Author: Michael

This is a Rest Day, and I am glad; those med-ball cleans from yesterday have my thighs extremely sore. I went for a couple of miles’ hike this evening in the hope of loosening them up. Maybe it helped, but they are still in bad shape.

Today’s “Good Medicine” CrossFit workout at the academy loosened up all the stiffness in my hip from yesterday. Just the wall squats we did for warm-up worked wonders! The assignment: complete as many rounds as possible (AMRAP) in 20 minutes of 10 Med Ball Cleans (M-20lbs, W-16lbs) 10 Push-ups Lawrence and I, working side by…

I stayed up late Sunday night and slept in a little this morning. When I got up and headed  out to warm up for my 5-mile mid-tempo run, I did not feel quite right–a little bit of stiffness in my left hip. And when I saw how much more traffic is on the streets at…

Liz Goodman Logelin Memorial 5k A coworker and friend of a close friend of mine went through “life and death. all in a 27-hour period.” 

Speed Work: After 10-20 minutes of warm-up, run 800m six times with a maximum of two minutes of recovery between runs. I met Hope and John at Arcadia High School’s track for this one. The football team must have been playing away tonight. Results: 2?57 2:57 2:58 2:56 2:58 2:57 Had it not been for…

Team-9–which meets, of course, at 0900 hours–let me join them at the Academy for today’s CrossFit WOD: Fight Gone Bad. This was my third or fourth time at this workout, and I topped my earlier score of 269, posting a 282. Box jumps, as always, were my strong suit; I jumped 40, 40, and 33…

I stayed awake too late after Tuesday night O-lift at the Academy, so I did not join my usual early-morning group for today’s scheduled six-mile mid-tempo run, which is the first time we have run this far at mid-tempo pace. Instead, I took advantage of the fact that today’s workout of the day (WOD) at…

A half marathon, 800m repeats, and now today’s MetCon-taxing WOD at the Academy. I am so ready for tomorrow’s rest day! That is not to say I did not have fun though! If you look at the results for the day, you will notice that a lot of the regular names are missing from the…

Today’s schedule had four 800-m repeats with two minutes of rest in between, and thanks to a rubberized track with no potholes (at Caltech), I was able to complete all of them on time (faster than 3:03 apiece) despite having run a half marathon distance yesterday. Good thing: only after I finished my last run…

Today we had another half marathon, again a marathon pace (7:37 per mile). I considered this the biggest test so far of the training because if I did not feel better this time than I did two weeks ago, the, the actual marathon would be nearly impossible to complete on schedule. Ten or twelve of…