field workout: 04/10/11

Sorry for the hiatus...who am I speaking to? I guess I am apologizing to myself. I played disc golf at fools and was just lumbering like an exposed brontosaurus through hordes of velociraptor/poison ivy. We even mentioned it at the time, but it just seemed too early for poison ivy. Sure enough on Sunday night I start to get the tingle. Its a slow burn for me. I took Monday off cause I had tons of school work to make up. In between my fingers was getting red and angry. Tuesday it felt worse than it looked so I took that day off too. Wednesday morning and I couldn't even approach a fist with my right hand because there was poison ivy bubbles in between half my fingers. I get miserable when I have poison ivy. Miserable and completely crazy. I took everything to the dry cleaners. I threw shoe laces away. I actually haven't touched the shoes or cleats I wore to fools they are on the floor next to the door. Alexis is supposed to do something with them, but I think she forgot. It spread, not in bubble form thankfully to my thighs, neck, bicep and even creeped up onto my face. It was a lot less worse than it sounded or at least with my history of poison ivy it was a very minimal case, but I swear it gets worse and hurts more with exertion so I took it easy.

On Monday I did not have to go to Rutgers so without the gym at my disposal I tried to get up for a field workout. I got to prospect park and there were 1000 asians tossing frisbees. Weird anywhere else, but this is just Stuyvesant HS. So I threw with a 17 year old for a good 10 minutes and then rattled off something like this:

cones @ 10 yds, 20, 30

suicide
rest
0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0
rest
suicide
0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0
rest
suicide

My hips weren't opening up on the sprints so it wasn't a great workout. Good limbering up though.

the "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0" got me thinking about how to make team workouts fun in the spring. One of the reasons crossfit is marketable and appealing is because in many cases it is measurable, not only can you see personal increases, but you can match yourself up directly with another person. My idea is that for the team ultimate workouts that I make up in the spring, I am going to dabble with some crossfit measuring ideas for ultimate workouts so that everything is reportable and competitive.

The "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0" got my attention because what if the workout was As Fast As Possible (AFAP) "0,30,0,30,0,30,0,30,0 and 10 seconds of rest x 6" You wouldn't even have to stop the watch, just take your total time and subtract 50 secs from in. Or AMRAP 30 yards sprints in 30 seconds or a 1 minutes, etc. Things to think about.