Yoga with Adriene - Home - Day 7 - Stretch. It felt so good and was perfect.
Made brownies that were 4 years past their BB date. They were still tasty, and I didn't die. I don't eat stuff with a bunch of simple sugars often, but I had just come off of HDT round XVII, so it was OK to enjoy these and relax a little bit.
I did another attempt at the TA PT test, and tried 70# for the first time. I hit 27 pushups, 41 situps, and 4 squat cleans. It's a start... something to work up from. On top of the 4 successful squat cleans, I had about 4 misses, so time-wise, I'm OK. I need to just not miss.
Afterwards, I did my first HDT inter-round body weight workout. You can still get a killer workout from body weight work. I like the emphasis on proprioception and stability. Even the tiniest stabilizer muscles have a big impact on your ability to do major movements with big weights properly.
Another freezer find that I broke out today... stuffed clams. This one wasn't as old, since my dad had bought it during his January visit. It was great, though. Meat! It's like my parents have been giving me presents and feeding me, even though they're not here.
Wednesday, Apr 29:
Did a 2 mile run in 14:50, followed by a 4 mile ruck in 1:04:51 with 30#, for baseline work before HDT XVIII. Said a socially distance hello to my neighbor's dog.
Friday, May 1:
Did my PATHFINDER APFT baseline, with 48 pushups in 2 min, 85 situps in 2 min, a 14:46 2 mile run, and a 29:41 30# 2-mi ruck. I scored 300 for the first time! I think I was at 299 for my previous attempt.
Had some quality Zoom time with some people from the PATHFINDER community later on.
Saturday, May 2:
Did another TA PT Test attempt, hitting 27 pushups, 40 situps, and 5 squat cleans with 70#. I focused on form and taking my time, instead of rushing like I did. I had no misses on the squat cleans, and got 5 successful ones, a PR for this weight.
I spent most of the day cleaning out my garage, for the first time ever, since moving here like 3 years ago. There were/are still boxes that are unpacked. Since I've been at home all the time for so long, and since I planned to be for a while, and since I work out in my garage even more now that I don't go to the office gym anymore, it was time, and I had no excuse not to.
BEFORE:
I did another HDT body weight workout at night. It was only my second, out of the 6 that we were given for the 2 weeks, but I was mostly curious to see what the workouts were, so I wasn't necessarily trying to do them all. I wanted to take the 2-week inter-round period to get in cardio while I could. The legs & core workout took 44 min.
Sunday, May 3:
I started the morning with a desire to get my blood moving, so I did an easy 7 miles with a 30# ruck in 2:27:11, 21:01 average, playing Pokemon.
I continued cleaning my garage the rest of the day. While I was doing this, a neighbor who is a teacher got a special socially distanced birthday car parade from her students. At first, I was wondering what was going on with the cars honking. A number of neighbors happened to be out, and it brought joy to all of us to see that.
GARAGE PROGRESSION:
Not bad! When I cleared this all up, I realized that I've had a 2-car garage all along. I had forgotten that, since I had only had enough room to fit one car before. It seems like a good analogy for our bodies and our potential in life. How many of us are going through life thinking that we're only ABC or capable of XYZ, when all it takes is some work to unlock the rest of that potential?
My feet were so trashed after all of that manual labor over the weekend. Lots of standing, moving stuff around. Nothing was that heavy, but it was like 7 hours a day, maybe. It was intense enough that I soaked my lower legs in epsom salts at night!
Cleaning out my garage made me feel like I had accomplished something, and motivated me to want to address other rooms, too, in the coming days/weeks.
Monday, May 4:
Some friends invited me to join an upstate NY's virtual team challenge. 518 TOUGH was going to host a 4-week event, in which all participants would be split among three teams (randomly, I think), and each week, we'd be given a set of tasks that would earn us different numbers of points. There would be some special twist each week to make things interesting. Each team also had a special power that would help us play to certain strengths. I was fortunate to be assigned to the same team as my GORUCK buddies.
This was week 1's MAYDAY challenge:
The week 1 twist was good for me, and so was the #teamsavage superpower of double miles, since I typically start my workouts at 8-9pm, and since I'm more of an endurance person anyways (and have more time on my hands than most people), so I can really leverage that superpower.
The first challenge I knocked out was the 1-min wall sit. My record was 12 minutes, which I did in high school one day, thinking that more was better for helping me train for soccer. I think it permanently made my knees start crinkling.
At night, I did my first HDT workout for round XVIII in 40 min, plus a 0.5 mi 5 gallon coupon ruck in 38:55. I added another 5.5 miles of rucking at 30# in 1:35:09, striding it out since I was warmed up from the workout. Played Pokemon.
I started trying ruck dumps with a 34L GR2. It was easier, but it's a huge bag to be doing PT with.
Tuesday, May 5:
Yoga with Adriene - Home - Day 16 - Savor, followed by an HDT core workout with 0.5 mi of 5 gallon no-spill coupon rucking in 27:31, then another 6 miles with 30# in 1:39:09. I wanted to get in post-workout miles while the workouts and "plus" part of Sandbag & Ruck+ was still on the lighter side.
Thursday, May 7:
Sandbag 20 AMRAP with 30# SB, followed by a 2-mi #runformaud. It was my first time doing a Zoom workout, except I used my work laptop with a browser version of Zoom (since we're not allowed to download the software since it's not safe enough for company standards), and I couldn't get other peoples' videos to show up, so it was a black screen for me the whole time. They could see me, though. I couldn't figure out if the HDT organizer was just messing with me and not letting me see everyone else (since he made a joke about that, since I was doing SB&R+), or if it was just the browser version of Zoom. But I joined on my cell phone afterwards, which does have the app, and I could see everyone then.
I used a 30# filler stuffed in a 20# shell (instead of a 30# dense SPRI sandbag in a 20# shell), and the opening flap of the sandbag shell kept scraping my neck. It hurt to keep repeating a movement when you know it's going to scrape you again and again, but time keeps ticking, so I had no choice.
The video of what happened to Ahmaud was nuts. Can't believe that kind of thing still happens. Can't believe there are people like those killers, but there it is, on video.
I only managed a 4 min high plank, so I didn't get points for doing 10 min for MAYDAY. I didn't try doing any rest positions, since there's no firm rule on how long you can rest, and I don't want to feel like I rested too much.
Friday, May 8:
Scenes from life at home...
For PATHFINDER Forward, I went out for my overnight challenge. The minimum is 15 miles, but I'd see how it went, and go 20 miles to meet Endure standards, if I felt good. It was fun to pack for it, even though I'd just be going around my neighborhood.
SBass virtually cheered me on the whole time, which was nice.
I ended up deciding that 15 miles was enough, haha. 15 miles in 4:09:49, 16:35 average.
The miles were good for Team Savage, even though I wore a ruck and unweighted miles would've counted.
Sunday, May 10:
HDT 18.1.3 in 45 min, plus 0.5 mi 5 gallon coupon carry.
More freezer finds... 1.5 year old chicken from my mom. Still good!
First time doing communion in bed, and with tart cherry juice and a cereal flake.
Monday, May 11:
With week 2 of MAYDAY, it was about getting in a bunch of reps. Team Savage was in the lead after week 1.
I did the HDT Week 2 care package 25 min AMRAP, then 75 burpees for MAYDAY, then 4 miles of post-workout mileage with 40#, for PATHFINDER and MAYDAY. It was my first time with a ruck that heavy. I felt it! I did 4 in 1:14:30.
Tuesday, May 12:
Scenes from life at home...
I did get mouth sores the previous week, so with nearly 10 weeks since my last grocery store visit, it was probably time to get some fresh produce again.
150 burpees as a warmup for MADAY, before doing hDT 18.2.1 (Core) for 60 min, with 1 1 mi coupon ruck with a 25# ruck and a 45# SB to a field where I did 0.25 mi of SB rope drags for 45 min.
May 13, more Houseparty fun with my sister.
Thursday, May 14:
HDT 18.2.3 (Arms) in 50 min, including 75 burpees for MAYDAY, plus a 1 mi coupon ruck with a 25# ruck and 45# SB, followed by SB rope pulls for 0.25 mi.
May 15 - the fig tree keeps growing! But no figs ripe yet!
