We are Moving!!!!

CrazyWife and I are currently en route to Korea (PCS) and we are eager to set up shop when we get to Yongson, Korea with all of our gear.

Stay tuned for updates on when and where we will start meeting next year...

We will be on ground on 13 JAN 09 and will start working out at Collier Field House at 1000hrs Saturday, 17 January 2009.

C.H.

CrossFitting across America (Part 2)

A quick update on the whereabouts of CrazyWife CrossFit. We couldn't take any more driving after driving through the blizzard to Albuquerque and getting iced out of an early-morning workout and then hitting even more snow in Flagstaff the very next day. We missed out on another early morning workout there since their first workout doesn't start til 0900. How great would that be? Not going to work until 9? I think I like that rule very much. Now, if I could just retrain my body to sleep in til 8, I'd be golden. Can't stop getting up at 0500 now, even with a week of leave under my belt. I suppose my crappy holiday dieting has something to do with my messed up sleep cycles...
Never fear though, we are finally in Boise after a 12 hour marathon drive to Salt Lake City and a little 5 hour finisher yesterday. I'm happy to say it's not as cold as I thought it would be but I'm not running around in shorts anytime soon. I did finally get a great workout in at CrossFit Asylum right down the street in Boise (Garden City really but who's counting?).
We are looking forward to some relaxation (good luck with an antsy two-year old running around), some workouts (not too many though, they really hurt after a few weeks off), and eating (a little bit) better. Now if I could just get my family to buy into a more Paleo existence. Good luck not getting some potatoes in a meal in Idaho. (And why is a breakfast not complete without your choice of hashbrowns, home fries, grits, toast, or sugar???)
I hope our workout gear is okay on it's long journey to Korea. I can't wait to unwrap it all, it will be just like Christmas all over again...

Happy Holidays Crazies...!!!

Is ESPN CrossFit?

When will we see the CrossFit Games on ESPN2?

When will we see an affiliate in Bristol?

For any ESPN fans out there, I threw this post up in the hopes that I would get a bite off of a text message I sent to ESPN. They started accepting text messages on top of the thousands of emails they get at "Mike & Mike in the Morning" and they got like 11,000 texts in the first five minutes.

Crazy huh? I was imagining how CrossFit would take off if it started to get some air time on ESPN? What if the announcers there started to workout with CrossFit and then started to brag about all of their results? At least we will see the CrossFit Games on ESPN 2 or ESPN Deportes in the next year or two. That will be very, very cool.

I still think my dream job would be kicking some butt with a CF Affiliate at ESPN Headquarters...hmmmm...

CrazyHusband

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CrossFitting across America

We have left San Antonio (for good) and we are driving to Boise, Idaho
for Christmas ala the Beverly Hill Billies and our car crammed full of
luggage.

We spent the past weekend in Wichita Falls, Texas learning how to lift
heavy stuff off the ground from Coach Mark Rippetoe.

Monday we stopped in Amarillo for a free 72oz steak (if you can finish
it in an hour) and then finished with a drive through a late afternoon
snow storm to slide into Albuquerque. Unfortunately, the Tuesday
school closures include a CrossFit closure...

:-(

Oh well, I guess we can push on to Flagstaff for a mile high workout
tonight (fingers crossed).

C.H.

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Finding your kryptonite

Holidays are here and we are stressing big time.

The Army has found it in their infinite wisdom to move us to Korea for
a few years. Pile on selling one of our vehicles, selling our house
(in December), six days of movers packing out all of our worldly
possessions, managing a rambunxious two year old, under packing our
over-packed luggage for a 30-day vacation and then a 15 hour flight,
living in a hotel room, eating out for breakfast, lunch and dinner,
and oh by the way did I mention that we are pregnant...???

I say all this not looking for sympathy but to say that I'm painfully
aware of how hard it is to eat right. Everywhere you go it's all
bread and pasta and "what would you like to drink with that?" Soda,
super sugary lemonade, sweet tea, you name it and it will quickly put
you into a blissful food coma. And when you are stressing, you go
back to that trough early and often. Then you feel like crap so you
are more apt to do it all over again to try to recapture some of those
blissful feelings and pretty soon you find yourself in an endless loop
of shittiness.

It took me a week of swirling in that self-inflicted cesspool to
figure out that I use (fountain) Pepsi to self-medicate. LOTS of soda
if I can help it. I figure I've been averaging 100+ ounces a day for
the last few days.

That's easily 1,250 extra calories every day without counting all the
bread and pizza and ice cream I will pile on top of that. No amount
of CrossFitting will keep all that from turning someone into a fat ass
pronto.

Therefore...

Pepsi is my kryptonite...

So...

Until we are finally settled into our new pad in Korea with our own
groceries and kitchen, I am going monitor my level of Pepsi
consumption so I can stay within spitting distance of my girlish figure.

Today:
44 ounces

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Out with a bang

"Crazy" Leah brought three of her PA school girlfriends to the final CrazyWife CrossFit workout at Jimmy Brought and CrazyWife took one look at them and decided to put them through "Fran". For the three of them it was their first ever exposure to CrossFitting so we warmed up with some squat form work, and played with ring push ups, pull ups & handstand push ups with IronWoody bands and some Kettlebell swings. Keith joined in the fun and all five were giving all they had amidst the Saturday morning bicep curl gym crew.

"FRAN"

21-15-9 reps of:

Thrusters (95#/65#)

Pull ups

Emily - 5:07 (2x20# dumbbells/large band)

Lydia - 6:05 (2x15# dumbbells/large band)

Laurie - 6:45 (2x20# dumbbells/large band)

Keith - 7:50 (rxd)

Leah - 8:45 (45# barbell/large band)

Great job everyone!!! Good luck with your CrossFitting!!!

Tuesday crew tackles "Jackie"

Our last weeknight workout before the packers come in and take the little garage-gym that could and put it in a box bound for Korea.  "Crazy" Shannon, Sam and Emily showed up to tackle the final WOD which was fitting as Jackie was the very first WOD CrazyWife and I did in the garage with Matt and Kearson (sp?) way back in the central Texas summer heat.

"Jackie"
Row 500 meters
50 Thrusters
30 Pull ups

Emily (7:58)  15-lb bar, large band pull ups
Shannon (8:53)  25-lb bar, jumping pull ups
Sam (9:43)  45-lb bar, large band/jumping

Good job guys!!!  Good luck with your CrossFitting!!!

P.S. - the final Saturday workout will be at Jimmy Brought at 0830 and we will find some mischief to get into...(wink)