CrossFit WOD: "Murph" -- humbling and gross.

My Friday nights are pretty inactive now that basketball is over with and I had some free time to go through the various 'name' workouts at CrossFit (aka benchmark WODs) that I wanted to attempt at my Saturday session. Saturdays at our gym are a free-for-all of whatever you want to do. You can practice your lifts, movements, or do the WODs they post on board -- it's up to you. I heard a lot about the benchmark WOD "Murph" and how hard it is -- this to me is an invite to try it since the weather is still amazing here. It involves the following:

1 mile run
100 Pullups
200 Pushups
300 Squats
1 mile run

For time!

A gym-mate of mine said that "Murph" allows for a breaking up of the pullups, pushups and squats into rounds between the mile runs. I broke up the exercises into 20 rounds of 5 pullups, 10 pushups and 15 air squats. This helped quite a bit, but it was still very challenging. My time, start to finish was 35:30. The last mile run was completely ridiculous. But the 35 minutes of hell is nothing compared to what these brave soldiers do for our country! Thank you Lt. Mike Murphy for your service and sacrifice!

Best,
Tyler