It’s been a while since my last post. But a lot as been going on.
Over Easter weekend we left the VEAB Environmental friendly plus house project. It’s been a big part of our lives the last two years. But now we are settled into our new apartment. The girls each have their own room which they love, we are on a waiting list for a garage and the attic storage is filled. There are aspects of the house we miss, but being on our own feels great.
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Finally after five weeks of competitions the Open is over. A lot of excitement and fun for the cost of only two movie tickets!
Going into the Open I was set on only competing in the Masters 40-44 scaled division. For the most part due to my lack of skills and strength.
So Monday afternoon I met up with Fredrik who had been sick over the weekend to perform WoD 15.5 again. Fredrik was going to do the scaled and I was going to try to beat my Friday time of 14:29.
After a short warm-up Fredrik was ready. We had a sign posted with the reps and times after each stage to give each other an idea of what the end time could be. Fredrik did really well, one minute faster than my time from friday. Continue reading
Thats how I felt this morning after completling the Open 15.5! For the first time in a very long time I’m sore all over. I’m a more sore today than I was after my 27km swim and my first IM a week later.
But let’s back up.
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Lots has happened since I last had time and energy to blog. So instead of one really long blog with lots of topics I will give a short description of each and if you want you can read more or skip it and go on to the next.
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I just got word that I need to be in Dubai on Monday for a meeting…
That means I won’t be able to stay for the entire Swedish Nationals on Sunday. But more importantly it means I might have to walkover The Open WoD 15.4.
I have been in contact with 4 boxes in Dubai, keeping my fingers crossed they have open gym times late on Monday so I can attempt 15.4, but it is not looking good. Most of them seem to have open gym 1400-1600 and then classes until closing. But there were lots of boxes with in 15km of my hotel, so I will keep trying to contact them.
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On Friday Fredrik and I met at the Box after lunch to test 15.3 WOD.
15.3 Rx:
Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 14 minutes of:
7 muscle-ups
50 wall-ball shots
100 double-unders
(Men use 20-lb. ball to 10 feet, Women use 14-lb. ball to 9 feet)
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Sunday I get to the Box 40 min before the start of yoga, and warm up for my attempt at 15.2 Rx. I was really happy with my Scaled attempt and decided I could either attempt to do a minimum of 9 reps more to be able to start the next round, or see how many reps of the first round of Rx I could manage. It was the quickest and most mentally tough WOD since I started 3 months ago. Same set up as the scaled with 3 min rounds, but starting with
2x 10 Overhead squats 43kg
10 Chest to bars (C2B)
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Week two of the Open was a combo of overhead squats and chest to bars. Lucky for me the scaled WOD was chins instead of C2B and the OH squat weight was 29kg instead of 43kg. A few guys from the box decided we should have an AfterWOD when we had finished 15.2. So most of us were in the box at the same time after work.
After judging one Rx and one scaled it was my turn to give it a go.
3 min rounds of
2x 6 OH Squats 29kg + 6 chins
2x 8 OH Squats + 8 chins
2x 10 OH Squats + 10 chins
2x 12 OH Squats + 12 chins
etc…. As long as you completed all reps with in 3 min you could start the next round.
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So yesterday I had time over to make an attempt at 15.1 Rx. I felt recovered from Friday’s scaled attempt and had planned on working out at 16:30 anyways.
I get to the Box, and warm up. Due to a miss-communication between me and the manager, I wound up having to wait 30 min extra, but I was able to judge two others. I had now seen four different people do the Rx and three others do the scaled. After doing my own scaled, I realized quickly that going from 38kg to 52kg was not going to be an issue, but going from hanging knee raises to toes-to-bars was going to be my Achilles heal.
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