Fitness-8/6-deadlifts, "Mini Nicole"

Thursday WOD

I went after some more deadlifts today and the result was encouraging. Today, I was going for 5 x 3 hitting max effort on the last set. My sets looked as follows:

275 x 3
315 x 3
335 x 3
355 x 3
375 x 3

Last week, I finished my ME x 5 at 335 and it was tough. I had to come off the bar in the middle of the set in order to recoop a bit to finish. Today, I hit the set at 375 without coming off of the bar. The last rep was a dog fight but I finished it. And I felt a lot more in control of the weight on the descent today. The workout called for 2 second minimum descents and I did well to go slow down. It was tough. This still puts me about 40# behind my pr in the dead at 3 reps but if you recall last week I estimated I was behind by 70# @ 5 reps. A good step up today.

After the deads, I finished with "Mini Nicole," a 12 minute amrap of:

-max rep pullups (w/out letting go), chest to bar
-run 200m

score=45 pull-ups and 1000m

This one kicked my can. I've been trying hard not to pace on wods, to come out as strong as possible for as long as possible even if it means dying half way through and having to crawl to finish the workout. The idea behind this methodology is to find your wall and push it farther away so when you do decide to pace, you'll be much faster than you would've been otherwise. I came out hard, hit 16 pull-ups the first round and ran the 200m about as fast as I could. Only got 7 pull-ups when I came back through the door after the first run. Took off on the second run with another blistering pace. Came in the door and only got 4 pull-ups. Took off hard on the run, made the first 50m and stopped almost dead in my tracks. I couldn't go. I had to drag myself through the rest of the wod. Wall reached. Hopefully next time it's farther away.