$%&#@!

So after all of this grand prose that I posted here yesterday, I went to the box to deal with Fran and totally threw out all of my new-scaling knowledge.


When I last bumped into Fran, I finished in just under 10 minutes with 75# thrusters and a red band for the pull-ups.

The goal last night was to finish in around 5 minutes. So no matter how much I had improved since my last Fran, I knew that I was going to have to scale back.

So I walk into the box last night, hyper-conscious of Fran’s presence. The 6:30 class was working hard…

Spoke with Neal and told him about my previous Fran time and he recommended that I scale back on the pull-ups by using a thicker band. Advice I should have taken.

INSTEAD, I glance over at the pull-up bar to see Kason kill his first set of 21 pull-ups, unbroken, without a band.

So suddenly using a thicker band for my pull-ups becomes very uncool.

I decided to stick with my narrow red band and drop the weight of the bar from 75# to 65#.

I ended up finishing Fran at around 8:14, over a minute faster than my previous attempt, but far short of the 5 minute goal.

The pull-ups pulled me down, hard. I had to finish the last set of 9 pull-ups doing just 1 or 2 at a time.

I probably could have shaved 2-3 minutes off of my time by using a thicker band and that much closer to the 5-minute goal.