Sunday Story…The Semifinals

The semifinals are over. It was 4 workouts over 5 days. Fitness was tested in some ways and not in others, just like any contest. My performance was good in places, not so good in others, and exceptionally good in at least one. Here is my take: I can only do what I can do. The other competitors will do what they do.

 

The important part to me lies in the following quote from Gandhi: 

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

What this means to me is that I need to follow my own path and not worry about any comparisons. Did I do what I intended to? Was my performance what I expected of me. If I didn’t perform as I expected, why not, and what do I need to do to meet that standard?

Here was my plan:

Be one and done. In other words, I am only going to do each wod once. No do-overs. In a live competition, you only get one shot and I want to mimic that effort.

Move to the standard Every Damn Time. That means getting zero no reps. This is a hard goal. The faster you move, the closer to the edge you stay and the more likely you are to fall off the edge. So, move as fast as possible and as well as possible.

At the end of the workout feel as if there was nothing left to give in that moment.

Based on those objectives I am very satisfied with my performance in the semifinals. Was it perfect? No. I did get several no-reps in 2 of the workouts.

There is always controversy swirling around these competitions. So and so cheated, so and so is on PEDS, that group had an inside track on the workouts. IT DOESN’T MATTER.

What matters is this:

Full effort…full victory.

John Mariotti

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By the way…if you are still reading this, my current place on the leaderboard is 19^th. Which is inside the top 20 that will get an invite to Birmingham for the Games. But we must wait for the video review to conclude before we assume the invite will be issued!