Where have you been?

Hi! I'm here! I'm sorry, it's been a crazy few days. As you probably saw from my post on Monday night, it was a looooooooong day at the office. And not just long in the number of hours either, unfortunately.

After working a long day Monday, I got to work at 6am on Tuesday. You read that correctly- home @ 9PM, eat dinner, sleep, in the office @ 6am the next day. I had a meeting at 8 and instead of hearing, "Thank you" for busting my ass and working so many long hours to get the job, I heard how shitty of a job my team is doing.

Awesome.

Luckily, we had a friend visiting from Texas so we met him for dinner last night. I left work and went straight to the restaurant- a cute place in downtown Phoenix called Thai Elephant. Doesn't it just sound exotic?

Catching up with an old friend (actually an old friend of Michael's) was just what I needed after a long few days at the office.

All the above are my reasons (excuses?) for not working out in a while. I finally got to the gym tonight! I was  planning to do the following CrossFit workout-
5 rounds for time-
15 pull-ups
15 dips
10 power cleans 65#
1/2 bike sprint

The gym, however, was totally packed! It was by far the busiest I've ever seen it so it was impossible to take up various machines at once. Instead, I ended up not doing it for time and in a more random fashion-whenever the machine was available.

It ended up being
50 power cleans 65#
30 pull-ups on my own
45 pull-ups using assistance (55#)
75 dips using assistance (55#)
2.5 mile bike sprint

I'm pumped about doing the cleans at 65#. The last time I did power cleans, I did 45# but said I wanted to go heavier and perhaps try 55#. The first few were easy at 65# but after that, they were killer.

***Oh, and I can't forget to tell you that I did my hip exercises too! I've actually done them a few other times but I haven't blogged (I'm sure you noticed) so I couldn't tell you.
Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn