Friday March 29, 2013

CrossFit Opens WOD 13.4 : First Attempt

7:00 AMRAP of

3 C&J @ 135#
3 Toes to Bar
6 C&J
6 TTB
9 C&J
9 TTB
12/12, 15/15, etc......


Going into this workout, I had a strategy to maintain a steady pace throughout and try not to spaz out on the first few rounds. There's always a point in these workouts where you get kicked in the nuts. The point where the aerobic threshold ends and the lactic threshold begins!

For me, I think that happened somewhere in the round of 12. Even though I was doing singles, the C&J's started to get tough. But what really screwed me were the TTB's! I had hoped to get through these in nice clean sets of 4. But I lost my kipping rhythm and did these mostly as strict singles. Not only did this cost me time but it was very taxing going into the set of 15 C&J's. Every rep was miserable and I started to wonder if I'd finish before time ran out. I did finish with about :45 left I think. In that :45 seconds I managed 10 TTB's which were again mostly singles with minimal kipping.

All of this earned me a score of 85 reps. I knew that this was not good enough to keep me in the top 20 overall and it was also well short of my goal for the workout. I knew at that point that I would need to repeat this on Sunday and that I'd need a score of 90 or better to stay in the hunt.