Deth

Last night I slept well, but I didn’t feel all that refreshed today. I think I was just being really annoyed by a stuffy nose. The other thing is that I had a funky dream where someone I knew but who is long dead now due to an overdose was there.

I woke up and drank my coffee. While doing that, I was picking my way through the Rust book a bit. I’m going to take my time and work my way through that. I am hoping to take this winter while the weather’s not nice enough to relax on the patio and really study Rust programming.

My stomach’s feeling a bit off today, so I wasn’t sure how my lifting would go. I’d like to blame that on the Eagles game last evening. That was easily one of the worst games I’ve ever seen. It’s the first one I’ve turned off in a long time.

Early this morning, I got changed and headed out into the garage to give my squats a go. I got under the empty bar, and that felt heavy, but I went through my warm-up sets. As heavy as the weight was on my back, the squats were actually feeling pretty good.

I really had little to no expectation for my final set. This is the heavy week, and it’s a higher-end weight for me, too. My programming called for one plus set for the AMRAP at two hundred and ninety pounds. I really had zero expectation for this set since the lighter weights felt so crushingly heavy. This was more of the same as far as feeling heavy.

When I unracked that weight felt crushing on my shoulders. My first thought was, I don’t know how I am going to walk this out, let alone squat it. Much to my surprise, the first squat felt great. The second and third felt relatively easy. I did feel like I got a little forward on the third rep, so I stopped there. Even though I did feel that I had another rep in me, and probably two reps, I didn’t go for them. I don’t like to push through when I feel things break through, whether it’s because it’s heavy or because I’m not focused. I was really thrilled with tying a lifetime PR on a day like today when I truly wasn’t feeling it.

I went out and grabbed the mail after I was done and thought that I would relax a bit before doing a WOD. While looking, I decided to do a simple row and push press, which I’d done several times in the past. I had already done today’s vault WOD on Saturday.

The WOD went well. I shaved about a minute off the score that I had for this workout a couple of months ago. I didn’t even feel like I was pushing it as hard as I could. I did feel that I was moving well and getting a good workout in.

Maybe I will hop on the bike later. It might be that I won’t. It all depends on how I am feeling.

Music today was Nevermore