Thursday March 15th (Day 4)

Open WOD 12.4

So I completely blanked this week and kept envisioning myself doing this WOD on Friday morning but I realized it would be way smarter to have a rest day then for the GRC..
http://goruckchallenge.com/events/boston-2012/

This was my 3rd day in a row working out and having just done WBs yesterday, this was by NO means the best state I should have done a competitive workout in, but fuck it.. unknown and unknowable.. Need to adapt and overcome.. Also, I am completely and utterly out of the qualification process for Regionals as I stated in prior posts, but I still pride myself enough on my performance that I want to do as well as possible usually.. But I knew this would not be the case today. I would have much preferred to do bear crawls and deadlifts with everyone else.

In my typical overanalyzing fashion, I decided I was not going to remotely try to PR my "Karen" score and was just gonna break up the Wall Balls from the get-go and make them manageable, and I knew the double unders would take a couple minutes, but I am good with those, so I just wanted to leave about 2 minutes to "try" some muscle ups with whatever time and energy I had..

Open WOD 12.4

12 Min "AMRAP"

150 Wall Balls (20# to 10 feet)

90 Double Unders

30 Muscle-Ups

Score : 244 Reps 

I went ALMOST perfectly to plan.. I did unbroken WB sets on a "on the minute" basis with built in rest each time with 23-22-21-20-19-18-17-10.. I did a descending pattern on purpose to make it just a little easier each time.. I was done with these at 7:30 on the nose, which is way off my best score, but I was feeling good wind-wise after it. Hopped on the jump rope, legs felt like mush once I started jumping.. I plodded my way up to about 30 reps with a bunch of trips, then I hammered out that "one big set" I needed from 30 up to about 80 something, and then was done shortly after.. I was done with these at around 9:30ish, ball park..

So I had about 2 minutes to try MUs as I wanted, but did not realize how totally gassed out my shoulders would be..

I did one.. no problem.. did 2.. almost slipped on the catch.. pressed it out.. tried 3.. FAIL.. tried 4.. FAIL.. 

FUCK.. I was mad at myself but was pretty understanding that I would be this tired after all that.. I legit rested 30 whole seconds and decided to give it one more last go.. I got a 3rd rep, kipped downward, hung on somehow, and swung up into a 4th.. with 2 seconds to spare.. 

Fun WOD.. Cool test.. I would love to try this again in a while when my muscle ups get better and see what I can do.. 

This is definitely going to separate the "good athletes" from the "questionably cyborgs" in the CF Games world..

FOOD

8am - Egg omelet with bacon and pepper jack, coffee

Noon - Salad with carrots, celery, red peppers, olive oil and some Crab Salad I made with leftover crab meat.. I just mixed it in with some dijon mustard and pepper..

430 PM - Same protein shake per usual

830PM - Chicken Nacoise Salad from Fiorella's.. (This salad is pretty Paleo-ish considering it is take out. Its got chicken, avocado, hard boiled egg, red pepper, olive, goat cheese, and some light citrus-y dressing.. This is one of my go-to "I am lazy and not in the mood" meals)..
Its not the best option in the paleo Planet, but it tastes good.