So, I’ve been using a Crossfit based Ironman training plan, courtesy of my coach Jen, which has a lot of benefits, not the least of which is greatly improving my running music, as the old stuff was WAY too mellow to keep up pace with the interval speeds. Which is likely why I was running so slow. Or an indicator of. Whatever. Either way: if it’s not keeping up the beat, it’s not helping me, so: yay! new music!
Anyway. As a part of this plan I hit up CrossFit Capitol Hill three times a week (theoretically – in practice, um, well, err, I do my best), and this morning we did a workout combination of push/press lifting and then 10x: 10 overhead lunges (w/25 lb weight) and 10 burpees.
So that’s 10 lunges and 10 burpees, repeated 10 times through. Right? Right.
My friend Haley saw this in my workout log this morning, and commented: “You did 100 OH lunges and 100 burpees? Wow.”
To which I promptly replied: “No, I just did that set 10 times through.”
{pause}
“Ok, yes, yes I did do 100 of each”
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You guys. Seriously. Ironman training has NOT been good for my mind. To everyone I used to teach statistics: I am Really Really sorry.
InnerTeub 
Yep…still don’t really know what to say about this.
Another drop in the dumber bucket? Maybe it’s time to start thinking Ph.D? 🙂
You’re in good company. As I told you this morning I run 27 mile marathons in my head. That last .2mi gets me every time. Burpees suck. Scaling burpees to do pushups on knees suck – the huge bruises on both my knees will agree.
Thanks for the shout out.
No mention of hurling the weight to the ground and it bouncing back and nearly hitting you?? TWO TIMES!
I usually do the workouts before programming them so I know how much they suck.. er, how long they take, but avoided doing this one.. for some reason. I’ll definitely do it this weekend so I, too, can embrace the suck known as burpees. I’m gonna shoot for 16 minutes! 3-2-1 GO!
Can you describe your training program? You do CF during the week, then do long rides/runs on the weekend? Plus swimming somewhere in there? I’d never heard of this, so I’m intrigued.
Jen, thanks for the reminder, yes, YES I DO ALMOST GET HIT IN THE FACE WITH MY 25 LB WEIGHT.
Which is still better to getting in hit in the face while doing wall ball. Ahem.
Amy – I think I’ll prob write a longer post about this, but: with CFE, basically the crossfit workout IS the main workout, with two workouts of each disciple (run/bike/swim) interspersed throughout the week. The biggest difference for me has been the been the content of each run/bike/swim workout — there’s no long and slow. I don’t go on four mile runs, I do four 1 mile repeats as fast as possible. Swim workouts are warmup + drills and then something like 2 x10 minutes super hard, etc. This means that every single workout sucks as much as humanly possible. I used to be able to go for 6 mile runs kind of on autopilot, but now each workout requires some significant dedicated effort. It’s awesome.
I’m getting faster – I can feel it. I’m curious to see how it goes now that the workouts are getting longer…
Oh, also: Jen: 16 minutes? Weren’t you the one telling us to get it done in under 15? AHEM?