Today's met-con was heavy and I was excited about it. It's nice to see what you're capable of when the loads are heavier than normal. "Sushi Roll II" (we give the wod's we make up the most random names) was amrap in 15 minutes of:
-12 x sdhp, 135#
-24 x doubleunders
-12 x pushups
-24 x doubleunders
score=5+10 sdhp's
To start, the weight felt ligghhht. I mowed through my first round, everything unbroken, in a little under 1:30. I kept a good pace to start the second round but started to gas out a bit. Then I started spending way too much time taking breaths in between reps. I had way more in the tank than I ended up giving the rest of the workout and I was a bit disappointed with my effort at the end. I didn't have anyone pushing me today and shamefully, I didn't do well to push myself. The rx weight for the wod was 115# and when I came in, no one had gone at 135#. And in my group there was only one other guy to go at 135# but he wasn't much for double-unders. And another guy who went next to me is a met-con stud but even at 115#, the weight was heavy for him. So, I didn't have anybody on my heels and in turn, I hit cruise-control a bit rather than pushing the pedal to the floor. It's times like these you have to focus in and make it hurt and I struggled to do that today. In hindsight, I never checked the board before the wod. One of our studs had almost made 7 rounds at 115# earlier in the day. That should've been the score I was aiming to beat.
I did a little handstand work afterwards that was fairly productive. I started with max hold and made 45 seconds. Then another max hold and only made about 30 seconds. Then I decided to do a handstand tabata: 20 seconds handstand, 10 seconds rest for 8 rounds. I only made it through 3 rounds before my arms stopped holding up and then I finished with 10 second rounds. Friggin' handstands man.
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