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I am finally feeling better this week after having a stomach bug, but right after that, with some overlap, I got what was most likely the flu since that’s what my girlfriend had. I had intended to do a Crossfit total around the new year and wanted to get reps with my new heavy kettlebell. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but it’s OK.

We finally got to Joy’s last night, by ourselves. It was a much-needed night out after not doing anything. The food was good, and we watched some Saturday Night live episodes when we got home. I slept pretty well last night, even with drinking. I guess I drank less than normal, and the drinks didn’t seem as strong, or at least my first one didn’t. When I woke up, I felt well rested, so that was good.

I was contemplating getting a WOD in early today, so I found a simple one that doesn’t involve their weird strength focus. I chose to do a shift version because I wanted something shorter. Today I didn’t feel like rowing 2000 meters with tons of snatches before and after.

The WOD went well. I did not go completely all out, but I didn’t intend on that. The past few days, I have been hitting workouts very hard and doubling up on them. It got my heart rate up and served its purpose.

My real goal for this morning was to play with my Christmas present. The heavier 97-pound kettlebell has been sitting there taunting me and begging for me to touch it since I got sick. I was much too sick to think about it then, between not eating and the cough. I wanted to go a week or so feeling good before touching that. The other thing is that right now I want to only use it when my girlfriend is home for the first few times in case I tweak something. It’s a big jump up from the 32 kg one.

Anyway, I was feeling pretty good when I got up and wanted to play with Motivator. I have been coming up with some ideas of how to get some reps in with that while not overdoing it either. One thought I had was a good old-fashioned tabata. I wasn’t into that today, though. Another thought I had was an EMOM. Those are great for this sort of thing. I wasn’t into that today either, then the idea of a death by popped into my head. I decided to set a hard limit on that at 10 minutes for this day but was sure I’d stop before then.

I ended up stopping at 5 and was happy with that. It felt like the handle was tearing up my hands, and I am in a place where I want to not do this under fatigue yet. Hell, I don’t know if I will ever want to do it. The swings felt great, though, and the video of 3 looked great. Much better than I thought they’d look, to be honest. I was more than happy with this as a little addition to the WOD I had done just before. Let’s be real here. I am pushing 50 years old. It’s more about doing challenging things for me these days.

Music for today was Exocrine.