"Hope"

Same format as Fight Gone Bad, and it's just as awful.  I sure "Hope" I don't have to do this one again anytime soon. 

(Ha! I kill me.)

Three five-minute rounds, with one minute at each station:
-Burpees
-75 lb power snatch
-24" box jump
-75 lb thruster
-Chest to bar Pull-ups

I had a pretty good pace in the first round (88 reps, I think), but dropped off in the second (60) and third (55).  My goal was to maximize my reps on the burpees, snatches and thrusters.

203 total reps.

"Football Gone Bad"

This is a version of Fight Gone Bad adapted by CrossFit Football and selected by Nolan for the Sunday WOD. It was fitting, given that the AFC and NFC championship games were played today.

3 x 5 Minute Rounds (one minute at each station) for time:

1. DB Thrusters (2x45/25lbs)
2. Box Jumps (20″)
3. Push-ups
4. Double Unders
5. Calorie Row

Rest one minute between rounds.



I got 372, as counted by D3. Looking at the earlier scores, I was hoping to beat 300 but this WOD is filled with stuff I am not great at.

However, double unders were the great equalizer. Someone who is good at double unders is going to do well on this. If you're reasonably competent at DUs, you can do a lot more of them in a minute than DB thrusters or rowing for calories. You could choose which station to start at, so I started with DUs in order to be as fresh as possible for each of the three rounds. I ended up doing 188 total DUs, which is almost half of my total score. Frankly, I'm amazed that it wasn't a greater proportion, considering how hard everything else was for me.

Fight Gone Bad

This was part of a fundraiser for the CFR team that is going to California for the World Games.

Every time I do FGB, I try not to think about the numbers while I am doing it. I am rarely successful, but my score has always been better than I expected going in.

Not this time. I ended up with 291. It's not a bad score, but it's significantly lower than the last time I did it (319).

I wasn't surprised, though. I think I gassed myself out after round 1. In the second and third, my sumo high pulls were brutal and so were my box jumps. I could barely will myself to do anything. Really, the only thing that I was satisfied with were the push press.

I am not sure what the problem was. I was going head-to-head with D3, which is plenty of motivation. I warmed up pretty good. I was fired up to do it. But when the bell rang for the second round, I barely wanted to get off the stool. Just one of those things, I guess.

I know it's not a bad score. I just know I am capable of better.

I'll have the chance to prove it in a rematch in six months or so.

Fight Gone Bad: Well, THAT'S a bit of a surprise

318. Previous best was 291. A year ago, I did 256 on Sept. 27.

That score is a bit of a because we had some people over last night and there were Jell-o shooters (I lost count) and cheese fondue. I wasn't super hungover today, but I did feel a bit off.

I also did the workout solo. Everyone else who showed up to do it all went in the first round. Some of their scores may have suffered a bit because of the gym's configuration and some confusion about which station to hit next.

When it was my turn, I made sure the barbell and boxjump were nice and close to the rower and wallball to make sure the transitions were quick, since I didn't have to worry about getting in anyone else's way. That helped a bit, but it was the steady encouragement from Christine, Julie and Leya that really drove this score. I'm pretty happy with it.

Fight on Friday

Today, we had the chance to make up Fight Gone Bad if we missed it on Saturday. I did it again, though wasn't nearly as psyched or as warmed up this go around.

We had to keep track of our own reps, so my final self-tallied score was 288. I'm sure the real number was different, but I'm not sure if it was more or less. Neither would surprise me.

I started on the rowing today, instead of the wall ball as I usually do. That might be the way to go in the future.

I only did a total of 42 wall ball in FGB, so I needed to do another 30 post-workout. Then I did the 74 for tomorrow, so I won't have to interrupt my drinking and garage sale holding.

Fight Gone Bad

291 as rx'd.

Well, that was a pleasant surprise. The score, I mean. The workout was total hell. I think the reason they only do them two or three times a year is to give people time to forget how much this sucks when you're doing it. There were plenty of times when I felt mentally broken, especially during the second round. Fellow Crosfitter and party games enthusiast Brad Fo was a huge help with the encouragement, as were the counters at each station.

Going in, I didn't set a goal for myself, other than beating my score from last September of 255 (which was also a fair bit higher than expected). I did this because I didn't want to get caught up in worrying about how I was doing numbers-wise during the workout. Well, I couldn't completely mitigate that, but I wanted to do my best.

If someone had asked me for my best guess as to how I would do this time out, I would have probably guessed in the 270s. I would have been a bit disappointed if I only went up by 10, but a jump of 20 would have satisfied me.

My 291 was actually the highest rx'd score of the day, briefly, before BathMatt from CF Saskatoon was all like "Fuck, let met show that glove-wearing Queen City sissy how it's done," and obliterated it with a 346. Franz, who had been like a caged animal all morning, followed with a 345 on his first FGB ever.

Crazy. Robin posted pictures of the event here.

Fight Gone Bad tomorrow

It's probably not a good sign that I'm already shitting bricks, is it?