2015 Everyday Warrior post-mortem

Did a little online comp recently, and have been meaning to write up some thoughts about it.

There were 4 workouts over 4 weeks.

Event 1: 3 minutes of burpee bar-jumps, and then 12 min to set a max clean & jerk

Came in 126th out of 245 entries in my division, just below mid-point in the group.

I did this one Rx, naively thinking I could do all the events that way. After event 2 I had to go back and re-submit as 'masters'. Luckily, event 1 wasn't that different for masters division, except that I could have done step-overs on the burpees. I got 48 reps and might have managed 56-58 had I done per my division.

I got a CJ of 185 (tied my PR), then failed an attempt at 195, then cleaned 190 but failed the jerk. Should have just gone for 190.

Had I done step overs and only done the lesser CJ attempt, could have come somewhere around 98th, or 40th percentile. Oh well. instead I was 51st percentile

Event 2: 20 min amrap of 21cal row, 7 OH Squat at 75# (Rx was 115#), 21 Double unders

On the one hand, this was a weak event for me, ad the Rx weight on OH squats was outside my ability. However, at the scaled weight I did ok, and it was just a steady grind for 20 min. I came in 74 of 215 for that event, or 34th percentile

Rank after event 2: 92 of 211, 43rd percentile

Event 3: task completion workout. For time: 9 185# DL (Rx 275), 28 box jump 24" (Rx 30"), 14 thrusters 95# (Rx 135#), 30 pullups (Rx C2B).

Took me 3:46. Probably could have pushed a little harder, but hard to judge what it was going to take.

3:46 put me at 68th of 202, right at 34th percentile like event 2.

Rank after event 3: 69 out of 179, 39th percentile

Event 4: 7 min amrap of doubling (2, 4, 8, 16...) G2O 85# (115 Rx) and wallball 20# (pistols Rx)

Really wish I could have done this one Rx as just being able to do pistols would have helped me here. But oh well. Got 88 reps (got through to the 16s, then a 28/32 of G2O. In retrospect, I went too slow a pace on this. 7 minute event, I paced myself as if it was 12 or something

This put me at 88 of 155 for this event, or 57th percentile.

Final rank for entire event: 67th out of 141 people that finished all 4 events. 48th percentile. 27th percentile of all entrants that posted at least 1 score.

Learnings: Not as good as I'd have liked, and I could feel that I was off my peak. Should have spent some more time planning strategy, or doing 2 runs of workouts. Highlighted that my OH Squat needs work (which I knew).