Saturday Bloody Saturday

I ended up staying out longer than I wanted to on Friday. I ended up home around 2:30am, and fell asleep thinking I had to wake up in 4 or so hours to work out. Since Friday was my rest day (I did run 7.5 miles in 68 minutes Friday night-great run!) I really knew I had to get up. I got to Dulles just as Iman was posting the workout. It was the WOD on the mainsite the day before.
50 Pullups
50 Ring Dips
40 Pullups
40 Ring Dips
30 Pullups
30 Ring Dips
20 Pullups
20 Ring Dips
10 Pullups
10 Ring Dips

I saw this WOD on the mainsite on Friday and thought wow but definitely doable. Well this was my chance. The pullup bars at Dulles are stationary and I knew I could knock out the pullups pretty quickly but I had no idea what a good time would be. Mike Lee and I were the only ones there. Mike is a real fire breather. Every time I go up to Dulles Mike and I usually push each other and go head to head. Mike went to the Crossfitgames this year and did well. We both looked at each other, said here goes and jumped on the bars.

My left hand opened up a little bit on Wednesday and was healing fast so I didn't think much of it but after I finished my first 50 pullups it opened up again. I fought through the 50 ring dips doing 5 at a time and jumped back on the bar. It was during my 40 pullups that I opened up my right hand and my left got worse. I was bleeding on the bar. Now after the fact I should not have used the taped bar, the friction was too much. There wasn't any tape and I ran into the l0ckeroom to get some paper towels to wipe off most of the blood. I have never thought about modifying or quiting once I have started a workout but the thought answered my head. I made it quickly leave and moved to an untaped bar. I had to jump on the bar and slide my hand so the skin that came up was over the open wounds that it should be covering up. I was not going to quit. Mike was moving along and Iman was not going to let me. I fought through the pain and slowly chipped away at the sets. I didn't give myself much rest and before I knew it I was on the last 10 ring dips. Mike had gotten to the rings before me so I knew I had to kip them up and knock them out. I have never really kipped my dips but I had to for this workout. I basically remembered the motion from Jacob and others on the website. I knocked out my dips and yelled "time" one second before Mike! Time was 19:58.

It was one hell of a workout and I really needed some more results to assess my performance. I went on the mainsite and went through the comments. There were a lot of people in the high 20's and 30's. There was only a handful of people under 20 minutes so I was proud. For the record Chris "Speal" did this workout in sub 14 minutes, insane! I know I could have had a better time had I not nursed my wounds but what can you do, roll with the bunches and GO HARD or GO HOME! My hands were pretty bad. Iman took a photo, I hope she posts it.