For those who read this and don't know, I've been training to compete in a CrossFit comp this spring that will determine, in our opinion, the fittest person in the world. The competition, known as the CrossFit Games, starts with regional qualifiers all over the world where people come together and compete to determine who from that region will go to the final competition taking place in California in July. A day or two ago, the workouts for the qualifier being held for the regions including all of Asia and Australia were announced. We decided to do the first workout announced at the gym today as a motivator for what's to come. We won't find out what the workouts will be for our region's qualifier until 5/9/09, exactly one week before our event in Seattle on 5/16/09. Our region includes all of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska and from those states, only the top 4 males and top 4 females will go. I don't know exactly how much of a long shot I am, but I am training hard to be as competitive as I can. We're less than six weeks away and with the first qualifiers starting to take place world-wide, things are heating up. This is some exciting stuff. Stay tuned. Learn about and follow the CrossFit Games here.
Today's WOD for time:
21 burpees
21 pull-ups
run 400m
15 burps
15 pulls
run 400m
9...
9...
run 400m
time=11:50
I was rocking this workout. Out the door for the last 400 at 9:15 and about 30 seconds ahead of the next guy in my group. And then I died. I tried to run and couldn't. Don't know if that's ever happened to me before. Ended up taking 2:35 seconds to get around. It was rough. But I was proud of myself for really pushing my pace. I hit the wall, but the wall continues to get further away.
Before the WOD, we did a little light, high-rep, back squat technique work. I performed sets as follows (they felt great):
20 x 135
20 x 155
12 x 185 (should have hit 20, but racked it to save the legs a bit for the WOD)
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