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2018 CrossFit Open Summary

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Well, my first CrossFit Open was definitely a lot of fun and hard work! It is fun to be one of thousands waiting anxiously to find out what kind of crazy workout CrossFit Games Director Dave Castro will throw at us. He has such a great imagination when it comes to pain and physical work!

And then discussing it with family, friends, and gym mates both as it is announced and then after doing the workout is great.  For 5 weeks out of the year all of us are doing the same workout at least once a week! So much fun in that painful sort of way!

I was able to complete 4 of the workouts with my normal 5:30am Crew and that was a lot of fun – pushing each other and celebrating each other’s successes and new achievements. The 5th workout I was able to get done during Friday Night Lights at Solcana and that was a different level of energy.  I didn’t know a ton of people, but that didn’t stop everyone from cheering each other on and judging others!

Here are links to my posts:

18.1

18.2

18.3

18.4

18.5

And here is the link to all the Official Info.

Pictures are from Friday Night Lights for 18.4. Thanks Ryan and Matt for taking pictures!

03022018 – CrossFit

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18.2 and 18.2a!

As noted in the announcement this was a burner! I also really struggled with whether to try this Rx or not. I could have done the movements as written. Ultimately, I did it scaled and that was a good decision. I barely made it into 18.2a and would not have had I done it Rx. What was this 18.2 CrossFit Open workout?

In 12 minutes complete the following:

1 dumbbell squat (2 35# dumbbells)

1 barfacing burbee

2 of each

3 of each

4 of each

5 of each

6

7

8

9

10 of each…

Then with any time remaining get to a 1RM Clean – this is 18.2a.

The first 5 rounds moved along pretty quickly l, but after that things started to slowly fall apart. The burpees got really hard, if you need help with the math there were 55 of each movement and round 8 is when you hit the halfway mark on the reps. I started out doing strict burpees but started doing more stepbacks or stepovers in rounds 6 and 7. I finished the last round with less than a minute and was able to squeeze in 3 cleans in that time finishing with 120 on the bar. That last minute was intense with loading the bar and cleaning it.