Dear CrossFit, Waiting For The 13.4 Bomb To Drop

Dear CrossFit,

This is torture, it really is.  Crystal balls, tea leaves, statistical analysis, trend analysis, you name it, we’ve been doing it, trying to figure out what 13.4 and 13.5 will be.  Even worse, for the small percentage of the world that isn’t involved in the Open, they need us to stop obsessing.  They want us back as friends, parents, children, spouses, dates, workers, and colleagues.  We’re three weeks into this thing.  A lot of people have bailed, for different reasons (apathy, injury, disgust at padding, disgust at no-reps, …).  But a lot of us are still in it, even though our rationale may be evolving.  I started out with a goal of making the top 90%.  Depending on what 13.4 and 13.5 are I have a legitimate chance at being in the top 50%.  My friends from the Shed ‘o Pain are already tweaking their training for next year after posting scores that they know they can improve.  My competitive friends are crossing their fingers and toes hoping for “something heavy” or “something light” or “something aerobic” or “something long” or “something short” depending on what their strengths/weaknesses are…

All I know is this.  At some point in the next two weeks we are going to be doing pullups.  I have pullups.  I also know that we are going to be doing something that I don’t have (HSPU, pistols, OHS). 

So CrossFit, why not be unpredictable and announce both WODs right now.  Some of us want this to be over, and some of us need this to be over!

I wonder what tomorrow’s WOD will be…