WOD and who knew rowers were so complex

So for todays super fun crossfit website workout of the day it was supposed to be run for 800 meters, one arm deadlift and one arm thrusters, run for another 800 meters, other arm deadlift and other arm thrusters, repeat until you have completed 4 rounds total. Since my stupid foot has been bothering me, I decided to row again today. What was I thinking?

I rowed yesterday in lieu of running and it really didnt feel bad on my foot, but really was tougher than I thought it would be. Today I am doing this workout with three other guys (most of whom I am ashamed to say I thought I was in better shape than) and we all started off at the same time rowing madly. I started falling behind early and in total finished a minute to two after all of the guys finished. Seriously! I was so mad at myself, how could I fall so far back? I am in good shape for gods sake, one of the other guys I was working out with must be about 100 lbs of straight flab and fat and never works out! I started thinking maybe two days in a row (ha ha, no pun intended) of this exercise did me in. The sour mood and feelings of weakness and failure continued through out the shower and clean up and back into my office to sit down and try to work. Then I did something that should have been done before the workout. I checked the website about "rowers". Originally I wanted to see what the rower to running ratio should be, so I can be sure I am getting the same amount of cardio I would from running. Well then, lo and behold did you know you are supposed to set the damper at a setting based on your body weight? Yeah, me neither. All four of us had the damper set at 5. My weight says it should be set at 2 to 3. The big 250 plus guys should be set at 6-7. Seriously? So did I just do more work than them and almost caught up to them? Next time I will research the equipment and the exercise a little more thoroughly before I subject myself to the torture. For this time, in my mind I just totally kicked their butts. Ha ha.