Almost December

So let's see where I left off...

Weekend of 11/17 and 11/18:

saturday, I traveled to Kutztown, PA with AT to hit a local PA race.   I was taking Sunday off to attend Tracy's CrossFit "King/Queen of the Volcano" tournament so I planned on travelling a bit further to get a race in.   It was an awesome day - mild for late Fall.  Lots of sunshine.   Because of limited races that weekend, it drew a lot of super fast & strong women out to compete.   We had 20 or more racers on the start line-up.   Competition was thick.  I placed 8th I think.  I was happy.  Legs were coming back after Cancun, even better!

Best part of the day:   finding Normal Avenue.  Had to hang there for awhile.  Literally.

Sunday was Tracy's competition.  It consisted of four events.  It was my turn to play cheerleader and go show my support to my favorite CFer!

Event 1:   Prowler Push, 500m row, then shuttle run.  For time.









Event 2:  3x 1 rep max of hang clean.  T lifted some crazy 115 lb or something.  Nearly my weight.  Yeah, nuts.  Followed by a "Atlas Stone" (73lb cement ball) lift and toss over shoulder.   That exercise was max reps in 1 minute.

















Event 3:   jump rope "double unders" - max reps for 2 minutes.  Tracy had been struggling to get the technique down forever.   Never being able to do the movement.  On competition day, she got 13 reps.  Yeah, that's how it starts.  Go T!
 
Event 4:   craycray circuit of something like:

• clean and jerks 95# - 10? can't remember
• 10 burpees?
• 10 deadlifts 95#
• 12 20" box jumps
• 12 GHD situps
• Repeat as many rounds as you can in 10 min, go to you puke! 

That was one crazy arse circuit.  T made me so proud.  She is an amazing women.  Strong, fit and determined.

she placed 7th overall in the women's RX division.  14 women.  Some who have been athletes their whole lives, some who were just getting fit.  Really awesome day.  Really great to see T push so hard and succeed beyond her own expectations.  Is she hooked?  def.  So cool.



Last Sunday was the Taneytown Regional Championship.  Highlights:

• Cold.  but dry.  :)
• Really cold. ;)
• small field of ~10
• legs still felt good
• rode well finished in 5th
• the surprise:   I actually was consistent enough throughout this race series to take the #1 spot in the series.  I won.  Pretty surprised.  Very cool.  Ended up winning by a small margin of 2pts. 

This weekend I'm heading to Rhode Island for the UCI races.

My end of season looks something like:

• 12/1 Rhode Island
• 12/2 Rhode Island
• 12/8 NY
• 12/9 PA
• 12/16 MD (yeah, local!)
• January 2013 - National Races in Wisconsin where I'll be racing in my age category and in the Elite Women's field
• AFTER:   rest time.  Or maybe, I'll just switch to mountain biking.  :)

thanks for reading.