Let's go sledding!!

What better way to enjoy one of the coldest days of this winter than by going sledding?!?!  Yay, fun!!!

But, you might say, "Now, wait a second, Beast Girl, even though it's cold outside, you need to snow to go sledding.  Sledding without snow -- are you a little confused?  Perhaps one too many CrossFit WODs have made you delirious?"  Well, yes, you are correct -- in fact, many CrossFit WODs have left me delirious ... but none so much as today's WOD, which included pushing a sled. 

Now, for my non-CrossFit family and friends (or, as some people might say, the sane people), let me explain the sled.  I've included a photo for added explanation:

Weights are stacked or hung on the smaller poles -- for the females,135lbs. From my online research, it appears that the sled itself weighs about 33 lbs.  For the purposes of this WOD, we started out by pushing the sled using the two high poles (on the right in the picture) down the length of the room -- about 50 feet, maybe? -- and then, for the return trip, pushing from the opposite side of the sled (left side of picture) using the two lower, horizontal poles.  We did this 8 times, with approximately 2-3 minutes of rest between each round, with the final score being all 8 times added together (not including the rest periods).  Here's another visual, for added clarification --

Even though my time for these pushes was less than six minutes, I can definitely say this is the most strenuous, painful WOD I have ever done.  Murph, step aside -- while you almost made me cry thanks to your hour-long torture, you didn't make whimpers spontaneously jump out of my mouth in less than 3 minutes.  The heavy sled push is now Beast Girl's official Death WOD. 

And, of course, the irony is that, by the time I got home, I was thinking, "Hmm, I wonder how much I could improve my sprint time if I did sled pushes more often..."