2018 CrossFit Open Summary

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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!

04102018 – CrossFit

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After this workout it took hours for me to be able to lift my arms to my head! Seriously though… hard to wash my hair, hard to eat my oatmeal. This was no joke for the shoulders!

We did a long shoulder warmup before a 7 minute Snatch EMOM at 80%. We did 2 snatches per minute. I need to work on catching it lower still but I did 85# for the 14 reps. I only dropped it once mid rep and then the next attempt almost threw the whole thing behind me! 

After that we did 3 rounds for time of:

10 Overhead Squats

15 Pullups

35 Situps

I did the Scaled weight of 75 for the overhead squats. I struggled with consistently getting down to parallel and only broke up the reps on the last set. I did the pullups! I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get all 45 reps or not. By breaking it up into mostly sets of 3 I was able to bang through them. I had an occasional set of 2, but tried to get at least 3. On the first set of each round my kipping wasn’t too bad! The situps were just there. I broke the first round up into 3 sets of 10 with a set of 5 and the last 2 rounds were sets of 7. I was able to keep pushing and was by far the last person done in our group. I was proud though that I managed to get the Pullups done! My total time was 12:21. 

Hopefully my arms work better tomorrow! 

04092018 – Run

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I’m getting a little tired of saying, “at least the snow is pretty.” Trail conditions were rough this morning with about an inch of fresh snow. Places that hadn’t melted off already were horrible footing with the footprints frozen into crusty mess. You weren’t really sure what each footfall would give you. I did almost roll my ankle once and it was hard to get traction on some of the uphill. 

Today was a 5x400m workout. The first two were fully on trails and the last one was a mix of paved and dirt trails. 

2:46

2:53

2:05

2:01

2:36

Total mileage was 3.91 in 43:15.

04082018 – Bike

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A cold ride around some lakes this morning. It was supposedly 17 degrees, but I wasn’t wearing enough clothes. Really it was just my fingers and toes that got the worst of it, but by the end I was feeling it! 

18 miles in 1:27. 

Rode by some crabby people who gave me the stink eye for riding on the bike path. The walking paths are still covered in snow. Another guy yelled at me for not announcing myself when I passed him, even though I yelled 5 times and his walking partner heard me and told him to move. But overall a nice ride!

04072018 – Run

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This afternoon’s run ended up being a little bit of a mistake. I jumped ahead a few weeks and did a 2×2 mile time trial. I was supposed to do a 2x 2mile workout at 90% of last week’s 4 miler. Oops! It was a nice day to run around the river. The trails by the house are all still a mess. I thought about the best place to run 6 paved miles with as many hills as possible. I think I got a pretty good workout in with some long hills. The 2nd interval had some head wind and more shorter hills. I ended right on an icy patch in the shadows.  Otherwise the trail was in great shape! I saw a Bald Eagle at the end of the first 2 miler. 

My splits were 

15:35

16:18 

My overall run was 6.37 in 57:43. So I was happy about that too. 

I’m not 100% sure what I’ll do in 2 weeks when the actual time trail comes, but we’ll see.