The Smithson Family: May 2013

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Pretty good...

I think I did pretty good on the blog catch up today. I didn't quite meet my goal. I have a couple more (one that had a lot of pics) that I had wanted to get done today but I got all my pics uploaded and ready to go so it shouldn't take too long now to get up-to-date... maybe by next weekend?! For now though, I'd rather spend time with my hubby and relax before he falls asleep... which won't be long after his long day today! I think today was his last day to work on a weekend for a couple weeks :)

13.4

13.4 was the week of March 25th - 31st, Colt's first week of Spring Break.

The 13.4 workout was:

7 minutes AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)

3 reps Clean and Jerk (135 lb men/95 lb women)

3 Toes-to-bar

6 reps Clean and Jerk

6 Toes-to-bar

9 reps Clean and Jerk

9 Toes-to-bar

12 reps Clean and Jerk

12 Toes-to-bar

15 reps Clean and Jerk

15 Toes-to-bar

18 reps Clean and Jerk

18 Toes-to-bar....

If you completed the round of 18, you went on to 21. If you completed 21, you went on to 24, etc.

That Thursday night, Colt did a little mini version of the workout, and I did the rounds of 3's and 6's to test it out.

The Saturday workouts that week were at CrossFit Forney. I had to work Saturday morning and left work at around 10:45 to get there in time to workout. I ended up with 46 reps so that means I got to 10 clean and jerks on on my 12 round. If I could have just got the next two clean and jerks, I think I could've knocked out the 12 toes to bar and got to 60 reps. I got no repped at least 7 times or so I think, mostly from not kicking my feet back far enough on the toes to bar. I think I was definitely capable and should've gotten 60 reps. Toes to bar are usually pretty easy for me but I couldn't get my rhythm at first that day for some reason. Of course as soon as I was done, I could knock them out fast no problem again! I was going to do a redo on Sunday but my shoulder hurt pretty bad and when I tried to lift the weight on Sunday it didn't feel good at all. I did come down with the flu the following Monday so probably a good think I didn't do a redo.

When Colt went on Saturday he got 72 reps I believe. When he did his redo on Sunday, he got 79 reps so he got 4 toes to bar on his 15 round. He did great. I don't see how he did it again that close back to back and improved. He is so tall, getting his legs up on toes to bar is a little harder for him so he ended up going with the one at a time method. When he did the re-do, there weren't a lot of people there and I was yelling at him. He told me to SHUT UP! It was pretty funny, and I immediately started laughing! I guess a thrown inhaler and him telling me to shut up, I should learn by now to not mess with him when he's competing :) Probably won't be the last time though!

After the results for 13.4 were all submitted, Colt was 1,012 in the region (out of 4,034 about 25.1%), and he was 13,109 in the world. I was sitting at 1,121 (out of 2,459 about 45.6%), and I was 14,234 in the world.

Glad Cariann was there counting for me so that I didn't stop! That weight was heavy!

Looking a little intense and crazy in this one.

Recovery

Some pics that Brandi took of Colt...

He makes that look not heavy at all!

And done!

Some more that I snapped of him on Saturday during the workout. Again, I took a lot. I weeded some of them out but it's hard/takes too long to weed out more. Plus, since I print this, I want him to have them down the road, especially since our external backup hard drive of most of our pics crashed and we lost the digital version of most of our pics not long ago. Luckily most of the ones we lost were from when I printed pics or they are printed in some of our blog books. I'm scared of it happening again though.

Flying off the bar

I think he's looking at the clock in this one.

You can tell it's getting harder and harder to breath. All these open workouts were when he was having trouble catching his breathe and was on an inhaler. After workouts he would cough nonstop for hours!