Robert Hartley, Box owner of CrossFit Inevitable in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, completed on September 12th 31 Hero WODs in 31 hours to bring attention to the state’s Fallen Troopers.
Hartley is himself a Kentucky state trooper and he wanted to pay tribute to the 31 Fallen Troopers of the Kentucky State Police. According to him, the agency created one hero WOD for each of the heroes from Kentucky who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
The 31 Hero WODs are completed by each cadet of the agency while in the academy over a 6-month period. “I wanted to complete them all within 31 hours,” Robert Hartley wrote.
Robert Hartley Completes 31 Hero WODs in 31 Hours
Each workout was developed by Thin Gray Line CrossFit, the official CrossFit Affiliate of the Kentucky State Police Academy. They honour troopers who died in the line of duty and each has the name of the fallen comrade.
Robert Hartley began at 8:30 am on Monday, September 12th with the Hero WOD “Toll” and ended with “Cam” at 3:29 pm on September 13th, a minute before his cap.
“Never set a limit on yourself, and know that your mind will take you to places that seem impossible.”
Robert Hartley in His Own Words
For a while now I’ve felt that I needed to do something to push myself further than I ever have. I can’t explain why, but it’s been digging at me for quite some time. I needed to do something to prove to myself that we don’t have to set limits on ourselves. I needed to come up with something that when I told people about it, they would laugh or say, “that’s impossible,” which is exactly what they did. But the only people who know where the edge is are those that have went over it, and that’s what I wanted to do.
At the same time, I wanted this to be something important to me, not just something random. I wanted this to be bigger than just my own personal goals. A few months back, after many more months of brain storming, it eventually came to me. What if I could do something to bring attention to and honor the 31 Fallen Troopers of the @ky_state_police . How could I do that? I already knew that there were established @crossfit Hero Workouts created by the agency for each of the 31 Fallen Heros who paid the ultimate sacrifice. They are all completed by each cadet of the agency while in the academy over a 6 month period. I wanted to complete them all within 31 Hours.
Beginning at 0830 on Monday, September 12th, I kicked off this challenge that I have coined the #KY31HerosProject with the first workout. I would have 31 hours from then to complete all 31 Hero Workouts. I went to war with my mind, my body slowly broke down, and I went beyond exhaustion. Halfway in I was beginning to fall behind my planned pace, and didn’t think I would finish. With the help of my team of family, friends, gym community, and some coworkers around me, I somehow managed to complete the last and final workout at 1529 hours on Tuesday, September 13th (the EOW date for the last Trooper to be killed in the line of duty). I had 1 minute to spare.
Never set a limit on yourself, and know that your mind will take you to places that seem impossible. Most importantly, I hope I was able to honor 31 Fallen Heros and their families, and hope this will make some people want to take a moment to honor them as well.
There will be a short video in the months to come on the #KY31HerosProject
The 31 Hero WODs He Completed in 31 Hours
Toll
Four rounds for time:
- 11 burpees
- 121 single-unders
- 14 air squats
- 121 single-unders,
- 48 sit-ups (butterfly)
Miller
24 rounds for time:
- 141-meter sprint
- 14 overhead walking lunges
Huffman
27-minute AMRAP (as many rounds as possible):
- Five bar muscle-ups
- 19 dips
- 53 jumping air squats
- 299-meter run
Bush
Buy-in: 28 burpees, then two rounds for time:
- 10 V-up
- 11 push-up
- 374-meter run
Then, 28 burpee buy-out.
Tevis
Four rounds for time:
- Five clean & jerks (80-pound sandbag)
- 26 sit-ups
- Five clean & jerks
- 16 back squats (80 pounds sandbag)
Mobley
Four rounds for time:
- Five thrusters (95 p0unds)
- 28 lunges
- Five thrusters
- 31 hand-release push-ups
Uzzle
600-meter run buy-in, then two rounds for time:
- Five chest-to-bar pull-ups
- 28 back rack lunges (95 pounds)
- 19 HR push-ups
- 64 air squats
600-meter run buy out.
Powell
Seven-minute AMRAP:
- Eight burpees
- 18 thrusters (45 pounds)
Brady
Four rounds for time:
- 11 thrusters (95 pounds)
- Nine power cleans
- 17 back squats
Barrett
No time cap, complete:
- 35 deadlifts
Unbroken sets of five, increasing with every set; athlete’s score is total weight.
McNeely
Four rounds for time:
- Two bear crawls — 100 feet
- Nine front squats (115 pounds)
- Seven push presses
Rest for three minutes, then follow with Hero WOD “Childs.”
Childs
Four rounds for time:
- Four power cleans (115 pounds)
- Eight thrusters (115 pounds)
Thurtell
15-minute AMRAP:
- 393-meter run
- Nine burpees
- 29 back squats (95 pounds)
Ward
Four rounds of: five-minute AMRAPs with one minute rest for 23 minutes total:
- Four push press (135 pounds)
- 23 burpees
- Seven sit-ups
- Three bear crawls (32 feet)
Smith
24-minute AMRAP:
- Four power cleans (95 pounds)
- 26 back squats
- 1973-meter run
Hutchinson
Six rounds:
- Seven pull-ups
- Seven push-ups
- Five toes-to-bar
Then, four rounds:
- Seven sumo deadlift high pull (95 pounds)
- Seven dips
- Five hollow rock
Then, two rounds:
- Seven burpees
- Seven thrusters (95 pounds)
- Five strict pull-ups
McCoun
Nine rounds for time:
- Six ring dips
- Nine pull-ups
Then:
Two-mile run buy out.
Pickard
Two rounds for time:
- 26 clapping push-ups
- 26 sandbag walking lunges (80 pounds)
- 26 sit-ups
- 26 sandbag back squats
- 26 burpees
- 742-meter run
Martin
20-minute AMRAP:
- 20 HRPU
- 20 pull-ups
- 20 dips
- 20 toes-to-bar
- 20 burpees
- 20 air squats
- 20 sit-ups
- 20 sandbag lunges
Cunningham
Two rounds for time:
- 24 back squats (95 pounds)
- 24 lunges (95 pounds)
- 24 push press (95 pounds)
- 24 sit-ups
- 24 burpees
- 24 Supermans
- 24 sit-ups
- 24 push press (95 pounds)
- 24 lunges (95 pounds)
- 24 back squats (95 pounds)
Harris
Seven rounds for time:
- Six bar-facing burpees
- Eight empty-bar thrusters
Then, two-mile run buy out.
Clifton
Nine rounds for time:
- Four front squats (70 pounds)
- Seven back squats (70 pounds)
- Five sandbag sit-ups (10 pounds)
Then, one-mile run buy out.
DP
12 rounds for time:
- Six burpee tire broad jumps
- Five tire flips
Buy out: two partner carries — 50 meters
Johnny
12 rounds for time:
- Three sumo deadlift high pulls (95 pounds)
- Six burpee tire flips
- Five tire jumps
- 34-meter bear crawl
Adkins
Six rounds for time:
- Nine burpees
- Nine thrusters (95 pounds)
- Six chest-to-bar pull-ups
JC
For time:
- 800-meter run
- Five squat cleans (95 pounds)
- 50 double-unders
- Five squat cleans (95 pounds)
- 800-meter run
- Five squat cleans (95 pounds)
- 50 sit-ups
- Five squat cleans (95 pounds)
- 800-meter run
Leonard
Three rounds for time:
- 250-meter sandbag carry (80 pounds)
- 28 push-ups
- 250-meter farmer’s carry (45-pound weight plate in each hand)
- 28 sit-ups
- 250-meter run
- 28 burpees
Tribby
25 burpee buy-in, then 10 rounds for time:
- Three pull-ups
- Eight power cleans (95 pounds)
- Seven front squats (95 pounds)
Then, 2.7-mile run buy out.
Chrisman
Three rounds for time:
- Six push press (95 pounds)
- 23 sit-ups
- 15 burpee pull-ups
- 800-meter run
Gibbs
For time:
- 191-meter farmer’s carry (45-pound plate in each hand)
- Five toes-to-bar
- 10 overhead walking lunges on each leg (45 pounds)
- 20 pull-ups
- 30 burpees
- 40 push-ups
- 191-meter farmer’s carry (45-pound plate in each hand)
- 40 push-ups
- 30 burpees
- 20 pull-ups
- 10 overhead walking lunges on each leg (45 pounds)
- Five toes-to-bar
- 191-meter farmer’s carry (45-pound plate in each hand)
Cam
31-minute AMRAP:
- Nine sandbag thrusters (95 pounds)
- Five push-ups
- Four pull-ups
100-meter sprint/run between rounds.
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- Robert Hartley 31 Wods in 31 Hours: Robert Hartley on Instagram