Training Log: Entry 3516

**OPERATION PLANET MONGO**

AM WORKOUT (0354 natural wake up, snooze until 0400)

*Tactical Barbell Operator* Cycle 1, Week 1, Workout 4

Recovery Walk on Treadmill

Incline: 1

Speed: 3.5

Distance: 4.75 miles

Time: 1hr 21min 30sec

9 chins

Notes:

* With my fitness test later today, and all I’ve put my body through over these past few days, this was 100% the right call.  My upper back was incredibly sore upon waking this morning: a result of those mat pulls.  I’m discovering that the strength is still there, but the structure needs rebuilding.  Slow and steady.

* Slow and steady describes the pace today as well.  3.5mph is a comfortable pace for me at this point.  Moving forward, I’m going to keep around there or 3.8 and focus on just upping the incline and keeping the ruck on.

* Got in some chins yesterday as part of my daily effort.  Still keeping 20 the minimum goal, with room to go higher as needed, using elbow pain as the governing metric.

* On top of my daily sandbag yesterday, 2 sparring classes of Tang Soo Do had me in the Dojang for 2.5 hours, and was a solid workout.  We got in a lot of practice rounds before the in school tournament, so I got in a lot more activity than usual.  For the first class, I got a bye in the first round and then squared off against my kiddo, so I took the match into sudden death with each of us at 2 points before giving them an opening to get the final point and advance to the semi-finals, wherein they fought well but were beaten by judging.  My Valkyrie was able to avenge the family in the finals.  For the second class, I got to face off against one of our junior higher level members, and I once again used it as an opportunity to show them some angles while challenging myself by restricting myself to hands only.  Took it to sudden death and scored a final point to get to the semi-finals, wherein I face off against our senior black belt.  I lost to judging: had a judge actually call for point BEFORE the black belt had thrown a technique, and then when they threw a technique after the call, award the point to the black belt…which makes me wonder what they were calling for before that.  But after class we did a “king of the ring” style single point elimination sparring, where I held on for the entirety of the class and got to face off against the other king in the other ring, scoring a victory by leading them in a circle straight into a roundhouse to the head.  Just a good night of activity.  As much as I wish we did something harder contact, I have fun playing this game.