Fight Gone Bad-ish....

I keep walking up the stairs to CFOT at 5:50am and a little sore and tired and just hoping for a heavy day. I need to really stop hoping for that because it doesn't appear it is going to happen soon. Got in today to see Jerry had posted a workout similar to Fight Gone Bad, so here goes:

Four Exercises - Five Rounds!-Total Reps- a minute at each exercise with two minutes between rounds. The Exercises were
Row for Calories
Jumping Lunges
Sumo Deadlift High Pull with KettleBell (52#)
Dumbbell Thrusters (30#)
Each round you start with a different exercise except the fifth when you repeat where you started.

I have done FGB before and my PR is 311 reps, I got this 7/1/08, which was Jacob's last day. I am signed up to do the FGB fundraiser on 9/27/08 and my goal is 350 reps. I am a firm believer that (a) there is a strategy to FGB and (b) you have to pace yourself. With that being said I made the worst choice and started with Thrusters. I immediately felt it in my shoulders and noticed my right arm was a lot stronger than my left. Just a result of being injured and doing one-armed workouts for a few weeks. I probably would have done better with a barbell but who knows. The others at Thrusters with me were Craig and Chip, two really strong guys. I kept looking at them and working harder and harder.

I could go through the details of every round but too tired to write all that. I finished the 5 rounds with 445 total reps (detail by round and exercise below). I was one of the last people to write my number on the board and thought I miscalculated because I was the highest #. I recalculated it and was the top performer at 6am. Leslie was next at 431.

Dumbbell Thrusters 22 13 14 15 21
Row for Calories 12 16 11 10 10
Jumping Lunge 30 35 45 30 30
KettleBell High Pull 25 27 23 28 28
89 91 93 83 89 = 445

Of course I started analyzing my performance and my strategy (because that is what I do). I was surprised and proud I scored the same reps in the last round as I did in the first! I really should have started at Jumping Lunge because that 45 in Round 3 was the first exercise, if I had started with jumping lunges I would have had two high rounds. Other than that and the fact I should have tried for my reps on jumping lunge, I was pretty happy.

Since today was my day off I hung out and got my 31 burpees in and watched the 6:45 class. Chris was at the 645 class and I told him to start with jumping lunge, my mistake. He started his first round with 60 or so jumping lunges. So I finished watching them and Chris scored 498! I was now disappointed with my score. I did good but could have done better and Chris' score proves it. I know I am hard on myself but that is the drive and competition I love and the reason why I love Crossfit. Chris and I were talking about joining Harold for another 1 round since it looked like Harold was going to be by himself at 730. Others showed up but Chris and I still said lets go hard for one round and we started with jumping lunges. Now I had a lot more recovery time than Chris but I got 140 reps (didn't row because of space but did KB High Pulls twice) he got 110 or something. I knocked out 60+ lunges and just didn't stop. Makes a world of a difference when it is just one round. That is what makes FGB so hard it is 3 rounds and like I said before it requires strategy and pace. I am already thinking of my strategy on FGB and if I am going to reach 350 then I need to work on my box jumps, here is to September 27! Can't wait.