Derriere stomping Filthy 50 Bastard!!

Ok -I'll start with the mild - yesterday....stations3.
Any other day, this would not be a mild one...today, in retrospect, it was tame. Another stations - so 1 minute each for reps. 3 rounds.
- Ring rows - I did ok - averaged about 14 or 15 per round.
- Dumbbell split cleans 20 -awkward but got in about 9 or 10 per round
- Knees to elbows - slow. 5 maybe 6 per round
- Deadlifts 125 - averaged about 15 per round
- Burpees - 4 maybe 5
My rounds went: 49/51/49
Then the bonus round was a minute of jumping squats - I hit 23.
Total score was 172. Improvement over last time - I think that was 164 ish...and this was unscaled....more or less. I thought it was unscaled, but apparently to be really,truly unscaled you can't jump at all on the knees to elbows. Jumpin' Jehosephat!
I got to write in black, but there was a caveat. Bummer!

Now the the ass-wholloping of today..... Filthy 50. The good news - I finished. The bad news - time: 54:51 - added 5 minutes or so. Good news: I did mostly unscaled. Bad news: so did some new person that I've never seen before - and she finished before me.
I will say - unlike any other workout - this one messes with your mind! After all the workouts of the last couple weeks, my body is a bit sore, knees are poppin' more than they ever have, but overall, I'm feeling pretty darn-tootin' strong. So, I decide in my head, I can do this unscaled (or at least as unscaled as I'm able, since I can't do a pullup to save my life!) it shouldn't be "that" bad. I visualize it as I'm going to bed last night, figure it can't hurt....(can you tell I've become a bit obsessive?). As time gets closer, I'm still feeling pretty confident, but that little tiny bit of trepidation comes to play. You know the one - the one that only the Filthy 50 can inspire. But that's ok - I push it aside, because I like living in my happy little denial land!
Finally it's time - I arrive at the gym and it's me, Lisa, Michele (I think that's her name - the massage girl!), and another girl that I had not seen or met until yesterday.
...and so it begins.
Start with the double unders, these are usually pretty slow for me - but I managed to get them out in about 5 minutes - doesn't sound impressive but last time, I swear these took me 10-15 minutes!
Went on to jumping pullups - got them done in a couple minutes, so things are going good so far.
Next - walking lunges - again these went pretty quick
Back extensions - ok - feeling good - it's only been 15 minutes or so - I feel like I'm making good time.
Then come the box jumps. I've always done the 16" in the past. I go for the 20. 20 inches is kind of a high jump - especially when you come from a family that is not known for it's jumping prowess! These took me a while - I tried to get the first 10 in within a minute. Did good for the first minute....not so bad the 2nd - then it all went a bit down hill. These took a while.
On to push press - these went pretty quick, probably a minute or two - possibly 3.
Then came the next time killers - knees to elbow. ZOWIE I'm slow at these. 2 maybe 3 at a time. Here's where some of the F-50 mind games started happening...I started them on the rings, then kept hoping that Jonathan would tell me to go finish at the situps, because they were taking so long. Well - shockingly, that never happened. So 10-15 minutes later I finally finished.
Kettlebell swings - no problem- broke it into 2 sets of 25.
Wallball - I decided to break this into 5 sets of 10 - since wallball kills me. I know I can get through 10 at a time though. These took a couple minutes - not overly quick, not overly slow though.
However, at this point it's 429pm and I haven't even started on the evil, evil burpees. Again, the F-50 mind game, at this point, there is a part of me hoping that time is called because once I start the burpees.........OY! Again, my hopes and dreams at the time were dashed. By this time Lisa and .......massage girl(Michelle?), are done. I get to about 12 of my burpees and the other girl finishes. OY VAY! I still have how freakin' many????? Seriously, I'm totally gassed, completely depleted of energy. Then I receive the joyful one on one.....1.2.3.burpee......rest...2.3. burpee - let me tell ya - those rests, were not long. There were a couple times, Jonathan said to go, and my body just wouldn't. It stood there, it was not in motion and had no intention of going into motion until it was ready. (apparently my body had a mind of it's own at this point!)....and let me just say this - every second during this time, I was wishing it would end, and the next group would arrive, and I would have to stop. I cannot lie...I really, really, really, really wanted to quit, wanted the misery to end. But quitting was not an option. Now, in reality, if it was an option, would I have quit, I honestly don't know...maybe, maybe not. I know mentally, I can dig deeper than ever before, and I don't like not finishing something, but I just don't know if I could have dug quite that deep without alot of prompting. So a good 15 minutes after starting, I finally finished my own personal burpee hell. Now, 2 hours after the fact, and a bit of food in my system to kickstart my energy, I'm super glad that I got through it and finished!

Writing up the scores, I was really glad to see that Michele (if that's not her name, it is now, I don't think I can keep calling her massage girl!) did a run through, so 25 instead of 50. Now the other person, who scaled the exact same as me and finished 10 minutes ahead of me, I'm not so happy about. It's ok if an OG beats me, I know all the OG's have been working their tails off for a long time, but I certainly hope this wasn't some chicky-poo who has been coming for two weeks, and manages to do better than I did - that would just be the uber-ego blow! (THIS is when my competitive spirit comes into play, when I can breath and think relatively clearly again!)

Now comes the question of what to do next...I had the thought of working out Friday and taking Saturday and Sunday off, to give my bones a two day break. However, I am not sure I am up for overhead squats tomorrow because my knees are a bit wonky. So, maybe I'll stay on my regular schedule, take Friday off and go Saturday morning.