Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown
I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. ~Zig Ziglar
Today is a two quote kind of day. 23 Days until the end of the Fran challenge and I feel like I'm picking up speed. Just got off the phone with my coach for this and I'm pumped and raring to charge through the rest of this. AND I have some goals. Now I don't know if I'm shooting myself in the foot on this one, since I have not been on the scale in a while. But I want to weight in at 150 lbs. I started @ 163 (or 4?). Pull-ups are a great incentive for dropping weiht if you ever need any, the less you weight the less you have to drag up to the bar. One of the fire fighters that comes through the ER said something awesome a few months back and it stuck with me. We were having another one of our potlucks...or we just had food out, can't remember. The good stuff. Bagles, cookies, our usual. And she was starving so I offered up a cookie and her response was (yes, she's a crossfitter)" No, don't want that, I have to pull this shit up". I will always remember that. Simple. True. So I also want to get 15 kipping pull-ups unbroken. Right now I'm at about 10. My hands are ripped up again, but we're taking this next week off from pull-ups and thrusters and going into running. Hard running. So my hands should have some time to heal.
Running is a love hate for me. I love slow trail running...I guess trail jogging. It's peaceful, it's my time alone and it's beautiful here, it feeds the soul. Then there is RUNNING. The kind where my lungs burn and I taste metal in my mouth. One of the MD's @ work was talking about how he has a hard time doing recovery runs, that he just wants to go all out all the time. I love recovery runs, they recover me from not just physical things, but mental things. They recover me from life. I mean, how can you feel anything but grateful when your going down a path with wildflowers everywhere and beautiful trees, only to climb a hill to have a view of the ocean with it's breeze in your face? I am so blessed and it helps me to go places where I am small, where the world around me is so much bigger than myself and my petty issues. I have some odd conversations with God out there on the trails and I have to say I've really missed it. So today I'm heading out to Aliso Woods for a recovery run. I'm taking my waist water bottle pack and my camera, because you never know what you'll come across.
I have the next 4 days off from work. I also have the next 4 days packed with some pretty intense workouts. I'm looking forward to being able to push my reset button. To have these days and the luxury to focus on nothing other than submerging myself into this challenge...well, and school, and reading and studying, and cleaning our apartment that currently looks like a crack house. But I do have to say, as much a working a 12 hour job on my feet wears me out at times, it's a job I leave when I go home. And it's a job where I can have a 4 day stretch of freedom without taking vacation time. I dig that.
I just have to quickly mention something else. My gym's community rocks. I truly do not think I have ever heard anyone bitching about anything. The humbleness and gratitude and genuine love these people have is amazing. It's funny, I can't tell you how many times I have complaied at my 24hourfitness, where my membership is FREE, about the bikes, the stereo system, the smelly dude on the machine next to me, the locker rooms, the lights.....the list goes on and on. At Cross fit, we pay a bucket load of $ and we don't even have a locker room. Air conditioning? What's that? Yet each and every person there is there for the right reason. Every person comes knowing that the workout is going to be hard, it's probable going to hurt, and the coaches will accept nothing less than your absolute best. Really, we joke about not letting the coaches know you can do double unders or pull-ups w/out a band because if they see it one time, the standard is raised and you are held to it. I'm sure not everyone who starts stays, but those who do, stay for the right reason. I was really late leaving this morning after the WOD, so late the 9am class was coming in. I've barely been there 3 months..if that. And what I got was smiles, hey-how-are-you's, hugs, encouragement...on and on. Some of my fellow Frannies were there and they all are UH-mazing women. I left smiling.I have some damned fine friends at 24hourfitness who have been with me through the years and I value them immensely....and I can not tell you how much I want to kidnap them all (ahem! Lori, Emma, Christine, Kristina, Amanda, Liz,Veronica...)and bring them to Cross Fit to add them to the family. It't only a matter or time....
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