It is very common for trainers who use CrossFit methodology to structure
their workouts by giving their clients a set amount of time to do as much work
as possible. The standard amount of time
allotted is usually 20 minutes but you can see them as short as ten and as long as thirty. And like so many things in the CrossFit
culture these types of workouts have an acronym to more easily describe them. In this case the trainer is asking the
athlete to do As Many Rounds As Possible in a set time, so it is commonly
called an AMRAP.
We were still newlyweds when my main man, W, had turned our world upside
down with this crazy new CrossFit lifestyle.
And not long after that the longest AMRAP we will possibly ever do started. We had gotten “married” the year before but
it wasn’t until little Miss M came along that our marriage really began. Having children changed everything, it turned
my definition of marriage on its head. It is like the most challenging partner workout
ever with a clock that never stops running. A real team effort that has required us to work
together to complete tasks that at some points seem too daunting or overwhelming, with ups and
downs that we could have never imagined.
And since that first year our relationship has stood some of the truest
tests of life. There have been births,
deaths, happiness, sadness, hellos and goodbyes. It seems like time is flying and has quickly passed as we have been busy growing and learning,
building our family and our home. This
summer we celebrate our fifth anniversary, five years that can be best described
with an exponential growth curve that could not have been predicted. During
this time, W and I have been striving to live well, laugh often and love each other as much as we could through the
happy and exciting times as well as through some of the most difficult and
trying periods of our lives to date. I
am not naive, I know that five years is such a relatively short period of time and
we are still very young with loads of life left ahead of us. But to look back and think about how far we have come
as a pair, I can’t help but be proud that we have survived one beast of an AMRAP for the
last 2,628,000 minutes.
