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Monday, March 7, 2016

Open 16.2 snippets

I was excited about this one because Dan Bailey. 'Nuff said.

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No, that's not chalk you see in the air but steam from Bailey's body. The announcement was made in a garage in North Carolina, which apparently had freezing temps at that time.

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I have to admit that I'd only recently learned about the Damn Daniel vine/meme going around. I came across this post in my Explore feed when I searched for #danbailey. It's just so apt.

Anyway, I did a scaled version of the workout:

25 TTBs/hanging knee raises
50 DUs
15 squat cleans (65#)

And in the first 4-minute round I only made it to the 10 squat cleans, so my score was 85 reps. Weak.

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Let's try this blog thing again

Whoa whoa whoa... my last post was last year? Before the CF Games?! And now it's Open season again?!?

So this is my 4th time to experience the Open. That doesn't mean that I signed up (I'm too much of a cheapskate), but I do look forward to the Open workout announcements and occasionally the workouts themselves.

I did 16.1 last week. It was 9 am here when the workout was announced and our 10 am class was the first one in the box to do it. It was hell.

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I used the prescribed weight but did kipping pull-ups instead of CTBs since I can't do those yet.

My score: 105 reps, which is 4 full rounds (one round is 26 reps) and a 5-foot lunge (which counts as one rep)

However surprisingly bad 16.1 was, I'm sure 16.2 will be as surprisingly bad. Because Dave always programs the worst Open workouts. But I'm ready to take it on tomorrow!