Category: General

I was part of the Jeff-Jim-Ted-Tommie group running sprints at the middle school this morning and had a fun time with everyone, including the part where we had to run 200m… twelve times. My times (all in seconds) were as follows: 37 37 37 36 36 36 36 37 37 37 37 35 Each one-minute…

I made a rare visit to the Team 1700 workout this afternoon, and I have one thing to say about that: It is hot when the sun is out! I have to get back together with my heliophobic Team 0600 friends soon. We did the posted Workout of the Day, which was 5-5-5-5-5 deadlifts. My…

Monday was the official “Off” day, and today we jumped back in with five miles of running at a mid-tempo pace. For me, that is 7:10 per mile, which should have brought me to the five-mile point at 35:50. I got to it in 34:36, which puts me at just over 6:55 per mile. For…

Today was supposed to be a CrossFit/Bootcamp training day, but I spent most of it recovering from Saturday’s Adventure Race. If I had woken up early enough, I could have joined a group digging a trench at Ryan’s house. Oh well.

I joined Ryan, Kate, and Lauren as part of TCA #2 – Chaos Theory for the 6th Annual Scout Adventure Challenge in the Santa Monica Mountains today. The marathon training schedule called for an 8-mile run at “Marathon Pace + 45 Seconds”, but we instead completed, by my estimate, about twelve miles of hiking and…

Fridays at Team CrossFit Academy are turing into Happy Hour (or Pick-Your-Poison) days. When the line this morning was too long for buying an iPhone, I joined the 9:00am crew and picked “Christine”, which is three rounds of the following: Row 500 meters 12 Deadlifts at 3/4 bodyweight 21 box jumps My time: 10:59. Saturday’s…

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I was part of the Santa Anita / Grandview group this morning using a 3-mile loop — with considerable hills — for the 2-3-1 tempo run that Jagarnaut describes. The loop takes us down to the two-mile marker as warm-up, and then we hit our short-tempo pace for one full loop of three miles, finishing…

“Super Helen”. That is what many of us are calling this morning’s 6:00am CrossFit workout. Complete the following (for time, of course): 12 pull-ups 21 kettle-bell swings (1.5 pood) Run 400 meters 36 pull-ups 63 kettle-bell swings (1.5 pood) Run 1200 meters 12 pull-ups 21 kettle-bell swings (1.5 pood) Run 400 meters Finished in 22…

We started this week with Speed Training, and I met a large group at the middle school for 400m repeats (ten of them) on the track. With this being only the third speed session, and only the start of the third week of training, the rate at which improvement comes amazes me. Simply to compare…