Enjoying the warmER weather

My brother and I decided to take advantage of the non-arctic weather we are currently having in MD. Both WOD's were outside.

AM: 4.5k run

22:42

This was a nice leisurely jog with a sprint up the final 400m hill. After running 7 miles a couple of weeks ago, in tough conditions, runs of this length don't scare me anymore.

PM: 3 rounds
12 muscle ups
75 squats

15:35

We did this WOD outside in the dark. It was colder then this morning and seeing was a bit of an issue. I say that only because, that the lack of visibility, added an extra challenge to the muscle ups. I can't explain it well. We put our rings on the same tree branch that we have been using for years. I guess, subconsciously I use guides in my line of site when I do multiple muscle ups. Maybe certain parts of the terrain in front of me help me stay in rhythm, I am not sure. But, whatever it was, I felt like I was doing the MU's blindfolded. The overall distraction was low, but I had to concentrate harder on my kip to execute several in a row, successfully. Overall, with the slight fatigue I felt felt from the run, I only failed on four muscle ups, 2 failures were at the end of sets of 3-5 and the other 2 failures occurred on my final muscle up. Talk about wasting an extra 30 seconds! The squats got better as I became warmer (one of these days I will learn how to warm up properly so I can START well also). I broke the squats into 50-10-15, 35-21-19 and 75 straight through on my final set. I am a little disappointed in this time. I would have really liked to go sub 15 if not lower, oh well.