5/31 – Baseline

WOD ‘Baseline

500m row

10 pull-ups

20 push-ups

30 sit-ups

40 squats

400m run

8:38 Rx

Spent Wednesday and half of Thursday stuck in bed sneezing and sniffling, a little coughing and a whole lot of body not wanting to be vertical.  Cam came home Wednesday night after training with chicken soup and I was up for about 30 minutes eating some of it and then I couldn’t stand being vertical anymore.  Back to lying down and more sleep.  My body clearly needed it.  What it didn’t need was to have that all follow ‘Annie’.  My abs were as sore as I can ever remember them being.  It hurt to breath, it hurt to sneeze and it actually even hurt to stand with proper posture – I couldn’t straighten them out let alone stretch them.  Agony.

So it was back to the box for baseline.  I needed to get moving again though wasn’t sure at all how I was going to manage the 30 sit-ups.  What I didn’t realize is that every other movement would also tax my abs.  It was going to hurt.

It wasn’t that long ago that I’d done ‘Baseline’ for the first time and it hurt way more than expected so I think maybe because I was expecting it this time it wasn’t so bad (except for that ab thing).  I was steady through most of it – solid row – about a 1:50ish pace through the 500m.  Two sets on the pull-ups and I think 10-5-5 on the push-ups.  The sit-ups were steady (and painful) then I did 20 squats, walked a bit closer to the door then finished them off before the run. I remember thinking when I saw 6:30(ish) on the clock that I’d be smashing my previous PR heading into the run with 2 minutes but as it turns out – I don’t run so fast after all that – I finished 2 seconds slower than my previous PR.  Given though the sickness and how my body was feeling I was quite happy with the progress.