Traveling During the CrossFit Open Workout 19.2
Hey everyone! I know this one is a little late in comparisonto last week’s post on 19.1, but I have been on vacation! I took an extendedweekend trip up to visit my parents and left on Thursday and came back onMonday, which meant I had to do CrossFit Open workout 19.2 in a different boxas a drop in.
It definitely had its up and its downs. And I will share all the details with you all. I am so thankful for CrossFit Uncommon for letting me drop in to their box not only to do the workout but to come in and just get some movement the day before.
Let me give you a little back ground:
Why Was I traveling duringthe CrossFit Open?
Well I am currently residing in Georgia, but I am originallyfrom Indiana, and my parents still live there. I hadn’t been home in over ayear with the exception of a quick trip for a funeral. My parents have been tosee me, so it hadn’t been that long and thanks to technology we FaceTime regularly.
As I said earlier, I drove up to Indiana on Thursday and obviously saw the workout that night. Friday morning, I went into the gym and did one round of the workout. I stretch and generally just moved. After over 8 hours in the car the day before I needed to stretch and get my body moving. Normally I would do the workout on Friday, but I needed to get my body ready.
CrossFit Open Workout 19.2
Beginning on an 8-minute clock, complete as many reps as possible of:
- 25 Toes-to-bar
- 50 Double-unders
- 15 Squat Cleans, 85 lbs
- 25 Toes-to-bar
- 50 Double-unders
- 13 Squat Cleans, 115 lbs
If completed before 8 minutes, add 4 minutes to the clock and proceed to:
- 25 Toes-to-bar
- 50 Double-unders
- 11 Squat Cleans, 145 lbs
If completed before 12 minutes, add 4 minutes to the clock and proceed to:
- 25 Toes-to-bar
- 50 Double-unders
- 9 Squat Cleans, 175 lbs
If completed before 16 minutes, add 4 minutes to the clock and proceed to:
- 25 Toes-to-bar
- 50 Double-unders
- 7 Squat Cleans, 205 lbs
Stop at 20 min.
Scaled substitued toes-to-bar with knee raises, double unders with single unders at the same quantity and reduced the weight. Starting with 55 lbs, 75 lbs, 95 lbs, 115 lbs, and 135 lbs.
First thoughts
When I first say the workout, I was excited for the barbell!I love barbell workouts. But then I thought about the toe to bar. I have yet tobe able to accomplish a toe to bar. If the toe to bar were last I would haveattempted this workout as RX and tried to get at least one. But it started withtoe to bar so I did the workout scaled.
My goal was to get to the last bar at 135 for the cleans. I wassurprised that the single jump ropes weren’t double in scaling the doubleunders. At this point I knew I could do 50 singles very quickly. I also plannedto go in and break up the knee raises and cleans. I wanted to do 9-8-8 on theknee raises and 5-5-5 on the cleans for the first round.
After the first round my plan was to continue to break upthe knee raises as close to 9-8-8 as I could depending on how my grip was. Ialso knew that my cleans would go down and so my goal was to do sets of 3-4 on thesecond round.
Like I said I did a whole round on Friday morning to testout. I got through it in 2:57 and it felt good. I was really looking forward tothe workout the next day.
Doing 19.2
Saturday morning I got up and went to CrossFit Uncommon. They had what my other box does during Friday Night Lights, it was set up in waves. Everyone was warming up especially those in the first heat and then they did an athlete briefing to go over the workout and movement regulations.
After that we had a few more minutes to get situated at ourstation. One thing I did like that people were assigned heats so it made it alot smoother process. The thing I didn’t care for was they also assigned lanes.Now normally this isn’t probably an issue so I am not really upset about it buttheir rigs and set up were different than what I was used to. Their rigs werenewer and the pull up bar was slick compared to what I am used to and I wasstruggling to get a good grip.
I chalked up the bar and my hands and my grip and prayed forthe best! I had a small walk from the rig to my bar and jump rope but it wasn’tbad and just enough to immediately pick up the rope. While the pull up bar wasslicker than I would have liked the first round I still hung on for 9-8-5-3 onthe knee raises. I knocked out the jump rope and knocked the singles out.
Once I got to the bar I moved the 55lbs pretty easily butstuck to the sets of 5 to help pace myself. As I turned back to the rig I hadfinished the first round in 2:30. I was very happy with that and was looking forwardto the rest of the workout.
How I did?
Well in round 2 I did end up slipping off the rig andfalling on my butt. Lord help me. I finished the knee raises but ripped off mygrips in either the second or third round because I kept slipping from the bar.I made it to the 4th round and just couldn’t hold on to the pull upbar anymore.
I finished single unders at 14:21 leaving me a little over aminute and half to do 9 cleans. I put my belt on because at 115lbs I needed itafter I hurt my back last year and went to work. Mind you my 1 rep max squat clean is 125lb andpower is 145lbs. I ended up completing 5 reps all good squat cleans after allthe fatigue and while I felt like I had more in me, I was still happy with howI finished at 344 reps scaled.
Oh and I forgot to mention my hand ripped in round 4 onthe knee raises! But it was an amazing experience. And to be honest being in adifferent box gave me a new kind of motivation to prove that I am a goodathlete!
Looking forward to next week! And overall I would do it all over again! I love visiting new boxes and enjoy the huge CrossFit community!
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