2009-10-17 Mid Atlantic Hopper Challenge

Saturday was a good day! I participated in the Mid Atlantic Hopper Challenge put on by Crossfit BWI. We had about 12 people from PCF participate in the challenge. The workout scheme was drawn in right before the WODs so no knew what we were going to do. The strength workout was the deadlift, the 1st WOD was drawn as a triplet (a combination of 3 exercises) and the last wod was a chipper of 7 exercises. There were 54 different exercises in hopper to be drawn from. The 1st WOD was overhead squats, bastards, and pushups. (a bastard was essentially a double burpbee with a jump over the bar in between) The rep scheme for the 1st WOD was 21-15-9. The 7 exercises drawn for the chipper were 30 double unders, 7 back squats, 30 GHD situps, 7 snatches, 30 wall balls, 7 push jerks, 30 toes to bar. The weight on the bar rx’d at 135 lbs, but you could scale to 95 lbs which I did, but I was not able to do 1 135lb snatch let alone 7. In addition I do not have double unders yet so I had to scale those as well, because I was scaling they had me do a 14lb ball instead of a 20 lb ball. The nice thing about taking Jon’s oly classes is that I know much better what I can and cannot do as well as where I need work on especially on the oly lifts. As always, everyone at the competition was very nice and friendly and I noticed that people were cheering just as hard or harder for the competitors that were at the end of the workout trying to finish before the cutoff time as the ones that finished first. It was nice to have other PCFers there cheering us on. I am glad I competed as this was the first time I have ever done multiple WODs in a day. I am happy that I didn’t gas and was able to perform at my max level and not gas out. I will update this post with pics as soon as I get some. I would love to get a “Foody Call” but have no clue how to get ahold of my “Foody Call” partner.