Today’s WOD was melancholy for me. I hate… let me repeat, hate “death by 10 meters”. If you don’t know what that is, click here. But, I LOVE dead lifts. I looked at the dead lifts as my reward for suffering through death by 10 meters. Here’s the WOD:

• Death By 10 Meters
• 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 dead lift

I improved by 2 rounds in my Db10M. Last time around, I completed 16. This time, I completed 18 and was actually just 1 short of getting to 19.

On the dead lifts, my break down looks like this:

• Round #1: 205lb
• Round #2: 225lb
• Round #3: 245lb
• Round #4: 265lb
• Round #5: 300lb

I didn’t max out. I did the 5 reps of 300lb and honestly, could have tacked on some more and done another set. Still though, I am really happy with my progress.

I am REALLY proud of Victoria. She got 16 rounds on her first time doing Db10M. Her dead lift break down looks like this:

• Round #1: 85lb
• Round #2: 95lb
• Round #3: 115lb
• Round #4: 120lb
• Round #5: 120lb

A few months ago, I had a barbell in the garage that had 100lb on it. I said to her “come on, you can dead lift that”. She tried and couldn’t. Now, today, she dead lifted 120lb 10x.

Cross. Fit. Works.