Hurt vs. Injured.

I heard an interview on the Dan LeBatard radio show (sports guy out of Miami) with Jeff Van Gundy, who was making a point about Dwight Howard and I think it shed some light on why I was so out of it and bummed last week.

Essentially, he was explaining the difference between being hurt and injured: when you're "hurt," you're in pain, but if you can put that aside, you're not going to wreck yourself or get "injured." Dwight has been cleared to play, but for awhile (until Kobe called him out), couldn't or wouldn't go. When you're "injured," if you play - or in our case, WOD - you run the risk of making things worse, precipitating surgery or some other long-term consequences and hopefully, solution. That's where I thought I was last week.

The good news? Based on how I'm feeling, I'm more optimistic that I'm hurt, and not injured. And after the 6 miles Monday, my hernia/groin/peep area feels better than it has in two weeks. That puts the power back in my hands, because if I can deal, I can go. Last week, I was seriously a bit scared. Obviously, I need to be careful and not get too cocky about all of this, and I am totally bailing on my soccer team - sorry guys - but I'm also hopeful things are on the upswing over here.

Honestly, I hope Merrill experiences the same thing with his week of rest. If he actually takes it... We gotta get back to the competition instead of all of this incessant whining. We're bleeping annoying.

On to the WODs (plural!):

This one from CrossFit mainsite, which I did this morning:
For time:
205 pound Front squat 20 reps
30 Box jump 30 inch box
40 Kettlebell swings, 1.5 pood
50 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball

mywrite: 12:35. Scaled to 155# front squat and 14# wallball. 12:35. Was planning to do 175, but even 135 felt really heavy this morning. Props to any of you who work out early morning, tough to get moving. I liked this WOD, just couldn't get the effort going.

And this afternoon, I hit up the CFE long interval WOD: 


mywrite: Repeat 1200m, recover 3:00 min, until form/pace deteriorates
First round was too fast, so I backed off to roughly 7 min/mile pace, otherwise it would have been one-and-done due to form breakage. Splits: 5:04/5:11/5:13. At this point, I have to concentrate throughout to truly hold form at anything faster than about 7:15/mile.