That's me alright!
Did my first round of crossfit this morning. Today I focused on core/shoulders and boy howdy this shit kicks your ass in all kinds of unique ways. When I was lifting and building strength in the past, I always did it with the idea that I'd focus on a single muscle group per workout. The Crossfit regime doesn't allow for such things. Instead, you pulverize all parts of your body. For example tomorrow's activities include 45 second runs with 100lbs of additional weight. Yeah...and that's just what goes on between routines. I'm stoked because this is EXACTLY what needs to happen to step up to the next level next season, and it'll be cool to get all cut up for the first time ever, but boy howdy, doing that at 6:50am is punishing. The good news is by the time I get to work I'm totally jacked up. My days of oozing in at 8:25 unable to communicate with anybody until I've had at least 2 cups of coffee are over.
The second part of this punishment routine is that I decided to go ahead and get some whey protein to supplement the muscle portion of this. Why the fuck can't they make this shit in flavors like gatorade? I get it that its supposed to be a shake, but i don't want a fucking shake. I just mix it in water cos well, shit that's all I have time for (and my blender is in one of 4 storage places I now have shit stashed in). So, you'd think I'd pick out a flavor that this combination sounds appealing right? WRONG! Cookies 'N Cream y'all! No fucking joke. And its about as gross as it sounds. I suck it down cos I'm tough like that but jeebus aitch christ that shit puts the hair on your chest. I sucked down a serving of it after a 10k run tonight.
I eased back into the grind @ work fairly easily after nearly a week off. Some very good news abound in the way of new clients and some not-so-good news about other clients from a bygone era. All in all, we're gittin 'r done and that's what counts. I'm pretty much set to accomplish my goals for the remainder of the year (4 work weeks left? really?). Omnicom's stock is down for the year right now, and I just enrolled in the employee stock purchase plan (yeah we get to buy the umbrella stock cos we're that fuckin cool) and I'm hoping it stays around here for a bit so I can horde it all up at the low price. It's projected to be 10 bucks up next year so maybe I'll get rich! BLING BLING baby!