"Spirit Away"

I usually do this around my birthday, but it came a little late this year.

It's a rough one. There may be CrossFitters who can blast their way through this, but I am not one of them.

Five rounds of:

15 overhead squats 115 lb
25 burpees
20 weighted sit-ups 30 lb
10 power snatch 115 lb

My shoulders were finally feeling better, do idecided to do this as rx'd, though I did have second thoughts after a few practice snatches and OHS. But I figured iwould just go for it and see what happened.

Took me 46:33, which is almost four minutes better than last year.

That's a pretty good birthday present, even if it is two months late.

Spirit Away

The backstory on this one is that I did it last year on my birthday and was considering requesting it for this year. As it turns out, it came a week early, so my scheduled rest day was put off.

Five rounds of:

15 overhead squats (115 lbs)
25 burpees
20 weighted sit-ups (30 lbs)
10 snatches (115 lbs)

Last year, I did it with 95 lbs in about 45 minutes. In what is still one of my all-time favourite CrossFit memories, I was the last one still doing the WOD, and had a bunch of fellow CrossFitters cheering me through the last reps. (Update: here's a picture of the final snatch from last year, provided by Robin)


Tonight, I rx'd the fucker and it took me 50:43. I would have liked to get it done around 45:00, and I did spend a lot of time resting, but this is just a nasty little bitch of a workout.

Oh, and once again I was the last person done, and once again, I had a bunch of CrossFitters cheering me on.

That's one of the (many) things I love about CrossFit.