No good excuse this time

Forgive me readers for I have sinned. It has been almost 3 weeks since my last blog post and unlike previous time I took way too long between posts I have no good excuse this time except for watching regionals and good weather (although I am perfectly capable of typing and sitting outside at the same time).

Covering all of those 3 weeks would be tedious so let's do some highlights!

Murph is evil. Team Murph is worse since sharing enables us to do harder stuff (as if Murph itself is too easy). The hardest part, at least for me, was the farmers walk.

Due to summer arriving we had to go outside and play which resulted in this obstacle course which we did last year as well. This time it included bear walk which made everything much much worse.... On the other hand I managed to do 20 swing with a 28 kg kettlebell (last year I was swinging a 20 kg kb)

This was horrible, pretty much as expected considering complete lack of barbells and presence of wallballs. Despite that we almost made the timecap and went for a swim afterwards.

This looks like a nice and friendly workout, but it's not. Both swings and toes to bar tax the grip which stops being fun after a few rounds. But I survived....

In the evening I decided to do some gymnastics. That day we practiced acrobatics which is a fancy word for weird stuff like standing on each other's shoulders and jumping up on your partner's shoulders (I didn't do the jumping, but I managed to provide a good enough base). Lots of fun....

Heavy hang squat cleans and strict HSPU are 2 things I suck at so having both of them in the same workout kind of sucked. I did hang squat cleans (singles all the way) as prescribed and did HSPU with 15 kg under my head to shorten the range of motion. It was still horrible. But I did manage to finish with a few minutes to spare. But it was still horrible.

First we run and then we snatch. Running is still horrible, but my speed is improving. I didn't feel too good but I still managed around 1:30 every time with 1:25 as my best time. It's not that long ago that 1:40 was a good time when I was feeling great. I also managed on average 5 snatches at 60 every round which was much better than expected as well.

In the evening we did some running (hill intervalls suck especially when you have somebody on your back) followed by some swimming (first swimming wod of the year!) which felt great.

We went RX on that one which probably was a bit too much. Lunges felt really heavy and went really slow. Front squats sucked as well. We were at the final round of front squats when the time cap hit us.

I don't have much of a problem doing 4 backsquats at 90. I do have a problem repeating it for many rounds especially when the "rest" is assault bike and high boxjumps (I went with 70). Not sure how many rounds we did, but it started sucking a lot after 3 or 4. Lunges sucked as well, not because they were hard as such, but because bare knees to tarmac is a bad idea. Maybe I should get knee sleeves?

Brewdog is one of the most well known craft breweries. They also have a chain of pubs. Most of them are in UK, but a month ago Malmö branch was opened. The place is a bit too hipster for my taste and their food appears to be a bit expensive but they do have a great selection of beers on tap including a large part of Brewdog's range

Mikkeller's K:rlek is rereleased every spring in slightly different versions. While it started out as one of my favourite summer beers this year it appears that they cut down on hops making it much less interesting:(