Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

I struggle with being positive about things (shocker!) but looking back over a post from the other day, I feel like I need to give myself a little bit of credit.

In the post where I did the 93# squat clean, I said I finished last with that day's WOD blah blah blah. Well yes, I did finish last. But! There was a reason I did. I struggle with push ups. I usually use my knees and sometimes use the bands. But on that particular day, I decided to do all real push ups. Obviously, that's going to make my time slower since they're really hard for me. So yeah, maybe I did come in last. And maybe I didn't finish in the 12 minutes. But I did do real push ups and I finished the WOD in 25min and change. (WOD: 12 Rounds w/ 3 deadlifts every 3 rounds:  5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 air squats.)  

So there are good and bad things and I can't just focus on the bad. I have to look at WHY sometimes... Did I do something with more weight? Or did I do something Rx that I couldn't before? Those things play into time and aren't to be discounted. Yes, I took a long time, but I did 50 gazillion push ups without going to my knees! OK, so 50 gazillion is a slight exaggeration. But just slight! (OK, OK.. it was 120. But still!)

(I just went back to look and saw that I wasn't the only one who didn't finish. There were some in the afternoon class who didn't also. I still had the worst time.)

Enough positive for now. It's making my head spin.