Thursday plans blown

My plan for the Opens was to do the WOD on Thursday and then again on Saturday or Sunday.   No way I could do the WOD as I was in Chicago and the local gym has it scheduled for Friday.  Long day of meetings only to be topped by my flight being canceled.  Rebooked onto an earlier flight.  I expected that would be canceled but became more optimistic as it got closer to departure time.  Of  course the flight was canceled when I was about 5 minutes away from Ohare.  Now it didnt make any sense to go back into the city so I was stuck at the Ohare Hilton.   Meaning one more night of crappy sleep. 

Crossfit Opens 2013 13.1 Announcement

Like everyone who has been crossfitting over 6 months it was hard to think of anything but what the first workout was going to be.  I was hoping it would be burpees again as it would give my wrist more time to heal.   I was in Chicago so the announcement came at 7pm. 

17 AMRAP
40 - Burpees
30 - Snatches @75bs
30 Burpees
30 Snatches @135lbs
20 Burpees
30 Snatches @165lbs
10 Burpees
30 Snatches @195lbs

Pacing would be key and it looked like a fair workout.  

Change of Plans

I was suppose to do clean and jerks but got smart and took the rest to see if the wrist would feel better.  The rowing by itself was going to be bad enough.

3x500m  goal to be all under 1:40
with 2 minute rest between rounds

Round  1 - 1:38.7
Round  2 - 1:38.9
Round 3 - 1:42.0
Totals
4:59 1500m 1:39.8

That last one really hurt. I had nothing in the tank on the last round.  I hope its not a foreshadowing of what is going to happen in the Opens. 

Rest Day

Rowing Tosh

Tosh was on the schedule and I was looking forward to doing it.  It clearly has been a long time since I have done this wod as If it had been more recent there was no way that I would have been exciting. 

A reminder of Tosh Rowing WOD

3 rounds of Rowing 250m, 500m and 750 meters.  Rest the duration it took you row the distance. 

I tried to program this into my C2 and screwed it up so my numbers are a little off.  The total time was 29:50

Splits looked this

Round 1 totals - 1500 - 5:36 avg 1:52
250 - 43.8
500 - 1:44
750 - 2:45

Round 2 - 1500 6:04 avg 2:01
250 - 49.6
500 - 2:06
750 - 2:46

Round 3 - 1500 5:49 avg 1:56
250m - 51.8
500m - 1:45
750m - 2:50

Roll of tape

More cleans on the program for today.  I probably should have emailed Coach Mac for a new wod to give my wrist more time to heal or just called the audible and switched things up myself but I didnt.  I tried the mummification process and taped the hell out of it but it really didnt help.  I can clearly gut through any wod but it would be nice to not have to deal with the pain.

Work to 1RM clean and Jerk

135
155
175
185
195 = Stopped on account of the wrist

5 Min AMRAP

Squat Clean and Jerk @165

17 reps  - same as I did 2 years ago.  Satisfied with this effort as my wrist was a distraction and I just paced myself through it.

Rest Day

Red Eye home last night and then 8 hours of calls.   Wasnt as bad as it sounds.