Quick Update

I've neglected my blog for a few days so figured it was time for a quick update.  First things first, I reached one of my goals, in fact blew it out of the water!  My goal was to do 10 pull-ups on my own (a secondary goal was to do 10 without stopping, which I haven't tried just yet but am sure I could do it).  We had a workout on Monday that was 5 Thrusters, 10 pull-ups, AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) for 20 minutes.  I almost finished 10 rounds which resulted in 95 pull-ups!  Many people asked, well how many were consecutive.  Does it matter?  In my opinion, no!  I did 95 pull-ups, no they weren't consecutive and I often broke them down to 4-3-3 to get to 10, but again, does it matter?!  Crossfitters know that it doesn't matter, its an achievement and is awesome!  That is why I have not responded to anyone on Facebook who wanted to know how many were consecutive, as if that changes whether or not I achieved my goal, as if everyone is trying to qualify my achievement.  It doesn't matter, I'm not saying I did 95 straight pull-ups, but it was a hard workout and I did 95 pull-ups.  Whew, guess I needed to vent a bit!

Next, all those miles!  I got some new running shoes yesterday and I've already clocked 6 miles in them, yay!  I've made pretty good progress against the 100 mile goal, I'm currently at 39 mile, 61 more to go!  It hasn't been hard to get motivated to run because I have this goal I need to achieve.  What I'm worried about is that after the challenge is over, I won't have the motivation to run anymore.  I'll tackle that one when we get there, but I know I need to keep running, it's been helping me with my next goal, to lose weight/fat! 

I have lost 6.8 lbs and its been about 2 1/2 weeks!  I am so happy, I have never been able to lose weight this quickly.  The zone diet combined with 12-14 miles of running a week and 5-6 Crossfit workouts a week have helped with this goal.  It would take me a lot longer if I wasn't working out so hard and I'd probably have to be stricter with my diet, but it is so motivating!

I'm still working on the rowing, I've logged about 18,000 meters, so I have quite a ways to still go with that one, but it's still doable. 

Anyways, that's my quick update!  Have a great day!