So because I flew back into West Palm from our New Hampshire snowboarding trip on Saturday evening, Dave decided to fly down to Fort Lauderdale early Sunday, have me pick him up, book a room, and go to Ultra on the last day (Sunday the 29th). Ultra Music Fest is something we usually do every year, but this year we said we weren’t going to go. We did. We couldn’t stay away, and actually, it was perfect. We went for one day, experienced the madness, got to see some great music, eat some great food, and done.

Because I knew we wouldn’t be back to Jax by 5p EST no matter what was said or promised, I made arrangements with Peak360 CrossFit again, just as I did last year, to come do the final WOD of the Open.

I got to see Noah Ohlsen again, and he even took the time to judge me and cheer me on during the WOD!

It was a beast of a workout, and a total gasser. Everyone kept saying this but I just wasn’t believing them, apparently.

15.5 was:

27-21-15-9 reps for time of:
Row (calories)
Thrusters (65lbs)

I finished in 13:52.

What sucked was, I had a cough during our trip up North, and it hadn’t quite gone away when we returned back to FL. The dryness of the air and the lack of oxygen in my lungs made for a whole buttload of fun times. 🙂

Me, Noah’s amazing pup, and Noah!

We sped off to some amazing Cuban food afterwards, in which I sat there and died the entire time. Exercise-induced asthma, they call it, and I’m sure I set my healing time back by about a week by doing that WOD, whatever. I got to WOD at Peak360 again and finish another CrossFit Open!

So it has sort of become tradition that when Pete and Katie are here, that we do an Open WOD at CFTC! It’s become a thing. And then Pete goes home and kills it at his home base and destroys his FL scores. I get it. Don’t want to make us look bad or anything! 😉

So 15.4 was a tough one. It was HSPUs and Cleans. Lots of them. And the measuring for HSPUs was weird, and I can’t even do 1 unless I have an abmat and a plate, so.. I did scaled again. Fine, whatevs.

Scaled was ridiculous.
10 push press (65)
10 cleans (75)
repeat, repeat, repeat

So silly that it was different weights.. because then everyone doing scaled needed two bars, double weights. It just wasn’t very efficient, I don’t think.

Anyway.. I ended up doing 138 reps. Which is great and all, but it was scaled. I still did well, and I still enjoyed the work! My traps and shoulders especially appreciated it.

Katie and Pete did awesome, too! Of course. I am so proud of them. I need to post some pics of us!

We had our awesome guests Katie and Pete in town this week!! So great to see them, and we even got to WOD together, of course.

bench press 5×5
-50 calorie row buy in-
3 rounds
10 deadlift 225/155
3 rope climb
50 double under
-50 calorie row buy out-

This WOD looks much nicer on paper.

Find your 1RM Squat Clean Thruster

I PRed AGAIN! I was able to do a 165lb Thruster! That’s only 10lbs less than my old C&J 1RM! Dude.. I can totally go up. SO AWESOME. 

WOD:
Death by Thrusters
75/55lbs
Min 1, 1 thruster
Min 2, 2 thrusters, etc

til you just CAN’T go any further!

I got through minute 15!!!! I was going for 16 or 17, but, I’ll take it. That was rough and I wanted to quit (but I didn’t) and when I finished, my legs hurt, my arms hurt, everything hurt and was shaking, BUT IT WAS AWESOME.

So I’ve never done a Chest to Bar before.. and when the Open WOD was released, being a repeat of one of last year’s Open WODs, I was like, fuck, here we go again.

WORKOUT 15.2

Every 3 minutes for as long as possible complete:
From 0:00-3:00
2 rounds of:
10 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.)
10 chest-to-bar pull-ups
From 3:00-6:00
2 rounds of:
12 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.)
12 chest-to-bar pull-ups
From 6:00-9:00
2 rounds of:
14 overhead squats (95 / 65 lb.)
14 chest-to-bar pull-ups

Etc., following same pattern until you fail to complete both rounds

I of course did my 65lb overhead squats in no time. And then I spent the rest of the time working on getting that ONE Chest to Bar… I can do pull ups now, so why can’t I just go up a little higher and do C2B?!?! Well, with Russ’s coaching and Dave’s motivation, I GOT ONE! Ecstasy, really. Seriously. I keep improving in these little things. You wouldn’t know it by my weight, or size, or appearance, but it’s slowly happening. Beaming!! I got ONE! I finally could submit a score showing that I was able to get past the OHS.

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I ended up repeating my WOD the next day and I got another two reps! Tom helped me and coached me, so with the help of Dave, Russ and Tom, I was able to figure out the physical strategy of getting high enough up on the bar. Three whole reps! Score of 13 resubmitted, whaaat. 🙂 

We did a 5×1 complex, which I’m actually starting to enjoy more. I used to not, but these tests are cool.

5×1 Overhead Complex
2 Push Press + 2 Push Jerk + 1 Split Jerk

I got 135lbs for the complex. I could’ve gone up, but I don’t remember why I didn’t. I think my wrists were bugging me, so we’ll go with that.

WOD:

21-15-9
Plyo Push ups (2 25lb plates)
Pull Ups
Plate Facing Burpees
KB Swings (70/55)

I RXed the weights and movements, even though I didn’t finish. They put a time cap on it, which was fine. I was glad to have it over with, but still. I would’ve liked to finish. Pretty cool with a pull up WOD that I was able to RX it all. My upper body strength is slowly improving and I want to keep it that way.

Let the games begin! The very first WOD of the 2015 CrossFit Open was a repeat. It was the following:

WORKOUT 15.1

Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 9 minutes of:
15 toes-to-bars
10 deadlifts (115 / 75 lb.)
5 snatches (115 / 75 lb.)

WORKOUT 15.1a

1-rep-max clean and jerk
6-minute time cap

 I did 88 reps of 15.1, and then I was 10lbs shy of my old C&J 1RM, and pulled 165. Wasn’t too disappointed with that! The 165 landed me in the top 3 girls for our gym for that part of the WOD, which is pretty awesome!

Dave even came and shot some pictures. Not the most flattering, but that’s fine. 🙂 Progress.

Snatching during 15.1