After a day off yesterday, and with the sun shining, it was going to be another CrossFit duathlon day, but with an added twist. Rather than simply ride to the gym I decided to take a detour, adding a whole bunch of mileage. I did in fact underestimate the distance and arrived 15 minutes late at the gym after a 1 hour 40 min ride, but fortunately they hadn't started the WOD. The WOD was a tough one - the Filthy Fifty. 10 exercises, 50 reps of each (box jumps, jump pull-ups, kettlebell swings (16kg), walking lunges, knees to elbows, push press, back extensions, wall ball shots, burpees (gotta love 'em), double-unders (skipping but 2 turns of the rope to one jump - I can't do this so had to do 150 normal skips)); I managed all this in just under 29 minutes. I then got changed back into my cycling kit and headed home. There was a bit of a headwind on the top of the hill and I was a little tired so the journey home took some 47 minutes. Overall a great day's training.
When I got home from CrossFit Mrs Turbo Man was opening up the beehive to see how the bees were doing. And they are doing really well. They have made a mass of cone, some with honey and some with brood, so hopefully we will have some of our own honey to eat before the end of the summer.
We watched the King's Speech last night. I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to the film industry as I think most that are involved in it are a bunch of pompous, overpaid and talentless chumps, and so when the industry says that something is really wonderful I take it with a very large pinch of salt. We did, though, thoroughly enjoy it.
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We loved The KS, a lot to be learned from one man's struggle.
Sounds like you are having fun down there of late, just catching up on all your blogs from the last 10 days.
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