Life got kind of hectic right before I was getting ready to leave Montgomery. This post is going to play catch up from last Wednesday. One of the reasons I didn't post on Wednesday was because I was really frustrated with my performance that night! I had hurt my knee on Monday and it was still pretty tight on Wednesday. Wednesday's WOD was 5 rounds max reps of burpees, wall balls, body rows, push press (55#), and step ups. I started out on wall balls and I couldn't even do the first one! My left knee and hamstring were killing me! I almost started to cry because I knew this was one of my last workouts before I left Crossfit for about 6 weeks and I couldn't even do the first exercise. Travis told me I could just do push ups instead. I knew I couldn't even do regular push ups because my leg hurt just doing those. I did the push ups with my knees on the floor. I did the first round with push ups instead of wall balls, but on rounds two and three I wanted to try squats. Once that didn't hurt too bad I decided to try wall balls again! I actually decided to switch it up halfway through round four. I guess my knee had loosened up enough at that point that it didn't hurt nearly as bad! Even though I did end up doing wall balls in this WOD I was still very frustrated that my body was not cooperating with me!
Thursday was a completely different day!!! I went to my doctor to get my final labwork done for my surgery. He wrote a letter for my surgeon. When I read it I almost started to cry! My doctor said, "She is without a doubt in the best shape of her life." Seriously?! I have been working my butt off and my doctor actually noticed!! I couldn't wait to get to the box and show Travis!! I was basically jumping up and down when I took the letter to him! I think the best part was when he realized what it said because he got this huge smile on his face and gave me a big hug!! He was just as excited as I was! I had been worried about the WOD for Thursday, but after reading this letter I knew I could do it! It was three rounds of 500m row, 10 deadlifts @ 185#, and a 200m run. I asked Travis what weight I should do on the deadlifts. My 1RM is 235#, so I wasn't sure I would be able to do 185# ten times in a row! Travis said I should at least be at 145#. When he saw me warming up with 145# he said 165#. Eventually it worked itself all the way up to 185# (which was RX). I really wasn't sure that I was going to be able to do it, but I would sure as heck try. When I was on the last round and was running back into the box from the 200m run Travis was standing there cheering me on. I don't think I have run that fast in a VERY long time! All I could really think about was that letter from my doctor and how I was going to prove it right!!! It was an absolutely amazing night!!! I finished in 17:49, but the time didn't even matter! I was just really really happy with how I did!!!
On Friday I did a very similar WOD to the one I had done on Tuesday. It was 5 rounds max reps bench press and body rows. The big difference being that I did 115# on the bench press instead of 75#! I ended up doing 32 bench presses and 48 body rows after 5 rounds.
Saturday was my last workout before I left for surgery. It was a really tough one because I didn't get nearly enough sleep and was just feeling kind of drained. It was a 20 minute AMRAP of 1 power clean, 2 front squats, 3 push presses @75#, and 200m run. I was in a group with Stephanie and Rachel. I am so glad I had them because I don't know if I would have finished without their support! I struggled through the lifts, which was disappointing, but I did get through them! It was sad to know that this was my last workout at Crossfit for about 6 weeks. I told everyone goodbye and basically ran out of the box where they wouldn't see me cry!