Nice To Get A Bit Of A Longer WOD In This Morning

Last night I slept well except for being woken up by a thunderstorm and having to get up to take the fan out of the window. Luckily, I was able to fall back to sleep pretty quickly after it passed. Had a few pretty close lightning strikes!

I have been wanting to get some longer WODs in, but it hasn’t been happening. We have had mostly relentless heat and very high dew points this summer. The breaks we have had from that crap have been brief and not that helpful.

I have had minor tweaks from the poorly maintained sidewalks in this town too. That hasn’t really helped anything. That is feeling better now.

This morning it was cooler than it has been. Actually, it was yesterday too, but we had things to do and places to be, so I got a quick workout in then. I decided I wanted to give a longer one a go early this morning.

I went with one that was 10 rounds of a minute on the rower, then hang power cleans, then presses. Today I chose to use the 25-pound dumbbells. I wanted to do all the sets unbroken. They were all unbroken and I colmpled the workout out between the times I have done it the two previous times with t he same weight.

I was done in a little over 18 minutes without really pushing it too hard. That felt good. It wasn’t that hot or humid, but I was, as always, pouring sweat.

Knowing my brother works out and my sister does too and is running again is a big motivator for me! Thanks, guys, for the push!

Hopefully I can avoid this naggy little shit that I have been getting from tripping over random holes and stuff. I guess that will come with age, though.

It does look as if it should be cooler and less humid than it has been for the foreseeable future. Being late, August, now that is inevitable anyway. The sun is getting noticeably lower each day and days are shorter, so there is less heating to go around. The cold fronts are starting to move this way.

Here is to hoping I can continue to get in some of these longer WODs. Not only that, but I hope as it cools off I can start doing two a day in addition to my lifting. I did that for a long time in the past.

I would also like to bump up the intensity of the workouts. That is something I have said that a few times recently and have been starting to do that. I am bumping the weights where it fits and also the speed.

Music for the WOD was Cathedral