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Business/social MTB ride today. Woke this am with 1 hr to go before ride time and it starts 45 min away.
Made it.
Mostly social ride. Kinda blistering pace. Ran out of gears twice in the flats then perf’d a tire that wouldn’t seal. Had given away the spare tube I usually carry since I hadn’t needed it in about 3 yrs. Oops.
3 hrs in the saddle at ~90% race pace.
Lung cheez is still harassing me, but I felt mostly OK.
20 min of pull up homework. My kip is coming together and rhythm is improving, but it’s gotta be pretty sloppy still.
Anticipate returning to the CF curriculum on M or T when I can safely push it.
Not sure if this is the place to ask but figured since it’s a Rest Day, it wouldn’t hurt to have a little discussion in this thread. Basically, what I’d like to hear about is scaling reps instead of weight. When we did Fran on Friday, Garddawg mentioned that if you can handle the RX’d weight, it’s just as acceptable to scale the reps down rather than the weight. Is that always the case for any WOD or was that just for Fran?
I ask because in my particular case there is a huge discrepancy. I can handle the front page weight but when it comes to reps, I’m a buttercup. So what’s the best approach for me?
7 rds for time:
10 x 16 kg kb swing
10 x chair dip
4:41—0:38/0:38/0:41/0:46/1:18 (for two rds.)/0:38
15 x 30 kg push press
Took a rest day Sunday because my knee was sore after Fran on Saturday (old basketball injury brought out by the squats, squat cleans and thruster last week—my form needs a little work, as my knee hasn’t been tracking properly), so I subbed kb swings for the SDLHP on this one so I wouldn’t need to bend it as much. Ended up too easy with this scaling (although this would be a killer cardio AMRAP in 20 for the trainers out there….), so I did the push presses for grins.
I did row, burpees, run today but it got a little funky because there were lots of people on the cardio machines. It ended up like this:
Rd. 1: Row 500m, 21 Burpees, Run 400m
Rd. 2: 50 SDHP 20kg, 21 Burpees, Run 400m
Rd. 3: Row 500m, 21 Burpees, Row 500m
Time: 24:37
Really fun workout. I lost some time running around between rowers, open space and treadmills, not to mention fiddling with the bar, someone left weight on it even though they weren’t using it. I think I might actually like doing burpees.
Had given away the spare tube I usually carry since I hadn’t needed it in about 3 yrs. Oops.
