WODs & Well-Being

November 14, 2012 22 Days of Thanks 2012 - Day 14 I am thankful for a special treat. Today I turned 32. Its kinda funny... I have to actually think about my age when someone asks me how old I am because I cant really believe that I am over 30... let alone 32. Not that being over 30 is a bad thing, or I am old or something... because I know that I am not. Sometimes I just feel like time is passing by but I am staying the same age. Clearly, thats not the case! I can say that I felt amazing last year on my 31st birthday, I was on the up and up... getting my shit together and heading in the right direction. I have to say, 365 days later, I am feeling even better than I thought I ever could. If you asked me at 30 how I was feeling it would be a totally different story. I am so happy and proud of the changes I have made in my life. Now, that special treat... this was my mission on the way home from work. Hubs was stopping at the store to get the good to make me an incredible Birth...

February 15, 2012 This... ... is a hurricane. This particular picture was taken in September of 1996 of the 6th named storm and 5th hurricane of the season. "She" developed from a tropical wave near Cape Verde on August 23rd. After going parallel to the Bahamas "She" made landfall in North Carolina on September 6th. "She" was a Category 3 storm with 120mph winds that resulted in coastal flooding, damaged cars, 63,000 without power, 27 fatalities and $3.2 in damage.... Her name you ask? FRAN. Gregg Glassman ( you know who he is right? ), is quoted in this article saying "if a hurricane that wrecks havoc on a whole town can be Fran, so can a workout." In fact... the more recent of the "nasty girl" WOD's are named for the Elite CF Athletes, but the originals are named for hurricanes (fitting no?). So anyway... Glassman developed Fran as one of the "original benchmark" WODs. Fran is known by all CF athletes... most...

January 16, 2012 Week on of the Paleo Challenge at CrossFit Wachusett is complete. I ended the first week with 3 points. Took one for the dinner we had on Friday night (including Newmans Own Balsamic Dressing, since the lunch meat is "occasionally" acceptable) and a point for both Saturday and Sunday morning's bacon. Its the "most paleo" bacon we can find, but none the less, it is still outside the parameters of the challenge. I am feeling pretty good after the first 7 days. Hubs and I as I said before were pretty "paleo" anyway... just not as strict as we are being now. The weekend was the hardest part and since we really didnt do anything, it wasnt any different from any other day. We did go to a party on Friday night, there was quite the spread of food. We faced the challenge by eating before we went, and both brought a black coffee with us so we wouldnt be tempted with beers or soda. Worked out well. A friend of ours from another CF gym is als...

December 31, 2011 Ahh, finally.... the end to 2011. It seems as if every year at this time (with the exception of a few years here and there) I sit and think, 19-- or  20-- HAS to be better than this. What I am not sure of, is how I measure what a "good" year, vs what a "bad" year is. Inevitably, there are going to be good and bad things that happen over many years for the rest of my life. I cant live thinking that each year has to stack up with the last/next, or set myself up for the coming year to be better than the last. My brother Joshua lived every one of his 21 years like it was the last year of his life, and when it came down to it, he lived an awesome (albeit short) life. . Somewhere, I think in 2011 I decided that it was time to live for today, not for tomorrow... life is to effing short. The problem I think, is that I... we... people in general... get "comfortable" with life. We sort of lodge ourselves in a spot where every day life can just ...