Memorial Day is right around the corner!! In fact, it’s about 2 1/2 weeks away. Many view this day as the kick off to summer, a reason to have bbq’s and pool parties and get togethers. And while that is all well and good, it’s important to remember the real reason we observe Memorial Day – to remember those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice fighting and serving our great nation and to honor their family members left behind.
CrossFit does a great job of remembering our fallen heroes by creating Hero WODs for them, and perhaps, the most famous of them all is Murph, named for Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy.
We perform Murph every year on Memorial Day, CrossFitters and RISErs alike, all in one big class at 9am. It’s a grueling workout (that you can scale as needed, partner up for, partition the reps, or face it all alone), but we workout because we’re grateful to be alive, in this country, on this day and we have Michael Murphy, among so many others, to thank for that!!
We so hope you’ll join us for Murph this Memorial Day!
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” -Robert Patton
