I was out of the house before seven o’clock this morning but the traffic along Katipunan was at a stand still and there was no way I was going to make it to the 7:30 AM CrossFit on time, so I went back home and decided to try again in the afternoon.

I turned up an hour too early for the 5:30 PM class, my first late afternoon CrossFit session. But – good thing for me, bad thing for my credit card – a new clothing shop was setting up for it’s opening (scheduled for tomorrow) right next to CrossFit MNL and they let me try on almost everything while I was killing time. (Yes, I bought a dress.)

Following that hot interview with the abdominal marvel, Abdel Abdelkader, today’s WOD turned out to be a gut buster.

Time: 25 minutes

• 10 reverse wall balls (Instead of facing the wall, as you do with regular wall balls, you have to have your back to the wall. Then you squat down, toss the ball up to the marker on the wall behind you, catch it on its way down while you go into a squat. If that sounds difficult, especially when you’ve never been good with balls coming over your head which was why you were always on the bench in volleyball class, er, yes, it would be and, yes, I did smash myself with the ball right smack in the face while trying this out.)
• 20 toes-to-bar (The bars were full up so I did these on the rings, which are supposedly harder but with my next-to-nil skill… Bars? Rings? Patatah, fritatah… It didn’t really matter, did it? But I must say, there was an initial earnest effort at doing a proper toes-to-bar but, in the end, it was, inevitably, back to knees-to-chest.)
• 30 V-ups
• 40 medicine ball sit-up toss
• 50 medicine ball bicycle
• 60 medicine ball Russian twists
• 70 alternating jump lunges
• 80 bodybuilder burpees

When I look at the videos and see how I was supposed to do them, I have to laugh because I was nowhere close to doing what I was supposed to be doing. Nowhere in the neighborhood. I wasn’t even in the same time zone!

Needless to say, I didn’t finish. Sadly, I got as far as 75 bodybuilder burpees which I am, however, proud to say, I conscientiously did with my butt down. Although I must confess that I couldn’t quite deliver on the jump up. I felt like a lobotomized cheerleader, drained of all pep.

It’s at times like these that I feel discouraged. For all the effort I’ve expended, I feel like I haven’t moved an inch anywhere towards the right direction. Of course it’s all my fault. I’m lazy and prefer to loll around in bed and call the masseuse instead of sucking it up and working through the aches and getting my ass to the gym four to five times a week. I’m a glutton who’ll declare those fake supermarket cheeses a major food group even if they resemble plastic more – in form, shape and nutritional value – than any natural food source.

Sigh.

A temporary glitch in the Matrix. I’ll be over this shitty self-loathing soon.

ANYWAY, it’s at times like these as well that we have to do what we do best. We dust ourselves off and get right back up again. I have no idea how I am going to sleep tonight after that workout, but I have resolved to drag this lazy butt out of bed early tomorrow morning and get to the 7:30 CrossFit session on time, even if it kills me.

Update: 16 Sept. 2011

I should have known I was PMS-ing…