I'm a little behind...so I'll start with WOD 13.4......

As you all know I prayed and prayed for clean and jerks to be in WOD 13.4, I started a prayer chain, and we were very blessed when the WOD was released.

God was keeping my ego in check when, with the clean and jerks he handed down toes to bar! 

So, we all know that I've been working towards a goal every WOD and that once that goal was achieved that I would reward myself with a big ol' 6 pack of Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs.  I was SO confident with this WOD and the goal I set that I even "PRE-BOUGHT" my eggs!  Now, I know there is a fine line between confidence and cockiness.....this was confidence.  I like this WOD toes to bar or not!!

So, I decided right off the bat that I would do this workout twice.  My goal was 75 reps, 3's, 6's, 9's, 12's and 15 clean and jerks!!  It's something I love and so I was ready and raring to go on Friday morning.  We were lucky enough to have 5 judges for our 5 athletes that morning so we all got to go at once.  My only unlucky moment that morning was I had scheduled Jim to get a massage at the same time we were supposed to do the WOD, so I was going for it without my coach:(

AJ was my judge and I moved smoothly through the clean and jerks...then I'd get to the toes to bar and usually was able to get 3 each time.  I couldn't wait to get back to the clean and jerks.  That was my easy part, and each time I was able to knock them out and then get back to the toes to bar TIME SUCKER!!
I was able to get 72 reps...I  had 3 reps left of my clean and jerks and NO room left on the floor.  For anyone that was there I started by the pull-up bar and ended by the GHD machines!!

Mary, was our "coach" for Friday and she was in charge of the clock and letting us know where we were.  Funny story...during my last set of clean and jerks for some reason I find myself singing along to the radio.  I'm singing, "Like a bridge over troubled water....." SERIOUSLY....that was on and it was some awful country version and I was cleaning and jerking and singing like it was nobody's business....thinking WHY IS THIS SONG ON!!!! Finally, Mary realizes what is playing and hits the next button on the Ipod....LOL after that it was SO funny.

So, here it is Saturday morning and all morning I'm nervous ...but not for myself.  You see my beautiful son was doing this WOD today and I can't tell you how hard it was to separate my "Mother" from my "Coach" role!!  It was TOUGH!!

I knew that 135# for Brandon was HUGE and he has been struggling with a sore back as I have been working diligently on fixing his DL form....and Angela has been working his back.  SO, heavy weight, sore back, and nervous mom.  For those of you that have been around Bran and I enough you will know that BOTH of us have this strong desire to believe that WE are the only ONE that is right about, well just about everything.  So, we tend to argue, a bit, over EVERYTHING!!!

So, I never fully prepared myself for this WOD and I made a huge coaching mistake by putting myself at the same time as Bran...so I couldn't be mother hen....nor Coach Carole, I had to be athlete in my own game....with my beautiful son wodding RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!

I didn't really get to warm-up.  Started WODDING and it was feeling really ugly.  Instead of doing my toes to bar in sets of 3 they were coming out in sets of 1!  (If you can call that a set.)

And then it happened, I was in my clean and jerks working behind Brandon and I saw him get hurt.  I was so scared....the fact that he was still standing meant that I had to keep doing clean and jerks.  Jim was so busy watching me that he missed Bran and I was trying SO hard to get his attention.

So, I'd do a clean and jerk and then point to Bran...."he's hurt!" and then I'd do another and it took me like 3-4 clean and jerks and in between screaming for someone to take care of Bran, once I knew he was taken care of....I was able to move forward.  

I kept hearing the time in the background and I knew that I was going faster than Friday....Jody was counting my reps, Jim was coaching me, and I could FEEL a circle of people surrounding me as I was on my set of 15's....everyone was counting, Shelley was screaming at me to pick up the bar!!! 

I was hearing like 68, 69 and then it happened....I've done this before....and my husband was SO QUICK to catch me...LUCKILY!!! Right before rep 70 I quit!

Yep, there you have it.  I was DONE!! I hit this wall that sometimes I can't get past by myself.  I like to say I have no mental toughness....well, there was the wall and I was stopping!  I heard him say, "45 seconds, Carole PICK UP THAT BAR!" So, I did...71, 72, 72, 74, 75.....and then I heard him say 6 seconds left....I made this mad dash to the pull-up bar....

I will tell you what I THOUGHT I was doing....I have this beautiful vision of myself running to the pull-up bar and jumping....hearing 4,3,2....and I felt like I jumped in the air and tried to grab the pull-up bar....and then I heard 1...TIME!! At that moment, I felt my body sliding down the concrete wall.....into a slump on the floor. 

Now, I will tell you what really happened .....4,3,2....Carole is running towards the pull- up bar, her arms are NOT extended to reach for the pull-up bar and her feet NEVER leave the ground....she run's smack dab into the concrete wall and slides down as she hears 1....TIME!!!

Video footage of what really happened!!

That my dear, is the cold hard truth.   I'll stick with the vision...it's so much prettier in my head that way.  Although, I have watched the video countless times and I just laugh every time.

13.4...in the books....hella of a WOD.

In case you're wondering I ate ALL 6 Reese's in a matter of 3 day!!! They were worth the wait and by far my favorite cheat EVER!!!