12 Days of Christmas WOD

That's Aimee - AKA, The Wife - doing the "12 Days of Christmas" WOD (Work Out of the Day) two nights ago at Crossfit Manhattan, KS.  In case you haven't noticed, she's very pregnant.  Here's the workout.

1x Squat Clean (95/63#)
2x Jerks (95/63#)
3x Deadlifts (95/63#)
4x Hang Power Cleans (95/63#)
5x Front Squats (95/63#)
6x Strict Pull Ups (Chin Over)
7x Ball Slam to Walls (30/20#@9Ft.)*
8x Hand-Release Burpees
9x KB Swings (55/35#)
10x Goblet Squats (55/35#)
11x Knee-to-Elbows
1200M Row

It's supposed to go like the song, "The 12 Days of Christmas", although Coach Megan got the order wrong.  That means it went like this:

1. 1x squat clean
2. 1x squat clean, 2x jerks
3. 1x squat clean, 2x jerks, 3x deadlifts
4. 1x squat clean, 2x jerks, 3x deadlifts, 4x hang power cleans...

and so on, until it ended with a 1200m row.  It's one of the hardest workouts we've done at the gym.  It took me almost an hour to finish.  Few Crossfit workouts take more than 20 minutes.  

I wrote all that to say that I'm immensely proud of my wife.  We were overjoyed when we found out she was pregnant, but we couldn't help but feel frustrated because so much of the progress she made in the prior year would be inevitably reversed.  She swore to continue Crossfit for as long as possible and she's come through like a champ.  She needs to modify the WODs substantially (note the stacks of plates) to accommodate her rapidly expanding belly, but even so she pushes herself to her current limit.  

I married a damned good woman.