Anyway, I faced quite a challenge at the games. I was quite ill. In fact, it started last Monday night when I threw up in bed (that is why I missed last Tuesday). I didn’t feel right all week, but Friday night it came back strong. Saturday morning I felt horrible. I knew I was going to throw up during my first workout so I made sure they had a bucket next to my work station. The first workout was 21,15,9 of 275# deadlift and C2B pull-ups. By the second set, I knew the only person I’d be competing with that day was myself. I barely had anything left. Midway through the deadlifts in the second set, I started throwing up in the bucket every few reps. In the third set of deadlifts I threw up on the bar. Then at the pullup station too. It was a total “barfarama”! I’m sure everyone was thankful that I was in the very last heat of that wod. Needless to say, I was happy to finish it.
The second wod was 5 rounds of 7 thrusters with (2) 24kg KB and 11 burpees. This wasn’t quite as hard, but I still felt horrible and “dry-heaved” a few times. The third wod was a 2000m row. I paced myself a little too slow at the beginning, but finished strong with a time of 7:19. I am frustrated with my overall performance because I couldn’t compete the way I had hoped, but I’m trying to focus on the small moral victory I had by just completing all the workouts. That little voice in the back of my head was there most of the day telling me to quit, and boy was I wanting to listen to it. I can’t believe I got through it. Those first two workouts totally sucked for me.
For the day, I think I placed 58th out of 96 total competitors. Ironically, I placed one spot ahead of John Loudermilk from Hyperfit, who I hung out with quite a bit. Rambo was about 15 spots ahead of us. Simon Warnos was a monster. He was in the lead going into Sunday’s wod, but dropped to 8th overall by the end of the workout. The competitors there were top notch. If I had brought my best game, I think I may have been able to place somewhere in the thirties. But there was a very wide margin in fitness between athletes that placed in the thirties vs. any of the athletes that placed in the teens, or even twenties. It was good to participate with athletes who are at that level of fitness. I am still a little awestruck at the number of elite athletes that competed.
Today is the first day I am feeling 100%, I am looking forward to getting back at it. I should be there Thursday.
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