Fitness - WOD 8/22

I woke up groggy today and was hoping to start my weekend off with a light/short met-con style WOD. But, Sean had other plans as he proceeded to write the WOD on the white board. This one sucked the strength out of my legs for the rest of the weekend.

Focus: Front squats
There was no structure for today's focus. Meaning, no prescribed reps, sets or weight. We just trained on the movement to get more comfortable with the exercise and work on form.

WOD:
800m run
40 thrusters - 1/2 body weight - 42Kg (92.3#)
600m run
20 thrusters - 1/2 body weight - 42Kg (92.3#)
400m run
10 thrusters - 1/2 body weight - 42Kg (92.3#)

Time: 14:28
Calories burned (including focus & WOD): 465

Oh man, the combination of running and thrusters is so terrible. My legs felt like jello after the 800 meter run and 40 thrusters and there was still so much work to do. I'm not gonna lie, this one got to me mentally. I just could not push through the pain. I'm not that happy with my time, I know I could have finished this one much sooner, but I was defeated.

On the set of 40 I got through I think about 20 thrusters before having to drop the bar and I was already sucking wind. I got another 10 and then two sets of 5 but didn't drop the bar again, just rested it on my shoulders.

My 600m run was slow and on the set of 20, I ripped off 10 thrusters but then spent a lot of time with my hands on my knees breaking up the last 10 reps into 2 sets of 4 reps and a set of 2 reps. My 400m run was slow, but I finished the last set of thrusters unbroken.

This WOD was harsh and I was certainly not ready for it mentally. I guess the silver lining on this black cloud is that I was the only one that truly Rx'd it and used half my body weight and I was the first one to finish. I was on my back for about 5 minutes recovering from this one.