Thursday, March 5, 2009

Of Castles and Planets

WOD
3 rounds for time:
400 meter run
21 Kettlebell Swings, 2 pood/1.5 pood
21 Burpees, jump to a height 1 foot above reach

14:17

Surprise, surprise. Another brutal workout. This one was a mental battle more than anything. Keep running, keep swinging, keep burpeeing! With only three rounds, few breaks should be taken. However, with heavy swings and nonrhythmic burpees, it was easy to lose focus and take a break. I did manage to complete the first round of swings and the last round of burpees without any rest. I'm happy with that, but wish I could say the same for the other rounds. Luckily I never once had to stop more than once during a set. The weather was great for a workout like this, not too hot and not too cold, a regular Goldilocks day.

For all you zoners out there, here is an awesome blog from Crossfit Santa Cruz that has hundreds of zone specific recipes.
http://cfscceat.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-24T18%3A09%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7

Below are a few links for Ang, Jeff, and Zach (or anyone else interested in interesting stuff) that provide some more information on a few of the world's mysteries we talked about during breakfast. You know just light conversation like the apocalyptic theory for 2012 and how to harness the earth's magnetic field. Just pleasantries.

2012: there's more information than you'll know what to do with here. A lot of it is pretty thin and some of it is crap, but the beginning kind of goes over what will happen in terms of astronomy during winter solstice 2012.
http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm

This is Coral Castle (not cave or cove like I may have said). Once again there are a lot of theories about this guy. Regardless of these, constructing such a structure like this is truly amazing.
http://www.crystalinks.com/coralcastle.html

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