Catching up...

The WOD Merrill bailed on was a birthday WOD for one of the guys in our CrossFit crew and I tackled that yesterday. The hernia/groin thing was a bit painful only during running warmups (not much during my other warmup which includes pullups, squats, deadlifts and a bunch of other various movements). So that's encouraging. And then during the run portion of the WOD, it didn't hurt at all, which I'm chalking up to adrenaline. That could theoretically also get me through a half marathon...

And I'm just mildly sore today. I think my two-pronged approach is to continue training, but schedule a physical (I'm overdue for one) and get a referral to see what's up, until it hurts too much.

Here's the WOD: Run 1 mile as fast as possible. Take a 1 minute break, then you have another 2 minutes to find your heaviest deadlift. Substract the weight from the total seconds of your mile, and that is your score. Winner is the lowest score.

mywrite: 6:10 mile minus 365# deadlift = +5.
This was fun. My whole body was numb after the run, I really thought I had sub-6 coming down the last 400M or so (it felt like I was running fast, I wasn't).

I put 365 on the bar as a "safety," and failed my first attempt. It helped that Maxwell (my 5-y.o son) was there to ask if it was too heavy for me. I laughed, said no, and with horrible form picked it up. Didn't have the heart to attempt anything else. (My all-time PR is 400).

For comparison, the winning score was -54. (6:01 run, 415 DL). And the birthday boy ran a 5:34 mile.