First day of CrossFit Cert

Hi Everyone! I can't type a whole lot 1) because I don't have a lot of time and 2) I signed a confidentiality agreement.

Here's what I will tell you...  today was amazing! I loved my first day at the CrossFit Level I cert! It was physically exhausting but a lot of fun. The coaches were all really funny and insightful.

At the end of the day, they put everyone through a workout and I'm EXTREMELY disappointed in my performance. Is there some oman that says your performance has to utterly suck at the cert? I've read a few other people who said they didn't have a great workout then either. Either way, I felt like I didn't show what I'm capable of at all.

The workout was "Fran"-
21-15-9 reps of
65# Thrusters
Pull-ups

I've done this workout before and had a time of 11:45. Not a great time but it was my first time doing it prescribed so I thought I could do it faster today. They put a 10-minute cap on the workout.

I don't know what my fucking problem was...excuse my language. Okay, even if I couldn't get it done in under 10 minutes, I would have been slightly annoyed but today I.could.not.kip. WTF? I could not do a fucking kipping pull-up to save my life. I'm so PISSED at myself. I ended up doing JUMPING PULL-UPS. Not that there's anything wrong with that scaling but I haven't had to do jumping pull-ups in quite some time.

I think this happened for a few reasons- yes, these are my "excuses"-
1. The pull-up bar was totally different. Ours has two handles, it's not a long bar so when I do a pull-up, I don't have to worry about physically hitting my chin b/c it's just open space. Today, I was worried about hitting my chin square on the bar and possibly chipping a tooth or something.
2. I was kipping next to someone. This being my first ever experience actually INSIDE a CrossFit gym, this is new to me. The pull up bars make an L shape so literally, we were hitting each other as we kipped. I tried to modify my rhythm so we alternated but it completely threw me off. I could tell he was accustomed to it because he didn't seem to care at all that I was there and trying to workout as well.
3. I was physically tired. Plain and simple. The day was very physical so I'm sure this had something to do with it.

Still, I know I didn't represent myself very well and that's soooo frustrating! If you were to ask ANYONE there how I did, they would say great or good or whatever...this is 100% me being hard on myself which I'm really good at :)

Up until that point, the day was PHENOMENAL. Nothing less than phenomenal and that's for realsies. I loved it!

I will try to update tomorrow after Day 2 and of course, after I take my test. Hopefully I pass! :)

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn