Yes, I’m a bandwagon
riding year in review kind of girl.. 1)
It helps us appreciate it where we’ve come from and the hard work we put into
getting where we are. 2) I think
reflection helps us prepare better for what’s ahead. 3) I just wanted to post
more pictures on here.
Because this is a
reflection of my CrossFit year, I’m throwing out the typical Jan-Dec calendar
(who cares what about months Romans came up with forever ago anyway). This year was really about going from
habitual CrossFit social hour to full-blown CrossFit junkie.
We opened CrossFit
Tuscaloosa officially on Dec. 1, 2010.
It was definitely going to be an interesting adventure, particularly for
Drew and Brittany.
I left to go to Idaho
for the holidays after only a week and a half, so it wasn’t until January when
I got back that I really had the opportunity to get into our new home in the
Tuscaloosa Downtown YMCA. Immediately, I
knew Drew was going to put us to work.
But by February, we
were in the swing of things and at least had a fun group to suffer through WODs
with. I was a social CrossFitter after
all, so it better be fun!
Sarabeth and I headed
to Garage Games and tried to stay warm.
This was like being introduced to Bacardi Ice when you’re in high
school. No one thinks you’re going to go
hard core. You’re just a groupie,
dressed cute in boots and leggings, clearly just there to cheer people on. But someone had to get SB through that awful
trail run in the wet cold. I had no idea
that my future CrossFit home, CrossFit Music City, was there competing as well,
or that Rebecca was hating that trail run just as much as SB.
In March, still
amazingly injury free, I placed overall for the first time in a race. What’s more amazing is the fact that I did it
at altitude in Idaho – and that my mother stole my medal.
CrossFit had prepared
me well for the post-race photo.
March also brought on
the Open. While I was disappointed to
not have a Sectionals competition to go watch and see CFT face off against
those in the area, a lot of CFT showed up each week to see Drew, Sarabeth, Max,
and Chuck tackle the Open WODs.
Like for any WOD, Maxwell was calm about each of the events.
Maybe even excessively
happy.
The Open was definitely a
taste of a bit of that CrossFit high – did you see how happy Maxi looked?
For the first time, I was
considering actually “training” instead of just being a recreational wodder. Afterall, I was getting stronger….
We participated in CrossFit
Innovate’s March of Dimes Throwdown Week 3 of the Open, where (shocker)
Sarabeth took first for the women and Drew took first for the men.
Not to be left out of the
fun, there was a second WOD for those of us not badass enough (yet) to compete
in.
Summer lead us to
Regionals, which Sarabeth and Drew had qualified for. Brittany, Carla, Cary, and myself couldn’t
miss out on supporting them – though Carla almost did. You’ve never met anyone so terrified of
flying, nor has God heard so many prayers in the 30 sec. period that makes up
take off and landing.
Plus who could pass up a
trip to Jacksonville to be surrounded by hot CrossFit people?
Regionals was an
opportunity to meet so many people in CrossFit that I knew I’d turn into a
competition junkie. Starting to resemble
a CrossFit addict, I got my fix whenever I could, including getting my Level 1
Cert at CrossFit Atlanta. But like
progressing from “oh I’ll just take a cranberry juice with a splash of vodka”
to “Scotch neat, and you really think I’d take anything other than
single-malt?”, I showed the true levels of my addiction by going to the
CrossFit Games as my post-bar exam trip.
Others go to the beach or backpack through Europe. No, I do this….
But like any true addict
knows, that you can’t just have that big high and be good. Oh no, you must feed it constantly….
So I spent the rest of the
summer being CrossFit Mom to Sarabeth, going from Garage Games Event to Garage
Games Event. How else are you going to
meet characters like…
Or
and
But by the time
Faction was done, I needed to get into this competition business myself. I’m a smart girl, and since I had spent the
summer recovering from a torn rotator cuff (thank God no surgery), I eased into
it with some charitable Throwdowns, like CrossFit 27:17’s FGB 6.
So with my heart full
of some serious CrossFit love, by October I was itching to
get a hit of that
competition buzz. I, along with Sarabeth and my good friend, Chris Grothe
traveled down to middle-of-nowhere Georgia for the South Georgia Throwdown.
No Garage Games Event
would be complete without…
Clapping pushups in public,
Of course the best
thing about being a CrossFit junkie, is spreading the addiction. So now that I was addicted to competition, I
had to get others addicted as well. But
I had just learned that I was moving to Nashville. And all nearby Garage Games events were
over. So riddle me this Batman – how do
I push the product?
Answer: Local competitions.
Having passed on the
addiction, I sadly left Tuscaloosa and my CFT family…
And
made a new home at CrossFit Music City in Nashville
Can’t
wait to see what next year brings! Until then...I'll just keep feeding the addiction.
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