Fitness-10/27 and 10/29-"Badger Singles", overheads, "Fran"

Tuesday

Got after a son of a gun of a wod today. Another hero workout and another grinder. It was brutal. "Badger Singles" was a take-off of the wod "Badger." It was basically the same workout but instead of going straight through, we took a two minute break after each round. It was 3 rounds as fast as possible of:

-30 full squat cleans, 95#
-30 pull-ups
-run 800m
-rest 2 minutes

time=36:06

I was bummed after this one because my body didn't seem to cooperate. I came out of the gates hard, hit all 30 cleans unbroken, hammered through the pulls and was back in from the run at 7:45. I took my rest, the clock hit 9:45 and I took off on round 2. Made it through the cleans and came off the bar on the pulls with only 3 to go in the round and my heart rate went crazy. I get bouts of tachycardia and this was some bout. I finished the pulls and tried to take off on the run but ended up basically finishing that 800m walk/run. As soon as I layed down for my rest before round 3, my heart rhythm went normal and I was able to rock round 3. My round times (with the 2 min rests taken out) were: 7:45, 14:16 and 10:05 respectively. I'd like to have this one over again.


Thursday

Started out the session today with some overhead squats. Was going for 5 x 3, looking to hit a max effort pr on the last set. It went down like this:

-3 x 175
-3 x 185
-3 x 195
-3 x 205
-3 x 215, New PR

Needless to say I was stoked with this outing. Last time I went after overheads, I failed on rep 3 at 205 and still called it a pretty good day. So today was great. My core strength and ability to stabilize are rapidly improving which fires me up. I think the press work is really paying off. Just gotta keep with it.

We went after "Fran" to round out the day. I just did this one a few weeks ago on my own so I thought about doing a different wod. But I decided to go for it and see if I could pr anyway. Ended up going after this one alone again but was still able to push myself hard. "Fran" is 3 rounds, 21-15-9, as fast as possible of:

-thrusters, 95#
-pullups

time=4:15ish

I was killing this one and putting up as mean a pace as I ever have on a workout. When I got to the bar for my last round of thrusters, I checked my watch and it had just rolled over 3 minutes. I went unbroken on the thrusters, got on the bar, hit two quick pulls and dropped to the ground. I checked my watch and it had stopped at 3:17. Apparently I'd accidentally pushed the button with the backside of my hand when I was in the front rack on the thrusters. I finished anyways, two pulls at a time and then a single to stop the clock...that was no longer running. I'm pretty confident I pr'd today but by how much noone knows? My previous pr was 4:37. I was on pace to finish under 4 minutes but I think the pull-ups took me too long to realistically say I was close, I was gassing out hard. I'll go at this one again sooner than later and make sure someone else is on the clock. I think sub-4 is right around the corner