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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Saturday, 21 May 2011

Bull



Today's WOD, going under the name of 'Bull', was extremely tough. Two times through of:

200 double unders (or 600, yes, 600 of normal skipping)
50 overhead squats
50 pull-ups
1 mile run

Age makes one wise and I set myself a reasonable weight on the bar that I could manage 50 reps of overhead squats. Many others found them selves taking weight off as the WOD progressed. I'm afraid I can't tell you what weight I used, but I confess that there was one lady there squatting more than me! As for the pull-ups, I ended up back on the blue band again; I'm not yet capable of 50 reps on the purple. But I will get there. The run was OK, I tried to keep pushing myself but on the 2nd set a truck went past me going in the opposite direction and the draft from it almost stopped me in my tracks! I put another effort in and made it to the end in a little over 40 minutes. Absolute nails session.

Train smart folks.
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