Crossfit Open 16.2 Scaled - Moving Weight

Well what can I say. This Open has been a weird one for me....yep we are only 2 down...but for some reason in my mind I get worked up so much about the workouts and I have a slight anxiety attack. I thought Crossfit was meant to be fun. I know I will never make it to regionals and I know I will always be at the bottom of the leader board, I don't know why I'm taking it so seriously.

I sat there waiting for my turn and cheering on others...but I really wanted to grab my shit and walk the hell out of there and come back again when it was quieter so maybe do it on Monday morning with only 2 other people in the box. Coach Ellz was like "Right show me your knee raises..." I showed her she was like "do your single unders" I done em and she was like "lets see your squat"...I done them. She was then like "ok cool this is what you'll do and if you need to redo it then you can do it on Monday." I was like "err if I do do it tonight I'm only getting 1 round" Well wasn't I the pessimistic one...I only went and got past the first round and into my second round and finished at 9 squat cleans...Only 3 more to reach the 3rd round....so close so freaking close!!!

What does that mean? That means I'm going to try it again on Monday morning. Oh yes I am and I'm going to try and smash it!! All I want to do is get to the third round and attempt the 43kg squat clean...heck knows I may get it. This means this weekend it's all about buckling down clean eating and getting some fitness in. In terms of pacing I need to stop holding on to the bar saying "omg it's so heavy" plus I need to stop muscling the bar up and power cleaning it...but try and get under it just a smidgen. When I do the knee raises I always hesitate before starting them off...why only God knows.

I was happy with my finish today but Naz...who proper smashed it came up to me and said she was disappointed in her performance. It's funny because from where I standing huffing and puffing she was going for it...I'm not sure of her score but she did have a tear in her eye. I said to her I was in the same place last week and not to be too hard on herself. She said "I can't believe I could pick up 43kgs" In my mind it got me thinking...bloody hellfire 43kgs is a lot some people will go most their lives not being able to pick that shit up and we are moving the weight so quickly like it is nothing. We put way too much pressure on ourselves...why do we do this? If someone can answer that for me then that would be grand.

sidebar: I am a broken woman and my mobility is shot to pieces but tonight I PB'd all over myself and popped it on the PB white board...I finally got my squats to be below Parallel. Going back to 14. 5 those thursters were a killer and I got no repped a million times that wod took me 1:31:38 (Dave Castro said the clock will not save you and it did not) So I am making progress. Coach Ellz looked like she was going to cry cos she has been working with me and my mobility. I told her it's the knee pads I bought last week...she says no but I now the truth it's the knee pads :) #oldladybeastintraining

Crossfit Open 16.1 Scaled redo

So a little update. This morning I woke dreaming about the release of 16.2...when I realised it was only Monday I cursed and then my thoughts went back to 16.1...yep I defo could not have done it any better....but just maybe I could have done the RX walking lunges and the over the bar burpees and leave the jumping pullups as it would take me the 20mins to do the lunges at 29kgs.
I went to the box. And Coach Ellz sat me down and had a word...she said if the only reason I want to try and do the RX score is to negate my scaled score as I wasn't happy with it then not to try it. But if I was happy with my scaled score and was just curious to see how far I could go then to go for it.
Me and my stubborn ways was still unhappy with the scaled score...and attempted to Over Head Lunge a PVC pipe, the 8kgs bar, then 15kg and I got stuck at 20kgs...29kgs was going to hurt and I was just being foolish. In the end. I ended up re-doing 16.1 but used the 8kg bar and over head squatted that sh*!t!!!

I powered on through and at the end of it all I got a total of 117 reps...my twisted little mind was happier with this score as I had over head lunged. It was tough but I got it done.

Now the question is will I be able to walk tomorrow :)

Crossfit Open 16.1 Scaled

I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in myself when it comes to a wod. The funny thing is in my head I was aiming for 5 rounds but when I got to the box and saw that most everyone who had done the scaled version of the wod were at 8 rounds and above I said to myself "ok you'll get 6 and a little something something."

I was terrified of the walking lunges cos my mobility is so shot that when I lunge with a weight it starts of with 5kgs and then drops down to 2.5kgs. So 15kgs is a jump that I thought would never be doable. After Olympic Lifting class in the morning I attempted the 15kgs...not bad not bad at all...I was a little winded when I walked the 25feet but yeah that was defo doable, I felt semi good about it. So the plan was to just keep moving and rest for 5 sec max if I needed it. but take it slow. Dave told me to look at it as chunks and focus on each movement and put it behind me once done.

I'm not going to go into the nitty gritty, but when all was said and done and I was told what I got I burst in to tears...simply because I felt like I had let myself down even though I felt like I had worked my butt off...I was a tad bit confused to say the least.

Coach Ellz  no repped me 4 times on the jumping pullups, once on the walking lunges, and once on the burpees. I simply walked over the bar instead of jumping (proper brain fart). The Burpee no rep was the only one I was mad at cos that defo could have been prevented.

Now 5 hours later I'm still gutted with my 5 rounds 11reps score but looking back I couldn't have done it any quicker...I only rested for a few secs to catch my breathe on the pullups but other than that I was constently moving.

If tomorrow I wake up and feel the need to do it again I will and honestly I may take my pullups a tad bit slower so I don't get no repped and maybe that will bump me up a little bit.

But at the same time I'm thinking if I hadn't seen any of the scaled scores on the whitebord then maybe just maybe I would be ecstatic with my 141reps. After all that's 5 rounds and 11 bonus points.

Bring on 16.2