5/26/12

Today we honored a fallen solder named Michael Murphy. He has a workout that he liked to do to prepare for his NAVY SEAL deployments. The workout is:

1 mile run
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 squats
1 mile run
* This should be done in a 20# weighted vest.

We had a nice little memorial day ceremony at CrossFit Harrisburg where the Fire Department presented the flags and we said the pledge of allegiance and sang the national anthem. It was a cool little way to start the day.

It was absolutely miserable outside- somewhere around 80 or so when we started. Iactually ran a very good mile with my weight vest on at the beginning. I think I ran a 7:34, which is less than a minute off of my previous PR. I decided to do a 20 round Cindy (5 pullups, 10 pushups, 15 squats). I moved pretty well through the first 5  rounds but, the heat and doing hand release pushups started to get to me. The final mile run was horrible, and I think I stopped about 4 times to catch my breath. I finished in 66:15, just over my goal of an hour. I didn't feel particularly sore after the workout, just drained from the loss of fluids.

My buddy Michael Tancini was home for the weekend, and I had the opportunity to meet up with him today. Michael finished twenty-something in regionals, and is a good source of knowledge for me. Even though we just got done Murph, I decided to go hit a workout with him as well. We did a little snatch and squats. I wasn't able to go as hard as I normally would because I was so tired, but it is nice just watching, learning, and asking questions with somebody that is better at me on certain movements. He looked at my snatch form and gave me a couple of pointers which I think will be very helpful. It is nice to be around someone that has similar goals and skill levels. I wish he were home more often, because he would be the perfect training partner for us to push each other on the workouts. Tomorrow I think we are going to get together again and do some more work. My goal is to make regionals someway somehow next year, and training with people better than me, only makes me a better person.