Saturday 9-19-09

I took a month hiatus but I am back, herbs.

My posts are going to change a bit, no more meal plans. I will publish random meals I feel that have improved me as a person. Otherwise, my posts will include some rambling about the thoughts that go on inside my overused and undersized brain along with my WOD and anything else I feel necessary.

Brainfog:
Is it just me or does 95% of the bathrooms I go into have the toilet paper un-rolling the wrong way??? Now I am not saying that 95% of the time I go into a bathroom, I use toilet paper, I am not a female nor do I have IBS, but, since this inquiry popped into my abnormally large dome I make a habit of noticing the TP orientation. Is there some secret society that discusses how to decorate a bathroom? Is this how they teach to install TP in their curriculum? Am I completely out of line here?

Let me break it down. I personally feel that the TP should un-roll towards you, from the top. It shouldn't be un-rolling towards the wall! This makes it so much harder to get the appropriate amount of squares! You end up ripping it diagonally or not ripping cleanly and unravelling half the roll! Then what? I only need like 4 squares and this flipping roll just unwound about 60, and now the unused tissue is touching the floor, which I peed on, accidentally of course, do I roll it back up unevenly? Do I throw it away and waste it? I just want to blow my nose!!!

I will go on record to say I personally rotate the TP roll in bathrooms if I notice it is backwards. If you purposely load your roll to be as inconvenient as possible, I apologize for making your life easier.

WOD:
Snatch
1x3 40kg
1x2 50kg
1x1 60kg
1x1 65kg (previous PR)
1x1 70kg (failed the first time, succeeded on the second)
1x1 72.5kg (failed the first time, succeeded on the second; new PR)

Met-Con:
"Daniel"
50 pull ups
run 400m
21 thrusters (95lbs)
run 800m
21 thrusters (95lbs)
run 400m
50 pull ups

17:33

Wow, what a brutal workout this was. It left me doing the "Crossfit Dance". The first set of pull ups I broke up as (30, 10, 10), the first set of thrusters (11, 10), second set of thrusters (13, 8) and the second set of pull ups (25, 5, 20). The thrusters were the worst part, possibly could have picked it up a bit on the run, but that may have fatigued me too much and resulted in a higher time. I feel I did this WOD as efficiently as possible. I did it with a fellow gym member Dan who is pretty even with me in terms of met-cons. I beat him by 4 seconds. He did not break the exercises up like I did, which in turn, reduced his efficiently. I believe his split was: first PU's (40, 10), first thrusters (21), second thrusters (21) and second PU's (20, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5). He did not have anything left in the tank on the final set of pull ups and I caught him.