Hang in there!! These stressful seasons are part of life. Give yourself some grace and know that better days are on the horizon. 
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11/3/2025 Monday
55% of murph, then
Collapsed on the side of the road and called my wife at 5:30AM to wake up and come get me, about a mile from home.
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To elaborate on this debacle - the actual workout, which I’d come up with the previous day, was this:
-1 mile run to park
-10 rounds.
[pullup/pushup/squat]
1/2/3
2/4/6
3/6/9
…
8/16/24
9/18/27
10/20/30
[total: 55/110/165] - 55% of a murph
Planned to walk home, got about a quarter mile or less, then couldn’t take another step. Have NEVER had to do this before - it was her or 911. Even when I was vomiting a few months ago, I could always make it home, never had to call for help or felt this bad. I was about to pass out.
It’s true I’ve had a stressful week but I thought the weekend was kinda recovery-y. I didn’t go super hard or anything.
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I’ll finally add a positive note (LOL) - the 55/110/165 was performed in 16 minutes. This is slightly less than half my typical murph calisthenics time of 33 minutes for 55% of the work. So a pace increase.
If I hadn’t almost died after I’d have figured, based on the experience today, that a good play is to go something like 2/4/6, 3/6/9, 4/8/12, 5/10/15, and repeat that X number of times. Maybe EMOM or maybe breaks/slowdowns driven by self-regulation.
But also MAYBE I learned something here today about self-regulation, or my lack thereof.
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Heal up and recover dude.
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yeah, but heal what exactly? 
11/5/2025 Wednesday
Lots going on with in-laws in town this whole week. Listening to the lessons of Monday, I took it easy.
We had a game night last night so I didn’t get a ton of sleep.
I DID take a 5AM mile walk to the park, did pullups: 3, 7, 13 (no particular reason for those weird numbers), then walked a mile back.
Then, after a few hours of (remote) work, drove to Lanikai beach and paddleboarded and snorkeled with my family of 6 plus my 9 visiting relatives.
A big group.
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11/7/2025
Well. This week started with me nearly passing out after, evidently, pushing too hard on a half-murph.
It had been a hard week and I clearly needed to recover.
This week hasn’t been much of a recovery.
Thursday 11/6 I got a quick gym trip in. Snatches, worked up to 135lb for a few reps after many reps at lower weights. Clean and jerks at 135 too.
THen 3x6 overhead squats at 95.
Had to leave - no time for more work.
Then today, 11/7, after another really hard and full day yesterday, just took a mile walk to the park, did the monkey bars, and mile walk back. Let’s call that “active rest”.
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