Miles and Burpees

Yesterday I got my butt to the gym for a killer back/shoulders workout. I deadlifted in here too just cause I don't like to DL and Squat on the same day. Pull ups, rows on the cable and TRX, heavy lat pulldowns, then some shoulder work like face pulls and landmine presses. My right shoulder is acting up again and my neck has been bothering me for like a week now. I thought I just slept on it wrong but it is still really tight and painful. I'm massaging it as best I can, and it's been a little while since I last got an actual massage. So I made an emergency appointment - it's not with Pam but something is better than nothing. The shoulder work seems to have helped ease the pain/weirdness in my right shoulder, but overall my back is tight and sore from all the work and my neck is still angry.

As I was finishing up yesterday Adam came in to do his burpee mile. It's a mile of long jumps and burpees, and he planned to do this all inside on the turf/walkway. He brought in a device that measures distance so he could calculate how many laps he would have to do. I had to go take a shower and get ready for work, but 15 minutes later when I came out he had gone 400 ft and was already totally drenched in sweat.

He was taking them slow, which is probably the best strategy. He figured this would take several hours. I had to leave so I couldn't watch for very long but T came in to cheer him on. I was like "I did 20 burpees?" cause they were just part of my HIIT stuff at the end of lifting. There's no way I could do a burpee mile, I would absolutely die.

Today I ran 3 miles and it felt ok. I'm slow as shit anymore. Thankfully I have a heart rate monitor so I know I am working my absolute hardest - it was in "threshold" between 160-175 but the pace was only like 10:30. That feels so slow to me, but oh well. I'm working hard, I FEEL like I'm working hard, and that's the important thing. My husband and I were talking about half/full marathons and he asked if I would ever do a full... I said it's probably going to be a bucket list thing for me, but I need to get to a place where I feel confident enough with my running and then train for all that mileage. Definitely not until after we move back to GA and I also need time for my body to adjust because I'll be doing Crossfit. Once I feel like I'm in a good place I may train for a full. It'll definitely be a destination race, maybe somewhere out west (that isn't too hilly) or a city with alot of character like New Orleans. We shall see :)