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   Kat (kat@stareinto.space)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:29:59 JST Kat

   Blooper/victory: strength portion of Crossfit workout was 1 deadlift/min for 8 min, aiming for heavy but not a max out. Class was super crowded today so literally every plate in the gym was in use and people were sharing bars. I started off working in with someone aiming for 170kg, but after warming up we reconfigured and both jumped in with a third person. The bar was loaded with an absolutely chaos mix of 25s, 10s, 15s, and 5s so I couldn't easily tell what was on it; looked like 170?

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     Kat (kat@stareinto.space)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:31:57 JST Kat

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     I was disappointed when on minute 4 I had to drop back and take the outer plates off on my turn, figured I was tired.

     You might guess faster than I did that it was not 170, because I didn't figure out until the 8 minutes were over that it was actually 180kg, or about 98% of the 1 rep max I posted last week, and I am pretty happy to have done that 3 times in 3 minutes!

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     Kat (kat@stareinto.space)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:37:16 JST Kat

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     Aside: while powerlifting is still the thing I train for competitively, somewhere along the line I fell into being a regular at Crossfit. I did not expect to like it but it turns out I am just competitive enough to enjoy that every day is a little competition but not so much that it kills me when I lose. (Also the people at my gym are cool and I enjoy suffering with them.)

     Posts behind a CW because, well, everyone else got tired of people talking about Crossfit 10 years ago. 😄