"But mostly I hate the fact that CrossFit represents a threat or rebuttal to my 25+ year focus on essentially doing the same workouts over and over..." he writes.
Crossfit may represent that threat, but it's pretty much now gospel in the athletic world that you shouldn't do one thing only for your health and fitness. What Crossfit Endurance is trying to tell runners and triathletes is that if they get stronger they will get better at their respective sport. I cited some research here, top of the page.
And the guys over at the Barbell Shrugged podcast do a great, and non-threatening (to people like Merrill) job of synthesizing that argument for endurance athletes at around minute 43. The most interesting thing to me was when you add strength and speed, without increasing things like endurance or VO2 Max, you will still improve in your respective sport.
Now Merrill is admittedly strong, but in a select few areas. Thankfully, he's got squats and sit-ups in the mix, otherwise, he would be a lost cause. That's also why his "old school" isn't really the old school miles-only approach, but we'll let it slide for the purposes of this blog.
And just so he knows, the "fastest you ever run" is almost the EXACT pace you'll need to get your goal time of 1:30 for the half. 6:52. For 13.1 miles.
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Anyway, on to my workout. I'll get more into my programming later, it's sort of weird right now. For instance, tonight I was at a friend's house, no equipment, so decided to do an oldie but a goodie back from mainsite sometime in '09.
150 Burpees for time: 11:02.
I was shooting for 15/minute for as long as possible. Missed it at 90 reps by 2 seconds. 100 in 7:02.
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