Cheater cheater pumpkin eater

Honestly if we didn't do one cheat meal a week I might go a little crazy. After sunday morning's wod, we did some family errands and then headed to the most glorious place ever...IN-N-OUT. It was delicious and I'm not ashamed of the way I shoved that burger in my face LOL! Paleo is all fine and dandy but this is the real world people, I'm no hunter gatherer, and I busted my ass this week so I'm not gonna feel bad for a less than healthy lunch.
So last week in one of our wod's (DT) we had to do hang cleans and jerks, the RX weight for women was 105lbs, I scaled it way down and did 45lbs. Yesterday's wod included 400m runs and clean & jerks, I decided to not be a wimpy baby and push myself past what I lifted the week before. So 10 reps, 3 rounds I did 55lbs yay! It's not a whole lot, but what I'm happy about is that I pushed myself. Even when we were warming up with our weight I was nervous about making it through 3 rounds. But I'm not going to get stronger if I just stay where I'm comfortable. Think I finished the workout in a little over 12 minutes, not too shabby.

Doubting myself is something I definitely need to work on, I psych myself out all the time but when I actually relax and focus I can usually knock something out. Like this morning wall balls were in the warm up (ugh). So in my "I'm not gonna be a wimp" fashion I grabbed the 10lb ball instead of the 6 and just did it. And you know what, I didn't take any balls to the face and I hit that stupid blue line every time. The more we jump rope and do box jumps the more comfortable I feel with those also.
But I discovered my new "goat", handstands. Holy moly who knew that it was so scary to be upside down. It requires some upper body strength for sure, and balance!  My walls are about to take a beating because I am determined to be able to hold myself up!



This is what happens when you can't do a hand stand push up. You put your legs up on a box instead and when you're trying to complete as many rounds as possible, you don't care about the bruises.



Saturday was a rest day from crossfit, so I headed to Pena Adobe to run to the tower. My 1/2 marathon in June is a trail run so while running on flat surface during the week may help a little, my weekends HAVE to include a run with hills or else I'm gonna die. I haven't been to that stupid tower in a year and I totally forgot how steep of a run that is, and when I say run I mean shuffle.

Aside from going 10 lbs heavier in my workout, this weekend also had another great accomplishment. I finally baked something paleo that turned out AMAZING, and I finally used that almond butter. I made banana almond muffins and could have probably eaten them all in one sitting last night, they're that good. I have attempted other paleo baked goods and failed so it was nice to finally not throw everything away after it came out of the oven.

Overall everything is going well. Paleo isn't as hard as I thought it was going to be and i'm still oh so in love with CFS. It's not just crossfit in general that I love but also the box that I workout at. In a traditional gym if you're doing an exercise totally wrong and a trainer walks by, they won't say a word to you. There's no one to encourage you, correct you, cheer you on. At CFS there is an entire community of people there to struggle along side you, lift you up, and push you to go harder and do better.