Anyone else doing it?

Doubles M45-49 here, finished in 1:23. Same time as two years ago almost to the second (older but not slower?). Had hopes of cracking 1:20 but so it goes.

The new wall ball counters ate our lunch.

I did solo yesterday (also 45) and for my first it was good enough. Wall balls ate my lunch as well, I entered at 1:17 and 11 minutes of wall ball was more pain cave than I bargained for to finish.
I practiced them a fair amount but with a rigid medicine ball, I couldn't aim the soft one well and had 28 no scored.
Time to psych myself up for Houston in March.

Great time. Clean those wall balls up and you're in great shape.

I thought about doing this until I saw 80 meters of burpee/broad jumps and I was all like....

Half my gym group was there it seems like. I think we sent about 20 people. I'm waiting for Houston

MouthBQ98 said:

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Half my gym group was there it seems like. I think we sent about 20 people. I'm waiting for Houston

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It felt like half DFW was there. My wife raced Sunday morning. Spectator check in line was S shaped - went up and down the full length of the outdoor corridor literally three times.

What all do you do in a Hyrox race? Is it basically a Crossfit workout?

Quinn said:

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What all do you do in a Hyrox race? Is it basically a Crossfit workout?

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It's basically an 8k run. After each 1k you do an exercise.

https://hyrox.com/the-fitness-race/

Why would anyone want to do this??

This just sounds like punishment, not anything I or anyone else would want to do for fun.

I'm signed up for Houston, going to do doubles with my 16 year old son. It should be pretty fun and hopefully we go fast. He can run sub 19 minute 5k but not sure how much help he will be on the sleds.

cadetjay02 said:

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I'm signed up for Houston, going to do doubles with my 16 year old son. It should be pretty fun and hopefully we go fast. He can run sub 19 minute 5k but not sure how much help he will be on the sleds.

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If you can keep up with that run pace, kudos to you.

I saw a guy post about his Hyrox experience on FB today. It started like this:

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My first Hyrox.

I started calm.
Focused. Clear head.
SkiErg felt good.
Didn't overpace.
Everything felt easy.

And then came the sled push.

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You can guess how his story ends.

If he can help with burpees and wall balls we can easily be under 1:20, if things go well it will be closer to 1:15. I'm solid on the sleds, fairly easy when you're a couple biscuits shy of 200lbs.

I just signed up for Hyrox Houston with a team of 4. I have no idea what I am getting myself into.

The relay is relatively easy, figure out your teams strengths and practice you two assigned events. Be able to run fast for 1000m twice. Hope they don't give you wall balls.

Looks like I drew the SkiERG and Burpees

Skierg is 1st and easy, go hard. Burpees is 4th and sucks, start practicing. Don't just do burpees and burpees broad jump. Build overall leg strength and do devil press along with burpee box jumps to mix it up.