Whilst today is in fact Father's Day—and happy F.D. to all fathers, although my own is apparently doing something involving printing with steamrollers, so my mind is riven with thoughts of a sketch from an old ~1980 Steve Martin TV special warning of the hazards of drinking and driving a steamroller. I can't find it on YouTube, which makes me wonder if it ever actually existed. Anyroad, today is also "Bloomsday," when literature nerds and other assorted dorks (like me) around the world celebrate James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, which chronicles Leopold Bloom's perambulations around Dublin on June 16, 1904. (Leopold Bloom becomes a father figure to Stephen Dedalus, so it is not un-apropos to Father's Day.) How did I celebate this year? Why, with a special CrossFit workout I made up called "The Bloomsday":
04 rounds for time (not 1904 rounds):
6 thrusters (95#)
16 pull-ups
(my time= 9:21)
Then, because Ulysses was first published in 1922:
4 min AMRAP*:
19 pushups
22 situps
(my roundage= 2 rounds + 19 pushups + 3 situps)
So whether you are a father, or a James Joyce aficionado, or both, or neither, I hope you had a great day!
* I was going to do 18 min AMRAP for each of the 18 "episodes" in the book, but that wasn't gonna happen.
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