Good Day of Training

Started the day with some sauna and cold tub down at our Norman location.  I did this workout with the noon HYROX class than did some upper body bodybuilding with Taylor 

1/27/2025

 I did today's HYROX workout with the new class at noon.  Needed this good flush. 

My Next Big Goal

 I have always wanted to do the Hardrock 100 which goes from Silverton through Lake City through Ouray and Telluride and ends back at Silverton, but it is an extremely hard race to get into. So I have decided to use my backpacking/fastpacking/ultrarunning skills and just do it on my own in the summer of 2026.  There are a lot of race videos and race reports for me to study and I have given myself over a year to achieve this goal.  I will use races to prepare me for my adventures instead of my adventures to prepare for races. I will do more self-supported fastpacking trips to prepare for this, so I won’t do as many actual races in the next year preparing for this.  I have felt like I had won the lottery and am very excited to start training for this big undertaking.  I will set a date in July of 2026 put it on my calendar and start getting ready for it.  I will bring my tent and sleep at night so I won’t have to worry about going through the night like a regular 100 mile race.  

I am going to keep track of my training for something like this in the blog.  We will see if I can get prepared for a lot of climbing and altitude in Oklahoma. This race has over 33,000 feet of elevation gain and goes over 14,000 feet on one mountain.  Which is fun because I have never done a 14er!!

 

 What do I do today to get better?

Koda HYROX workout

Split Squat complex 

25 pound DB for 8 reps with 8 second hold right into 20 lbs DB right into 15 lb DB.  Each leg

500 time trial on Bike

5 X 500 meter Bike at 20 seconds above your 250 time trail pace. rest 2 minutes between each set.

Been eating good.  No sugar


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Back At It

I am back to blogging mainly to keep myself accountable and keep track of my return to fitness.
I did 6 rounds of 500 meter row with 4 minutes of rest. I immediately got off the rower and jogged a 200. I usually got back and rested about 90 seconds. I have been rowing for awhile but I have been keeping the damper at less than 3.  I did my first 500 under 2:00 minutes since I have been back.

Humbled

Workout was 

120 wallballs

80 chest to bar pullups

60 hspu

With a 20 minute time cap

Didn't finish. Womp womp. 

Only got 43 hspu. 

I Had a Good Couple of Weeks

I had two back to back 1st place finishes in back to back weeks.  Fittest in OK followed by The Fittest Games. I had to come from behind to win on the final workout to win The Fittest Games so that was fun. Here is a pic. 

On to today's workout. 

A few of us hard hitting fellas ran some hill sprints. We did about 8 sprints ranging from 40 to 80 meters. 

After that, Tre, Jacob, Drew and I did some lifting. 

Shoulder press

6,5,4,3,3,3

95,115,135,155,155(2),155

Back squat

6,5,4,3,3,3

225,255,275,295,315(2),315(1)

We worked on our aerobic capacity after that. 

Row/Airdyne

50/50

40/40

30/30

20/20

10/10

21:00 minutes

We rested 1 minute and did a max set of ring muscle ups and I got 11. I rested one more minute and did max set of bar muscleups and only got 4. Every year the Open has muscleups in a workout and it is always after a bunch of stuff.  I have been doing muscleups after workouts when I am tired. 

Muse out.