Today was my third visit to CFES this week. On the way over I remember thinking, “I hope I get lucky today and get through this workout.” Now that is a really strange thought, because luck doesn’t have much to do with crossfit. Frankly it’s a pathetic thing to think. But I confess I was tired, stiff, and sore from the two previous workouts.
I knew what the workout was going to be: Hope. It’s actually the workout that will be part of a charity event for St. Jude’s Hospital. The Hope WOD is: 3 rounds of max reps burpees, 75# snatches, 24 inch box jumps, 75# thrusters, and chest-to-bar. You get one minute at each station. There is a 1 minute rest between rounds, but no rest in between stations. In other words it is high-intensity work for 15 minutes with 3 1 minute rest times. It’s brutal.
When I started the workout I had a name, an identity, some preconceived notions about life, some hopes, fears, and desires. In other words my life had a context.
When I ended the workout I had none of those things. The sum total of my world was the desire for air, a feeling of intense heat, a painful heart beat, a feeling of dizziness. I collapsed in a cool place for a few minutes. I was, as they say, in the moment.
My total score was 115. As it so happens that’s a low score, even among those who Rx’d it. What held me back was the snatches. I could not find the right rhythm on those, even though I had done them before (in the Crossfit Games Open WOD 12.2.) I just could not get under the bar and had to muscle them up. I did a little better on the thrusters.
But the good news is I got 110% of that workout. And more good news: on June 9th I get to do it again!
Cheers.
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