Last nights WOD was another ass kicker. Had to scale down the swings because my back pretty much screamed at me when I picked up the womens rx'd kettlebell. Feel kind of bad about that, but I also have to listen to my body. Still am not sure what is going on with the low back, if it doesn't improve in the next couple weeks might go see a doctor.
WOD as follows:
5 rounds
21 swings (women's RX'd 35lb bell, used 25 lbs which was too light but there was nothing in between)
15 burpees
9 push press (rx'd 25 lb dumbells
Completed somewhere in the sub 16 minutes, I believe, which is what I was aiming for. Would have been pleasantly surprised with below 15 minutes, but thats okay. Burpees kick my ass. Did the first round with 15 in a row though, so that was fun.
Feeling good being back at CF though. I missed having every muscle be sore!
Had a lesson Tuesday night. Rode Arwen in the two ring with the controller again. I like the two ring better, mostly because its a double jointed mouth piece, and its smooth. She doesn't really need the twist that is on the Beval gag, plus its only got a single joint. I got there early enough to warm her up outside, and then we started a little jumping out there. She started out okay, and then steadily got worse as it got darker. I went to take her down one of the lines, where the out jump was a bright white jump, with the blue solid river panel that she doesn't love. Three strides out I felt her spook a little, but pushed her forward. We turned to do it the other way, and wouldn't you know-she refused. The jump was set at like 2 ft! Trainer was like "WTF, she can WALK over that" so we jumped that line about 4 times both ways until she jumped it nicely. After finishing that, she said to me that perhaps its because Arwen can't see the jumps well at night, at least not ones that aren't brightly colored. Plus, the indoor arena lights were on behind the jump, which probably brought Arwen's eye up a little and possibly blinded her a bit (because going the other way away from the indoor was much better). So we decided to try a little experiment and jump a few jumps in the bright indoor. Arwen still had some residual speediness at first, but after jumping a couple and realizing she could see them, she was back to herself. Jumped with absolutely no spook or hesitation. Trainer even bumped one of them up to around 2'11", which I proceeded to bury her to the base on the first one, and she still jumped out fine.
Upon more thinking on the issue (I like to talk things through, so does my trainer) we looked back and realized that most of my REALLY hard lessons have been at night. In the dark. One comes to mind from last winter when all we did was circles around and around the arena trying to get Arwen to do a lead change. She was so amped up though she just wasn't listening. It was crazy. Then there was last Thursday, where she was being a total poop, but then was an angel on Saturday.
So the consensus is if I can't jump when its still light out, we will be jumping inside. Kind of stinks, but we want to preserve my confidence along with Arwens. A more seasoned confident rider who could feel the issue and actually do something about it would be able to ride her through no problem, but for me we just don't want to mess with it. Luckily, daylight savings is just around the corner and its already staying lighter out later, so I won't have to deal with the indoor for long.
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