pure shores

Back from paradise. Fiji was absolutely stunning. The weather was perfect, food was delicious, drinks were abundant and the wedding was beautiful. For five days we were off the grid. We didn’t want to leave but we also missed Lily a while big bunch. I took a boat load (pun totally intended) of pics so I’ll add a few when I get them on the computer at home.

Back to reality.

And back to Crossfit last night. I don’t know if it was the sun coming out of my skin or what but I was so incredibly hot last night during the WOD I had to take my shoes off and finish in my bare feet. After finishing, I proceed to stick my head in the freezer and rub a cold pack on my skin to cool me down. Tonight’s 5RM back squat is much more along the lines of vacation recovery than last night’s 7 rounds for time, 7 push jerk, 7 CTB and 7 burpees. Barf.

this is how I math

13.2 is in the books. I had a math fail at the end of my workout. My goal was 180 (6 rounds). Here it is:

10 min AMRAP
5 shoulder to overhead 34kgs
10 dead lifts 34kgs
15 box jumps

So silly me, I got my 6 rounds in with about 1 min left and thought to myself ‘ok, I’ll squeeze in the shoulder to overheads and dead lift and that’ll give me a nice 200 to finish on’. Boy I suck. I ended up with a final score of 199. I’m happy though. I still met my goal. Let’s hope I can bring a calculator to 13.4.

Yes, I’m going to miss 13.3. I’ll be away in Fiji doing as many reps as possible of drink to mouth.

decked out

My first piece of Crossfit clothing! It’s nice and simple, comfy and fits great. Let’s face it, I don’t have the issue of boobs hitting me in the chin when I workout so support isn’t really on the radar when I pick out a sports bra. Time to christen this baby with a little sweat I say! Maybe I’ll save it for 13.2 on Friday. I have another shirt coming in the mail from WOD Addiction too!

One more week till Fiji!

Last night we did 1RM clean and jerk. I managed to get 55kgs cleaned but not jerked...next time for sure. I’m amazed at how quickly I’m increasing the weight. When I first started Crossfit I thought ‘there is no way I’m going to be able to lift that much ever’. When I started to see the light a little, my thoughts changed to ‘ok I might be able to do that but it’ll probably take me a year’. Now my thoughts are ‘holy crap I can do that already?!?’. It’s almost as if I had it in me all along but just needed the right medium to bring it out. Crossfit is proving to be that medium.

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one down, four to go

I did the Open 13.1 WOD on Friday. It was intense but I thought I did pretty well. I had a goal of 130 reps and I managed to squeeze out 125. I’m happy with that for my first time and only being with Crossfit for about 3 months. I hit a new snatch PR on Thursday night of 40kgs so I was a little more confident going in to the workout. It was such a great experience and I’m looking forward to 13.2 already. There was so much energy at the box and everyone cheering each other on...pretty awesome! Here’s what went down in 17 mins:

40 burpees
30 snatch 20kgs
30 burpees
30 snatch 35kgs
20 burpees
30 snatch 45kgs
10 burpees
Snatch at 55kgs, as many as possible

We won’t find out what 13.2 is until Thursday morning. As long as it’s nothing to do with rope climbs, double-unders or hand stand push-ups, I’ll be happy.

I put another recipe to the test last night. I wanted something different in the morning and something that would save a bit of time since we all know it’s a hard choice between a few extra minutes of sleeping or straightening our hair. Sleeping in usually wins the toss for me since I’m usually seen with my hair in a bun at work. I found a recipe for vegetable and tuna quiche from My Clean Plate on Instagram and tweaked it a bit since I’m picky when it comes to veggies.

· 2 full eggs plus at least 2-3 egg whites, beaten
· ¼ cup grated zucchini with water squeezed out
· ¼ cup grated carrots
· ¼ cup chopped baby spinach
· ¼ cup chopped mushrooms
· 1 small tin of tuna in spring water, drained
· 1 tbsp fresh chives, chopped

Mix all the veggies and tuna in a bowl and then add the beaten eggs and egg whites. You may need to add more egg whites depending on the amount of veggies you have. Grease a small casserole dish with coconut oil or olive oil and pour the mixture in. I sprinkled a small amount of cheese on top. Bake for about 20-25 mins at 180C and set your alarm five mins later for the next morning. You’re welcome.

 

cooking with Sweet Brown

I whipped up something new last night. I’ve seen a few recipes for Sweet Potato Latkes floating around the realms of facebook and instagram lately to which my mouth would water at the sight, I could probably give Lily a run for her money....nah I retract that...she’s a drool machine. Anytime Ryan and I try to eat, you can feel her eyes burning a hole in you, so you look over at her to find two long fang-like strings of drool hanging out of her jowls. She’s so lady like.

Ok, back on topic. The chosen recipe for my experiment was from fastpaleo.com:

- 2 cups of grated, peeled sweet potato (about one small potato)
- 1 cup of grated zucchini, skin on
- ½ cup chopped green onion
- 1 egg, beaten (add at the end)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Any other spices you wanna add (I used Moroccan spice)

First, grate the sweet potato and zucchini and squeeze out as much of the liquid as possible. The recipe suggests setting it in the fridge for 15-20 mins but....AIN’T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR DAT! I just used good old elbow grease to get out all the juice. Mix in the green onion and spices and finally the beaten egg. Heat up a frying pan to medium heat with 1-2 tbsps coconut oil (or other healthy oil). Form a small amount of the mixture into a ball and place in the pan. Press with the spatula to make them nice and pancakey-shaped. Flip after about 10 mins or when they are golden brown (or closer to black when I cook). They should hold together nicely at this point. Finally, try not to eat them all....I skipped this step. You should get around 6 latkes.

I hate double unders

That is all.