remembering that i am a crossfitter

it crossed my mind to update the blog after feeling extremely sore all weekend...man, i had almost forgotten what it felt like to be a crossfitter! you know the feeling....every morning, you roll over and slowly sit up in bed, listening to the aches in your body from the previous day or two of crossfit activities. it's like being a crossfitter and soreness just plain go hand in hand!

unfortunately, work has been taking precedence over my crossfitting life. i spent a week in park city, utah on a business trip, however i was so sad as to not be able to visit spealler's gym while there...sniff, sniff. i've been getting in 3 crossfit wods a week, with about a week off for the utah trip. time just hasn't been on my side. dave and i also partnered with our friends drew and amber at carport crossfit, and we've been busy restructuring the gym and trying to launch a new and improved carport on september 1st. http://carportcrossfit.blogspot.com/ we're super excited to see growth in this gym!

anyway, i digress: so back to why i feel like a crossfitter again! saturday i did "linda" for the first time EVAH! for those of you that don't know, "linda" is a.k.a. "the three bars of death." dum-dum-duuuuuummmmmmmmmmm. it's the following:

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of
1 1/2 times body weight deadlift
1 times body weight bench press
3/4 times body weight clean

now, i did linda, but i definitely did NOT do linda rxd. i don't think i could do linda rxd BEFORE pregnancy. (the bench press would've gotten me.) however, my numbers on saturday were as follows:

135# deadlifts
75# bench
#85 clean

and my time was sub 30 - of course i stopped to rest as much as i needed to so as to make sure i had a steady breathing pattern! it was so nice to be moving some weight...

afterwards, i knew i was going to be sore on sunday b/c i had that jello leg and arm feeling; i just felt like rubber! and sure enough, sunday morning, the initial rollover in the bed and grooooaaaannnnn. boy was i sore! i know those deadlifts had correct form with the way my hammies are still screaming today! man, do i love me some crossfit!

as far as paleo is concerned, this blog should be changed to the name "pregnant and occasionally crossfitting diva." oh well....i still eat a paleo breakfast....that counts for something, right?

updates:
still doing pullups rxd (up to a 12# perma"vest" these days)
burpees rxd
pushups, had to go to knees b/c of a weird pull in my belly, it was a sad day.
squats rxd
box stepups
did some double unders the other day just to make sure i still could
and i made the mistake of trying one handstand pushup for the sake of seeing if i could. and i can. but i will not be doing that again!

and i've set a new pregnancy crossfit goal! 10 unassisted ring dips to full depth. i'm doing three sets of 10 purple banded ring dips every time i go in the gym to catch a wod. hopefully if i keep doing that, then post pregnancy, my ring dips will be fab, and i'll just pop right up in a muscle up!

we find out if we're having a future boy or girl crossfitter in 2 weeks! yippee!!!!