It sucked, and then I died.

Saturday morning Mary and I got up bright and early to check out the open house at Crossfit Virginia Beach. I was prepared to get murdered, but ouch! Brutal!

Photos were being taken the entire time. I expect NOT to be posting those once they’re online, unless you guys want to see me in all my grunting, screaming, sweating and panting glory. It was completely unconscious but from the wall balls onward I’m pretty sure I sounded exactly like those pro tennis chicks that I always make fun of, that scream every time they hit the ball. Yeah, that was me. The WOD (workout of the day), for your amusement:

Tabata WTF
Complete 32 intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest
8 intervals jumping pullups
8 intervals wall balls
8 intervals burpees
8 intervals 20″ box jumps

There is no rest between exercises.

My score was 168 (total reps for the whole 16 minutes). Exhausting! My calves are still sore, I think from all the jumping pullups and wall balls. Note to self: if you ever do this workout again, DO NOT do box jumps last. There was no jumping, it was all I could do to step up and step down. Good lord!

We took turns, I went first while Mary wrote down my reps, then watched as I collapsed to the floor in agony (not joking). Then I screamed at her like a drill sergeant for 16 minutes. Since I want someone yelling at me to push me, I think others want the same. It’s automatic, I can’t help it. I think she wanted to kill me by the time we got to the box jumps.

My absolute hate for burpees only increases the more I do them. We both have bruises from repeatedly slamming our knees to the ground since we have to modify them. Fun!

Gonna try to get the third fundamentals class in this week, then I’m going to try to drop in as much as possible to do the WODs. We’re going to try to do as many of the WODs from the main Crossfit site at the YMCA as we can. This one is going to happen on Wednesday. Will report back on the “you’re a weirdo” looks we get.