Competition Prep

WOD (in teams of 2)
"How high can you go?"

10 RFT
5 power cleans [heavy]
10 plate burpees
5 high wall ball shots

One person does the wod, finishes, then tags the teammate to start next round.

This saturday was rather empty and Girl Coach didn't go so my heart was a little broken, but the Founder Coach was there and it's always nice to see him cuz he does small talk with me and I like how he runs the class.

I got paired up with Steph who is one of the older and stronger girls at the box. She said her max clean was 125 lbs, and last time I checked, mine was 115 lbs, so we did the WOD at 105 lbs. (RX for women was 155 lbs)

Continuing with the trend that Socks Coach wants us to have more of a competition mentality about crossfit, we made lanes in the indoors soccer field, so each time wouldn't get in each other's way and everyone was traveling the same distance between the exercises.

On my second round, as I was jogging back to tag my partner, I tripped over the barbell and I (gracefully?) skid along the [fake] grass. I'm guessing I had an OK fall, cuz nobody got too worried about it, they were just like, you good? OK, GO! I scraped both of my knees and my elbow a bit, but it was minor enough to carry along with the WOD.

Of course it totally happened in slow motion in my head, and I kinda wish somebody would've recorded it. Just glad I didn't fall on my face!

Also "feels good man" that I did 15 power cleans at a weight that only last year was my max.

Grace & Cindy, sitting on a tree

WOD

"Grace & Cindy Sitting on a Tree"

Cindy is:
5 pull-ups
10 push-ups
15 air squats

Complete:
10 clean & jerk (155# / 105#)
1 round of Cindy
8 clean & jerk
1 Cindy
6 C&J
Cindy
4 C&J
Cindy
2 C&J
Cindy

After this point continue doing Cindy until the timer runs out (25 minutes total for wod)

I really wanted to do this wod in the morning with my usual crew. Not many girls wrote their score/weights on the board.
I started at 80# because now that we're back on Smolov my back already started giving me that pain and I figured for this wod I should take it easy.
After completing the first set of 10 I upgraded to 95# cuz I was feeling badass.
That was the right choice.

I'm still doing the pull-ups with double elastic band.
=sigh=
Petite Thunder Thighs did kipping pull-ups. But I lifted more than her. Damn, I am so jelly her kipping pull-ups were looking good. I tried one band, utter fail. Did 5 rounds in the remaining time.
I didn't check how long it took me to finish the actual wod. Was resting too much anyways.

When the wod was over these two dudes (let's call them Sailorbeard and Froggy) called me over, literally by gesturing a "come here" with their hands.
They then proceeded to tell me that my progress in this crossfit has been great, that I look really different from when I started, and I've gained a TON of strength.
Do I diet? How much weight have I lost? Will I enter the in-house competition?

These dudes see me sporadically because I only go to the 8pm class as my last resort.

I am truly flattered.

I guess wearing those knee-high reebok socks with the shorts looks good after all.