Cleaning With Cindy

Well, last night I ended up staying at the office too late to make it to 5:30 PM CrossFit. 

While this was very disappointing, I did manage to go grocery shopping, get some flowers for my roomie, clean the kitchen, do some laundry, eat a fabulous salad for dinner, and bathe. I consider these all to be luxuries, and so I'm glad I got to accomplish them!

This morning, to echo my cleaning of the bedroom (it happened.), the WOD was "Cleaning With Cindy", and while it was awful, it was also kinda fun. Here's what we did:

Warm Up:
1:00 Battle Ropes
:30 Hang From Bar (with engaged shoulders)
-10 Ball Slams (20lb)
:30 Squat Bottom Hold
-50 Lateral Jumps
Stretching

Skill:
Overhead Squats (I only used the PVC. My flexibility is very limited for squats, and so these looked terrible I'm sure.)

WOD:
"Cleaning With Cindy" 
10 RFT
-1 Clean (47lbs. I believe that's the most I've ever done during a WOD for cleans. Those suckers are difficult.)
-Cindy (5 Pull Ups, 10 Push Ups, 15 Squats)
-2 Cleans
-Cindy
-3 Cleans
-Cindy

...Etc, all the way up to ten. 

Time: 24:22



When Coach H asked me where I'd been, the only answer I could give her was, "I was sad". Her perfectly reasonable and absolutely terrifying response was that I feel better at CrossFit, and therefore had better f*ing show up and rock out (Actual translation of the event may be different, I couldn't understand her words because of the thin layer of fierceness that was surrounding her tiny self.)

It made me think about some things. I mentioned a few months ago that going to CrossFit for me is more like going to hang with a beer league than like going to the gym. I have been talking and thinking quite a bit about team sports lately, and so this morning it dawned on me that maybe this is what it feels like to be part of a team. Maybe CrossFit is more like a sport than a fitness regimen (duh), and the reason the PEOPLE make it so special to me is because they're my team. 

Maybe I feel like I'm letting my team down when I don't turn up or do well. Maybe I feel obligated to continue because of the same reason. I've never been part of a group sport before, so I didn't recognize it. Maybe this is what it always feels like to be part of something. I like it.



Thought of the day:
Decision is the ultimate power, your past is not your destiny.