Open WOD 12.4

Had friends over for a bonfire last night. Woke up feeling very rested. Nothing is more relaxing than chillin' under the stars next to a good bonfire...unless it's on a camping trip..only way it could get better actually. It felt good to feel so relaxed. This wod has given me some angst this week. Wall balls just kill me. I've worked so hard on my muscle ups and DUs this year,  I was really worried that I wouldn't even get a chance to do them, the muscle ups especially.

Open WOD 12.4
12:00 AMRAP
150 Wall balls (20#)
90 DUs
30 Muscle Ups
= 241
- Original game plan was to break up the wall balls into 10 sets of 15 with 10 seconds rest in between. I think we stuck to that plan for the first 75 reps (5 sets). After that we took it to sets of 10s I think towards the end it even got to sets of 5s...can't quite remember. After the 3rd set of 15 I remember stepping away from the wall to rest and saying I'm feeling good to Chris. I got back under the ball and the first rep I could feel the acid building up in my legs. It was all down hill from that point. My shoulders felt great, but man my quads just blew out. Got done with the wall balls with around 3:30ish on the clock.
- DUs felt good for the first half. I think I hit 8-9 then missed then went on a run to around 45-50. I think I did 10-15s from there . I think I got to the rings with about a minute left.
- With limited time left I wanted to make sure every attempt counted so I took sometime to gather myself. First attempt I missed, not enough hip to get me fully on top of the rings. Didn't want to rush back to the bar and waste time with another miss so I took a few seconds to rest again. Second attempt was solid. Only had enough time for one more attempt. Third attempt got up on top of rings, but I was wide armed and couldn't bring it back together.

--Overall, extremely happy with my score. A year ago, MUs showed up in an Open WOD and I had absolutely no hope of getting one. This year, I got at least one and I'll take it!

Closing thoughts...I'm ready for the Open to be over. I'm mentally exhausted from all the anticipation, the game planning, and having to frickin' pace myself every week. I just wanna get back to my regularly scheduled programming and Oly lifting.

Inspiration award goes out to all of the Prevailers this week that completed 12.4! Lots of gutsy performances all around, some Karen PRs, some DU PRs, all around great job!