Memorial Day Murph
shaypearl
Posts: 307 Member
"Murph"
For time:
1 mile Run
100 Pull-ups
200 Push-ups
300 Squats
1 mile Run
In memory of Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y., who was killed in Afghanistan June 28th, 2005.
I know my gym will be doing this WOD on Saturday. I'm already praying for survival. This is one of the only workouts that after it's done, I won't workout again for 2-3 days b/c I can't move a thing. I usually break mine up into 10's, 20's, and 30's for 10 rounds between those 1 mile runs. I'm still pondering if I want to try to break it up a different way this year. I'm still using bands for my pull-ups so I don't want to tire myself out to much before I hit those push-ups. Of course there are a few at our gym that go in order from pull to push to squats. How do you plan on doing your Murph this year? Have any goals in mind? Hopefully it's not too early to ask.
For time:
1 mile Run
100 Pull-ups
200 Push-ups
300 Squats
1 mile Run
In memory of Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y., who was killed in Afghanistan June 28th, 2005.
I know my gym will be doing this WOD on Saturday. I'm already praying for survival. This is one of the only workouts that after it's done, I won't workout again for 2-3 days b/c I can't move a thing. I usually break mine up into 10's, 20's, and 30's for 10 rounds between those 1 mile runs. I'm still pondering if I want to try to break it up a different way this year. I'm still using bands for my pull-ups so I don't want to tire myself out to much before I hit those push-ups. Of course there are a few at our gym that go in order from pull to push to squats. How do you plan on doing your Murph this year? Have any goals in mind? Hopefully it's not too early to ask.
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I'm still debating if I will participate. LOL! I'm celebrating my bachelorette party this weekend....
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Our box is doing Murph Monday, we are allowed to split it up, thankfully. I think I might try 5/10/15 for 20 rounds. I get VERY lazy with pullups, I don't like getting back on the bar once I've dropped. But 5 kipping pullups is a good number for me, so I'm thinking I can manage that better than shooting for 10 and spending a lot of time looking at the bar in the later rounds. A bunch of us are going to Brunch after and I will be thinking about a Bloody Mary the whole time!1
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We will be doing it monday. I'm planning to do it, but I will definitely break it up0
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notyouraveragetalia wrote: »Our box is doing Murph Monday, we are allowed to split it up, thankfully. I think I might try 5/10/15 for 20 rounds. I get VERY lazy with pullups, I don't like getting back on the bar once I've dropped. But 5 kipping pullups is a good number for me, so I'm thinking I can manage that better than shooting for 10 and spending a lot of time looking at the bar in the later rounds. A bunch of us are going to Brunch after and I will be thinking about a Bloody Mary the whole time!
That is funny! I'm looking forward to getting off those bands one day, but that is a smart tactic to get er done.
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If we've never done it before our box makes us scale it--either as a pair, sharing the reps, or doing 10 rounds of Cindy alone. Rx is to do it with a vest, like a chipper. But you can do it with no vest if you've done it before. Since I've never done it, I'll do the 10 rounds of Cindy, Rx...but my hands are torn up from the past couple of weeks so we will see how they hold up. :-)0
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If we've never done it before our box makes us scale it--either as a pair, sharing the reps, or doing 10 rounds of Cindy alone. Rx is to do it with a vest, like a chipper. But you can do it with no vest if you've done it before. Since I've never done it, I'll do the 10 rounds of Cindy, Rx...but my hands are torn up from the past couple of weeks so we will see how they hold up. :-)
Good luck! I will be in gloves. I have sensitive hands, hehehehe
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I've got new grips to try. Haha0
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I heard today that we are doing something "in the spirit of murph". Obviously we're not up to the real thing physically but spiritually we'll be there0
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Our box is allowing partners, but I'm so nervous for some reason. Going to give it a try though!0
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Monday at my Box as well... once I get past the pull ups (still suck at kipping and butterfly) I will be fine. Push-ups and running are two of my strengths. Going to spend some more time tonight working on my pull-ups. Tonight, Saturday morning and then Monday morning... there is a good chance I am going to be a wreck next week! Might have to skip Tuesday evening.0
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We are doing running heats every hour from 9am until 1pm. Given that my good knee has been getting sore every time I run, I think I might sub out a 2000m row for the runs. I'd feel bad about doing it, but I need to be smart so I can continue working out.
Murph to me is never one of those workouts that you are thinking "I'm not gonna finish this." You just need to accept that it's going to take you a very long time. For me something near an hour.0 -
One of the gyms I attend is doing the WOD this Saturday. They will have a live DJ and it's BYOB for afterwards. The other gym I attend will be doing it on Monday and afterwards they will BBQ. Both sound like a lot of fun, but I think I'm going to go ahead and do it on Monday, lol. So instead of having my regular cheat meal on Sunday, I'll save it for Monday. That's the only thing I'm excited about, THE FOOD!0
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Yes, shaypearl! I am doing a neighborhood BBQ monday night--friends are smoking brisket and ribs and I'm making mac n cheese and cookies. After an hour workout I can haz all the fooodz0
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My mouth is already watering.0
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Welp...43:31 for Rx movements and scaled reps (10 rds of Cindy instead of 20). Push-ups got really tough...and that last mile took me about 12 minutes no joke. Oh well. Haha0
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Had a BLAST doing Murph today. I split it up 10:20:30 x10 and finished in 55:350
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OMG, its finally over. I scaled the workout and did 5 rounds of 20/40/60. It took me 63:07. The push-ups were brutal. It was a great group and plenty of drop ins. And of course THE FOOD. I hope everyone who did it had fun.1
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I probably walked half of the second run. My tank was completely empty, but I finished it in time to get into our group photo (just barely)
Don't know my exact time but it was less than an hour, so a bit better than last year. I'll take it.1 -
awesome job, all
We had a fun morning flipping tires, doing yoke carry, running w/ sandbags, etc. Nothing like the real Murph!0 -
Our gym wouldn't let you do the full Murph if you'd never done it before, but I would have loved to have seen how I could have done...but my hand ripped halfway through, so that sucked. haha! My husband was so ticked that he couldn't do it all the way (he just started CF a few months ago), so he crushed the half-Murph in his ire. haha
We donated to a great charity in honor of the day--one of our two owners is an Afghanistan vet and it's very important to him that we give more than just our hearts--It's called Gallant Few and it works to raise awareness of veteran suicide.0 -
My only caveat to that is to be very, very careful about the veterans-based charities you give to. Many of them are not doing much at all to actually help veterans.
I searched these sites:
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?keyword_list=gallant+few&Submit2=Search&bay=search.results
http://www.givewell.org/search/google/gallant few?query=gallant few&cx=006519779433161682990:rjaviztzhjs&cof=FORID:11&sitesearch=&safe=medium
for "Gallant Few" and got no hits at all. Not to say they aren't doing good work, but I'd look for some kind of source as to what percentage of donations goes to help the actual target group as opposed to expenses and salaries. I couldn't find any such information on their website.0 -
I appreciate the caveat. I'm aware of the shady groups out there--it seems that every day another group is being outed as not legit.
But I trust this one. Our veteran owner has had a positive experience with them and selected them for that reason. They are not a "donation" type of charity in the same way as say, Komen, but rather set up volunteer mentors/guides with transitioning combat vets to ease the transition.0 -
(from their website: http://www.guidestar.org/ReportOrganization.aspx?ein=27-1779772)
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A woman at my gym described Murph as one of those things you do just to cross off the list, like a half marathon. I did it last year for the first time and that was enough for me. Congrats to all who did it this year!0
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I like that approach. :-)0
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A woman at my gym described Murph as one of those things you do just to cross off the list, like a half marathon. I did it last year for the first time and that was enough for me. Congrats to all who did it this year!
I actually don't think it's that hard. It just takes some time. I also switched my push ups to my knees in the 60s somewhere just to keep myself moving. I could have kept doing them normal but it would have really slowed me down, so it wasn't worth it.0 -
bostonwolf wrote: »I probably walked half of the second run. My tank was completely empty, but I finished it in time to get into our group photo (just barely)
Don't know my exact time but it was less than an hour, so a bit better than last year. I'll take it.
Hehehe, nice. We almost forgot to take ours, we were so tired and hungry but I made it into our photo also.
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Our gym wouldn't let you do the full Murph if you'd never done it before, but I would have loved to have seen how I could have done...but my hand ripped halfway through, so that sucked. haha! My husband was so ticked that he couldn't do it all the way (he just started CF a few months ago), so he crushed the half-Murph in his ire. haha
We donated to a great charity in honor of the day--one of our two owners is an Afghanistan vet and it's very important to him that we give more than just our hearts--It's called Gallant Few and it works to raise awareness of veteran suicide.
Oh man that sucks your hands ripped and you couldn't do the full Murph, but I'm sure your coach was looking out for you guys so that's good. But sounds like you guys had a great time.0
