That was fun!

I love CrossFit competitions.  They are crazy fun, scary as all hell and it's the people that make them completely awesome.  It's just so inspiring to see everyone give it their all.  I'm so proud of how everyone from CFR did.  I can't really say anything better than Blair or Nolan over on CFR's forum so I'm just going to say "ditto".

Feeling very excited and focused on getting ready for the affiliate team competition at Regionals.  I really want to help our gym earn a spot to go down to California.  So, I'm really trying to work on my weaknesses over the next, um, 50 days?  Dang.  It feels like it should be way further away than that. 

First off, I need to build more shoulder strength and endurance.  The push press were a real challenge and it was my shoulders that gassed out on the 7 minutes of thrusters over my cardio or quads.  I've put on some nice lean mass upstairs from the squat madness combined with rampant nut butter consumption so hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to use it between now and then.  There's going to be shoulder press and with HSPU practice each once a week.  The other part is leaning out some to speed up on the bodyweight stuff. 

My most glaringest suck moment during sectionals was WOD 3 and the burpees.  They were gross.  I was slow.  The next most glaringest suck moment was the pull ups in WOD 4.  I'll be faster if I can keep my muscle while leaning out a bit.  I've really tweaked the snot out of my diet.  I'm tracking protein and carbs and not worrying about fat aside from just a general avoidance of all things nut related (dirty bastards... mind out of the gutter) for the time being. 

I'm averaging about 135g a day of protein from meat and have been sticking to around 50g of carbs a day from veggies.  For supplements, I'm at 20g fish oil, 2000 i.u. vit D and magnesium (forget how much... it's one pill).  And my cardio hasn't even been sucking, so that is super cool.  I thought for sure it would be in the toilet with so low of carbs but it's good!  I'm also not crazy hungry all the time either.  Not sure if I should chalk that up to more protein or just it being spring and breaking out of hybernation mode.


As for how I did, I came in 22nd with a tie for points with 21st.  My breakdown was 18th (OHS 3x120lbs), 16th (77 thrusters), 34th (12:26), and 18th(17:something?).  Here's a link to our sectional wrap up.

It was good times, anyways and I am really enjoying this next phase of training so far.