Hobbit Brigade

It's scary when I'm the tall person in the group, post-Murph. We all survived and completed it! Photo courtesy of R. Carmona. 

Murph 2018 Group Pictures

These photographs are courtesy of I. Ramirez of Valkyrie Photography. This was prior to the actual WOD after our fearless Alpha Wolf gave us the rundown and we had a moving performance from the Dunnellon High Color Guard.

Murph 2018!

More pictures will be arriving I'm sure, but here are the ones I have accumulated thus far.  This was a very difficult and daunting workout - 1 mile run, 300 air squats, 200 push-ups, 100 pull-ups, and another mile run, with appropriate scaling as needed.  I didn't have a weighted vest, but it was brutal enough without one! 

I didn't do all the math yet, but my overall completion time was 61:40, which is pretty solid for me. My initial run was just shy of 9 minutes, and it was pretty comfortable - deliberately took my time and held back knowing what was ahead of me.  The "meat" of the workout was partitioned into a 5-10-15 scheme (5 ring rows, 10 pushups, and 15 air squats) to minimize my downtime, and for the most part, I was complete my 20 rounds either unbroken or really close to it.  The second mile was much worse because of a significant muscle cramp combined with a mild plantar fasciitis flare-up, but I completed it!

Part of my crew that worked out in my vicinity and kept me moving forward when I was entertaining thoughts of curling up into a little ball next to the toilet. 

Pre-Murph

Killer Parakeet is a bit uneasy about this... I have no idea how long this will take me to do: run a mile, do 100 pull-ups (ring rows or banded), 200 push-ups, 300 air squats, and run another mile.  Depending on the weather, I may be rowing instead of running, but I suspect that I do run longer distances faster than I row... That being said, I want to make sure I am NOT making long pauses or run into failure, so I will be partitioning the three movements.   Most likely, it will be either 5-10-15 or 10-20-30, with a slight bias towards the 5-10-15 to reduce the odds of a vomit episode during the air squats, muscle failure during the push-ups, or blister formation during pull-ups.