Whether it is the Games or the local box’s WOD, we CrossFitters do not do enough endurance. The over 1-hour monostructural modality is almost never programmed.
We may be proud of the running section in Murph or the Mainstite’s occasional 10Ks but those are still way under the one hour mark.
I’m not complaining mind you, but two things recently reminded me of this reality.
One was Beyond The Whiteboard’s analysis on how my over-30-minute biking/running/rowing WODs are, well, nonexistent. The second was the ride today with my brother who does century-distance cycling races to fight boredom and he schooled me in elite fitness, at least in this modality…
Net net is that we cannot ignore long, mono programming and we probably have to do those outside the Box, as they do not neatly fit in the typical WOD-hour.
Endurance
– 20 Mile interval and speed cycling in Key Biscayne
[Peak speed 28.1 mph]
