Day 18

Okay, so yesterday was an okay day, but its been too long since I've slept REALLY good and I'm getting SO TIRED! My Hang Power Snatch WOD last night was truly pathetic (for me). I only got to 55 - I tried 65 and failed pathetically. Then I had to keep going back down and focus on my form and each additional rep got more and more sad, until I ended back with the 30# bar. So, then I did a few other things like GHD Back Extensions and Sit ups (6 sets of 15). At least I sweat with those! SHEESH!!!

So, this morning I didn't fare much better. I almost didn't get out of bed at 4:35. I'm guessing my husband was too tired to hear me cussing as Ch'ixi pawed at me to hurry up and get out of bed after I had smacked my alarm. I was going to just say F-it and go back to sleep but then realized I'd have to get up in an hour anyway to get to the gym for my 6am people. So, what was the point of trying to stay in bed? I got up, but didn't have any "oomph" to even think about doing a CFE WOD, so I ran an easy 3 miles with Jenny. Ch'ixi wasn't overly happy about not running fast - she's been enjoying the faster CFE WODs lately!

I went home after class and slept for about 45 mins, got up, had a good breakfast, but I'm still DRAGGING!!! This is somewhat different than the lack of energy at the beginning of the Paleo. I don't think it is food related at all - this time I believe it is the beginnings of burn-out. I checked my workout log and realized that I haven't had a single day completely off since May 25th. On CF rest days I've been doing CFE workouts. So, in reality I've had no days off at all, whereas I'm used to having one complete day a week of nothing so that I can just rest and recover. That meant that with CFE I was getting 3 days a week, and 4 days for CF. Some of those days included both CF and CFE and some were just CF or just CFE. That worked out well.

THIS, well, this is NOT workout out so well. Challenge or no challenge, I need to take better care of myself and I need more recovery time. That may mean once or twice I'll have to either skip a WOD or do 2 in one day, but either way I obviously need to be taking an FULL rest day. Doing CFE workouts in the am and taking the rest of the day to rest is apparently not enough "rest".

Bummer! And, Craig, if you are reading this....YES, as we get "so old" we do need more recovery days. :-P