The CrossFit Open

I will be participating in my first CrossFit Open this year, starting today. For those not familiar with the Open, it's a worldwide 5-week competition with scores tracked online. Each Thursday, the workout is announced, and you have until Monday to submit your score. To enter, all you have to do is sign up online, and then either do the workout at an affiliate in front of a judge or submit a video of yourself doing the workout. In the US regions, the top 20 men, top 20 women, and top 15 teams advance to the Regionals competitions in May.

As a long-term goal, I want to make it to Regionals. But I have no illusions about how this year's Open is going to go for me, it's not going to be pretty. I have a couple of major weaknesses that I'm fairly certain will appear in the Open. First, I don't have muscle ups yet. And second, my double unders need some serious work. So this year is just to see how well I can do. I'm aiming for Regionals starting next year because I need an ambitious goal to keep me focused.

Today's workout is actually pretty good for me I think. It's a 20 minute AMRAP, which will be fine for me as long as I don't start off too hard. From games.crossfit.com, the workout is:

WORKOUT 16.1

Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 20 minutes of:
25-ft. overhead walking lunge
8 burpees
25-ft. overhead walking lunge
8 chest-to-bar pull-ups

Men lunge 95 lb.
Women lunge 65 lb.

I've never actually done overhead walking lunges with a barbell, but I've done them with a plate, and I've also done just walking with a barbell overhead. I think that it will be challenging but doable. The official short description of the workout doesn't say, but those burpees are actually barbell facing burpees, so the rep is completed when you jump over your barbell. I don't mind barbell facing burpees, so it'll just be something to get through and to break up the overhead lunges. Unless the lunges are a lot harder than I think, the challenge in this workout for me will be the chest-to-bar pull-ups. I've never done 8 in a row - my record is 4, and I did that on Monday. So it should be a good challenge!