Waiting for this WOD made me CRAZY!!!

So, after WOD 13.4 I gained 2 spots in the Central East and went from 16th place to 14th.  I was feeling pretty good about that, my original goal was to finish in the top 25% of my division.  Not really sure if I had a specific goal for "the world" but 25% in my division was going to make for a good Open. 

You all know that quickly changed and I became this competitive crazy lady that couldn't stop talking about the open, the wods, what was next, what I wanted to see, what I didn't want to see....but all in all, I pretty much called 3 out of 4 of these wod's to some point. 

So, we practiced thrusters and chest to bar pull-ups last Tuesday...the last Open gathering and I felt like this was what was going to show up for the final WOD.  UNTIL.....I got home that night and Mark had sent me this video footage of Dave Castro talking about the announcement of WOD 13.5....This was a bad idea.

I am SO superstitous about watching video's I have NO idea why I watched this one, because it haunted me for the next 24 hours.  NO LIE!!! 

The video shows Dave Castro saying that we are going to do something we've NEVER done before....and he's talking about how hard the WOD is going to be and how it's going to be hard for the "regular" athlete....but stepping it up a notch and saying the "elite" athletes are really going to feel this one as well.  So, Jim watches the video with me...I finish my work on the computer and we head to bed.  As we lie down in bed, Jim says to me, "I just had a vision of what the WOD is going to be!"  He said, "it's going to be some type of AMRAP with 21-15-9 squat snatches and chest to bar pull-ups".....moments later he was quietly sleeping.....

I on the other hand WAS NOT!! From 10:30 pmish....until my alarm sounded at 4:45 am....I did squat snatches in my sleep!!!  It was awful.  I went through EVERY scenario of what could be in this WOD that had NEVER been done before!!! I was doing pistols on med balls...HSPU....you name it, I did it in my sleep.....Who does that?  Who plants these seeds in my head and then snoozes off to this wonderful slumber where I lay and toss and turn and do squat snatches in MY SLEEP!!!!  

The ENTIRE next day, if I thought about the WOD my stomach rolled.....I couldn't wait until 8:00 pm.  Lucky for me at exactly 8:03 pm my phone died.  I had played Pandora for all three of my classes without charging the battery....and just when I needed it the most I couldn't get my dang phone to work. 

Poor Kim, I practically pushed her and Elizabeth out of the gym so I could get into my car and plug my phone in.  Little did I know that my phone would be SO DEAD that even if it was plugged into the car charger it didn't have enough juice to even turn on!!!  I can't explain the 5 minutes between my phone dying and it receiving enough juice to turn on....I was a MANIAC!!!  Like seriously, a drug addict that had run out of drugs.

I was cursing and driving and trying to turn the phone on and screaming.....I mean, really looking back, this was bad!!!

Phone comes back on and I receive a text from Matty...."Say What!?"  What do you mean, say what I HAVEN'T SEEN THE WOD!!!  I'm going crazy, Brooke is texting me and Matty is texting me....and then I see the WOD and it all calms down from there.  My comfort zone, thrusters and pull-ups....I didn't care about the time slot, I just knew that I could do what I was required to do.  I thought I can do this, and from there I had set my goal...75 reps.

I had pondered for about 30 seconds on how many times I would do this WOD, I had decided once and I would go balls to the wall and just knock it out.  Get it done. And call it a day!!!

I knew I couldn't get the 90 reps required...we just recently did Fran and my Fran time is 4:57, knowing that I didn't have a judge counting my reps and making sure they were perfect along with the fact that those were chin over bar pull-ups and this time I had to get my chest to touch the bar.  I decided that 75 was a great score. After watching Matty on Friday evening do this WOD, and get 76 reps, my new goal was 77.  I wanted to be 1st place in the CFM Leaderboard.

So, here is was Saturday morning and it's finally my turn.  I was nervous, I'm not gonna lie. I had 4 minutes to prove to myself that I could do this.  I did all 15 thrusters without stopping....jumped up on the pull-up bar and knocked out 8 chest to bar....what the heck where did those come from?  Then did 5 more, then 2.  Round 1 done.  15 thrusters without stopping...and that's when I felt it....coming out of round 2 in the thrusters....Fran attack was coming, I had to work and I had to work fast and not let it get the best of me.  I started doing pull-ups but it was taking forever...I heard them counting the clock and decided I needed about 30 seconds to get the thrusters done in that last set, so I would do a pull-up or 2 and it was up and down.  I had 2 no reps...UGH!!  Finally done with the pull-ups I head back to the thrusters with about 25 seconds on the clock.....I was able to get 12.  Score 72!!!

Immediately, I knew I had to do this again.  I couldn't stop thinking about it....all day, all night, I knew what I had to do to get those extra 5 reps...I had to move through those pull-ups more methodically.  Sets of 5 is what I decided.  Jim and I talked about it a bit and he thought, "why aren't you shooting for 100 reps?"  He agreed to coach me as we went back in after church on Sunday.

I'll just make this short and sweet....kind of like the workout.  55.

Yeah, no lie.  That's how many reps I got on Sunday.  I know myself, and I know what I am capable of.....

1.  DO NOT watch any video.  No video is going to tell me anymore than what I already know myself. 

2.  DO NOT use anyone else's strategy.  I cannot use anyone else's strategy.  This is my body and my workout and I know what it does best.

I love the open, and I'm sad that it's over.  I love the team work and the competition and the constant sit and wait and plan and strategize.  I just love everything about the open!!!