CrossFit Omaha

Today was my first "real" workout with the crew at CrossFit Omaha. I finished my four one-on-one intro sessions last week and I wanted to make Saturday's team workout, but I was a little under the weather, having donated blood on Friday and feeling a bit sick otherwise. So... along came Monday, and with it, a very nice WOD!

3 rounds for time:
8x deadlift (300#)
400m run

If you go back a few entries to when I did the CF Total, you'll see I did 1x DL at 325, so I thought maybe I could do this one as RX'd. But no. Ricky watched me warm up at 242# and told me to stay there. Okay, I thought. This is my first WOD here. No need to push it crazy hard. But believe me, 242 pounds was plenty!

I pounded out the first set and was the first or second one out the door and the first one back. But some dude named Kyle was right behind me and while I tried to coax a full 8-count out of my legs, he zipped past me on the second set. My legs got more and more jello-like and even the run was hard. (Runs aren't supposed to be hard for me!!!) My final time was 7:13.

Long story short... it was a very good first workout for me, and I really enjoyed the group atmosphere. Everybody was very nice.