The Farm, Pennsylvania

As I sit here on an old wooden bench on a farm in Nottingham (just outside of Philadelphia) looking out over the corn fields as the haze sets in, I think to myself as I start typing, will anyone follow my blog?  What does a blog even entail?   Why would people be interested in what I have to blog about in comparison to the thousands of others out there?  Well I guess I will never know, but either way, it is a good way to track my training whilst travelling around parts of the USA and Canada over the next month. 

So it begins...

Like most athletes, I start by making an excuse for feeling incredibly lazy and feral this morning during my workout.  Ha!  It all started with a meatball 6” Hoagie for lunch.  Boy was it tasty, but all those heavy carbs did make me have a McHoagies comedown afterwards.  For dinner at the baseball I also managed to smash a hotdog, bowl of fries and let’s not forget half a 2 foot long bag of caramelised popcorn and beers to wash it all down!!  Now...I don’t know about you but I’m not so sure there was a lot of nutrition in what I had to eat all day?  One might say I ate a lot of carbs, which we all know turns into sugar, elevating my blood sugar levels, thus, my body goes into overdrive and throws insulin at me like a dart to a dart board, and as we expect I go crashing down and end up in bed on a full stomach by 10pm!  Wow, look at me go!

Now that my excuse is out there I can explain my workout ;)  The farm (like most farms) doesn’t have a gym, or in fact, any traditional gym equipment like weights, barbells, dumbbells, rowers etc.  So, I start my first workout as a metcon workout (ie: metabolic conditioning – also known as cardio to the norm) to try and burn some calories from my fun filled eating day yesterday.  It’s about 10am and the temperature is around high 20’s with humidity of 80% already.  Now, the driveway is a wicked 650m incline sure to burn the hell out of your legs, there is plenty of grass around the house for sit-ups, pushups, burpees and a concrete slab in the undercover garage for skipping....thus my workout is created. 

WOD

3 x the following

·           650m run as fast as possible up the driveway

·           50 double unders

·           20 sit-ups on an incline (legs bent and splayed out on a yoga meditating position)

·           20 pushups (chest to ground, straight legs)

·           20 burpees (thighs and chest hit ground at the same time, jump and clap in the air)

I finished up with another 650m run up the driveway as that is where the house is.  Not great planning by me I must say.

Time = 25.20 

Now if I had to guess how long I thought this workout would take I would have said 15 mins, how I was wrong!  I felt like I was going to die, my heart rate was through the roof, I sounded like a 70 year old who had been smoking her whole life, my legs were killing me and I was dripping with sweat!  Now that my friends, was a killer workout!

Due to the workout, I was back on track with my eating for the day and I sure do I feel better for it. Time now for a glass of vino!