Monday, August 25, 2008

It's only a little lightning....!!!

WOD 8/22: catalyst wod
  • power snatch + 2 snatch balance 90lbs x 1 rep x 1 set
  • power snatch + 2 snatch balance 75lbs x 2 reps x 3 sets
  • overhead squat 115lbs x 1 rep x 1 set
  • overhead squat 95lbs x 2 reps x 3 sets
For time:
  • pullups x 50
  • pushups x 50
  • situps (incline ~45 deg) x 50
  • squats (air) x 50
time to complete: 12m46s
total reps: 200 + 11 = 214 total reps

WOD 8/23: hiking

liz and i finally had some time to explore the wilderness of our new home! well we live in a desert, but believe it or not, there is some wilderness! and it's only 45m or so away.

we went up to the catalinas. driving up the catalina highway...i was literally at a loss for words. that mountain range is the most amazing natural thing i've ever seen. it topped the adirondacks. we felt as if we were wiley coyote being chased by the roadrunner! this must have inspired the setting for those cartoons, as you wind up canyon upon canyon with drops reminescent of those cartoons.

we ascended to 8000 feet...wow. wow wow wow wow. they say that the ecology going up the 25 mile drive from tucson to the top of mt. lemmon is similar to driving from mexico to canada - but condensed!

we hiked part of the butterfly trail in the mixed conifer forest. this was amazing, again. take western mass forests and multiply by 1000. we turned around about an hour or so in when it started raining. of course we were up on a high peak at this point and got pretty close to a huge lightning strike. we both double-timed it back down the hill! it was actually an incline heading back, so we both got a great workout in as well. i can not wait to go back - and it seems like at every elevation change we have a totally new climate to explore!

time: 2 hours

8/24: rest day

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