Navy Seals Training Goals & OWS

I decided to do the Navy Seals Fitness Challenge. What the hell right?! This is the event in a nutshell:

500 meter swim breaststroke only

10 minute rest

Push-ups (max you can do in 2 minutes)

Sit-ups (max you can do in 2 minutes)

Pull-ups (max, not timed)

4 minute rest

1.5 mile run

So training officially began yesterday. The only things I really need to work on are pull ups, sit ups, and breast stroke. Ok push ups too. Here's where I'm at: Pull Ups: Last night I went to the Y before my OWS to try my luck at some pull ups. My guess was I could do 2. My plan was 6 x 2. I managed 1 strong and the second maybe counted. My chin touched but technically it wasn't over the bar. By the fourth set I was at 1 1/2, by the sixth I could only manage 1/2. Good grief. This is kind of the star of my show. I've always wanted to be able to do these. My goal is to do 3 solid pull ups by August 8th. Time will tell. I'll just keep pluggin' away at them. I would love to get to this level. Sit Ups: Not crunches, but sit ups. All the way up, all the way down. I put my feet under the couch for support. Much tougher than I thought. I did 6 x 20. The last couple sets had me on fire. Push-ups: I've always had huge shoulders. I think it's a result of years and years of competitive softball and now swimming (though not competitive swimming). I've always been able to through down relatively (for a woman) large amounts of push ups and NOT the modified ones. Originally I thought, oh yeah I can do at least 100 push ups in 2 minutes. Then I started reading the fine print and it turns out that you can only rest in the UP position. Arms can never leave the deck. Yikes. Much harder to rest in the up position. Hell, that's not even a rest really. It's just a plank. F#$k! Swim: the swim will be equally as tough since I don't breaststroke very often. like maybe 200 meters total in a workout. Usually not even that though. So for the next month - it's all about the breaststroke baby.

As of today, my Goals for this event:

Swim: 11:30

Push-ups: 70

Sit-ups: 80

Pull-ups: 3

Run: 13

*I'll also be running my long run literally right before the event. I'm not sure how long the run will be yet. 8,10,12...? I will have approximately 1 hour in between the long run and the start of the event. I wonder how/if that will affect my outcome.

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In other news, I did another OWS yesterday and it didn't go as well as the first for a couple of reasons. First, it was freezing. Ok, not freezing - but the temperature outside was 62* and you know that theory that states, "the water always feels warmer the colder the air is" WRONG! Between the four of us, only one had a wetsuit on and I was not one of them. Second, since I was the only not training for a triathlon I took one for the team and wore the lifeguard rescue tube. This is what I looked like:

Well, maybe I didn't look quite like this, but you get the point. One word: DRAG. Lot's of it!

Third, calf cramps. I think I'm low on sodium. I don't eat very much processed foods and unless I add it in the cooking process I don't really ever use salt. I'm a pepper girl. Never salt. I just don't have a taste for it, but I think I'll have to reconsider.

Edited after published: Every time I post an image the spacing gets all crazy when I publish it. Drives me crazy. Anybody else have this problem?