{"id":1339,"date":"2011-02-14T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2011-02-14T18:39:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:39:49","slug":"operation-get-somethoughts-after-competing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"Operation Get Some&ndash;Thoughts After Competing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s clear that I am NOT a competitor, nor am I a competitive person. Let&#8217;s start there. Competition makes me feel like a loser, mostly. Usually, people don&#8217;t compete in something unless they have some feeling that they have it in them to win. There are things that I feel that I could compete confidently in, but CrossFit is not one of them as you just don&#8217;t know what the events are going to be. <\/p>\n<p>I surprised myself on the first and second WODs. After WOD #2 I was actually in first place (I think&#8230; that&#8217;s according to HB) due to my 215# split jerk (the highest of the day), but I quickly lost it on WODs #3 &amp; #4 as they were more metcon based and I just don&#8217;t have the lungs for them. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the WODs and how they played out: <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WOD #1<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3x<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>300m row <\/li>\n<li>10 back squats @ 185# <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Immediately followed by&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WOD #2<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 minutes to find your 1RM on shoulder to overhead. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My time for WOD #1 was 6:02 and I put up 215# on the shoulder to overhead. 300m is a good distance for me on the C2. I can pull hard pretty consistently, and if I am careful, I won&#8217;t gas myself out. This was the only WOD that I was happy with my performance on. <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WOD #3<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is where I totally lost it and came in dead fucking last out of everyone that came out. It was a 12 minute AMRAP of: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 burpees <\/li>\n<li>6 air squats <\/li>\n<li>9 KB Swings @ 1.5 pood (I did 2 handed snatches as KB swings still don&#8217;t feel so hot on my back) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I managed to get 10 rounds plus 1 burpee. Horrible. I guess trying to compete while sick isn&#8217;t the best idea, eh? I felt like my chest was going to explode. There was also lots of coughing and hacking. After this WOD I was pretty discouraged and didn&#8217;t even want to go through with the next. <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>WOD #4<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At this point, my attitude was horrible. Mostly of &#8220;screw it, whatever, I want to go home'&#8221;, much like a five-year-old that takes the kickball away and stomps back to his house because he&#8217;s losing. More so, the WOD was something that there was no way in fucking hell that I would ever even have a chance at, so, whatever. You gotta know when to fold \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem, right? The WOD was: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>800m run (to the end of Cherry St. and back) <\/li>\n<li>50 games style push ups <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My time here was 6:37. At least 2 minutes slower than the people that I needed to keep up with. Guaranteed that even had I ran the hardest I could have run, I still would have lost. The odds of me doing that with a chest cold&#8230;  &#8211; 1280371471324. <\/p>\n<p>You may have read <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=1302\" target=\"_blank\">my post on running<\/a> at some point. If you haven&#8217;t, take a minute to see why I have such negative feelings surrounding this activity. Those feelings combined with the fact that I really needed to place on the last WOD to stay competitive meant something along the lines of &#8220;fuck you, fatty, you&#8217;re done&#8221; in my head. <\/p>\n<p>So, V says to focus on the positives. Let me see if my pessimistic ass can find any. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I did pretty well on WOD #1. I didn&#8217;t come in first, but was at the very least had a time that was competitive with the rest. <\/li>\n<li>I came in 1st on WOD #2 and split jerked more then everyone else. Yay for me. <\/li>\n<li>I participated and didn&#8217;t quit even though I felt like chewed up, spit out dog shit and wanted nothing more than to go back to sleep before even arriving. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Maybe there are more, but I can&#8217;t think of any. <\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking about whether or not I would like to do something like this again, and it&#8217;s hard to say. I went into it promising myself that I wouldn&#8217;t think of it as a competition and that I would just have fun and focus on getting the activity in. That worked great while I was staying with the rest of the pack. <\/p>\n<p>As soon as I started to slip away, I was that fat little 6th grader back on the school court yard with everyone else leaving me in the dust and it felt absolutely horrible. <\/p>\n<p>It took me a good 5-10 minutes after that last WOD to flush the feeling of &#8220;loser&#8221; out of me, but eventually I did and remembered that these are all my friends and don&#8217;t think the horrible thoughts that those 6th grade bastards did. <\/p>\n<p>Take it or leave it, right or wrong, those are my thoughts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s clear that I am NOT a competitor, nor am I a competitive person. Let&#8217;s start there. Competition makes me feel like a loser, mostly. Usually, people don&#8217;t compete in something unless they have some feeling that they have it in them to win. 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