)

20 kangaroo kicks

toxins OUT

Yesterday I had some sort of terrible stomach bug, but today I felt strong, healthy, energetic and ready to SWEAT THEM TOXINS OUT.

6 rounds of:

400 m run/sprint

any 2 of the following:

20 to-the-floor push ups

100 crunches, bicycles or ab exercises of some kind

51 walking lunges

20 pull ups (upside down push ups, more like (feet touching ground))

16 HSPU