Saturday WOD at the park

Today was partner workouts and it was a TON of fun.

Match put us through the warm-up which included three (short) runs up the hill forwards and down backwards followed by two up the hill backwards (tough) and down forwards.  Little did any of us (including Match) know at the time that this was foreshadowing what was to come.

WOD #1
AMRAP 10 (partners with Shonelle)
person 1 - sprint up and down the hill
person 2 - bear crawl up the hill, sprint down
person 1 - backwards run up the hill, sprint down
person 2 - repeat from beginning
Each up and down counts as 1 rep.
11 reps

This was *not* the same hill as the warm up.  This was the hill on the far side of the field - make that two hills as there was a flat in the middle that we kept on going beyond.  It was tough.  The transition from both the bear crawls and the backwards running into the forward sprint was tricky.  Legs feeling like jello, momentum pulling you down the hill almost faster than your legs could move.  Fortunately there were no wipeouts.

WOD #2
Same Partners - broken down as you choose
Run around all lightposts on the field and then onto the cricket pitch
once both partners have completed the run:
80 double unders
150 KB swings (we had 6kg)
100 sit ups
sprint to wall
75 box jumps
50 dips
25 burpees
15:23

Shonelle and I rocked this workout and it was a lot of fun.  We were next to last coming in on the run as I'm slow and were immediately into the double unders - Shonelle knocked off a quick 20 then I was up.  I PRed by getting the next 26 in a row - I was determined. We killed the DU's a great skill to have mastered.  The kettleball swings were next, we were consistent - it was hard to go too fast with these but we were solid - granted we had a 6kg kettlebell which was nice and light.  Before we knew it we were on to the situps.

I was convinced we'd fly through these as last week we had a WOD with 100 sit ups for time and Shonelle and I were steady and solid.  Today it worked well as we broke it down into 10 each and the switches were seamless.  All out sprint to the wall - we were the first there passing Match and Vinnie on the situps but they weren't far behind and I knew Match would have us in his sights.  Shonelle made the box jumps look easy as I struggled through again 10 at a time - halfway through Shonelle thankfully pulled off an extra 5 at my request so I had a bit more rest.  Dips were pretty easy and then Tim clarified the number of burpees we had to do to finish (he had initially told us 10) - but it was actually 25.  Knowing it was the last movement we blasted through and were finished in second place.

It was truly a pairs workout - one person working the other supporting, encouraging, counting and a great start to Saturday.  Thanks Shonelle for being a wicked partner and Tim for putting together an awesome WOD.