A few FTs

2010-09-02

Today was the first day of morning bootcamp with Mell... not the 'official' first day, that would've been Tuesday were it not for Mell giving me a leave pass given the amount of coughing I've been doing while still getting over last week's flu. I have done plenty of types of exercise, but most of it has been either weights-based or endurance related, like a spin class or long-distance running. Man, bootcamp was a serious wakeup call.

We ended up doing this sequence of exercises called "20-to-1", in pairs. What it involves is one person running a lap around a part of Fitzroy Gardens (roughly 300 metres), while their partner performs a series of exercises. The exercises (in order) are pushups, lunges, oblique crunches, squat jumps, and burpee hops. The team starts by doing 20 reps of each, then 19 reps, 18 reps, and partners swap over when one person has finished a running lap.

This is fucking difficult. I know I can do 30 pushups in a row which is probably average for a guy I guess, but I've never done any more than that, so doing 20, then having Mell finish her lap in time for me to do the pushups again was just the worst lol. I ended up getting the pushups part each time until we got down to 15 pushups, which means I did almost 100 pushups in between all the running and other stuff... I seriously thought I was gonna puke... thankfully we managed to get it done (after an hour) both in one piece.

So after that I got home for 7am, put the coffee on, had a shower and decided I was going back to bed until the percolator boiled because I was pretty wasted Obviously I've missed a heap of good stuff so I add in the 50cubed on Stars, run deep and end up losing AA < AQ aipf with 15 left, zzz.

I had my crack at the Wednesday Quarter Million and that went relatively well. I doubled up early when someone stacked off with TPTK vs my bottom set, then got QQ in against AQ as the smaller stacks began getting short and had 60bb by the time antes kicked in. Won and lost some flips from there, but I managed to have 35bb when we hit the money, stacked a guy AQ > AJ in a threebet pot, then lost a big flip with about 40 left, gg. I was surprised that it wasn't that much harder than a fuper/stuper, and will definitely add it to the weekly schedule.

I FT'ed the 27 big antes for 2nd and one of the Big Doubles for 3rd, so all up a +2.2k day and hopefully another good finish to the week tomorrow!