Tomorrow's only workout for the day will be at 12:00pm and is a hero WOD dedicated to the memory of Michael Murphy "MURPH"
We did this workout on Labor Day and some athletes missed out due to competition. Now is your chance to complete this hero WOD or retest yourself against it.
No matter how challenged you may feel tomorrow, it is still nothing compared to what our armed forces face in battle around the world on a daily basis. Thank you to everyone who has served, is serving, and will serve our Country and our Allies.
Murph” is a CrossFit Hero WOD named after Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who was killed in Afghanistan June 28th, 2005. He was 29, of Patchogue, N.Y. Lt Murphy was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor after his death.
The workout was one of Mike’s favorites and he’d named it ‘Body Armor.’ It first appeared on the CrossFit site 18 August 2005.
Engaged in a frenzied firefight and outnumbered by the Taliban, Navy Lt. Michael Murphy made a desperate decision as he and three fellow SEALs fought for their lives on a rocky mountainside in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province in 2005.
In a last-ditch effort to save his team, Murphy pulled out his satellite phone, walked into a clearing to get reception and called for reinforcements as a fusillade of bullets ricocheted around him. One of the bullets hit him, but he finished the call and even signed off, “Thank you.”
Then he continued the battle.
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