Caveat Clauses

Side Note: This is very me. 

Today is the day of the side note. Coach H had a look at my blog this morning, and she said that I write the way I speak. I know this to be true, and so on a day like today, when I feel like qualifying everything with a parenthetic explanation, I can only think that the extreme distraction I nursed at the office yesterday has persisted. Coworker K and I like to call it "Ants in the Pants". 

Indeed, even though all my finals are done and I didn't have any deadlines or anything yesterday, I was still at the office until 8 PM. This of course meant that I got home pretty late and proceeded to have no time to do anything that I'd intended (Like the dishes, and putting up Christmas decorations.) and I failed to do my sit ups, pull ups, and push ups.  You see, I've decided that in addition to doing the monthly challenge for weighted sit ups (Which I'm pretty efficient at, and don't struggle with), I need to be trying to build up my strength in other areas. I'm abysmal at push ups, and I'm sick of using bands to do pull ups (I joined CrossFit with the goal of doing an unassisted pull up!). 

Warm Up:
10 Minutes
1:00 High Knees (Coach H was impressed with my high-kneeness, and all before coffee...)
-10 Burpees (Yeah, with burpees, I'm certain the hatred is mutual.)
-15 Squats (I'm going to need to get back to workshopping these, I can't seem to stick them, even with the weight for balance. Maybe I'm just out of practice.)
:30 Hang From Bar (Knees up. This is getting easier! Been using a different grip lately too, more up under my fingers instead of my palms. I'm weak, but at least I feel like I'll develop strength in the proper part of my hands while I'm at it.)
-10 Lunges (No toes were cut off by Coach H during this exercise, despite egregious threats.)

Skill:
3-3-3-3-3
-Dead Lift, increasing weight incrementally (I am cool with Dead Lifting, as it doesn't hurt my back. Today I worked up to 72lbs, A Personal Record!)

WOD:
-30 Sumo Dead Lift High Pulls (I used only 32lbs, and had to fight my way through some back twinges. I'm glad I did, and I don't think I hurt myself.)
-20 Medicine Ball Sit Ups (14lb Medicine Ball, these were a breeze after all the extracurricular work on abs I've been doing lately.)
-10 Hand Stand Push Ups (LOL, NO. I was afraid these would hurt my back in addition to being pretty much impossible in lieu of my inability to even do a regular push up. Instead, I did 25 Box Push Ups. There was no pain doing it that way, aside from the mental anguish that always accompanies push ups.)
-1000 Meter Row (I usually enjoy rowing as the 'break' in my WODs. Not so today, I had to take a second to regroup in order to avoid tossing my cookies. On the upside, I did manage to keep my split meters around 18-19 the whole time, although I still don't have the ballistic strength to finish in anything close to a remarkable time.)
-40 Box Jumps (I used two 45lb bumper plates, which makes me the lowest jumper in the history of the world, as usual. As an interesting double aside, I had the lowest vertical jump in my entire high school. As it is, I usually try to be ginger with the jumping in order to keep my jaw from aching or my back from complaining. This is probably for the best, since after that row, I was weaving around like a drunkard and I'm lucky I could even make it up on the plates in the first place.)

Finisher:
-50 Medicine Ball Sit Ups (I refrained from these, since I've got a ton of them to do later today. I could have though, and probably would have if I hadn't already sanitized and put away my abmat and medicine ball when it was announced. Love sit ups.)