Today, I completed my first Murph, a well known hero Crossfit WOD. Murph is a special WOD that a lot (almost all?) crossfitters do on Memorial Day which consists of a 1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 pushups, 300 squats, 1 mile run. It is named so in honor of Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who was killed in Afghanistan. You can read about the story behind Murph here. My box, Crossfit East Cobb had a huge turnout for the 9:00am session of…
Christmas Eve was my 4 year “runniversary”. What better way to celebrate than with a run with BRFs (and by having a giveaway. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for some great prizes)! Although I would have liked 12 miles, I cut it short at 5 since I wanted to do crossfit as well! I started back at Crossfit after a 2-3 month hiatus (sickness, vacation and more sickness), just in time to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas. They…
I’ve been wanting to try CrossFit for sometime now. And it was mostly fear that was stopping me. On Wednesday, I gathered up a lot of Dutch courage and went in for an introductory class. I had emailed back and forth with the owner for a while, letting him know that I was nowhere close to doing even 10% of what regular crossfitters seem to do and he was very nice reassuring me that they were not going to kill…