Mediocre Runners

Last week was a great week as far as Crossfitting goes. I logged four Crossfit workouts.  Wednesday was a tough one:

15-12-9
Thrusters, 65#
Kettlebell Swing, 35#

As RX’s it was 135# and 2 pood (whatever that means).  While I was struggling with my very scaled workout, the pros at my box were thumping away with the heavy weights. But who cares? I got a great workout out of it.

Then on Saturday I did a Crossfit main site WOD called Nicole:

Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
Run 400 meters
Max rep Pull-ups
I completed: 8 rounds with 1-3-2-2-1-2-1-2 pullups respectively (those were dead hangs, but still mediocre).

I was still pretty beat up from my Wednesday workout, but felt good about the running during Nicole, especially since it was my first real use of my new Nike Free 5.0s.  I’m going to do a do an in depth review of these shoes once I get some more time in them, but my first impression was very good. Great even – despite a nagging pain in my right ankle, which could be related to some shin splints I was having last month.  I took today and Sunday off to give the ankle a rest and some quality ice time, but I can’t wait to get out there and really run in these Frees.