Crossfit commentary

Over on CF Female Masters Athletes on Facebook one athlete recently posted a Crossfit haiku. I won’t reproduce it because I don’t have her permission but it made me smile, wryly.

Why do we record our CrossFit journeys? Partly because we know as athletes that we need to measure what matters, but that doesn’t explain the blogs, like this blog, and the fact that the first rule of CrossFit is that you always talk about CrossFit. It’s because part of CrossFit is community, and communities interact, they express and engage and they chronicle.

So, as a writer, I chronicle my community. My little part in this community, anyway. Do I have anything useful to say? Who knows – that’s not really the question. But haiku is a form of compression – a way of expressing much in little. In a way that’s like CrossFit – a way of getting much done in little time. I’m going to try and convey my WODs in haiku for a while.

Cap WODs threaten time

Swallowing seconds too fast

Skips hurt, more than crunches.

Dreaded double unders

So … it turned out that on a day when DUs were on the board, I was also the only person to show up for the 09:30 WOD! End result, an hour’s quality coaching from DD which led to me actually achieving three linked (not unbroken) double-unders. Seven years ago I decided I was going to try to get a double under and never managed more than one. For some reason, this was the day I got it.

I’m amazed that within a month of putting my goal on the board I was able to move it to the Achievements section. New goal – unbroken DUs by December!

Also, doing the WOD alone absolutely sucks.