Linda? oh my!

aw yes! the 3 bars of death.
let me tell you that i was very close to calling today a day off. the alarm went off and i snoozed and then again. ick. not sure whats up there but just needed to kick myself out of bed!
fired up the blackberry to find this gem! LINDA. holy yikes!
got to the gym a little late so had to speed thru the warm up a little.

treadmill
1 mile run. 8:30 pace. just ran it. felt good. legs fully recovered from runs the other day.

strength warm up
2 rounds
10 dip
10 pull ups
10 squats
only 2 rounds due to time. flew thru the pull ups. first set i was blasting over the bar. that felt good. dips no big deal and the squats were what they always are.

LINDA
warmed up with a little light bench and deadlift while i waited for a bar to free up. didn't want to make a stink since i would be hogging 2 stations. usually not an issue in the early am but had a couple people looking to work similar deals.

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
deadlift 1.5bw
bench press bw
clean 3/4bw

i scaled the weights a bit.
deadlift 225 this is 1.15xbw
bench 185 this is bw -10
clean 135 this is about 10# below rx

scaled reps because i was short on time and scared!!!!!!!
10-8-6-4-2
this kicked my ass. tried to keep good form throughout. the deads were good. used straps to help with grip issues. bench was good. pushed hard on a few of the last reps. used power cleans. yes this was a cheat. but i was beat up and wasnt working the full cleans here. next time.

for going from wanting to sleep in to rocking this out i am happy! gotta stay positive!!

weight continues to hover at 198/200 which is fine. would like to get a little leaner before the 1/2 marathon. don't need to be carrying around anything extra there!!

personal issues creeping in again and i think that has a lot to do with the not hopping out of bed in the am. gotta focus on the positive and not dwell. it is what it is and will get worked out one way or another.

peace!