FML, I'm almost 40!

Haven't been to CrossFit in over a week. Sinusitis is leveling out...FINALLY...still have 1/4 of a bottle (80 PILLS) of my $175 prescription to kill this terrible infection. On top of all the meds that are making me sick as fuck to my stomach, I'm also dealing with lower back issues. Turning 40 in a couple weeks and my body is already telling me to SLOW DOWN....it just seems the older I get, the faster I want to go. Meds end Saturday, so hope to be at WOD on Monday. That's my goal. Poor Roy has pulled one of his pectoral muscles. Who knows how long he's out?! Sucks. We just joined and are all GUNG HO, but just don't have the conditioning yet to keep up with "full on" workouts. It's frustrating as fuck. I'm sitting here getting fat...not running...not crossfitting...going insane. I also leave in 11 days for Cozumel and I'd love to not be sick and injured for this EPIC vacation. Ugh. FML, I'm almost 40.

Seriously though, I joined CrossFit to strengthen my core, improve flexibility, become a better runner, and just get STRONGER in general. Since joining it's been quite the opposite. I've tweaked my back twice and worked myself so hard that I turned a viral infection into a bacterial infection. I'm weaker and fatter now than I was when I started. LMFAO. Maybe CrossFit isn't the best exercise for someone who is prone to tweaking their back every other Tuesday!!! I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing incorrectly. Am I going at it too hard?! Am I just too weak?! Is my form so terrible that I'm just simply lifting with my back and not my legs?! It's frustrating because I LOVE it....and I want to love it!!! It's funny when I tell a friend or a complete stranger about my new love for CrossFit one of the first things they say is, "Be careful because everyone gets injured doing CrossFit." What!? Why?! How?! I'm not alone!!!!??? There are more pathetic, weak, fat, inflexible, soft-cored people out there?!???!!! This excites me, but I still can't wait to get back to the gym. I miss my new CrossFit family...even the ones voting Republican. 

XOXO,

CW