Two wenches in a row

Normally I workout first thing then blog when I get to work. I don't feel bad about taking 5 minutes to update my blog while I'm at work because I usually get there by 7:15 and technically don't start until 8. I got there and I'm not sure what happened, but I never did update my blog. I've been crazy busy all day!

This morning I did "Elizabeth"- another scrappy bitch that CrossFit came up with.

21-15-9 reps of:
65# clean
ring dips

I can't do ring dips--- that's where you have Olympic-style rings, you jump up and do ring dips holding onto them, without your feet on the ground. I can't do that so I do a modified version- heels on the ground.

They. still. suck.

Big. Time.

The cleans weren't so bad. The dips, on the hand, were super hard. I could only do 4-5 at a time and my arms were SHAKING!!!

It's such an incredible workout- much harder than doing them on a bench, which is weird b/c your body position doesn't really change at all.

I have to admit, my arms looked pretty bad ass when I was doing them! I was stoked.

My time = 9:52.

What's fricken awesome is that the last time I did Elizabeth was just on September 1st, so only 6 weeks ago. At that time, I only did 55# cleans (so 10# less) but I did dips on the bench (42-30-18 reps)... my time was 9:24 so only 28 seconds faster but not as difficult! Very cool.

Tomorrow I've got 60 hang squat cleans and 100 push-ups tomorrow! Yikes! My arms are already incredibly sore from Fran and Elizabeth. It already sucks to open doors (pulling motion), applying deoderant, etc... any motion that requires flexibility of the upper body or pulling are tough! Crap...

Now I need to balance the checkbook, I haven't done it in days and I'm going crazy!