I love Crossfit. Since a mutual friend of ours introduced it to me in May of 2009, I've completed more than 700 WODs (workouts of the day), mostly in my garage gym from the mainsite Crossfit.com, with occasional forays into local Crossfit gyms and bouts of strength-focused training. All of this meticulously recorded via email and Google docs with a group of friends across the country.
Prior to that, I was an occasional runner with a few half marathons under my belt and a respectable 5K. I'd never figured out strength training outside of my senior year of college when I did the infamous chest/back/bi/shoulders/traps/tris circuit. And I was never interested in running more than 13 miles, mainly because I didn't have the true runner's desire to put in 30 mile weeks.
From those humble beginnings with an ugly 95# push jerk, and a 45# "Grace" in 4:20, while I'm so far from "elite," it's scary, I am stronger than I've ever been in my life. By far. I won't preen yet. And then I was nudged towards Crossfit Endurance (CFE), and it's idea of Crossfit training mixed with mainly interval training and up-tempo and time trial runs that push you to the brink.
So intrigued, in fact, I wrote about it for Muscle & Performance: http://bit.ly/UsfMNA. (And yes, I will shamelessly plug my writing throughout this blog. You're welcome). Also with CFE, I PRd my own half marathon by 3:30 for 1:37:24 while hitting a sub-20 minute 5K and 2:35 time trial 800M. All while running significantly fewer than 40 miles in a month.
Anyway, I've been inspired to take up CFE again by some of the folks I profiled in my story, as well as a desire to run a bit more.
And to beat Merrill.
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