Well the open season is upon us… and as most of you are pretty aware I, like many other enthusiasts, love to make crazy predictions that will most likely not come out of the hopper each week… I don’t think I’ve even come close, but it’s fun either way.
Update from selection… I am recovering well; my body took quite a beating. The hardest part is trying to focus on the end goal and not get caught up with the reality that I’ve lost some muscle mass, loss some strength, loss some speed but I had to make sacrifices and I don’t regret it at all!
What’s this mean for me? I’m going to just have fun with the open, and if I qualify good, if not, it was just another sacrifice I was willing to take.
The “why” on my prediction… Matt Fraser/Rich Froning… Castro wants to put on a good show, and that’s what we are going to get. HQ has done this time and time again and I’ve never been disappointed. So all the people saying “7min burpees again”, “7min burpee box jumps” etc… Wrong. That would be boring. It’s going to be hard, potentially heavy/taxing, and its promising to be a close call between Fraser and Froning. And now with a scaled open!? Castro can make it anything! We’re talking potential for a multiple “Amanda” wod with increasing weight of some sort (9-7-5 squat snatches and muscle ups)… A variant of Grace perhaps? (both awesome to watch Olympic lift)… A lifting ladder for the first time in Open history? Handstand pushups?? Who knows…
These would all be awesome and it’d be cool to see in the open, but I like to be a wild card. My prediction…
15.1
11 minute cap
9-7-5
Deadlifts 225
Burpee Muscle up
9-7-5
Deadlifts 275
Burpee Muscle up
9-7-5
Deadlifts 315
Burpee Muscle up
The SAR Take 