Love At First Strike

When I say the WOD today I didn’t greet it with a smile.  Half way though it I was convincing myself I didn’t need to go for time.  At the end, I was glad I did it right but damn that WOD is a test of many things.

Meet Fran:

21-15-9 FOR TIME!!!

Thrusters
Pullups

21-15-9 means do 3 sets of each exercise.  The sets are 21 reps, 15 reps and 9 reps.  You do all of these one after the other until you are done, no rest.  In normal people terms it is laid out like this:

21 Thrusters
21 Pullups
15 Thrusters
15 Pullups
9 Thrusters
9 Pullups

My time was 4 minutes and 1 second.  That is my personal best.  I went on to the Crossfit message boards to see how good or bad it was and they said it was really good.  I was psyched when I saw that.  Someone asked how their Fran time stood up and many people responded.  One of the comments by a fellow Crossfitter was the following:

“3:00 is the gold standard for Fran. 5:00 indicates a good athlete, 4:00 is very good (many people get to around 4:00-4:30 and stay there, its a very good time). ~8:00 is a good starting point for sure.  The world record is 2:17 by the way.”

I will go to bed feeling good about my workout today.

Thank you everyone.  Check out www.crossfit.com

Check out a video of FRAN in Action