Clean

Decided to sleep in today and went to the nooner. It was a very small group, no Jamie or Dave. Finally met Tolbert, though. He's a tall guy!

WOD: Hang Clean
2-2-2-2-2

Felt pretty good when I was up to 63#, but then for some reason, I started psyching myself out when I got to 73#. After a few feeble attempts, I regrouped and got in the 2 reps. Then it was time for 83#. I should have just added 2.5 to each side to make it more gradual, but I was feeling like I could do it...until I tried a few times and failed. At this point, I was getting frustrated and annoyed. Sam was like, are you wearing contacts? And I told him I can't because I have LASIK next week. He thought I said I got it yesterday, haha. I guess being unable to see well affects my self-confidence, too. But Sam coached me and had me go back down to 73 since I'd already done it successfully. When I could only get out one rep with that, he had me go down to 63#. That helped me refocus and concentrate on the jump. I find on these lifts, when I get past a certain weight, I start overthinking the moves and end up failing. Quite annoying! Anyway, I worked back up to 73 and decided to jump to 80. Did that fine and did 83#, with a little wobble on the 2nd rep. I wanted to see if I could do 85, so I put on the 1# chains and tried it. By this time, everyone else was doing the cooldown, so I rushed myself. Didn't make it. Oh well, next time. CD was long jump, 5 attempts. My best jump was 74". Overall, I can't be disappointed in myself because I had no baseline for this lift yet. Just room for improvement, as always, and that's what keeps me going back for more.

Back to lesson plans and reading--got another session with Dee's daughter tomorrow evening. Should be fun!

And wow, am I PMSing or what, but I just got a really strong craving for toasted marshmallows!! I want a s'more or something.