7:00am – CrossFit, All Levels
When I stepped out of the ladies locker room at 6:55am this morning and saw none other than Leo standing in the bullpen, I’m sure I literally did a double take. Leo, for anyone who isn’t aware, was a member of CFLA previously and is the favorite hairdresser of a fair number of CFLA students. Leo is, beyond a doubt, the most enthusiastic and passionate person I have ever met when it comes to cutting hair. Leo is the only person who ever interviewed me about my lifestyle prior to cutting my hair for the first time.
Sadly, my passion for Leo’s return was quickly cut short when he drew the Murph card from the Smackdown desk. Oh, Leo.
“Murph”
1 mile run
100 pull ups
200 push ups (50 toes, 150 knees)
300 squats
1 mile run
1:08:28
Any other day I actually would have been excited to do the Murph. Last time I did Murph I did it Cindy style with a 15# weight vest, and before that I did it straight through, but due to logistics had to do push ups first, then pull ups. So, I’ve been looking forward to doing it properly with no vest to get a real score.
Today was not the day.
My arms are still jacked up from Cindy, weighted push ups, muscle ups, burpees, etc over the last week and a half. I have literally used up all my push ups and they have not come back.
So, today I started out on my toes for push ups, but was quickly down to 2 at a time. Then 1 at a time. I realized that being at 1 at a time when I was only 40 push ups in was a very bad sign. At 50 push ups, I switched to knees. Due to the fatigue that had already set in, this was surprisingly NOT much easier. Oh my.
Here is a break down of how the workout went for me (I was able to make note of this since I was going so god-awful slow on the push ups):
00:00 – 09:00 – Finished the first mile in a little under 9 minutes
09:00 – 18:00 – 100 pull ups, spent a lot of time sanding hands between sets, could be way faster
18:00 – 27:33 – Did 50 push ups on toes
27:33 – 33:51 – Did next set of 50 push ups on knees, up to 100 total
33:51 – 40:28 – Another set of 50 push ups on knees, up to 150 total
40:28 – 47:17 – Final set of 50 push ups on toes, totaling 200
47:17 – 58:00 – 300 squats
58:00 – 1:08:28 – Second mile run, actually not horribly slow
Mostly I hit the wall and crashed and burned on this one, and yet I still enjoyed it.
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