Opens WOD 14.4
When I saw this workout announced, I thought to myself - this one may just be in my wheelhouse. Then I had to remind myself that I said that about 14.1 and was bitterly disappointed in my performance!!
The one part of this one that concerned me was the 50 Toes to Bar. I've come to realize that this is a major "goat" of mine and it's one I've been working on.
So, first attempt the strategy was to keep the row at a comfortable pace, break TTB's into small sets of 5 reps or less and just get through them as fast as possible. Wall-Balls, maybe break into 4 sets of 10 with short rest. Then on the cleans, do mostly singles with minimal rest. Was hoping to have adequate time to bang out a few muscle ups at the end.
I finished the row in about 2:30-something. Went right to the TTB's and did sets of 5 right up until about 25 reps. From that point, a couple sets of 3, a couple sets of 2 and then just a ton of fast singles. I was almost psyched out by how many reps I still had to do when I went to singles but I was shocked at how fast I got through them. The clock was only at about 5:15-5:30 or so when I finished TTB's.
Now on to the wall-balls. I was supposed to do sets of 10 but I felt good so I banged out a set of 20 and then 2 sets of 10. Still feeling pretty good. Cleans were a grind. I was pretty gassed by the time I got through them. I finished at 10:16 and had what seemed like an eternity for muscle ups. I gave myself almost a full minute to recover from the carnage before I attempted my first muscle-up. I got through I think about 7-8 reps before I missed one. I took about 30 seconds to recover from that and ended up completing a total of 10 reps for a score of 190. Really happy with this score for a first attempt. The only thing I would have done different is to have made more successful attempts during the time I had between 10:16-14:00. Definitely going to try this one again and see what happens.
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