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Update on my L2...

Went as I expected - I prepared properly and was ready....

But I choked. This was something I had worked towards for over a year and it meant everything to me. When I got in the middle...the gravity of the situation hit me and I bombed. No two ways about it.

Still -
Learned a lot, and as always with CrossFit met a lot of great people including Tommy H. who finished 2nd in the CF games. Nice guy.

All in all - The test is exactly what I do every day and love it. I'm comfortable with it but when the lights were on I just came up short.

P.S. Matt passed so at least we have 1 L2 at our Box...

Did a WOD on Saturday

[B]10/31/09[/B]

AMRAP in 20 minutes
5 thruster
7 Hang power clean
10 SDLHP

10 rounds + 7 HPC (Not a PR I don't think but I also may have missed count)
Was tough doing this while Annie and Adrian were doing Helen but I wanted to work out so I did.

[B]11/01/09[/B]

Active rest
Did the MCCF warmup and worked on weighted pistols (Did a couple with 1.5 pood KB and they actually didn't feel too bad).

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[B]11/03/09[/B]

Yesterday was a rest day because I flew the red eye and had no sleep.

Today's WOD was
30 Muscle-ups for time

My time
9:49

Not a PR but I kind of screwed up. I thought I would try to do 1 muscle up every 10 secs the first minute, then every 12 etc...that didn't work and because of it I started 'missing' them...that's never good (and it hurts like hell) so I added a little time to my PR...

Owell...Bad couple of days for me, I'll get over it.

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[QUOTE=Jason David;690263]Update on my L2...

Went as I expected - I prepared properly and was ready....

But I choked. This was something I had worked towards for over a year and it meant everything to me. When I got in the middle...the gravity of the situation hit me and I bombed. No two ways about it.

Still -
Learned a lot, and as always with CrossFit met a lot of great people including Tommy H. who finished 2nd in the CF games. Nice guy.

All in all - The test is exactly what I do every day and love it. I'm comfortable with it but when the lights were on I just came up short.

P.S. Matt passed so at least we have 1 L2 at our Box...

Did a WOD on Saturday

[B]10/31/09[/B]

AMRAP in 20 minutes
5 thruster
7 Hang power clean
10 SDLHP

10 rounds + 7 HPC (Not a PR I don't think but I also may have missed count)
Was tough doing this while Annie and Adrian were doing Helen but I wanted to work out so I did.

[B]11/01/09[/B]

Active rest
Did the MCCF warmup and worked on weighted pistols (Did a couple with 1.5 pood KB and they actually didn't feel too bad).[/QUOTE]

Sorry to hear. Do you know how close you were or why you didnt pass or anything like that?

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[QUOTE=Greg Light;690292]Sorry to hear. Do you know how close you were or why you didnt pass or anything like that?[/QUOTE]

I got 50 points...and needed 54. I know exactly why I failed and knew everything I was doing wrong as it happened - it was weird. It was like an out of body experience. I wasn't myself.

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Jason-
Don't be down buddy!
That is a tough mother, as you know.

Good job on getting those 50 points.
Keep it up!

I hope to see you in 6 months at a L2 cert myself!

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[B]11/04/09[/B]

Thrusters

5 - 95
3 - 135
1 - 155
1 - 165
1 - 175
1 - 185
1 - 190 (PR)
1 - 195 (F)
1 - 195 (F) Very close
1 - 195 (F)

Light warm up today too...no dips or pull-ups...

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[B]11/05/09[/B]

AMRAP in 20 minutes

Row 250 m
95# Sumo Deadlift High-pull, 21 reps
15 pull-ups

4 rounds + 6 SDLHP

Ugh...tough one. Right before I started I thought WOW! this is going to be tough on the grip!

Felt like crap today - Mental note...cookies and pizza do not make for great WOD performance...:)

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[B]11/06/09[/B]

Run 5K

My time 28:56*

*Here's the thing. I've been hurting my calf a lot lately, it tightens up to a point where it is painful to walk sometimes - My guess is that it's from running pose improperly - although I like Pose, and it has done a lot for my running times, I wanted to get through today without an injury so I did a few things differently.

1. Didn't Pose
2. Didn't go 100% - probably 85%. (Also went a bit too far on the way out)
3. Wore squishy shoes

It was a nice day out and I looked forward to a nice jog and didn't want to hurt myself...

Have my first oly meet on sunday anyway...don't want to be injured for that!

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[B]11/08/09[/B]

Had a good time at the oly meet today in Ann Arbor. Definitely a learning experience and I'll do it again for sure.

Snatch

1 - 135 (62 Kg)
2 - 145 (66 Kg)
3 - 156 (71 Kg) Miss - But counts as a CF PR!!

I ended up doing a power snatch on all reps...Just happened like that. the 71 Kg didn't count because of a little press out.

C&J
1 - 175 (79 Kg)
2 - 189 (86 Kg) MESS!! (Instead of miss) didn't adjust my grip before the jerk and almost died as a result (I couldn't because i was already at the top before I realized what had happened then I panicked). I can't jerk weight from a loose fingertip grip from the shoulders for some reason. I have to almost have a partial death grip on the bar. Gotta work on that. The clean felt really light but the video is hilarious - I mean it almost came down on my head!!
3. 192 (87Kg) Got this and it felt pretty light. If I would've made my #2 attempt, I would've gone for a PR of like 205 but owell. It was still fun anyway.

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[B]11/09/09[/B]

'Fran'

21-15-9
Thrusters 95#
Pull-ups

3:47 PR! Big time!

Fired up about this...video to follow.