Even though my hands were wrecked and sore, I still went back for more.. I made it a light week for me, CF-wise, especially with work being busy and doing a big install for a local Rehab hospital we’re working with.

Anyway, if I was going easy on my hands, you wouldn’t have known it by today’s WOD. It was:

For Time:
9-15-21
Power Snatch (115/75)
C2B

I used a green band mostly, but towards the end, I added in another band. My hands HURT. And they’re pretty gross now, too. But.. I did it. The snatches weren’t so bad, although I went lighter and did 65lbs, I believe. Finished in 12:53.

I took yesterday off and I’m thankful for it! Although yesterday afternoon, I had no idea what to do with myself, as I was suddenly faced with a whole bunch of free time. I was supposed to rest, which I sort of did. I cleaned the hell out of my car (dog hair, stuff, crap, garbage, empty packages.. it just accumulates, and it’s embarrassing.)

So.. after cleaning the car, I cleaned the kitchen, and then decided I had to finish it all up with a trip to Publix, and made a mess all over again, that I cleaned up, again. It’s okay though! It was nice to have a clean area. 🙂

SOOO. Today. Today I was ready! It was heavy deadlifts and T2B. BOTH of which I could do, and I DID.

14 min EMOM
Odd min – 4 deadlifts (315/225)
Even min – ME T2B

Score is total # of T2B, and you have to do all 4 deadlifts every minute for an RX.

Since we had a pretty big class tonight, I started with T2B instead of DL, so I had my own pull up bar to focus on. I knocked out a cool 8 T2B my first set! I opted to keep a running total in my head, and shot for around 5-6 each round after that. I ended up completing 46 total T2B, and completed all 28 of my DLs at 225. I was one of only 16 people who RXed today’s WOD. 16 out of 93 people! I was thrilled. And because I was doing the RX weight, I was determined to do all of my Toes to Bar too instead of sissying out and doing K2E as an alternate movement.

My only injury is this lovely hand tear from the deadlifts. Thank goodness for gymnast straps tonight!

hand tear from heavy deadlifts at crossfit

Hey cool, you’ve already done 56 cleans, 41 of which included OH movements in the last 24 hours, let’s do it again!!

Not the smartest thing to go and do Grace, but hey. I hadn’t done Grace in ages, and I’ve never technically RXed it. The last time I did anything like Grace was when Rob Orlando hosted his Strongman Competition in Jax, but then I did it with a log, and not at RX weight. Previously, I did 5 minutes of clean and jerks, and got 29, and that was just a year ago! I usually just say my Grace time was 5:10, or so, because that would’ve been fairly accurate BUT this time I did it for realz.

Mens bar, 2 25lb plates, final time, 3:35. Whaaaaaat.. SO EXCITED. Good enough for 3rd place on that board of ours! Fuck yeah. Talk about progress! Now, I wonder how great I would’ve done had I not had all the fatigue on my neck and shoulders the day before? The thing is, I felt really great, even after Grace, I felt good!

Then came the soreness.. Then the neck tightening, then the little pinched nerve in my shoulder blade feeling. I had an appointment with Chuck tonight (Sunday) and this was a pro/con situation. Pro because he could work on it for me, Con because he’d lecture the shit out of me for overdoing it.

Thankfully, Dave spent some time on it Saturday evening, as well, and loosened it up a bit. Then Chuck spent over an hour on my back and shoulders tonight, and lectured me. Grrr.

But….. I PRED MY GRACE TIME!!! hahahaaaaa

Okay now I need to go rest. Oh hey btw, new cover photo!

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Today was our first ever Girls Only WOD, which was a huge success! We had over 40 girls show up, I believe, which is awesome! BUT… I really wanted to do the regular WOD too, because it was cleans!

WOD: Granite Games 14.1
12 Minute AMRAP

15 – Squat Cleans to Overhead (95/65)
15 – Squat Cleans to Overhead (135/95)
15 – Squat Cleans to Overhead (185/135)
15 – Squat Cleans to Overhead (225/155)
AMRAP – Squat Cleans to Overhead (275/185)

I knew I’d get through 1st and 2nd and into the 3rd.. and I did! I was bummed I didn’t get past the 3rd round, but I didn’t have time. I totaled 41 squat cleans to overhead, finishing at 6 reps into the 135lb set.

Woo! And I RXed it, which is a big deal for me! I love RXing WODs, especially ones I’m good at. 🙂 I scored 2nd highest (tied with Dezi) for girls that day. Lauren got the best score at 47 reps!

THEN..

girls’ WOD!

Of course there’s no record of it on the site, BUT… it was MORE CLEANS.

15 hang cleans at 95lbs
20 sit ups
25 ring rows
30 walking lunges with 25lb plate
35 burpees
all follow the leader style, with 4 girls per team.

THEN
FGB style 2 rounds

ME row for calories
ME push ups
ME wall balls
ME firehose slams

I scored 198 for both rounds combined. Again, 4 person teams.

CFTC Girls’ WOD!

So… I didn’t want to come today but I did anyways. Because I don’t want to be a cherry picker.

WOD: 10 Minute AMRAP
100m Run
12 – V Ups
8 – Slam Balls (30/20)

*400m Run Penalty for every Round under 8. So if your score is 6 Rounds then you owe 2 laps when you are done.

Yeah.. I knew I probably wouldn’t get the 8 rounds, but I’d try!

I cranked out my first 12 V-Ups.. slam balls were NBD. 100m run, NBD, but slow because I’m slow.

2nd round of V-Ups, I was like holy shit this sucks. 3rd round, whatevs, this sucks, 4th round, shit.. my tailbone is getting rubbed raw..

Tom suggested knee ups on the pull up bars, which I ended up doing the last few rounds. I finished 7 rounds plus 18. 🙁 Not good enough. 400m run added to that WOD above! Oh well. I did it. 🙂 

WOD – for time.

1000m row
21-15-9
KB (70/55)
plate facing burpees (45lb plate)

I RXed it with the 55lb KB, and finished in 13:29. 🙂 My hands hurt.

I had come in for Oly Club at 6:30p, and stayed for the 7:30p WOD. After snatches, DLs, cleans, clean pulls, snatch pulls, and then 3 position snatch work during the 7:30 wod.. my hands were wrecked. I’m questioning my oly club + wod days. I’m going to have to split it up.. maybe 4:30 wod, and 6:30 oly club, I’m not sure yet.

Man.. I have not been in the blogging mood lately! I am a week behind on posting my WODs and scores, and the longer I wait, the less I want to re-hash my experiences and scores.

Anyway.. Cindy was great! I didn’t look at my scores from before because I wanted to have an unbiased approach going in. The last time I did Cindy was almost TWO years ago, and I got 10 + 6 rounds.

This time around, I got 11 + 15! Now, I suppose I should expect a better increase than 1+ round, but still. I was happy with the improvement. 🙂

Cindy, for reference, is
20 min AMRAP
5 pull ups (I used the green band this time and last time.. I need to get away from that green band and move to a purple one.)
10 push ups
15 air squats

YEAH!!! FINAAALLLY PRed my strict press! Seriously, it’s been a year and a half in the making, I’ve been sitting at 105. It’s been so hard for me to get past that!

Today I got 110, screamed with excitement, and then went for and got 115 today! Happy Happy Happy! Hard work pays off. My shoulders are finally coming around!

WOD: 10 – 1

Strict Press (95/65)
Strict C2B Pull Ups

I finished in 14:20, but I had to use a band. AND apparently I did it wrong. I did 10-1 and 1-10, instead of 10, 10, 9, 9, 8, 8.. whoops..

Happy with my 115 strict press PR today!

Trying to get better about going to Oly Club with Derek! So far, it’s been great, but I feel like I’m starting all over sometimes. I have old, bad lifting habits that I need to break that Derek is great with, but as soon as I lift heavier weight, I go back to my old, trusty form. 🙁

Anyway, after 45 minutes or so of that, on to the WOD!

WOD: 8 Minute AMRAP

6 – Power Cleans (165/115)
10 – Box Jumps (24/20″)

I RXed it! I was one of only a handful of girls who RXed the weight, and that felt awesome! 

My goal was 5 rounds, and I ended up completing 5 rounds plus 8. YEAH!

You can guess I was REALLY excited about today’s WOD. The 100 sit ups were no problem… but followed my a 1 mile run? I was like. uh… ugh… I should go.

I went. I talked myself into rowing instead of running. I ended up running. 🙂 (shuffling at a somewhat faster pace than I can walk, rather.)

WOD: For time:
100- Ab Mat Sit ups
1 – Mile Run

So… I was looking at the scores, and people had posted up like, 8:44, 9:14, 9:28 and I thought SURELY that’s just the mile time! Hah. No. That was 100 situps AND a mile run time! To date, my fastest mile yet is 10:32. I couldn’t believe it.

So the WOD started, I finished my 100 situps in just over 5 minutes, and got up and thought about rowing, and Justin was like, just go! So I went. No headphones, either! It was pretty awful, because I had to listen to myself die for the next roughly 11 minutes.

I ended up finishing in 16:53, which means I ran roughly a 11:30 mile. I’m okay with that, especially considering how tired I already was. What was really cool is one of our guys, Richard, came and ran the last lap with me. 🙂 Thanks, Richard!