Test 5: Sandbagger After my awe inspiring performance in the Alpaca I dropped out of the top 10 and out of the top heat, which is never where I want to be. I had a chat with my wife and made a comeback plan for the rest of the weekend. It went something like this: after the next workout I need to be back in the top 10. By end of day, top 8. End of Saturday, too 5. And by the end of Sunday I’ll be in the top 3. No more room for major mistakes. I stopped medical to get my fingers wrapped up to get ready for the next event. We were in the coliseum for the Ski Sandbag workout. The ideas of squeezing ski handles and digging my fingers into heavy bags didn’t thrill me, but it motivated to keep it clean and go unbroken because it was NOT about to do extra sandbag cleans. This event was more fun and exciting than I expected. You couldn’t win it on the ski, but you didn’t want to waste much time at the start. Having so many transitions helped me stay focused, just 5 reps at a time, and made an ...