Athletes were to report to the venue by 7:30am to go over standards for our first event, Event 6 "Oxygenated"
"Oxygenated"
Oxygenated was an endurance workout, which is they type I love. The reason I love this type of workout is because athletes are so used to going hard right out of the gate and then burning themselves out so quick that with a steady pace through the whole thing you usually end up passing those people.
"Oxygenated"
30min cap
1500m row
60 burpee box jump overs
(20 @ 24", 20 @ 20", 20 @ 6")
1mi run
80 sandbag get ups 30#
The Silence Among The Noise (Event 6)
This WOD was called 3-in-1 and for a good reason. We were to find a 1RM (RM - rep max) thruster in 2min, 1min transition period and then into a 7min WOD more of a time cap anyway. Here are the exact details of "3-in-1"
Once the timer started I went ahead and threw extra weight on the bar, which I thought was 105#, much to my surprise after I attempted at 10# extra and failed the attempt, my judge told me that the weight was 115#. I was hoping for a little higher considering I hit 115# back in a competition in January. But I wasn't that worried about it. I was really prepped for this competition. I made sure I had my rings set to my height and then weighted for the 1min transition to be over. Gymnastics movements tend to be my wheelhouse/specialty when it comes to CrossFit, but the girls I was competing against were really good so I wasn't expecting what happened next.
I started on my thrusters and got to rep 11 before another competitor got on the bar. Weightlifting is probably my weakest point in CrossFit. Sure enough she passed me. And I headed to the bar only a couple reps behind her. Next was toes to bar (TTB or t2b), a grand total of 20 reps. Having to do strict leg lifts or t2b in gymnastics makes this movement easy for me. I knocked those out no problem and was off the bar again before the girl who I was neck and neck with was off the bar.
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| Zoned out on the row with my music going. |
My strategy for this was to pace myself through the row, and zone out. Rowing is one of the things in CrossFit I can NOT stand. Most people in CrossFit don't like running. I, sure enough, am the opposite. You don't go anywhere when you row. I remember when I used to get cherries on my tailbone from rowing, a little fix in technique and that solved that problem. All the athletes in my heat got the 3...2...1... countdown and I turned on my music and off I went to take on that dreaded 1500m row. It was actually over faster than I remember in a normal row. I made sure I kept the same pace the whole time so I wouldn't wear myself out before getting to the box jumps. I came off the rower and on to the what felt like 100 box jumps, heck it might have well have been 100. Some of those box jumps were iffy on my part that I'm surprised I didn't fall over to the other side flat on my face or even miss my feet and hit my shins. My legs started to feel so heavy on those suckers. Although, that would have helped get back down into the burpee portion.
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| 1 mile run...glad I brought my Newton Motion running shoes! |
My legs at this point felt so tight that heading out on that run I felt super slow. I started to catch the girl that was in front of me and almost passed her. Actually, I might have passed her on the way in the door. After that it was the mad search for my judge who was standing at my station where I was to start my sandbag get ups. Eighty of those suckers. I switched the position of the sandbag every 5 reps, and figured out a way to pass the sandbag from shoulder to shoulder on the way down. I grabbed the side of the mat twice without thinking but it was only a quick warning from my judge not to do it again. Some judges were letting that pass and others weren't. I finished with I want to say 34 sandbag get ups left when the 30min time cap hit.
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| All those get ups...literally GET UP!! I think I got stuck a couple times on these. |
The Silence Among The Noise (Event 6)
This WOD was called 3-in-1 and for a good reason. We were to find a 1RM (RM - rep max) thruster in 2min, 1min transition period and then into a 7min WOD more of a time cap anyway. Here are the exact details of "3-in-1"
"3-in-1"
2min to find 1RM thurster
*all athletes start with 75# on the bar
1min transition (athletes break down the weight on the bar back to 75#)
then
then
20 ring dips
25 thrusters @ 75#
20 toes to bar
15 OHS @ 95#
10 burpee bar muscle ups
5 power clean & jerk @ 125#
then directly into
2min to find another 1RM thruster
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| Apparently killing ring dips |
The timer went off for us to start and I busted out 10 ring dips first time out, then I broke them up into sets of 5 and 5. Honestly those ring dips felt like they took longer than they did. I started to walk toward my bar to start my thrusters. I had tunnel vision walking to my bar and next thing I hear over the mic from DJ Rob was that I was the first off the rings and onto the 25 thrusters. Everything in me was shocked that I was the first one off the rings. It's almost like the feeling when you are scared half to death and you feel like everything in your body stops. That feeling in the moment still hasn't gone away.
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| Everyone enjoys some thrusters! NOT |
Now for OHS (overhead squats). I think this is probably one of the least favorite lifts of most CrossFitters, but it is one of my favorites. Fifteen OHS at 95#. We had to add and extra 20 pounds from the thrusters at 75#. I can't remember how many reps I got into before the 7min time cap, but I was really hoping to finish them and get at least one burpee bar muscle up. I think anytime there is a muscle up in a WOD, that is always my goal to at least get to that point. Now holding 95# over my head for 15 reps is hard, that's only 20-25 pounds under my bodyweight. Of course in the heat of any WOD forget about strategy if it gets heavy or you get too tired and just try to get through the rest of the workout. Well, of course after I had finished this workout my first thought still goes back to coming off the ring dips first and how shocking that was, but my second thought was instead of dropping the bar to the ground after a couple reps of OHS was that I should have taking the bar back down to the back squat rack position. O well
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| Resetting to press back up to start OHS (overhead squats) |
I'm just the little girl how busted out the ring dips like they were no big deal. It almost felt as if there was some kind of cloud or protection shield, so to speak (like in Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2), when walking out to my bar for the thrusters. Besides being there with so many people cheering me on, that was the best moment and one that I will never forget no matter how many competitions I do.
Finals
I didn't make it to the finals. I placed 10th and only the top 8 would go to finals. I would have done better if I wouldn't have DQ'd in Event 4 of the day prior. I stayed to watch all my fellow teammates compete. They all made it to finals.
Your final score all depended on the distance you lunged with a kb (1 kb for scaled, and 2 for masters) after completing a movement, the movement in front of he lunges didn't matter. It was 4x3min rounds
Round 1 - 15 deficit handstand push ups/handstand push ups, max distance walking kb lunge
Round 2 - 8 muscle ups, max distance walking kb lunge
Round 3 - 20 dL, max distance walking kb lunge
Round 4 - 15 hang power clean, max distance walking kb lunge
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| Krystal Gray |
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| Travis Denman |
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| Mark Sandel |
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| Emily Denman |
