Event 4...

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, right? Last night that's one of two things that was going through my head after my crossfit coach let me know that we would be doing Saturday's Regional WOD today in training.  My first reaction after reading what is scheduled for the competition on the Saturday was please let it be Event 5 and not 4.

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So it really wasn't a surprise when I walk through the door to discover that I would be doing Event 4.  Apparently Event 5 will be next Tuesday as we have to experience every bit of pain that Emma will be.

For me a WOD with 100 reps of anyone of the movements just looks nasty.  The people that put these things together must be sadists but it only helps to make us stronger by getting though them.

I managed to get through the wallballs while only doing 5 no reps and I'm pretty sure the girls beside me knew exactly when they occurred.  20 reps into the chest to bar pull-ups (while using the band to help me), Adelaide decided that she wanted out of her make shift playpen. This then turned into a 3 minute break to change a nappy before getting back up to the bar.  I've got to say that I'm not a fan of wallballs but I think I'll take them any day over those chest to bars!

By the time I got onto the pistols my arms were feeling like cactus and it didn't take long for my legs to feel the same.  This is where I discovered or invented a new form of scaled pistol.  Usually I hold onto the frame of the rig with one hand and a band with the other.  For some reason I ended up squatting directly under just the band today.  I need to play around with it a little more as I found I was leaning back a little too far (as shown when I bounced off my bum) but I think it could help me develop a little more stability as I have to work a little harder.

Off the pistols and I go to move my dumbbell.  At first I didn't think I would be able to pick it up (and I was only using about 50% of the weight).  In the end I did the first 90 unbroken (apart from moving up the counting markers).  Needless to say Em chastised me a little about my weight selection at the end.

The session left me with sweat running everywhere, shaky hands and jelly legs.  Getting up off the floor was a challenge in itself.  Surprisingly enough sitting here 9 hours later I'm not sore.  I shouldn't talk too soon as I'll probably wake up feeling like a tin-man in the morning.