I'm 99.99% sure I hate the number 100

There's something about the number 100. Pythagoreans considered 100 as divinely divine because it is the square (10 x 10) of the divine decad (10). 100% represents wholeness, purity, or perfection. It's also a number of symbolic transition. Retailers know it - that's why everything is priced with $0.99 at the end. Hell, even Al Roker knows it - live to be 100 and he'll give you a shout out on national TV.

For me, that number was always a symbol of valid strength. One hundred pounds seemed like an impossible weight to move when I first started CrossFitting. I'd been met-conning for years , but I was afraid of anything heavier than my 12K kettlebell. So to push, pull or pick up ONE HUNDRED POUNDS... I mean, it just sounded so HEAVY.

After almost a year, I've long surpassed the 100# mark on many of my lifts - DL, BS, FS, power clean, squat clean. But the significance of that number is still stuck in my brain. So while I logically know I am tougher than 100... on occasion, it still rears it's triple-digit head and kicks me in the crotch.

Buy-in

• Front squats @ 65#
• Tall cleans @ 65#
• Squat cleans @65#
• Squat cleans @75#

Squat cleans, 3x3

• 3@85#
• 3@95#
• various tragic attempts at 100# (F)
• 3@95#

If I can knock out six reps at 95#, there is NO God-given reason why I can't pull 100# once. Even knowing that I've cleaned that weight before wasn't enough. I will fight this battle another day.

Met-con, Power Elizabeth

• 21-15-9
• power cleans @75#
• ring dips (band assisted)

9:29

Goal was sub-10. This is the first time I've done a met-con with 75# power cleans, I usually hit them at 65#. This was hell on my grip. I did at least one - maybe two - extra power cleans in the first round. I took that as punishment for my poor grasp of mathematical concepts at a pre-school level while under duress. (I'm not very good at counting past 10 during a met-con.)

Cash out

3 rounds of circus tricks

• skin the cat to full dislocate
• pull back through to hollow inversion hold
• straight leg negative to hanging L-sit hold
  
• return to dead hang