CrossFit provides a method for a personal journey to constantly improve oneself physically, mentally, and spiritually. The intensity of the workouts often makes you question your physical and mental capacity. I heard Greg Amundson say that "The biggest improvement that CrossFit athletes experience is between the ears." The mind can allow us to achieve greatness or cause us to fail. There are only two ways to fail...quit or die.


Since starting CrossFit I have always had a deep appreciation for the Hero WODs. I grew up on various Military Bases as my Father served in the USMC as a helicopter pilot. I remember when we got the news of a helicopter crash involving his squadron while lifting off from a carrier off the coast of Okinowa. He lost good friends, most of which had their families living in Hawaii while they were deployed. I remember seeing these families pack up and move back to the mainland. I often wonder what happened to the children.


I was introduced to CrossFit by a fellow Police Officer back in 2005. "Fight gone bad" on my first day? Really Rochet? Well, I was hooked. "Murphy" came to be my favorite workout. I remember the days when every six months or so we would see a new Hero WOD. Now, I think it's almost three a month. I went to "Randy" Simmons funeral. (Hero Workout #10). I was a new SWAT officer myself at the time and was taken back at how he died. More so, I was incredibly moved by what type of man he was outside of law enforcement. He left two children behind that loved and admired their father. He led a group of inner city youth from his Church who were left without a great mentor.


My personal desire to become a better husband, father, and find some inner peace pushed me to find a way to appreciate life and honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and to those left behind. Since opening my own CrossFit affiliate with my wife in 2009, I have missed completing many of the new Hero WODS. The Challenge I came up with for myself was to complete all the Hero WODs, as prescribed, in the order they were posted. To add to the challenge, I decided I would do one Hero WOD a day, six days a week, resting on Sundays. When I started the challenge there were 50 Hero WODS.

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Wednesday - March 30th, 2011


U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Forrest Nelson Leamon, 37, assigned to the Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Team (FAST) Echo was killed October 26th, 2009, while on a counternarcotics mission in western Afghanistan when the helicopter he was in crashed.

He is survived by his wife Ana, his son Luke, his parents, Sue and Richard Leamon, and his sister Heather.

First Posted October 17 2010





Day 39 of the Hero WOD Challenge

"Forrest"

Three rounds for time of:

20 L-pull-ups
30 Toes to bar
40 Burpees
Run 800 meters

Time: 33 minutes 36 seconds


Approached today a little different.  Did not look at the comments or other times prior to the workout.  I worked as fast and as hard as I could.  Toes to bar following L-pull-ups got difficult in a hurry.  Surprised after the workout to see that Graham Holmberg only beat me by 1 min 16 sec.

It's tough to see guys killed in helicopter crashes as it is one of my early childhood memories when my father lost good friends when a helicopter from his squadron crashed.  My thoughts go out to his son Luke.
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