Sunday Story…Recap Day 1

John Mariotti • September 13, 2024

A man is climbing a rope while a woman watches
We arrived in Birmingham early Wednesday afternoon. Time to pick up my uniform and get a couple of headshots for the media team. This was a pain in the rear, honestly. It took almost 3 hours to get through both lines. Then we had to come back for a briefing at 8:30pm. Not ideal is all I will say.

My first event is #1…the run deadlift combination. It’s 4 400-meter runs with 4 ascending sets of deadlifts sandwiched in between. My strategy for this one is simple, go easy on the first run, increase the pace every run, and crush the deadlifts. They are only 175#, so that will be more than doable. It is sweet when a plan comes together. On the last run, I pass a ton of people after coming in dead last on the first run. 20 unbroken deadlifts later and I finished 5 th .

The second event for our group is 4 rounds of 3 rope climbs and 6 100# sandbag cleans. All the other groups had some kind of handstand walk after the cleans but they took that away from us. The sandbag cleans required the athlete to show control by removing a hand from the sandbag before the rep counted. This went well until the last rope climb when my judge didn’t see my touch at the top. Luckily, I caught it about halfway down but then she also missed the second one. Finally, it got credited and away I went. I finished at 6:42 and ended up 7 th . Oh, and just for fun I went ahead and handstand walked a quick 20’ or so anyway!

Day two next week.

John Mariotti

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