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2018 CrossFit Open Summary

Well, my first CrossFit Open was definitely a lot of fun and hard work! It is fun to be one of thousands waiting anxiously to find out what kind of crazy workout CrossFit Games Director Dave Castro will throw at us. He has such a great imagination when it comes to pain and physical work!

And then discussing it with family, friends, and gym mates both as it is announced and then after doing the workout is great.  For 5 weeks out of the year all of us are doing the same workout at least once a week! So much fun in that painful sort of way!

I was able to complete 4 of the workouts with my normal 5:30am Crew and that was a lot of fun – pushing each other and celebrating each other’s successes and new achievements. The 5th workout I was able to get done during Friday Night Lights at Solcana and that was a different level of energy.  I didn’t know a ton of people, but that didn’t stop everyone from cheering each other on and judging others!

Here are links to my posts:

18.1

18.2

18.3

18.4

18.5

And here is the link to all the Official Info.

Pictures are from Friday Night Lights for 18.4. Thanks Ryan and Matt for taking pictures!

03092018 – CrossFit

This was seriously no joke. I missed watching the announcement live and got a text that just said… 800 double unders. Then some more details. My first thought was I can barely get 3 dubs in a row and they usually double the number for single unders. Fortunately that wasn’t the case!

Here is the actual 18.3 Rx
2 rounds for time:
100 double-under
20 overhead squats (115/80)
100 double-unders
12 ring muscle-ups
100 double-unders
20 dumbbell snatches (50/35)
100 double-unders
12 bar muscle-ups

*14 min time cap

Here’s what I did:

100 single-unders
20 overhead squats 45#
100 single-unders
12 pullups
100 single-unders
20 dumbbell snatches 50#
100 single-unders
12 pullups

*14 min time cap

My gym took some coaching license for our competition and made modifications to the scaling. I was going to attempt a scaled +(-) the scaled plus still had dubs so I was going to do those but the overhead squat weight was lower and had pull ups.

Anyway, I was going for 95# on the overhead squat. Let’s just say that was going to work. After 5 or 6 attempts I’d only completed 2 reps, I just couldn’t quite get low enough. So we stripped the plates and I finished the last 18 reps at the scaled weight of 45#. I didn’t get any more no reps!

No muscle ups here and not anywhere close! I did manage to get all 24 pull ups done with only 1 no rep! He didn’t really want to call it, so I just hopped up and did one more. It was mainly in sets of 2 or 3, but I got it done!

The 50# dumbbell snatch might be the biggest achievement of the morning. I wasn’t 100% sure I’d be able to do it, but it was only 10 per arm! I managed to get through with only one break and no no reps!

I made it through the first round and started all over! I was able to make it through the next 100 single unders and got 9 overhead squats done before hitting the time cap! My total was 573 reps!

I won’t have time, but I’m curious about what I could do if I attempted it scaled as written. Thoughts?