No Baby Leave the Socks On Crossfit Competition

Saturday I competed in a crossfit competition called No Baby Leave the Socks On. It is an all girls competition throughout the nation at different boxes. The WODs seemed doable to me so I decided to sign up since there was a location hosting about an hour from my House. Before I got into what the WODs were I must inform that I placed 7th (68 girls total) locally at the Crossfit T1 (the box that hosted) and 49th overall in the nation (643 girls total)!!! There were three WODs through the day and they were HARD!!!

The day started at 9am where the gym went over the WODs and the movement standards. There were 130 women total, 68 RX and the remaining scaled. Because there were so many they ran about 7 heats of 20 women at a time with RX and scaled mixed.

WOD 1

• Thruster/Box jump ladder
  7min AMRAP
•  65#/45#(scaled)
• 20″ box jump/step up(scaled)
  2,2-4,4-6,6-8,8-10,10……

Ummmmm no one likes thrusters and try to do box jumps after thrusters. Forget about it! I improved on my score from when I did this Monday so I was happy, though I almost threw up afterwards lol. I ended up 16th overall after WOD1. 

WOD 2

 10 min AMRAP

• 10 pull ups
• 20 burpees
• 30 double unders
• 40 wallball 14
• 50 kb swing 35#
• then max reps clean & jerk in remaining time 95#

This one may seem easy but it was also HELL. I feel like I significantly improved on this WOD compared to when I did it the Monday before, I was able to get in 17 clean and jerks whereas when I did this the first time I only got 10. I placed 9th in this WOD overall and moved from 16th place to 11th. 

Joe is eyeing the competition lol

WOD 3 (my favorite)

Deadlift ladder 135#-275# - 1 minute for each lift

This was my favorite for a few reasons. I am pretty awesome at deadlifts, my 1 RM is 305# so 275# seemed easy peasy. I also loved this WOD because it was low endurance, and my endurance needs major improvement. The tie breaker for this WOD was as many reps as possible at your max lift. I made it to 275# fairly easily and completed 9 reps at 275#. And my place in WOD 3 was 3rd!!!!! SO exciting, I came in third in my favorite WOD. And thanks to this WOD I moved from 11th place to 7th place =)

Because this is a national competition we also have a national ranking. As of today my place was 49 out of 643. That is pretty freaking impressive!!!!!! WOOO HOOOO. I know I already said this earlier but I am so proud of myself, I haven't even been doing crossfit a year yet and this is my first real competition and I did SO WELL.

Things I learned: 

1. I wasn't nervous until right before each WOD and then I was SO NERVOUS. So nervous that in the first two minutes of WOD 1 and 2 I almost gave up and walked away because I actually thought I was going to throw up (not from pushing myself). After the first two minutes I was too tired to care and just kept moving. I learned its only nerves and to shut up and move lol. 
2. DON'T stand around. I am against doing step ups during WODs that require box jumps. I don't know why, I just am. But I think moving forward, especially in competitions,  I will do step ups when i become fatigued from box jumps. 
3. Every rep counts. I could have placed 15th after WOD 1 if I did one more thruster.
4. Hard work pays off! Duh on this one. 
5. I have really supportive friends and family. Joe, Alli and Elyse all came to cheer me on and stayed the WHOLE TIME (about 6 hours) and my parents and friends and family were texting me all day and then asking me all about it the following day =)
6. Eat good the week leading up and celebrate afterwards. I was soooo excited to have a really good beer (or 4) after. And so I did!
   

Not sure when my next competition will be but there definitely will be one.