WOD and riding catchup

WOD 9/12/12 -
Press, heavy triple. Got to 85 lbs, which seems kind of weak. Eh.

"Nancy"

5 rounds for time:

400m run
15 OHS women's RX'd at 65lbs

I did it as prescribed, and came in at 17:04, I think. I really wanted to do around 15 minutes, but my running is just too slow at this point.  I'm not too disappointed though, for my first ever shot at this WOD. Surprisingly, the OHS were fine. I did all five rounds at the RX'd weight pretty much unbroken.

9/14/12 WOD

DL, heavy triple. Got to 185lbs. I know I could have done 200lbs, but with my back I didn't want to push it.

4 rounds for time:

400m run
15 box jumps
15 wall balls

Did this one in 17:44. I have to say though, the original WOD was supposed to be "Kelly", which is 5 rounds of a 400m run, 30 box jumps, and 30 wall balls. Let me tell you...when I first saw that in the morning I was PISSED. Mainly because jebus...we had been running a TON and Kelly? Is not a short workout. I probably would have taken me about 40 minutes. So I stewed about it pretty much all day, debating if I was going to go or not. Finally, a couple hours before I came to a peace about doing Kelly, and decided it was going to suck, but I would do it. I checked the website one last time, and lo and behold, they had changed it to the WOD above. Turns out it was taking everyone waaaaaay too long (the WODs were only supposed to be 12-15 minutes as part of our owner's training "plan") so they changed it for the afternoon. So when I got there and got to do that WOD, I was not complaining! Don't get me wrong. I'm sure Kelly will pop up some time and I'll do it, and it will be fine. But I really didn't want to deal with it!


As for riding, had a decent lesson on Friday, and then an okay one on Saturday. She was being kind of a cow on Saturday, so we put the bungee on. Helped a lot, and after that we were able to successfully jump a pretty nice course, including a two stride coming off a very short turn.

I also got to flat around my trainers horse which was so much fun! He has a horrible trot only because there is so much lift from his hind end. It pretty much tosses you out of the tack so hard that you have to use all your ab and leg muscles to help hold yourself up. His canter though? Is to DIE for. I thought Arwen's was nice, I think his might be better. Different than hers because she travels pretty flat. Covers a lot of ground without much movement.  Him though-he felt like riding on a rocking horse. Lots of power and just kept a really nice pace. Stayed nicely in the bridle too, which is one thing I have trouble with on Arwen. Would be fun to try jumping him sometime, but I'm not sure that will ever happen in my lifetime!