There will be no schedule changes asociated with Regionals.
All normally scheduled classes are still on.
5 Rounds
15 Push Jerks 95/65
15 GHD Sit Ups
If you haven't gone and seen some of the best athletes in the world compete before… this weekend is your chance. Go down and support our athletes as it is sure to be a crazy sight and will honestly change your perspective on how you personally train.
The 2011 NorCal Regional qualifier will be held at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, in San Jose, CA. This year's competition will be a throwback and celebration of the early days of the Crossfit Games on the Ranch in Aromas. Only 40 miles north of Aromas, this special venue is sure to offer the right amount of dust and down-home feel.
Ryan Lippmann
Ahhhh yes, the day after Barbara or, as I have renamed her: “Trailer Park Babs” (keep reading, you’ll get it)…
That effing WOD yesterday reminded me of my first day ever at CFES, where Justin had me practically puking on his feet, with a weird nervous system failure feeling going on.
I was fine (not really) during the WOD, semi-ok after (aside from yawning weirdly, and frequently) but about halfway home I started to get the tell tale “mouth sweats” of a forth coming vomit. Sure as shit, I get home and puke nothing but bile and water for about 15 minutes.
Dinner date got cancelled – indeed Lene / Justin / Travis are cockblockers from afar.
Oh no, the story isn’t over yet (yeah, I’m angry now)…
I peel myself off the couch and decide that since the alarm goes off at 5:30a, I’d best get to bed. Good thing my nervous system was cooperating. I tossed, turned, cussed, cried, sweat, cried some more, thought about puking, self-loathed, contemplated suicide, prayed and finally dozed off for what I’m guessing was an hour tops. Around 4:00a I decide that work actually sounded good compared to whatever the fuck the excuse for rest I was attempting to get was, came in, opened up my office and banged away on a spreadsheet. Good motherfucking times. I now know what a meth-addict feels like, but without whatever “high” they claim to get. Oh, and without living in a trailer. Seriously.
I’d like to sincerely thank whoever did the programming yesterday. I’d love to blame Lene and Travis, but I have a feeling it was Justin. To this, I’ll raise a mug of coffee and say “Cheers” that WOD took me back to the good ol days of being a fat, lazy sack of shit.
I love this place, but sincerely hate Barbara and will likely hate that name for years to come. Kudos to you badass mofos who Rx’ed it (I chose the Dirty 6:30p “Over The Counter” scale option).
See you tonight!
Scott Charles
Ryan: sweet!
Olga B
Foundations are doing Barb today, and sounds like I am missing out on a chance to become a bi… kinda curious now.
Eileen
Great post, Ryan!
Jamie P
Excellent post, Ryan!! You have a way with choosing just the right words to describe the CrossFit feelings.
Olga: bahahaha! I’ll let you know how my date with “trailer park Babs” goes.
The P’s will be at the Qualifier! Can’t wait!!
adam k
Ryan, sounds like you should quit Crossfit and pick up a meth habit. You’ll probably save money, you’ll get the “high”, no teeth: no invisalign…and best of all, the girls won’t make you puk…uh, nm that won’t change.
Scott Charles
Olga: hahahah!
Ryan Lippmann
Excellent points Adam – I’ll stick to drugs that don’t ruin your life (are there any?). I’ll also maintain my current practice of not dating chicks that make me puke. Solid plans, eh?
You really missed out yesterday, forever known as “Bulimic Tuesday”. Rumor has it I wasn’t the only one who met Mr. Pukie at 6:30p. I won’t out anybody here, but this person is one of the “Regulars”…
brother mike
Olga, if you decide to do that let me know I will bring a camera.
Hit the 8:00 am class this morning- thought I would see different faces, but Gia and Roger are apparently stalking me and followed me there.
Roger
I can feel the disgust and self loathing (as well as loathing of Chris, Travis and Justin) jumping off the page. Nicely done Mr. Lippman, nicely done.
Brian Stover
Ryan, I feel your pain – My first Crossfit WOD was Fight Gone Bad.
Matt P
Hey Travis: 75 GHD sit ups the day after Barbara. Effe you too.
Wanna go for a run?
brother mike
Matt- it was 105 if you count the 30 GHDs in the warm up. How about a tabata GHD tomorrow just to ice the cake.
It is National Running Day.
Sabrina
My scabby hands and sore abs thank you for yesterday and the 30 bonus pullups and GHDs in the warm up today. I’ll just be stretching for time tomorrow, thankfully.
Scott Charles
OK well looks like a tough day coming up. So here’s the question: is it better to do 30 assisted pull ups, or scale down to 10 unassisted pull ups? In other words which has the most benefit? Thanks.
Roger
Scott- The answer to that depends on how much “assist” you actually get. but at the end of the day, if you can do 10 unassisted pullups then you should do those and as a matter of fact, do 20. Because if you can 10, you can do 20.
Justin Riley
Sorry bout the warmup sit ups. Should have been back extensions. It was a crazy morning with new on-ramp starting, new intern starting, Travis loosing the on-ramp syllabus, and me trying to write two warmups at once while printing a new syllabus. I miss Brooke!
Roger
You guys have made good lemmings of us. We just come in and do what we’re told, no independent thinking. Two plus years into this for most people in the 8 am today and not a peep from anyone.
brother mike
Justin,
More sit-ups! Everyone in the box needs a 6 pack!
Sincerely,
Brother Mike (who is good at sit ups but sucks at push ups)
Kyle Keller
Ryan, I will admit it. I add a similar experience as you. I made it all the way home before I puked… violently. Barbara is a bitch.
Ryan Lippmann
Sweet, so that makes 3 of us from 6:30p who lost our lunch – still one missing report / victim…
Matt Brogan
Definitely painful on the GHDs this morning…it was a good (albiet different)energy in the box this morning.
LauraB
Nice post, Ryan! There are really 4 from 6:30p that met pukie yesterday, albeit I did for a totally different reason (the flu). Would much rather be experiencing pukie because of Babs….
Ryan Lippmann
Where’s my homie???? I’m about ready to call s/he out!
J P Carey
looking forward to doing scaled barbara today — haven’t met pukie from a workout yet.. close, but not yet, which might indicate I’m not pushing hard enough. Maybe today will be my initiation?
John Michelmore
Ryan….so eloquent! Kyle, you definitely looked headed in that direction when you left last night after the WOD. Adam, you should have to do Barbara in front of all of us tonight!
Hope to see lots of you this weekend in San Jose!
Gia
Nice job Ryan for making puking more interesting to read about.
Scott, do 10. You gotta start somewhere.
Mike, yes we’re stalking you. Oh and you should eat meat instead of that veggie lunch. C’mon, start with tuna or tilapia…no one will think less of you.
Matt P
Gia- bacon is the gateway meat.
Gia Fazio
Yes but we need to start him on all on the less fun stuff so he eats all of it, its the same reason we feed babies veggies first not fruit!
Sabrina
Hazelnut-crusted salmon from Trader Joe’s is an ideal “gateway” meat. Tastes good enough to be illegal under the paleo diet, but I think it’s legit.
Hollis
Yes it was I that also met pukie, even on the OTC version of That Bitch. It was weird, it was also a delayed reaction. I think it was my brain finally recovering from the shock of the WOD and subsequently punishing me for what I put it’s vessel through (I also think the fact that I was sweating butter and tequila from the prior 3 and a half days had something to do with it, but I’m going to ignore that for now and suggest you do the same).
brother mike
Must be the veggies, but i just want to go to sleep after a hard wod, not puke. Maybe it’s your bodies’ way of telling you that what you ate shouldn’t have been there in the first place?
Mmmmmm, sweating butter and tequila. That paints a picture.
Amy K
Good luck this weekend team CFES. 2-4-6-8 who do we appreciate? East Sac! East Sac!
brother mike
For those interested, today is the last day to get the early discount registration for the California International Marathon. http://www.runcim.org
Sabrina
I guess today’s theme is puke! Fantastic. We cover all of the scatological topics in this community. I’ve never puked once during or after a workout in the 2 years I’ve been here, so I’m genuinely curious about what that means? Do I not push myself hard enough? Cast-iron stomach? I’ve occasionally felt a little nauseous after a particularly long rowing WOD, but that’s about it. Not that I want to experience it, mind you; I’m just wondering why some people regularly puke and others don’t.
Olga B
From what I hear so far Foundations are crushing 1/2 Barbara today, no sweat. Of course, those guys belong in Level 1, but they work (out) undercover.
Jamie P, how’s your date, please, do tell. Us wants to know all the details. Really tempted to come down after work and embarrass myself all on my own. No cameras, thank you.
Sabrina
Aha! Behold the awesome power of the Google!
http://www.crossfitsantacruz.com/crossfit_santa_cruz/exercise-induced-nausea-and-vomiting.html
Ryan Lippmann
Hollis! Yay! Welcome to the confessional…
Likewise, I wasn’t going to mention the maple bar that I devoured at Roseville Toyota yesterday morning as it was meaningless minutia at 6:30p. Totally passed through the digestive system, right? Right.
Onwards and upwa… errr backwards and downwards!!
brother mike
Sabrina, I think working out at 6 am in the cool morning air with little or no food in the digestive tract might have something to do with not puking. But in your case it probably has more to do with the fact that you are just that badass!
Scott Charles
Sabrina: thanks for the info on vomiting. My take is that vomiting during a workout is not necessarily a good thing.
The foundations class did 1/2 Barbara a couple of months back. It was brutal. I remember I almost fainted.
Cheers.
Sabrina
The article I linked to indicated it may have quite a lot to do with how recently you’ve eaten and how well hydrated you are, so I think the 6 a.m. workout slot is probably the right answer. 1 can of coconut juice and half a Larabar apparently works for me. I never feel quite right working out at the end of the day, the few times that I’ve done it. I’ll blame it on the unpredictability of my diet during the day, and not on the fact that I’m intimidated by the “dirty 6:30” hooligans! 😉
angela
Shoes: always an important subject.
I just received my inov8 shoes in the mail (thank you zappos). However, they are slightly too big for me. They are a women’s size 8. I am happy to bring them by CFES if anyone is interested in them, or even trying them on for size. And they can be yours for $105. Otherwise, I am sending them back. Let me know if you are interested (angelliott@aol.com).
Oh, and they are the ever so adorable BLUE. If you are curious, these shoes are so wildly popular that I have never found them in my size (7.5) and could never get them in a color I wanted. Funny enough that today, finally, they are available in my size and color.
Matt P
Sabrina- i think that there is some conditioning to the pukie issue as well.
For those of us that make it out for the CF Endurance WODs on Sundays, we do resting intervals on a pretty regular basis. Sure, it makes us a little nauseous, but it helps prevent the pukie when we do interval WODs at the box. But then, I think that my lack of push up strength slows my pace on Babs, so maybe that helps too.
Pretty sure i have not seen Hollis and Lippman out at the CFE wods… that might be a coincidence.
Ryan Lippmann
Matt P. – Pretty sure Lippmann (I won’t speak for Hollis 100%, although I have a sneaking suspicion) is doing the kidney/liver WOD recovery on Sundays. Afterall the Paleo life is all about balance…
Hollis
I’m going to pop poo (or puke puke?) the conditioning theory. You see Kyle at your CFE WODs don’t you? For me the puking def has to do with what I ate, or haven’t had to eat throughout the day. Yesterday I barely ate anything because I was busy at work (coffee, beef jerky and a hard boiled egg by the time i got home) and tried to shove something down on my way to the gym (a sour peach and another egg). De not a balanced day of eating in any way shape or form. Lessons learned.
And PS, I have been to some CFE WODs and felt the urge to puke at all of them. Hope to go again soon once my weekend schedule dies down.
Matt P
Hollis- you are always welcome at CFE Sunday. I am not sure what prevents or causes pukie. I just wanted to call you guys out on blowing off the running wods.
Ryan Lippmann
“Hope to go again soon once my weekend schedule dies down”
in other words: “go eff yourself Matt P.”
Spoken like a true weekend warrior.
Still love you P!
Ryan Lippmann
Matt – I have a mutually beneficial idea for a Sunday WOD:
We join you for your version of pukie if you join us for ours?
Since it’ll be a Sunday Funday, you get to join us for our WOD first, theeennnnnn we’ll join you for yours.
Deal?
Anne
And I thought I was the only one- Pukie didn’t visit me until 5 hrs after I met Babs. It was AWEFUL- after I had to peal myself off the gym floor 45 min after the WOD, rush home to shower and get to Z Grille for a Harty family dinner, ate 1/2 my food, got home, sweated, tossed, and turned in bed for an hr before my visit from the clown. So, Disneyland for 3 days, no sleep, and mai tais are not a good idea before Babs?
Hollis
If I liked running and feeling queasy as much as I loved doing anything else (really, anything else. Well, maybe not rowing) I would be there on every day that started with Sun. But really, I’m waiting for the swim WODs… where you at Brian?
brother mike
Lippmann, I think Harlan has the perfect Saturday night, pre-CFE WOD for Matt: Tabata Patron Shots. Sunday morning CFE WOD will be Tosh.
adam k
Random story: one time I puked in the middle of a globo gym. I was doing some off-season football training and the trainer who was a big fan of suicide sprints at the end of each 2+ hr training session. Gross story short, I was forced to clean a long trail of pukie that led from the track to the restroom that I was unsuccessful at retaining in my ballooned cheeks. Those treadmills sure were shiny when I was done but the women that were running on them at the time weren’t so impressed.
And John, I’m a gentleman. If I’m doing Barbara tonight, I’m buyin her dinner first. And you’re sure as hell not watching.
Matt P
Adam, boy am I glad that didn’t end up like your Sunday story did.
Hollis
So P, you gonna join us for our WOD? One of the 6:30 slogans is “I Crossfit so I can binge drink at Crossfit.” Although – much like running – every time I do it I tell myself I’m never gonna do it again.
adam k
Matt I seriously don’t like talking about Sunday’s story… Mostly because it still haunts me. Although it is interesting to think about what was bartered in exchange…was it money? Drugs? My bet is it was a ham sandwhich.
Hollis
P.S. I love this place.
Jamie P
Half Babs was a BITCH. She left me nauseous, light headed, and weak in the knees. She was a little too into bondage for me – 50 green band pull-ups suck ass, especially when you almost hang yourself on the damn band after the third round.
The date with “Half Trailer Trash Babs” started decent enough – she was playing hard to get those first two rounds, but I was in hot pursuit, quite certain I was going to nail her by the end of the 5th round. It all fell apart after the pull ups on the third round. I put my best foot forward, worked my ass off to impress her, and I got no love. I invested 20 minutes and 18 seconds into her and I got nothin’ in return….
Brooke
Loving these comments today. I miss you guys and your puke
LauraB
There is a reason I work out at 6:30 (other than the fact that I don’t do mornings) and it’s because Hollis and Ryan (with Adam close behind) keep me laughing! I love dirty 6:30 aka Off Ramp!
Chris Lene
and we miss your booty!
signed the ENTIRE BOX!
J P Carey
^^^
this
Pat H.
DIRTY 6:30 in the HOUSE!!! Off-Ramp, I promise to quit cheating on you next week…
Miss you already Brooke!