January 12 - Running & Strength (also dog)

Knee felt great this morning so I did a run after failing (again) to corner the manager who I am supposed to give my bookstore application to. This time she is on vacation until next week.

My Nike+ got paused 5 seconds into the run so it didn't track anything. I also forgot to turn on my HR monitor until after my 5 min warm up walk, but I think that's fine. It ended up being a pretty fast run so I'm proud of that. I would have liked those extra Nike+ miles, though.

Walking:
0:05:00 || 0.32 mi

Running:
0:30:03 || 2.5 mi || 12:06 min/mi || 179 bpm || flat



then I went to class (German 101!) and raced back in time to get into my Strength class

Barbell Deadlift:

45 lb x 5 reps
85 lb x 5 reps
115 lb x 5 reps
132 lb x 5 reps
150 lb x 5 reps

Barbell Bench Press:

35 lb x 5 reps
45 lb x 5 reps
55 lb x 5 reps
65 lb x 5 reps
73 lb x 2 reps



I didn't have time to stay for the conditioning because I had to eat and get ready to go to work. I work until midnight tonight - I really hope I will be able to stay awake!!

I told my trainer guy that I wanted to set up a real day at the gym on Fridays with the express purpose of being better at squats, overhead presses, and pull-ups. We decided I would basically do exactly what I did last week but with a set of OH presses thrown in. Hopefully this will help me not be such an arms weakling.

BUT that won't be this Friday because THIS FRIDAY is the Happy Hour WOD / Open House at my Crossfit thingy and I am making my boyfriend and roommate go with me! My roommate wants to do the WOD with me (or at least the family & friends friendly WOD) and my boyfriend refuses to do any working out but has promised that he will come and support me (and also video me for the internets).

I just have to figure out what I am going to dress as! I have to do something related to "Hollywood" but I don't know what will go with my blue zebra pants that I am desperate to wear. I thought about wearing my long pink wig and being Nicki Minaj but I doubt that wig + crossfit works very well.


Also, on a completely different note, here are some pictures of my dog: 







he gets in those positions all by himself.

his name is officially "Chimmy" (we did not name him) but everyone just calls him The Chim.