Friday April 5, 2013

Opens WOD 13.5: First Attempt


4:00 AMRAP: 15 Thrusters, 15 Chest to Bar Pull-Ups

Wasn't real excited to see this one come up. I've never really had an elite "Fran" time and I'm not one of these people who obsesses over "Fran" as some Holy Grail CrossFit workout. I'm also not one of these ninjas that can bang out dozens of Chest to Bar pull-ups with an effortless butterfly kip!

So, on this one - not much strategy needed here. I figured I'd need to go balls to the wall right from the word "Go!". 90 reps in under 4:00 is a very tall task for someone doing regular gymnastics kip CTB's. I was hoping to get through the Thrusters unbroken or close to it. CTB's were going to be a bitch, I knew that. But I was hoping to be able to string together some sets of at least 3-5 once I got tired.

I crushed the first round. Thrusters were fast and smooth. Got 15 unbroken CTB Pull-ups. Second round of Thrusters was tough and I did rest in the rack position a few times but I didn't put the bar down. On second round of pull-ups, things started falling apart a little bit. I'm not even sure how many times I broke during this set but it felt like I did 15 single reps!!...brutal!!. Last round of Thrusters was pretty awful. Dropped the bar after 8 reps and again after 12. Should not have dropped the second time - I pussied out a bit unfortunately.Finished Thrusters with only about 20 seconds left. Enough time to do 4 more pull-ups for a score of 79.

This workout was much tougher than I thought. Judging by the other scores in my gym, my score was not terrible but I knew that it was far from elite and would not be enough to land me in the top 20 in my age division. I was not planning on doing this one twice unless I got agonizingly close to 90. However; I decided that I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't at least try.