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Workout Description

For time: 20 laps on the track Time cap: 25 minutes

Why This Workout Is Hard

For the average CrossFit athlete, Grass Track Race is Hard: the movement is accessible, but racing roughly 25:00 makes pacing and sustained output the challenge. There is no movement interference or technical load to manage, so difficulty comes from holding an aggressive split without fading. The athlete can scale distance or pace while preserving the same monostructural test.

Training Focus

This workout develops the following fitness attributes:

  • Endurance (10/10): Grass Track Race scores 1.0 for endurance because its 25:00 domain and monostructural share demand sustained aerobic output. Breathing control still determines how consistently the athlete can execute the full prescription.
  • Stamina (4/10): The repeated work around Cycling scores 0.4 for stamina; athletes must preserve local muscular output as sets, rounds, and transitions accumulate fatigue.
  • Speed (4/10): The 25:00 scoring window and 1 movement score 0.4 for speed; success rewards repeatable cycling, decisive transitions, and appropriately aggressive pacing.
  • Strength (1/10): Force and control demands score 0.1 for strength. Strength supports posture and movement quality, while absolute load is either unreported or not the workout's primary scoring challenge.
  • Flexibility (1/10): The prescribed positions create a 0.1 flexibility demand: efficient range of motion matters, but mobility is supportive rather than the sole test.
  • Power (1/10): Cycling drive a 0.1 power score through controlled force rather than maximal explosiveness. Explosive intent must remain repeatable rather than deteriorating into slow, inefficient repetitions.

Movements

  • Cycling

Scaling Options

Reduce the distance to roughly 70-80%, use a same-duration effort on another monostructural machine, or complete the prescribed course at a controlled training pace.

Scaling Explanation

Match effort duration because the official course dimensions are incomplete. The correct scale ends with a strong finish, not a long survival shuffle.

Intended Stimulus

Grass Track Race is a long, sustained monostructural test of pacing and sustainable output. The athlete should settle quickly at the fastest honest pace for the full course, then finish with a controlled acceleration instead of fading after an overaggressive start.

Coach Insight

Choose the opening split before starting, stay mechanically relaxed through the middle, and increase cadence only when the remaining distance is genuinely sustainable. Avoid surging early or letting technique shorten as fatigue rises.

Benchmark Notes

The official source gives 20 laps but not the lap length or track geometry, so a portable time curve would invent course data.

Modality Profile

Counting each unique movement once, M includes Cycling. That produces G 0%, M 100%, and W 0%.

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Training Profile

AttributeScoreExplanation
Endurance10/10Grass Track Race scores 1.0 for endurance because its 25:00 domain and monostructural share demand sustained aerobic output. Breathing control still determines how consistently the athlete can execute the full prescription.
Stamina4/10The repeated work around Cycling scores 0.4 for stamina; athletes must preserve local muscular output as sets, rounds, and transitions accumulate fatigue.
Strength1/10Force and control demands score 0.1 for strength. Strength supports posture and movement quality, while absolute load is either unreported or not the workout's primary scoring challenge.
Flexibility1/10The prescribed positions create a 0.1 flexibility demand: efficient range of motion matters, but mobility is supportive rather than the sole test.
Power1/10Cycling drive a 0.1 power score through controlled force rather than maximal explosiveness. Explosive intent must remain repeatable rather than deteriorating into slow, inefficient repetitions.
Speed4/10The 25:00 scoring window and 1 movement score 0.4 for speed; success rewards repeatable cycling, decisive transitions, and appropriately aggressive pacing.

For time: 20 laps on the track Time cap: 25 minutes

Difficulty:
Hard
Modality:
M
Stimulus:

Grass Track Race is a long, sustained monostructural test of pacing and sustainable output. The athlete should settle quickly at the fastest honest pace for the full course, then finish with a controlled acceleration instead of fading after an overaggressive start.

Insight:

Choose the opening split before starting, stay mechanically relaxed through the middle, and increase cadence only when the remaining distance is genuinely sustainable. Avoid surging early or letting technique shorten as fatigue rises.

Scaling:

Reduce the distance to roughly 70-80%, use a same-duration effort on another monostructural machine, or complete the prescribed course at a controlled training pace.

Your Scores:

Training Profile