CFO Fran-niversary: Every Rep Counts Partner Competition

Oh man, It's been a while!

I definitely catch up with my posts on training, and life, but for now I am just going to catch you up on the recent partner competition I participated in! A couple months ago a few people in my gym talked about signing up for CrossFit Oakdale's "Every Rep Counts" partner competition.  Garrett kinda planted the bug for Diane and I to partner up, and do the competition. I definitely gave it some thought, and decided to ask Diane if she would want to. Without hesitation, she was like " Yea! That would be awesome!" haha! She is the best, so from there we committed to do the comp! We decided to do their "open" division, which was their version of scaled. 

These were our finishes!-

This past Saturday (12/6/2014) was the day! 

We had a total of 5 workouts, but the set up was more like 2 separate workouts,

The first four were called "The Girls Gauntlet" and were set up like a game board set up a 5 min AMRAP of each workout, with 5 minutes of rest between each one- 

Diane- 

9-15-21-27 +6 each round

Deadlifts @ #115 and bar over burpees

- In practice Diane and I (haha, it makes me laugh that her name is the workout, I know I am amused easily haha) felt super comfortable with these movements, and the pace that we had. We got through the round of 27 deadlifts and got about 5 burpees in. At the even we got through the round of 27 deadlifts +2 burpees. We stayed right on track with what we practiced, especially since we wanted to try to keep a decent pace, and not let the adrenaline get the best of us. 

5 min rest

Annie-

10-20-30-40-50 +10 each round

HR push ups and double unders

- Well, in practice we were happy with the way we did this workout, we finished the round of 50 HR push ups, and started the doubles. The easiest way to say this, on comp day, neither one of us could get our double unders to save our lives. Its disappointing, because we think that if this event would have gone a little better we could have placed differently. But, we live and learn, and we are definitely going to be working our doubles haha. 

5 min rest

Grace-

Clean and Jerk @ 65lbs

- When we practiced this workout, we were confident. The weight was light, and we were moving it well. We knew in competition the workout would feel a little different with having done the first 2 WOD's prior, but we still weren't to worried. In practice we got a total of 77 reps, in competition we got 65. Not bad, for having two previous workouts. But man, after this workout, I was messed up! I have been getting over a chest cold, so I was super short of breath. Killed me. 

5min Rest

Fran-

9-15-21-27 +6 each round

Thrusters @45lbs

KB Swings (american) 35lbs

- For me, this workout didn't go quite as planned. I was super winded from Grace, and I was stupid and drank too much water on our 5 min break. I could feel the water just sitting above where I had my belt cinched, and I felt like it was going to come up the whole workout. 

My thrusters felt so slow, man.. ugh idk.

 But Diane, dude she killed this workout! She moved the thruster weight and KB swings with ease. She did mad work on this one.She is the best partner ever.

We had a break for about 2 hours, then we had our final event:

9 min AMRAP

Kara-Bel

30 wall balls 14lbs, 9ft target

6 snatches #65

- Wellllll, we left for lunch. We had delicious little sandwiches at a place called Cottonwood Cafe in downtown Oakdale. We got back to the event just in time for our last event! We warmed up, and prepped for about 10 min, before it was our turn for the final workout. This workout went about as well as it did in practice. I did all of the snatches, and Diane killed all the wall balls! I would do the 6 snatches, then get in about 10 WB, and Diane finished the rest of the round. From what it felt like, we moved well, and we hardly wasted any time. I felt like that workout went as smooth as it possibly could. We did better than we did in practice! We finished 5 rounds and got through 26 reps of the Wall balls for the 6th round! It was a good finish for us. 

I almost died of an asthma attack haha. I really need to learn to breath through my workouts, haha. After this one Diane and I literally walked over to where everyone was, and collapsed.

Diane's legs started cramping like crazy, and I couldn't even hold myself up to sit, I was just laying down trying to breath! haha!

That is what giving it your all feels like, I guess!

Overall, I had a great time at the comp, I had an awesome partner, and have an amazing CrossFit family there to support, and cheer us on! I was definitely nervous about letting Diane down ( i kinda feel like I did in the gauntlet), but I feel like we completed each other well, we motivated each other, and ultimately we felt good and had a good time! 

-Until next time, 

xoxo

Tori