Congrats, Court & Morgan!

http://crossfitvirtuosity.com/blogs/news/225-she-said-yes

Congrats to Court, Morgan, Josh and Jess.

Does anyone want to try to make up Linda tonight in Brooklyn?

JWH

Ran the 3K in my somewhat hilly neighborhood in 18min 28sec.

Considering this was the first running I've been able to do in a month or so since hurting my knee, I'm pleased with my pace.

Congratulations, Court!

well done, Morgan and Court

3K = "Michael" minus 150 situps minus 150 back extensions plus 0.6 K
3K = "Eva" minus 150 2-pood (70 lb) kettlebell swings minus 150 pull-ups plus 0.6 K
3K = "Murph" minus 100 pull-ups minus 200 pushups minus 300 squats minus 0.14 miles.

If you're going to skip a WOD, this isn't the one.

Court and Morgan-congrats!!!!!

Congrats, Court and Morgan!

Also, GREAT post, Hari! I couldn't agree more...though I don't think any WOD is a good one to skip, excluding justified skips / scales in cases of injury, of course.

I think we should all skip this WOD. As in, we should skip for 3k.

Who's with me?

Hari,
don't you mean this IS the one to skip?

Attention bikers... There is a 30,60, and 100 mile bike ride coming up on Oct 5th to benefit MS. I am planning on registering this week for the 100. Let me know if anyone else is interested.

http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/ccp.asp?ievent=251540&ccp=77155

15:20 (treadmill 2% incline)

B. Garvin,

"don't you mean this IS the one to skip?"

Now. What I mean is that this is like cutting a half day of school. If you are going to skip a WOD because you're tired or lazy, why pick this one? It's easy to get credit for today.

Hari,
Good analogy. I guess I will do this wod then.

What's the Box wod today? Just running?

rowing.. there are 3 C2s

3k at 11:38.7

slowed down twice for three strokes, at -1k and -500m, so as to maintain the

An interesting, alternative perspective:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/08/survive/index.html

'The Rambo types are the first to go'

Gonzales says many of the disaster survivors he studied weren't the most skilled, the strongest or the most experienced in their group.

Those who seemed best suited for survival -- the strongest or most skilled -- were often the first to die off in life-or-death struggles, he says. Experience and physical strength can lead to carelessness. The Rambo types, a Navy SEAL tells Gonzales, are often the first to go.

Andrew- having read the article, the case studies it mentions really seem to self-select for what she is looking for. There are fewer competant people than incompetant at any given task or objective and the competant are much more likely to avoid danger or recognize signs of impending disaster. So, you end up with disasters with a huge proportion of incompetants and one of those is lucky enough to survive. The author points at this and says "I guess you don't have to be competant to survive."

Essentially the article boils down to two main qualities to increase your chances of survival:

1. Don't give up
2. Be enormously lucky

It is possible that the book is much more interesting, but the article made it sound like Ric Romero does a special on catastrophe survival. What is your take on it?

The article linked by Andrew failed to deliver a clear picture, but if we stick to the point that Andrew brought up, it is true that people have a hard time being honest about their level of skill and competence in emergency situations. Dehydration, hypothermia, hypoglycemia and various other causes of fatigue or stress can seriously impair your judgment at the worst possible time.

As Crossfitters, our training is a great confidence booster and teaches us to push our limits. But this could be our downfall if we decide to play hero in a truly life-threatening situation. Chances are, Crossfit did NOT prepare us for that particular scenario. Just something to remember when we talk about "functional fitness" and "real life" this or that.

Just wanted to add my congratulations to Court and Morgan, Josh and Jess!

Happy times!

"Survivors also pay attention to their intuition, Gonzales says. . . . Gonzales followed his intuition once and it saved his life. In 1979, a writing colleague asked him to fly with him on a flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California. Gonzales declined when h learned that he would fly on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, which had a spotty safety record. . . . The plane he was supposed to be on [] crashed on takeoff, killing all 271 people onboard, including several of Gonzales colleagues."

This particular example pretty much comes down to arguing in favor of being paranoid because occasionally you may be right. Or, if you feel lucky, spend your money on Lotto tickets. The author once felt lucky, bought a ticket, and won.

Congrats Court and Morgan!!

3k run at Astoria Park track

12:30

Showed up at 7pm to do this and their were a lot of people at the track.

Surprisingly didn't feel as winded as usual when I run. Should have pushed harder. I think all those burpees are paying off.

Someone needs to teach that Fireman on Ninja Warrior how to kip.;)

Rowed 3k at school gym
11:58

14:34

Round and round the Black Box block.

13:22

~3K in Chinatown east side sidewalks (2 figure 8's and 1 loop around 2 blocks)
14:22

I agree, the article has been thoroughly "CNN'd," but the message that the gung ho strong-man types often make the bigger mistakes was what caught my eye.

Luck surely plays a huge part in many disaster scenarios, but in the example given of the life raft, clearly all of those individuals were dealt the same luck card. Physical strength didn't have much at all to do with Deborah Kiley's survival, and one can probably accurately speculate that the men that perished were physically stronger.