My favorite workout in Portland is the Saturday workout at Recreate. The warm up and the skill are always changing - but the workout is always includes a partner. It's also a doozy. 100 box jumps, 100 ring rows, lots of running and lots of rowing. It's a non-stop 30 minute grind.
You can imagine my surprise this weekend when this little sprite of a woman that I'd never seen before finished first.
Don't get me wrong - it's not unheard of for someone already in shape to show up at Recreate - it's just not very common. So when this lady started doing harder-than-proscribed box jumps, I wanted to hip check her.
Turns out her (unclear if he's her boyfriend, husband, brother or gay companion) partner manages a crossfit gym in Seattle. It also turns out that when they left my partner and me in the dust, both he and she were using lighter weights than we were.
I guess this embodies why the Saturday workout is so great. I worked as hard as I could, as fast as I could, for as long as I could. We finished with the first quarter of the class - it is always satisfying to be able to lay down when others are still working - but ultimately I wasn't competing with anyone but myself. Sure, I could have gone faster if I'd used a 30lb medball rather than a 40lb medball.
But then my competition would have been letting me win.
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