Had my first game of the season tonight so I knew I wouldn't be able to make it to Prevail so I tried to choose a good school WOD to do to make up for it. My students run the mile every Tuesday at Woodlawn. Typically, I have a standard running warm up on the board for them to follow before they run. Today I decided to offer Option B as well. I put up a little 3-5 minute "9-11" styled WOD for them to do before their mile run.
The WOD was...
9 rds of:
5 Burpees
6 Sit Ups
Was it terrible? No, not to most that took part, but it was bad enough. Try to think like a middle schooler for a second. Most dread running the mile and doing any amount of burpees...much less 45 of them right before running the mile. Most of the kids I have now were too young to remember that day or weren't even born yet. To hear the discussions that took place over whether to do the WOD or regular warmups was very uplifting to my heart as a teacher and adult who experienced that day.
I was in my last Fall of JUCO football in So Cal. I remember waking up for class and walking into the living room and the TV on replaying the crash into the towers. My roommates had been up watching for a while already. I can't remember if class that day was canceled or not, but I remember going to practice and reality setting in on the effects of what took place. My JUCO was close to Twentynine Palms marine base. A good third of our team were ex-marines or reservist that our D-Line (who was a marine) coach recruited from there. It was the second week of the season and we had a big rivalry game coming up. A lot of guys had to stay home near a phone for the next few days because they were put on alert that they might be deployed. Football wasn't a focus for them at that point...if anything it was distraction of things possibly to come.
I won't ever forget how this country operated before the towers were taken down. I got to experience America and it's freedoms beforehand. I hope the generations to come will learn to respect it the same way as those that experienced it as well.
School WOD
9 rds FT:
11 Burpees
11 Wall Balls (12#)
= 13:57
- Holy crap...I'm 32 and I hate burpees just as much as my students. It took a while to talk myself into this one. At one point I found myself pacing back and forth internally discussing how crappy this was going to be. By the 3rd round I was kicking myself for coming up with this WOD, by the 5th clarity hit and I was reminded of how terrible it was and why it should be. I finished seconds before the my next class came in. If I had more time I would have liked to add the 2001m run in before and after, but the way I run...I didn't have enough to get attempt it. 12# is the heaviest wall ball we have a at school. I'm ordering a 25# soon thanks to my bro in law's Bday gift! Plenty of suck and sweat to honor a day this country and it's people should never forget!
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