Snow = Row.

 I'm officially starting CFE sometime next week, but will post my standard WODs up until then, since Merrill started his.

One thing I like about Crossfit is that once you've done it awhile, it's easy to find substitutions for various movements for whatever reason - injury, tired, unskilled, even snow and ice all over town. Particularly if you've cobbled together all that "specialized" equipment Merrill complains about.

Today I did a modified "Helen:"


Three rounds for time:
Run 400 meters (I subbed 500M row for this run).
1 1/2 pood Kettlebell X 21 swings (or 55 pound dumbbell swing)
12 Pull-ups

Time: 12:30. Thought it would be a waste to pick my way through ice and snow on slow-ass 400M runs, so goals were to keep rows under 2 mins, and go unbroken. Got both, but had to take a longish break before the last set of KBs, couldn't make myself pick the damn thing up. This was a killer on the posterior chain and biceps, though because the KB swings jack up my heart rate, it felt very similar to the standard Helen. 

For comparison, my PR on Helen is 8:34.

See? You're already having more fun than Merrill.