Worked out yesterday for the first time since getting injured.  It was awesome.

Tried a 6-down of chin-ups/DB bench press @35#...it did not work.  My back started losing power quickly, but I could push through the presses just fine, which worked for me.  After that, 5x5 Bicep curl @ 25#.  Left arm lost power around the fourth and a half set, but righty pulled through, so hooray righty!

After that was the killer: 8-set tabata on a spinning bike at medium-high resistance.  It was deadly, but I felt so good when I got off that bike...

Back to doing work,
~#28

Yep, torn ligaments.  Including some ligament which holds the bones in my leg together, so I'm in a cast for up to 6 weeks, then PT etc, so....OUT FOR THE SEASON

As you can tell, my spirits have improved.

Welp, that'll put a damper on things.

Serious ankle injury at Mixed Easterns.  Suspected torn ligaments.  Really dumb.  Just...just dumb.  Orthopedist on Wednesday, hopefully swelling down by next weekend, hopefully PT to rehab starting immediately.  I will get this ankle back.

Time to do some work,
~#28

Bif ol' fail of a day yesterday.  Ginie and I drove 20 minutes to get her cleats and go to the gym.  Both places were closed, so we licked our wounds and headed home.  Ended up doing the following:
 AMRAP 10 minutes:
20 Mtn Climbers (where each leg counts as 1)
10 Pushups
5 Squat jumps

I completed 7 rounds + 9 push ups.  The pushups were INCREDIBLY difficult after round 2 and I think after round 3, I started doing them from my knees.  Still hard.  The mountain climbers, I really focused on pushing my tempo, especially while tired.

Tonight is summer club against our former team.  Here's hoping we win...

Doing work,
~#28

Yesterday- a nice solid arm/back day.  DB Rows, DB bench press, lat pull down of sort, bicep curls and then some KB swings for shits.

Today- Did a slightly truncated/altered version of Lou Burruss' Kung Fu Throwing with Corey and Ginie.  Felt pretty good through it.  Hitting good distance with moderate accuracy on a regular basis.

Tomorrow- Ginie's got Slow White, then it's Vermont with the KToads.

Doin' Work,
~#28

Reeeeeally bad track workout.  Showed up planning to run 400,2x200,4x100,8x50 with rest of 3,1.5,.75,.5 minutes for each distance.  Given how I've been running the past few times, this should have been very doable.

When I got there, my hamstring was aching from yesterday (Mixed Nuts tryout...more to be said on that, but not here), it was cold enough out that I couldn't loosen my leg, hip or back and I just generally felt shitty.  I ended up getting in a 400 at 1:10, which is a) slow and b) slower than a 400 I ran at the END of a workout by 8 seconds.  Ridiculous.  Anyway, the run overall was

400, 3 min
200, 1.5 min, 200, 3 min
110,45s,110, 3 min, 110, ~2 min, 110

I overall felt terrible today, with poor form on the back swing of my leg (tightness in my hip flexors and back), bad traction (a sprinkling of rain had slipperied up the track) and bad breathing (my chest hurt early and often).  That said, the last two 110 felt really good, I could feel myself lift up onto my calves and bring my whole lower kinetic chain into play and I thought I had good speed coming through them.  My turnover rate improved when I paid attention to it, as well.

More work to do,
~#28

Welp, that's that.  Cut from both Slow White and Wild Card in the first round.  Pretty pissed about that.  Slow is one thing, Wild Card is all the more frustrating because of how little I did wrong.  And yet, here I am.  I'll be seeing what I can do as far as finding another team.  I refuse to not play this summer.

Back to doin' work,
~#28