Wednesday 01.30.13

Sometimes it IS the gear that gets us through a WOD, right Larry? ;)

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The Speckled Ax 

Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, p. 128 

Benjamin Franklin tells the story of a man, who in buying an ax from a local blacksmith, desired to have the whole of its surface polished as bright as the edge. The smithy consented to grind the ax bright for him if he would turn the wheel of the sharpening stone. He turned while the smith pressed the broad face of the ax hard and heavily upon the stone, which made the turning of it very fatiguing. The buyer stopped every now and then to check how the work progressed, and finally said he would take the ax as it was, without further grinding.

"No," said the blacksmith, "turn more, turn more; we’ll have it bright by-and-by; as it is only speckled."

"Yes," replied the buyer, "but I think I like the speckled ax best."

Franklin reflected this may have been the case with many people; who having found the difficulty of obtaining the good and the breaking of habits in other points of vice and virtue, have given up the struggle and concluded that a speckled ax was best.

WOD
5 Rounds
40 doubleunders (120 singles)
30 box jumps
20 KB swings (53/35)
10 ring dips