CrossFit Athletic Group

Because Kelly was yesterday, and because I can. Who doens't like click bait?

1. You check the main site the night before and see that a benchmark came up.

2. You come to the gym, the next day, deperately praying that maybe you will just skip this one and there will be some other, lesser torture.

3. You spend the whole warm-up getting lied to by your coach that it ISN'T the benchmark workout you're dreading. But then you realize that's BS and you are doing that benchmark WOD.

4. You look at your buddies and realize that this is about to hurt.

5. You try and fire yourself up, saying, "Yeah! You got this," despite the fact you had Taco Bell yesterday for lunch and are running on 4 hours of sleep.

6. After all of the technique and mobilities, there is a moment of silence before the "3, 2, 1, go!" You take a breath and know that this is it.

7. And then the timer beeps and you're off faster than Chris saying no to a social event.

8. But then 30 seconds pass and that speed goes down and you're not sure what you got into.

9. As the workout winds down you think your flesh might actually be melting off your body.

10. Finally, you finish your last rep and collapse to the floor, too tired to even think about how much that sucked.

11. Once you get the energy to think again, you realize that your time wasn't quite worth the suffering that you just went through.

12. You get up, and if you PR'd your coach congratulates you for a PR (if you got one). But you're still too bitter to acknowledge the cause of this pain and suffering.

13. Finally, you go home and carbo load. Cause after all, you just did a benchmark workout. You deserve it.