I don’t get sick too often anymore, but when I do, I get REAL sick. I spent tuesday through friday of this week so sick that I couldn’t do much of anything. I stayed home from work twice. I didn’t crossfit. I couldn’t drive. At some points I couldn’t even watch TV. I was just hoping that I could get well enough to make an attempt at 13.4 saturday afternoon.

I was ill prepared for my workout saturday afternoon. My workout gear was in another city, with my car, so I borrowed a pair of shoes, and hopped on the train to Rowfit. When I arrived at Rowfit I was still woozy from the Nyquil. I began my usual warmup routine and stretching. I decided to take a lot of care warming up for the clean and jerks. I wanted them to feel light and smooth. I did sets of 3 cleans, 3 jerks, 3 clean and jerks at 45#, 95#, 115#, and 135#.

Fast forward to WOD time. Janet showed up just in time to be my judge. I knew it was going to be a rough WOD because I was still very sick, but I was hoping to make it through the round of 12. I decided not to touch and go the clean and jerks, because it did not feel right on my shoulders on the way down. I kept a decent but slow pace on the clean and jerks, and did not rest at all on the toes to bar. I strung each set of toes to bar together without breaking. The cleans did not phase me but the jerks were a bit messy. I ended up with 51 reps, which is not too bad for being ill. I feel that when I do this WOD again in a healthy state, I should be able to get into the 70s. Thanks for being a great judge Janet!