Boxtoberfest

This weekend I participated in my first CrossFit competition event ever! I will be honest that I was nervous out of my mind. But I have to say I had an absolute blast the whole weekend! We had an awesome team, two girls and two guys; I couldn't have asked for better teammates! We weren't there necessarily to win we simply wanted to have fun and push ourselves to our limits and I'd say we accomplished just that and more!

Saturday, our first event took place on the soccer field, the men bear crawled 50m picked up their barbell and ran back then completed 30 overhead squats, then the women bear crawled 50m to their barbell, then ran it back and completed 30 overhead squats. Then the men bear crawled to their box  then ran it back to their side and completed 40 box jumps, when they finished the women did the same thing. Overall, the event wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, but I must admit that no one ever looks good doing a bear crawl.

     



The second Saturday event took place at the indoor pool. The teams had to complete 3 rounds of 50m swim, 20 goblet squats, 20 burpees, and 20 hand release push ups. Again, a difficult but fun event. We completed ours in 8:26 minutes!

Sunday's event was at the crack of dawn! And was by far the hardest, yet most fun event as a team. It began with a team 400m run, with one person carrying a sandbag, we had to finish the run together then we immediately started working on 200 double unders, then 40 clean and jerks, and finally 60 ring pull ups. As a team we decided that each of us would do as many reps as possible until we burned out and then the next person would step in. We alternated men and women to keep up our pace! It definitely paid off because we came in first in our heat at just past 9 minutes.

I must say it was one of the best events I've ever done! There is such an amazing community built around CrossFit, I honestly don't know what I'd do without that family! They are simply amazing! And I have some pretty fantastic friends from outside the CF community that came to support me as well! You guys are the best!! Thank you!

And a special shout out to my awesome, amazing husband for being there to support me the whole time. He recently had a hamstring tear that has kept him out of CF and out of this competition, but despite his inability to compete he was still there to cheer me on and bring me recovery drinks, water and food! You're awesome babe and I love you!!!

Back to CrossFit

Today C and I are headed to try out ABQ CrossFit. After getting married and moving from Dallas to Albuquerque, C decided it would be best to take some time off from CF and work on a linear progression strength training program. Seeing as I had never lifted more than a 5 lb. weight in my life I was incredibly nervous about strength training and olympic lifting for a number of reasons including my fear of becoming to "bulky." Needless to say, there have been many ups and downs, but I have become stronger both mentally and physically and I am incredibly pleased with the results. We have been working on the strength program for over a year now and started talking about the benefits of getting back to CrossFit. Not only will it allow us to workout in the morning, but it'll give us more time to do other things in the evening, will vary our workout routine and get us back in the CF community.

{Image Credit: CrossFit Deep Ellum}

My first ever experience with CrossFit at CrossFit Deep Ellum in Dallas, TX.