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My CrossFit Journal (Year 1, week 17 & 18)

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The short:

Last week:

  • One 5k run

This week:

  • 6km run (solo)
  • CrossFit
  • CrossFit
  • 5km run

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year 1, week 17, day one

I went out for a run with my co-worker L McMomsie, this day on a trail run! We ended up going for 5.6km in total. Such a good feeling.

Before and after our run. I kind of want to make it a weekly occurrence to go with her on runs! Note to self: tie my hair up prettier next time. Ew.

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year 1, week 18, day one

I went out for a solo run today on one of my routes. I ended up running 6km in 38 minutes. I felt slow, even though I sprinted a few times during my run. I dislike those sluggish feeling days.

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year 1, week 18, day two

Bear Complex

Buy In:
30 Hollow Rocks
30 Superman Rocks (reverse of hollow rocks)
30 Jack Knives (basically a v-situp)

15 Rounds of Unbroken:
1 Power Clean; 135/95lb
1 Front Squat
1 Push Press
1 Back Squat
1 Push Press

I ended up lifting the most weight I ever have overhead, on this Bear Complex! 65lbs!

We had 25 minutes to complete the “buy in” and then do the entire 15 rounds of the bear complex. I tried to remember my exact time, but it was 23:20-ish.

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year 1, week 18, day three

AMRAP 12

12 Push Press; 115/85lbs
12 Chest to bar pull-ups
12 One-legged squats

If you couldn’t do chest to bar’s, you would have to do kipping pullups and instead of 12, we had to do 15!

For the Push Press I used 55lbs in total and I finished two complete rounds and I was on the kipping pullups. I forget how many I did in my third round. I’m going to assume 7 or 8. I had to stop doing them as “fast” because I thought I was going to rip my hand open.

Contrary to your belief, this blood blister is not from the weights. It’s from the pullups. I promise it’s not painful, it just looks that way.

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year 1, week 18, day four

Another run with my co-worker L McMomsie. We went on another trail run but at a different location! We ended up doing another 5k. She’s a super trooper (ha! I love that movie by the way) as she completed an hour of Boot Camp before I drove down to meet her for a run!

We even spotted some adorable bunnies (tons of them!) and stopped to snap a photo of a bunny AND A GROUNDHOG! Moses. The things you see…

I definitely worship seating after this week. My poor butt cheeks were sore after that run!

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Daily, Photos, Reviews

Make Up For Ever—You’ve been busy

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I’ve been blogging a lot about Make Up For Ever products a lot recently, but that’s because they’ve been busy coming up with some great products for us all to buy!

They have recently come out with a product called Eye Prime. Make Up For Ever’s first eye shadow primer. A crucial makeup item to lust after if you have oily eyelids, such as myself. It’s the only oily part on my entire body. I don’t get it, really.

A versatile nude color. It’s time to prime — psh look at me rhyme! I should claim that slogan. For eye primers, you can either wear it on its own to brighten your eyelid area, or wear it underneath eyeshadow to help intensify your shadow colors even more.

Make Up For Ever has also released some new Aqua Cream colors. These are completely smudge-proof and waterproof, which won’t crease, run or transfer. I haven’t had a chance to swatch any of the colors in store yet, but you can see how many colors there are from the photo above. Plus, all of them you can apply on your cheeks for a bit of a glow, or even the lower colors to your lips as well.

Since there is a variety of colors to choose from, it’s going to be so fun to play with them for the summer. You can wear them alone of layered with eyeshadow. Have fun with it and buy a few of the Aqua Cream’s, since you can also mix them together. There’s an infinite number of looks you can do with these eye-catching hues.

Make Up For Ever Eye Prime ($25) and Aqua Creams ($26) are now available at Sephora stores across Canada.

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Fashion, OOTD, Photos

OOTWW

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Looks like I wore a lot of orange and pink this week.

It’s Canada Day long weekend! What does everyone have planned? I hear that The Trews are playing in Kitchener on Sunday. Let’s hope nothing goes wrong during their set up and not have the show go on. Anyway, either way, we may make the drive over there to check it out!

Happy Long Weekend!

Stay tuned for my CrossFit workout tomorrow, I decided I’d post it tomorrow instead of Monday. Bit of a rebel ;)

 

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