Becca Borawski’s Blog

9:00am – CrossFit, All Levels

Great bunch of ladies and Wes, today!  Wes was a happy man.

Franklin Hill Sprints x6
1. 1:02
2. 1:06
3. 1:09
4. 1:11
5. 1:09
6. 1:06

The Franklin Hill sprints are about 226m long and rise in elevation is about 73 feet.  The angle is 5-6 degrees.  It’s nasty going up it, but the view from the top coming down is really cool – especially when I was teaching my 6am and 7am classes and the sun was coming up all orange.  Really nice way to start the day.

This was definitely slower than last time I did Franklin Hill back in June, preparing for the CrossFit Games.  On that day my times ranged from :56-1:05.  Today I ranged from 1:02-1:11.  So basically 6 seconds slower all around.  Yikes!  As much as Franklin Hill sucks, doing these intervals helps and will help everybody’s 10K times, too!

7:00pm – Fencing Lesson

My second lesson with my new instructor, Daniel Grigore.  The nerves of starting somewhere new and with a new coach were gone this week, so it was a really good lesson.  We worked on my stance some more and a bunch of different sequences.  He does a really nice job of putting things in context of a fencing match, so I know why I’m practicing what I am and what the “real” scenario would be.  I won’t be able to go on Friday since it’s the CFLA Holiday Party!  I’m going to try to rearrange my lesson schedule a little bit so I don’t miss too many lessons over the holiday.  I’m really happy to be at this new fencing school and I’m really excited to just keep getting in there!