Dave Borders, he of the incredible CrossFit home gym and the best spreadsheets for managing your life. emailed me yesterday that he was doing a WOD tomorrow consisting of running an all out mile on the track followed almost immediately by a max dead lift. Luckily I had to take Sam to his ACTs this morning so could not go. I say luckily for two reasons. First, I would have either run slow or blown out my leg even worse (neither which qualifies for dude points) and I haven't dead lifted in about four months so I would have put up embarrassingly low numbers. Second, I have a history of committing to WODs and then flaking on them.
The rational for flaking is a couplet. First, I spend so much time working out that adding travel to it only exacerbates the situation. However, if it is my favorite hobby, and it is, this shouldn't be a big deal (unless I would never join a club that would have me as a member). Second, for most of the WODs, I am doomed to failure because I don't ever do most of the exercises in the WODs like push press, dead lifts, thrusters, etc. So why would I want to set myself up for failure? I psychologically seem to prefer being the fit guy who might be good at CrossFit if he ever tried it but is afraid to try. Great role for me.
Ran 6 miles on the track in 46.57 and the calf held up for the most part although it started to get tight the last mile. It is actually a misnomer to call it a calf injury because it is below the calf - basically between the calf and achilles. It's kind of like when I lived between North Beach (cool) and Pier 39 (touist central) in a neighborhood that had no name. You could technically call it North Point but no one has any idea where that is.
By the way, I went through 5 miles in 39.13. Three seconds better than Mike's last five miler.
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