{"id":1302,"date":"2012-04-20T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T22:56:04","slug":"crossfit-revisiting-emptiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libernetics.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Crossfit: revisiting emptiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was my third visit to CFES <\/a>this week. \u00a0On the way over I remember thinking, “I hope I get lucky today and get through this workout.” \u00a0Now that is a really strange thought, because luck doesn’t have much to do with crossfit. \u00a0Frankly it’s a pathetic thing to think. \u00a0But I confess I was tired, stiff, and sore from the two previous workouts.<\/p>\n

I knew what the workout was going to be: Hope. \u00a0It’s actually the workout that will be part of a charity event for St. Jude’s Hospital<\/a>. 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. \u00a0There is a 1 minute rest between rounds, but no rest in between stations. \u00a0In other words it is high-intensity work for 15 minutes with 3 1 minute rest times.\u00a0It’s brutal.<\/p>\n

When I started the workout I had a name, an identity, some\u00a0preconceived\u00a0notions about life, some hopes, fears, and desires. \u00a0In other words my life had a context.<\/p>\n

When I ended the workout I had none of those things. \u00a0The sum total of my world was the desire for air, a feeling of intense heat, a painful heart beat, a feeling of dizziness. \u00a0I collapsed in a cool place for a few minutes. \u00a0I was, as they say, in the moment.<\/p>\n

My total score was 115. \u00a0As it so happens that’s a low score, even among those who Rx’d it. What held me back was the snatches. \u00a0I could not find the right\u00a0rhythm\u00a0on those, even though I had done them before (in the Crossfit Games Open WOD 12.2.<\/a>) \u00a0I just could not get under the bar and had to muscle them up. \u00a0I did a little better on the thrusters.<\/p>\n

But the good news is \u00a0I got 110% of that workout. \u00a0And more good news: on June 9th I get to do it again!<\/p>\n

Cheers.<\/p>\n