Day 3 of Granite Games started off as the sun was rising.. A bit of a chill in the air.. It was time to run! We had a 5k to tackle. I was tentatively looking forward to this.. I knew it was going to hurt. I knew I would try to run as quick as I could.. And I also knew that if a lot of gals took off ahead of me, there wouldn't be much I could do about it.. My run is what it is and I can only do what I'm currently capable of doing. I suppose that's true of any workout, but it was pretty clear in this set up, where usually I can't see much of what is going on around me and where the competition is. Here..you can see who is ahead of you. Who is passing you. And in my case, who is just ahead of you, but you just can't quite reach them. Darn it! I did alright.. Took over a minute off of my last 5k test, which wasn't too long ago. This coarse had one hill at the start and they said it was a tiny bit long, so I can't be disappointed in myself for my time, which was 22:10.. It was just a bummer to see a small pack of girls just ahead of me..but just far enough out of my reach that no amount of me trying to dig deep and kick it in.. I just couldn't catch them! Oh, well.. Again.. Overall happy with how I did, just a testament to the level of competition around me.
Last up for me was the sprint/HSPU workout. It was about 100' run, pick up an awkward 70# ballistic block, run it back, do 20 regular HSPU.. Run back to pick up the other block, run it over and set the 2 blocks up for deficit HSPU..do 10 HSPU at a 9" deficit.. Run the shuttle sprint, come back and do 5 more 9" deficit HSPU..shuttle run to the finish. It was a 6 min time cap, which I wasn't initially concerned about.. Until I got in to the deficit HSPU and found out that my shoulders were shot! I know that 9" is quite a deficit.. And I know my body had been through a bit over the weekend, but is was a bit surprised by how badly my shoulders were burning. I would get a few HSPU done, get to failure, then have to come down and wait a bit for my shoulders to be ready to fire again. I got the work done.. Finished in 5:35. And that was that! My competition was done.
Overall..the weekend was great and the competition was a really great experience. The whole thing was amazingly organized and impressively put together. These guys seem to have taken notes on how regional competitions are run and what works well, and they put together a great weekend. The workouts were challenging and interesting and contained some fun twists. The venue was set up really well, easy to access, and incredibly organized. If I'm healthy and still moving in the right direction with my training next year, I would 100% return to this competition.. And hopefully make a better run for those top spots! I learned a lot through this weekend.. I've come a long way in my skills and workouts in the past year, but I still have plenty to work on and a long way to go if I ever hope to really hang with those top athletes. I was also a bit more broken down, physically, from the workouts than I had ever experienced before. No one else seems surprised by this revelation..but I was a bit cUght off guard by that.. I'm not sure what this means? I feel like I do quite a bit of volume training, so I don't know how to recreate this fatigue of a weekend of competing, other than to continue to sign up for more events. So.. I'm on the hunt for more quality competitions out there for me to get in to!
Speaking of.. I have another day of the Team Series competition this Saturday, which should be fun, though we don't know the workouts yet! Then I have another team competition here in town the following weekend, which should be good. After that, we are going to try to do our last team series workouts before I leave for vacation, but we have a lot of conflicts that weekend.. I hope we can make it work, but it's not looking good.. After vacation, we have our partner competition at our gym..more good times! So I'm not exactly lacking in events coming up.. I'd just like to find something for maybe early in 2015 to try another big comp..either solo or as a team.. By then, we should have an idea of whether we are making a big push for going as a team to regionals and possibly the Games..or if we don't really have a healthy crew and I'll be making a solo run at it. So hopefully we can find something good and figure it all out!
Monday was a travel day for me.. We finally got home to see the boys! I missed them a lot. We had to wait for Miles to wake up from his nap.. I wanted to go in and get him! But I refrained.. Then Mason, whom had broken down the night before and realized he missed us, so he was ready to see us when he got off the bus.. It was great to be home! After I took my mom to the airport, I thought maybe I would try to go workout.. But when I was getting close to the gym, I realized how sore I was still feeling. A quick message to my coach asking him what he recommended..he said I should either rest, or, at most, just row and stretch.. So that's what I did. Tuesday morning I woke up still feeling the effects of my cold, so I decided I would go back to sleep and hit the gym with Miles later. I was moving a little slow, but mostly felt ok.. Day 1 for this week was:
Snatch from 1" off the ground: sets of 2 @95/110/125
Squats: sets of 2 @175/200/210/225, then 1 rep @235. I was wary of how those would go, but it actually felt pretty good!
Weighted 20" step ups @85#/weighted GHDs w 14#
EMOTM snatch x15 min: stayed at 135#.. Some felt great and some missed
The workout!
5 rounds
500m row
4 snatch @125#
6 MU
Supposed to have 1:1 work:rest ratio on the rounds.. Each round was about 5-5:30, so I rested 'as needed/able' based on how Miles was doing. He did such a great job hanging out and being patient with me.. He mostly did his own thing, every once in a while waving at me or needing a hug..or a diaper change.. But mostly he did amazing and I'm a lucky mama! So that was that. I figure I should probably lay off the two-a-days for this week to recover a bit. I'll get back to harder training next week!
Today was a slightly lighter day and didn't take me near as long. I made it back to my early am training time..gradually getting back on track! Today was:
Power cleans from 1" off the ground: sets of 3 @115/125/135/145
Push press: sets of 2 @135/145/155/160/165(PR!)
Good mornings @85-95#/depth jumps
Workout:
(What I did)12/10/8/6/4/2.. (As it was written)12/9/6/3.. Oops! Extra fitness!
Hang cleans @145#
Bar facing burpees
9" deficit HSPU
Well..given that I did 36 extra reps in this, I guess it went alright! Again..shoulders were on fire from the HSPU! Guess I'm not as good at those as I thought I was.. We have done a ton of HSPU work..strict, deficit..strict deficit.. So I thought I'd be pretty solid at those..but, yet..I keep getting that 'shoulders hurt so bad I literally yell out 'ouch'' feeling..maybe I'm still tired? Anyway. It took me 19:48 to get through it all and despite the tough time on the HSPU, I was happy with how I handled the hang cleans and the workout, overall. I threw up a little after, so I guess it was a good one!
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