I think I may have said this already, but Deep Water sure sounds fun.
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I misspoke, actually - for some reason in between deciding to do Murph and starting my week a day early I convinced myself that I’m supposed to do the clean pulls today, and I did the squats yesterday so I could do Murph today, haha. Wouldn’t make sense if I was gonna do murph AND day 2, so today’s just Murph. Not doing it til my wife gets home from work at 5:30.
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Good luck!
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Deepwater does sound fun… except for the clean stuff…
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@T3hPwnisher do you do your murph’s with or without a weight vest, and partitioned or unpartitioned? Just curious.
With a weight vest, unpartitioned. With it being a memorial workout, I try to make it as miserable as possible, to spend more time reflecting.
But I am also sitting this year out, so I don’t have room to talk.
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Literally my exact thought, haha. Glad to see your head’s in the same place mine is. I have quite a few friends from the Marines not with us anymore - unfortunately, more are dead from suicide and overdose than from war, which is sad, and you’re technically remembering only those who died in war, but I miss and remember them all the same, no matter what I’m supposed to do. People definitely get focused on a lot of the wrong things today.
No weight vest, so I’ll bring my nice camo backpack to the park with 2 10# plates, probably with a big blanket around them to stop them clanking and bouncing around the whole time.
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Christ…
Weighted isn’t that bad
You didn’t do the pull ups! haha.
It’s a whole different animal with those thrown in FIRST.
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I’ve done it with hand stand push-ups though
I can string together 5 unbroken pull-ups… fresh 
I really don’t wanna turn into an elitist about a memorial WOD here.
For the pull-ups, try using some bands to assist through it. Kipping is also allowed, and traditionally how it’s performed, which can go a long way.
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I’ll do it when I have access to a pull-up bar, or somewhere stable to do inverted rows
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So, workout had to be put on pause, totally fucking up my time.
I was just coming up to 100 pull-ups at my son’s school, wife and kids were on the playground and I was by the pullup/dip bars, and I heard a SNAP behind me, and saw a kid on a skateboard and a kid on a bike (maybe 14-15 years old) who had ridden up to two benches that were back to back and snapped one of the seat boards on . I honestly wasn’t sure if the skateboard kid had tried a trick and fucked up, so I turned back around to do more pullups and then heard a stomping noise, and that same kid has his hands on the other bench jumping up and down on THAT seat board, trying to break it.
So I screamed HEY at them and started walking over. They’re like “What?” So - and I was pretty pissed off at this point, since this is my son’s school and they were fucking up my workout - I was like, “What the fuck are you guys doing?” The skateboard kid who was breaking the bench puffs up and is like “DON’T CURSE AT ME, YOU’RE NOT MY DAD”, to which I replied, “I don’t give a SHIT, you’re vandalizing equipment at my son’s school!” The kid goes, “I can pay for it, man”, so I laughed and asked how he was going to pay for it. The other kid piped up to say “it was just an accident”, and I started yelling at HIM that I saw exactly what they were doing and I have half a mind to take their bike and skateboard and snap them in half in front of them, and that they should get the fuck out of there right now if they know what’s best.
So skateboard douche goes, “What’re you gonna do?” I just looked at him and said that I was 30, he was a kid, and I was gonna do the only thing I could do - call the cops. “Go ahead, call them.” Crosses his arms all tough. Pull out my phone, haven’t even finished dialing 9-1-1 when they pick up their shit and book it out of there.
I still called, filed a report, and they told me to hang around since they were sending a cop. I told them it was cool, I was working out and I’d be by the pullup bars. Went and finished my last few pullups and started doing pushups, got to like 60 pushups before the cop showed up - he was right around the corner, so I had to stop AGAIN, show him the bench, give him all my info, descriptions of the kids, blah blah blah, he went off looking for them, and I had lost nearly 20 minutes of my damn time.
Finished my pushups and squats, ran the mile home, felt like I had cheated with all that time not working, and since I’m 1.5 miles from the school and the original plan was run the mile and then walk the last half mile to cool off, I ran the 1.5 miles and then ran the .5 mile loop around my complex that has a hill in it for a total of 2 miles. Was sucking gas, shoulders killed from the backpack (weight vests are so much nicer than weight hanging on your back, but no complaints here given the spirit of the day), felt nauseous, felt like I did what I could with the situation I was given, but I’ll have to do it next week. Disappointing and a bit pissed off. Finished at 1:05:37 after it was all said and done. Could definitely have gotten somewhere around 45+ minutes maybe. Did it unpartitioned, but again, the unexpected rest and breaks really killed me and made it hard to jump back into work mode too. Oh well. My legs are still screaming at me and it’s back into deep water tomorrow 
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You still finished with a very solid time despite the distractions, and you did a good thing. We are running into a string of that stuff here. Kids getting bored.
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Yup, that’s what the cop and I talked about briefly - 3 months, no school, bored kids, etc.
Yeah, I looked up unpartitioned murph times and was pleasantly surprised about it, but looking back I was really gassed by the end of the pullups, and probably the whole incident took less time than it felt. I think jumping back in, despite it being annoying, gave me a second wind and skewed my vision of how much I would have slowed down if I’d kept going, so if I can get 50 minutes or thereabout, I’ll be happy with that. We’ll see. The main thing here that matters is that I worked hard and thought about my friends. Actual times don’t really mean shit here, especially for someone who’ll never compete in crossfit.
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Justice > Workout. Respect
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That’s a mature thing to do Flap. I think others would have ignored the kids, been angry with them in mind, but have done nothing. You did the right thing.
And despite that, you did the murph, well done.
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Still quicker than I would have done it.
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You shoulda showed them your deep water log, that would have got them behaving pronto.
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I think veterans and cops have a lot in common here. The things seen and experienced seem to stick with some people more than others. The event might not be fatal but it’s still a major factor in their death.
I know there’s a big push for suicide awareness/prevention for veterans. I think it’s the same or worse for cops, but the numbers are skewed. Other cops work the case and don’t classify them as suicides because it’ll void their benefits or damage their reputation.
I think today is still an appropriate day to remember your friends.
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I genuinely group cops into that category. They’ve been fighting a war on our own soil for much longer than I’ve been alive, and a lot of them have seen more shit than I ever have or would want to.
Happy Memorial Day, Brother.
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