Apr
Assaulting 1000 Bureaucrats
Why do Nancy or Helen to celebrate our victory? I’ll do my own!
I wavered between 3 rounds and 4 rounds when I planned it, and due to natural arrogance, ambition and overconfidence, quickly decided on 4 rounds. I thought I’d call it “crushing 10,000 bureaucrats”. Midway through the run on round 3, I decided to scale it back to 3 rounds. The idea of “I’ll be too weak to do the snatches safely” was a truly ingenious rationalization. A person who is 2/3 of the way through a CrossFit workout is in the worst possible frame of mind to be making strategic decisions. Indeed, if you made major life-path decisions in this frame of mind, you might well become a bureaucrat.
Scaling back from 4 rounds to 3 rounds, I changed the name “crushing 10,000 bureaucrats” to “assaulting 1000 bureaucrats”
3 rounds of:
400 meter run
15 snatches x 100 pounds
15 pull-upsfor time.
11:35.
400 m runs: 1:24, 1:56, 1:58
snatches & PUs: 2:13, 2:22, 1:39
For bonus fun I carried the barbell back home, up the stairs, still loaded. I’m surprised at how slow my 2nd and 3rd runs were. I know I felt like I was jogging, and I know how my thighs felt at the beginning of each run, but still. (!)
