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CrossFit Day 109

Today’s workout was “Nicole”, a “girl” workout that I’ve done once before, although that time was using assisted jumping pullups. Today, we’re going for the full monty.

Max rounds in 20 minutes of:

1. 415 m run
2. Max rep pullups

I decided to set my pullup rounds to 10 pullups plus the run. After a couple of trial pullups to make sure that my horrendously rope-burnt fingers could handle the pullups. Feels okay. Let’s do this thing.

At first, I thought my runs were going to be difficult, because the sprinklers were on until I finished stretching out. Luckily, the sprinklers stopped and the area I was running through was either dirt or non-wet grass. I wanted to get at least five rounds done this time, so my goal per round was 4 minutes, run included. Most of the time, I’d wait about 15 seconds to run after my pullups were done.

I noticed time slipping away from me on the last round, so I decided to do 20 pullups in that round instead of the usual 10. This enabled me to do a little more upper body work and get everything finished with about 10 seconds to spare. I forgot to turn off my heart rate monitor, though, until I was in the car, heading home. Oops.

Rounds:

1. 3:25
2. 3:46
3. 4:00
4. 4:00
5. 4:50 (20 pullups)

My HRM: 23:33, 1:16 zone (hard); HR: 171 avg, 188 max; 358 cal
My stopwatch: 19:50