I fought the rope... and the rope won.

Hi! I’m Tery, your neighborhood dorkness monster! My ego got blasted to hell today! Wow! I was so excited about yesterday’s rope climb/C&J games WOD that I did it with matt today … I was thinking, “oh yeah, the C&J will be tough, but I got this”. Uhhhh... NOT SO MUCH.

 

 

 

 

 

• 15 foot Rope climb, 5 ascents
• 115 pound Clean and jerk, 5 reps
• 15 foot Rope climb, 4 ascents
• 125 pound Clean and jerk, 4 reps
• 15 foot Rope climb, 3 ascents
• 135 pound Clean and jerk, 3 reps
• 15 foot Rope climb, 2 ascents
• 145 pound Clean and jerk, 2 reps
• 15 foot Rope climb, 1 ascent
• 155 pound Clean and jerk, 1 rep

I fought the rope and the rope won ... but I finished ... and definitely NOT sub 7:00 ... in fact, we might multiply that time ... yeah, it was brutal. It wasn’t so much that I was gassed, it’s that I’m really frickin SLOW and it's HARDER than it looks!

Yeah, so my grip also fatigued around round 2... so of course, the timer just ticked away while I stared at the rope going up and struggled to move faster going down. Then I failed the last C&J and finally got it on the 3rd attempt... talk about an ego squasher!

So Matt and I had a good laugh, did our best, and moved onto expedition training... we’re working on knots, rescue systems, and climbing techniques... THIS, I got ;)