Saturday January 11, 2013

3 Rounds for time of the following:
20 Kettlebell Swings
20 Step Down Box Jumps
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Rest 8 Minutes
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3 Rounds for time of the following:
20 Pull Ups
20 Hand Release Burpees
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Rest 8 Minutes
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For Time of the following:
Row 250 Meters
50 Wall Balls
Row 250 Meters
50 Wall Balls
Row 250 Meters

I was actually looking forward to doing these WOD's. I figured that each one of these was more or less in my wheelhouse. Problem is, I underestimated the cumulative effect of doing all 3 in the same session!! 8 minutes was just not enough time for me to fully recover!

Part 1: This was pretty straightforward. Everything was obviously unbroken. The cycle time on my swings was nowhere near as fast as others in the group. This was mostly due to the fact that I wasn't using bastardized form to shorten the ROM and also because I was not dropping the last rep from overhead! Box jumps were decent but could have been faster. Time was 4:10

Part 2: Hoped to get Pullups unbroken through all 3 rounds but...nope! First round was unbroken with all butterfly pullups. 2nd round got 10 then 2 sets of 5 I think. 3rd round, who knows?! I think I broke into 4 sets with short rest. Burpees felt terrible.

Part 3: Felt nowhere near recovered from Part 2 and mentally I just felt like tapping out on this. Again, I had delusions of getting through everything unbroken because I did a similar WOD with MORE rowing and MORE wall-balls that I got through unbroken. However; I didn't have to do 2 miserable WOD's before that one!! First round got 25 and then did 15 and 10. Last set of Wall-balls was beyond miserable. I did 15 and then the rest is a blur. I seem to remember lots of sets of 5 and just feeling like holy shit -how am I going to finish this!! Got through the 50 and proceeded to row the slowest 250M of my life! Flopped off the rower and was a human puddle of goo for about 15-20 minutes. There was one point when I stood up too fast and felt myself start to black out! What a shit-show!