Friday was a travel day, Saturday was a work day, and today was

Skin the cat work (I think I managed 23 pretty decent ones before giving up)

Then

4 rounds
15 KB swings (50 lb)
10 ring dips (1st round negatives, last three w/ red band)
400 m run

20:02

KB swings and run whooped me. I'm still glad to be home and back at PCF, though!

Went again to Crossfit Crusade this afternoon, did

OHS 5x5 (95-100-105-115[3]-95)

Then

AMRAP 8 minutes
2 80 yard sprints with tire connected to harness I wore
5 pullups
7 pushups

I finished 3 rounds, 2 sprints, 5 pullups, and 2 pushups. Holy crap running with a tire is hard!

Missed Tuesday's workout, but made it into Crossfit Crusade this morning. The WOD for the gym was a variation on the Filthy Fifty; since I had already done a long-ish WOD on Monday, I decided to cut this one short at about 14 minutes. It wasn't pretty or fast, and good lord it's humid here, but I did 50 reps each of squats, pushups, 1 pood KB swings, situps, box jumps, and 45 lb push presses before calling it a day.

Friday through Sunday were more days of running around and eating. Today, I

a. started a new Paleo clean, to last from today to September 17, the day before my bachelorette weekend (I'm going nearly sans fruit and nuts/coconut for the entire period) and

b. went to Crossfit Crusade in Slidell, LA, near my aunt's house. We were supposed to do DT, but because of the torrential tropical downpour and crowding instead did a ridiculous string of Tabata exercises: bottom-to-bottom squats, pushups (I did games-standard pushups, rest in plank), dead bugs (rest in hollow rock or some pathetic version of it), burpees (rest in bottom of squat), lunges with 15 lb plate, and mountain climbers (rest in plank). It was more an exercise in managing muscle failure than anything else, honestly, but I'm glad I moved around some.

Sunday through Tuesday I ate my way across Louisiana and mostly sat on my can. It was delicious. Wednesday we did

On the minute

5x60m sprint
5x40m sprint
5x20m sprint

Then Tabata pushups (Games-standard) and situps. My pushup scores were 12-12-10-10-10-10-10-10, with slightly sketchy ROM in the last few rounds. Situps I did 10 for 7 rounds and then 9 on the last round.

Thursday we ran around doing wedding-planning stuff all day. This morning I went on a run: 2.32 miles in 20:17. I didn't push myself as much as I should have, but it was humid as hell and in the end, I was happy to average an 8:45 mile after not having run at all lately.

Did Fran today before we left for New Orleans. 10:06, rx'd, which was moderately disappointing but a. my range of motion was pretty legit, and b. I'm looking forward to improving my metcon abilities henceforth after a solid 3 months of mostly SS and then a week of laziness.

Took about a week off, partly because I was busy and partly because I was lazy. Oh well. On Thursday, though, we worked on snatches and I then did Isabel (30 power snatches for time) with 65 lb in 3:36. Overall it was painful and frustrating, mostly because my already shaky snatch abilities have gotten rusty.

Friday I did the CFT at home with Alex. I ended up with

Back Squat - 175
Shoulder Press - 85
Deadlift - 225

Which totals out to 485, while not a huge improvement over the total I did last September (450, I think), still movement upward which I'll take. All were technically PRs, which was kind of sweet. I failed twice at 185 for back squat, but feel like I can totally get it soon, so that's good.