06.07.08
Posted in Crossfit Workout & Exercises, General Colin McNulty Stuff at 9:46 am by Colin McNulty
The gym on Saturday was horrendous. It was the named Crossfit Workout Nancy, which with 5 rounds of 400m running was always going to be a bad one for me. Especially with the over head squats mixed in, it meant there was no rest for the legs.
Depressingly I was unable to make all the runs, the 3rd and 4th run resulted in a few walks. I’m sure I’m physically capable, it’s just a mind over matter thing. When you’re struggling for breath, the legs are killing you and the mind is (none too quietly) whispering in your ear: “You can’t go on… You only have to stop running and the pain will disappear….” but then I guess that’s why they call it Mental Toughness. 
You’ll notice I didn’t say I walked on that last run. I would say that was out of choice, but no. Matt / Fozzie, a long time member at Crossfit Manchester and a Taekwondo instructor, having just finished his Nancy, decided to run another block of the Mill just to keep me company. As much as I didn’t want him to, it kept me honest and I made the run, thanks Matt.
It certainly goes some way to demonstrating the close bond between members of Crossfit Manchester, which is in part of course due to the 2 great coaches we have in Mark and Karl, but also to the camaraderie that Crossfit engenders amongst its members. Whilst every workout is scaled to each persons individual abilities, there’s something special about everyone doing the same workout on the same day and in the gym, at the same time. Crossfit builds a team spirit and sense of unity that you don’t get at your normal gym, where everyone is lost in their own iPod world, doing there own thing.
The scaling also meant that I was soundly beaten by Derrick, who has just turned 60 and for much of the (for me) 22 minute workout was neck and neck with Lawraine, who has said she doesn’t mind me saying that she is 59 (I think, Lawraine, correct me if I’m wrong!). It was Lawraine lifting first in the Crossfit Girls Olympic Weightlifting Video I posted last week.
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05.07.08
Posted in General Colin McNulty Stuff at 4:45 am by Colin McNulty
A diary of a terrible week and an explanation of why there was no Friday Fun post this week (as promised):
- At the beginning of the week my daughter got sick, full on vomiting, the works. She nearly missed a birthday party because of it, which when you’re 7, would have been a world ending disaster.
- I’ve finally had to come to a decision I didn’t want to make about work, and it’s not a good one. Won’t bore you with the details but I’m going to have to make a slight change of direction.
- As per my last post, my Wordpress Blog was hacked, necessitating the best part of a day to upgrade it and get everything re-setup (plugins etc).
- The wife is finding it harder than she thought finding a contract as a jobbing programmer.
- A world ending event did happen to my daughter: she dropped the top off the (very rare) ice-cream I bought her, on the floor! We had floods of uncontrollable tears for about 20 minutes. Still it’s a consolation to know that she’ll remember that day for the rest of her life. I still have vivid memories of dropping the top of an ice cream with my Grandma when I was 6! One of only a handful at that age.
- The wife got sick, what the daughter had, lots of throwing up, it was pretty bad.
- I got sick! Woke up at 3am hurling my guts up. Now I know I’m a fella and there’s Man Flu and all that, but I can honestly say, it was the worst illness I’ve had for as long as I can remember. For 24-36 hours I could barely move, certainly couldn’t eat. Thankfully I’m all right now and 2 pounds lighter! Must get back on the fish oil (I’ve been lax recently.)
- I discovered that after upgrading my blog, I was locked out! Every time I logged in, I just got the Wordpress Blank Screen of Death. Which is exactly what it sounds like, a completely blank screen with nothing on it. Nothing I seemed to do could get me in. Obviously the fact that I’m writing this post (at 5am on a Saturday *sigh*) means that I fixed it, but it took all Friday afternoon to work it out. I’ll do a full post on it later, as it appears to be a common problem.
- Now that I’m better I’m back to my normal ways: waking up far too early. Why *DO* I wake up at 5am most days when I have no reason to get out of bed?? I can’t even realistically do any Crossfit exercises that early in the morning, what would the neighbours think?
So there you have it, an appalling week by any standards. How was yours?
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