Hill Sprints FTW

A weird and also wonderful thing happened today. As I was pushing through my 4th or 5th hill sprint this evening after finishing my bench-day workout at the gym I realized I was enjoying myself. Yes, the hill sprints were still brutally hard, and definitely took everything I had left over after lifting, but I realized that at that moment there was really nothing else I would rather have been doing than killing it at running up and down the same block on Walnut St 8 times in a row. Because it was hard and fun and satisfying and invigorating all at the same time.

(Did I mention I also drank a small cup of black coffee pre-workout?)

This realization that I was actually truly enjoying my hill sprints got me thinking that I probably need to revise my OKCupid profile. Currently it portrays me as a well-balanced 31 year old woman with diverse interests including cooking, baking, movies, eating out with friends, going to the beach, drinking at social events, reading the New Yorker, listening to NPR, etc, etc. All of these things are true, but they don't really capture the fact that outside of work I spend almost 100% of my "leisure time" during the week and a good part of it during the weekends forcing myself through fantastically brutal workouts because I enjoy it. Perhaps I'd have more luck on the site if I just own up to this fact more blatantly, rather than including gym time/powerlifting as one of "many" hobbies I enjoy. I'd like to think of myself as well-rounded, but let's be real, I'd much rather find someone who wants to run up the same hill with me eight time in a row than someone to whom I have to explain how I don't really drink any more or eat out that much and why I'm totally okay with that.

I digress.

Anyways, bench day was pretty good. I worked up to 120#x2,2 and 125#x1, though my butt came off the bench on the 125# and on the second reps at 120#. I need to work on that over the next few weeks as it doesn't matter how much I can press at the comp if I can't keep my butt glued to the bench while I do it.