Ross – 1 Month until the Wedding.
The Paleo Challenge Ends Today!
Workout of the Day:
“Fran”
21-15-9
Thrusters, 45Kg/30Kg
Pull Ups
Post times to comments. Compare to August 3rd
Baking Performance Cakes!
17 Days until the September Invitational!
Lorna Cummins – Athlete Profile
Aonghus O’Flaherty – Athlete Profile
Colum O’Keeffe – Athlete Profile
Fran!! Bloody hell good way to start back!
Welcome back Patrick!
Thanks Aidan! Will tell you about 18.30 if its good to be back.
Thanks for choosing such a flattering profile pic for me, Colm!
That’ll be me at the invitational, drinking a beer between metcons!!!
Here’s the link I was supposed to repost for you last night Aidan.
http://mobilitywod.blogspot.com/
It is a lovely picture Gus.
Nice pain face Mike!
Thanks Lisa, went looking for it yesterday evening after CFI and my internet was down so couldn’t find it. Want to get a program to download all the clips.
Aidan i cannot believe your smiling doing that stretch!!
Patrick, thanks for the reassurance!
You must be delighted with the welcome back – FRAN!!!
Ah yea delighted i am!!
That’s my way of hiding my pain face.
I was deep in the pain cave at that stage.
Laughing from some form of delirium.
I’ll be doing an experiment tonight to see what the effects are of sleep deprivation (c.2hrs sleep last night thanks to my 4yr old) on my Fran time/effort ! Reckon its not going to be a positive result !!
This isn’t good for my health. Fran has been occupying my thoughts since yesterday and has since intensified.
here… we… go!
Can’t Fran it up tonight, hopefully tomorrow, Guns n Roses tonight…pants to work who wouldn’t let me out early enough to get to CFI.
Last lunch of paleo challenge- eaten!
http://www.independent.ie/health/diet-fitness/genetic-excuse-for-obesity-is-a-myth-2319864.html (SFW)
What will be the next excuse ?
Interesting Scott. I think we can inherit a bodily ‘frame’ from our parents, but think how we choose to fill that frame is entirely up to us.
Mike always looks a little distressed when he is here,
Fran done today and I have to admit it was on my mind since yesterday – there was a certain level of fear. The fear was a result of not having done it since May and the fact that I’ve been struggling with the challenge. After a week of tapering into the challenge I’ve been really strict for the last 3 weeks(no diary, no caffeine,no booze, no grains etc – you get the picture) and despite this I feel I never got the energy boost that occurs when your body adjusts. So my WODs have been pretty weak sauce of late and this when it happens starts to play on your mind.
Considering all the above I was happy enough to be within spitting distance of my last attempt. I found my thrusters were much better – due to Will’s extensive mobilty/torture warm up but my pull ups were shockingly crap.
Despite the Challenge being over I’m going to stay diary free and moderately booze free for the foreseeable and see what happens.
After being caffeine free I found the one cup of strong coffee i had today made me Incredibly happy – it was almost emotional.
For those training tonight – good luck – enjoy
That was AWESOME! well done everyone. Until the next one.
For all who were there tonite I must apologise for the amount of “F Bombs” that came out of my mouth tonite. Fran has been haunting me for the past three or so days and tonite she kicked my ass. I am so dissapointed with my efforts tonight it hurts. The only positive thing that I can take out of tonight was I can only improve next time round. Fran fairplay you lived up to the hype again, until next time. By the way well done to everyone else, Roger Rx and Derek legendary time and technique to name but a few.
Another part of the Fran story from today i forgot to mention. Lorna was doing her last set of thrusters, she did 4 and dropped the bar, came back to it, “3 & 2″ was the encouraging calls from myself and Will. She did the 3 and then said mid thruster “I’m not putting this effing thing down again” and busted out the last 2. Legend
One second slower than last time but oddly enough I’m happy. From following KStarrs mobility wods for the past week and Will running through mobility exercises with us before Fran it’s the first time I haven’t had to fight for position on the thruster and it’s constituent parts. It made things a lot easier.
Novice
Bob – 7:16 (30Kg/Blue)
Eimear – 5:55 (15kg/G)
Nollaig – 7:33 (20Kg/Bl)
Robbie – 9:56 (20Kg/B)
Glen – 9:05 (20Kg/B)
Mark – 9:45 (20Kg/Bl)
Stephen 11:48 (20Kg/partial)
Frank – 4:08 (20Kg/B)
Nickie – 4:36 (9.5Kg/RR)
Gav – 4:50 (20Kg/G)
Karl – 6:30 (20Kg/R)
Eamonn – 6:25 (20Kg/R)
Darren – 6:25 (20Kg/R)
Christine – 11:17 (12kg/R)
Intermediate
Lorna – 9:38 (B)
Barry – 6:58 (20Kg/B)
Ross – 5:56 (30Kg/Bl)
Shane Mc – 8:01 (35Kg)
Rosie – 11:34 (20Kg/G)
Roger – 14:58 as rx’d
Patrick – 11:20 (30Kg/G)
Simon – 3/9 Thrusters
Arlen – 9:28 (20Kg/G)
Derek – 7:51 (40Kg)
Shane H – 13:03 (30Kg)
Advanced
Grant – 8:23 (??)
Tony – 5:58
Devon – 7:08
Loiuse – 7:24 (P)
Pixie – 6:59
Gus – 8:15
Eamonn – 6:31
Garvan – 9ish
nice job on Fran everyone- Gus is my darkhorse pick for the invitational by the way!
alex 10.26
Fran today WOW it is as hard as everyone says , found the pull ups after the thrusts extremely difficult.. Didn’t think I wud ever finish it…don’t think I wud have without the lads eggin me on at the end.. Thanks for the support lads
couldnt make it down today lads. couldnt get out of the leaba this morning at all to make it down before work
and iv to work 2morrow 2-10 so il be seeing Fran on friday im guessin…. cant wait to get it over with now. congrats to everyone who finished out the paleo challenge and to everyone for completing fran again.
and patirck welcome back buddy i hope they all had the blue t shirts on for ya. good time on the old fran aswell kid. was like u never left…..
Thanks for the vote of confidence James, pressure is on now! Can’t believe it’s just around the corner – Mikko Salo week next week. Don’t think it can out-do Fran though!
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