16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5......

I did it!  I competed in the 2016 Crossfit Games Open.  Not only did I finish, but I actually signed up, registered, paid my entry fee, and participated.

So, why is this a big deal?  Go to www.games.crossfit.com and click on the leaderboard.  Now, go to the last page and you will see all the people who signed up and didn't even register a score.  It takes a little something extra to enter the same competition as Samantha Briggs, Kara Webb, and Camille Leblanc-Bazinet knowing that you don't even have a chance.  But, sometimes you need to do it.

16.1 was hell - my quads hurt for 10 days - and I did the scaled workout.  

25-ft. overhead walking lunge / scaled = front-rack walking lunges @ 45lbs

8 burpees

25-ft. front-rack walking lunge
8 chest-to-bar pull-ups / scaled = jumping pull-ups

16.2, 16.3 and 16.4 were tolerable.   Then we were hit with 16.5.....  

21-18-15-12-9-6-3 reps for time of:

Thrusters

Burpees 

I love thrusters, I really do.  But, burpees, oh the burpees - they sucked!  I actually had a very respectable time, which I attribute to doing all rounds of thrusters unbroken. (Did I mention that I love thrusters??)

Do you want to know how I finished?  ....  I was not last! 

118 - 180 in Ohio

322 - 371 in the Central East Region

4514 - 5110 in the World

The thing about it is, that you don't always have to be first.  You just have to finish.  Without the support of my friends (yep, I made friends) at Crossfit Continuity and the awesome coaches, I would not even have given a second thought to participating.  

Next up - for those of us not going to the games... It's Festivus for the rest of us.  See you on April 16!!