2012 here I come....

The opens have come to a close, and I survived the challenge.  In the end, I placed 73rd, out of 200 woman in the 45-49 age group, definitely not the number I was shooting for, but then again, if it were easy, there would be way more than 200 woman, world wide, competing.  Had some good weeks,  made it to the team leaderboard twice.....once w/ the squat clean and jerks, and a second time with cleans/toe to bars/wbs, so that was cool, then there was the over head squat week, which was a disaster (30 95lb oh squats, after 60 burpees...I got 3)   Highlights for me were: learning double unders for the first wod, practicing chest to bar pullups and getting through that wod with a respectable (for me) score, and just participating in something that was on such a large scale, and finishing, even though, early on in the competition there was a bright light being shined on my weaknesses....which are plentiful.  Am grateful I had this experience, as I've never done anything like this before, have never even been on a sports team, and hopefully, if my feet don't give out and I manage to keep the rest of my body injury free, I plan to do this again next year, in fact in my mind, am already training for next years opens!!  And next year, I plan to be better!