14.1 and 14.2

Okay, so trial number 2 of 14.1 went pretty much as expected.  I was able to get more a little time to get into the snatches of the 7th round.  Unfortunately not enough gas in my tank to complete them but I am satisfied with 304.

14.2 - 3 mins to do 2 rounds of 10 OHS and 10 C2B.  If successful, 3 mins to do 12 OHS/12 C2B, etc...

I did this Friday evening after a Thursday night of beer tasting and late night dinner.  Not exactly a recipe for success but it is what it is.  123 reps.  7 OHS into the 2nd round of 14s.  Smoker.  I went after it and by the time I got to into the 14 pull ups in the first round there was nothing left to be able to string them together.  Appeared we needed a different strategy.  The strategy was to conserve as much energy and strength possible to be able to get through the 14s.  Mission failed.  Tried again Monday morning.  Round of 10 was slow and conservative.  Round of 12 tried to be slow and conservative, but again after the first set of 14 OHS, I didn't feel like I had enough to string together consecutive C2Bs so I went for singles.  I finished them with about a minute to go.  I tried to string together as many OHS as possible.  Got to 8.  Had to drop.  Picked up and did 2.  Dropped.  Picked it up and finished the last 2 to finish at 130 reps.  I probably should have tried to do some amount of consecutive C2Bs in the first round to get myself to the last round of C2Bs, but oh well.

So a 600 place finish in 14.1 and a 798 finish in 14.2 leaves me at an overall place of 547.  Interesting math, but it is what it is.  Still leaves me in possible contention for top 200 but I'll have to pull out something special for these last 3 workouts.  I am thinking the 798 finish will be my worst as we don't do a lot of pull ups and certainly not C2Bs.  Hopefully these last 3 workouts will give me something to put up something big.  If not, I suspect I'll stay at a respectable top 5-6% but certainly not at the top 1-2% they are looking for to make it to the qualifying rounds.

Trident Scoreboard

14.1 - 30 Double Unders 15 Snatches at 75lbs - 10 minute AMRAP

Same as 11.1 where I did 297 reps.  So 3 years later, I did 298 reps.  The difference was that broke the double-unders 1 rep later.  Maybe I over paced it by breaking up the snatches 6-5-4 from the beginning.  I'll do it again on Monday.  This time I'll redline it from the beginning and see how it goes.

And 5 years later...

Dug this up during a rabbit hole of looking at some crossfit videos.  Crazy to look at the workouts and results.  Still crossfit'ing, not racing and definitely not 35 years old any more.  This year I turn 40 and will actually give the games a try.  I am probably about 75% of where I wanted my fitness to be at this point, but with two 5 year old kids, two puppies and sort of a new job, I can't complain too much. 

This is my attempt to journal my run at the Crossfit Games 2014, Masters style.  Just to kick things off, a quick recap of what I wanted to do to get ready for my assault on the Crossfit Open 2014 followed by what I actually did to get ready:

What I wanted to do:

Summer of 2013:  Get strong.  Lift heavy, put on weight and increase my max lifts
Fall of 2013:  Get my metcon in check.  Run/Bike to work.  Get in some longer runs.  Generally work on metcons.
Winter 2013/2014:  Amp up the work outs.  Zone and cut out the drinking.

What I ended up doing:

Summer 2013: Crossfit Wods 3-5 x Week.
Fall of 2013: Crossfit Wods 3-5 x Week.
Winter 2013/2014: Crossfit Wods 3-5 x Week.  Amped it up a little bit.  In February zoned a little bit and went a few days in a row without drinking.

Best laid plans...  That being said, I feel pretty damned good.  My goal is to make the top 200 so I can get into the next set of workouts.  If that happens, I'll go real hard at the qualifying workouts but I have no visions of getting into the top 20.  I really think getting into the top 200 will be a stretch but I will go for it.  I am healthy, fairly fit and just about 40.

Let's see how it goes.  That being said, I am about to close up shop to go to happy hour and my buddy Paul's 40th birthday dinner.  Not starting off well, but this isn't any different to how I have been training!!!