Pre-40 Day Challenge "Jackie"

Drug myself out of bed early this morning for the 6:15 class.  I'm typically not a fan of getting up early unless I'm headed to a flight but I will confess that the morning was beautiful and it was nice a peaceful in the box.  Just 2 of us this morning with Coach Jon.

"Jackie" was the plan this morning to set a good baseline for the 40 day challenge.  Part of the "score" to determine the winner is the time improvement so I'll see "Jackie" again in 40 days. :)

Jackie:
1000 m Row
50 Thrusters 45#
30 pullups

I felt pretty solid on the row.  Time on the rower was very consistent to my normal times (4:04 for the 1000).  Went over the the thruster and immediately had issues.  We did a killer workout that I'm still recovering from on Wed (see below) and the pushups completely wrecked me.  I ended up doing the thrusters in sets of 5 which was quite disappointing but I did get through them.  Got to the pullups and started with a black band only.  Pullups are one thing that I've been working on pretty heavily here at home with my own pullup bar and bands and rings.  I felt pretty confident that I would be able to get through 30 that late in the workout with just the black band.  Made it to 16 nice and smooth in sets of 3 to 5.  Kipped a little bit when needed but stayed pretty smooth.  Coach Jon did give me a "NO" on 3 or 4 which only drove me to keep pushing harder.  When I got to 16 I just hit the wall and needed to add in a blue band.  Sets of 2 to the end and at least another 4 or 5 that were called "NO."  It's a bit heartbreaking to here "NO" that late in the day but I was glad Coach Jon was doing it.  Afterwards he gave me a bit of a hard time about it and I just smiled and said "that when I am doing the WOD the last thing I want is for you or any of the other trainers to be my friend."  He actually turned to me and said that my statement was by far the best attitude he has heard from anyone ever.  At least I have that going for me.

Need to plan on consuming a few gallons of water today.  Get the fish oil in and recover so that I can really make the next 40 days successful.

Weigh-in and tape measurements are tonight.  I'll post the #'s to help me stay honest late tonight as a comment.