Day 30: The End/The Beginning

Yes I am posting this waaaaaaaaaaaay after the actual end of the Challenge. Sorry.

I completed the Challenge and maintained an honest and accurate Food Log for the full 30 days.  I just didn't manage to update the blog, since I prefer to add detail on here - if you just want a list of the foods I've been eating etc, just check out the Log.  I'm going to leave it up, anyway.

I'm going to keep this post purely about Day 30.  My post-Challenge results/reflections will be posted after.

Breakfast

• Challenge compliant muffin 

Lunch

• Left over home made veggie burger
• Spinach, cherry tomatoes, sugar snap peas, Omega seed sprinkle, lemon juice

CrossFit

Work on Front Squat 5 x 5.  Maybe its the effects of the Challenge.  Maybe its my frame of mind.  But today I felt well good on the front squats.  :)

Coach asked what I had worked up to before, and I said I think 40-45.. Reply was "you mean back squat..?!" Hmm, I wasn't sure.  So we started low, and kept building up.  Obviously got harder, but it felt like it was the awkward position rather than the weight that was beginning to bother me.  Could feel it in my legs of course down the bottom of the squat.. but I smashed my previous front squat and still felt in control. Yussss

5 rounds for time:

10 Burpees

10 Toes to Bar (scaled)

10 Wall Ball

I scaled to the Toes to Bar to the sit up variant one.  I was the first to finish, but a little way.  Looking round, I felt I must not have pushed myself hard enough.  A bunch of people scaled to leg lifts on the bar - this is what I'm going to work on.  Need to keep pushing, keep improving.

Tea

The last Challenge tea!  The last Challenge meal!  Well, the last meal on the Challenge, anyway.  I can't see myself totally jacking all this in, come tomorrow...!

Felt wholly appropriate though to revisit possibly my fave Challenge meal: fajita night!

• Cabbage leaf wraps filled with mexican spiced omelette strips, homemade guacamole, salsa, refried beans, fried peppers, onion, asparagus

For some reason I felt like a smoothie "for dessert" so I did a big ol batch and gave James half:

• Coconut milk, frozen berries, Kinetica vanilla, chopped mixed nuts

Yum. Tasted good.  Felt good.

I'm really looking forward to getting back to full exercise, now my body should be healed and my Dr's said I could.

This might be the end of the Challenge my friends, but its the beginning of the Post-Challenge Challenge...  We'll see just how challenging it really is!