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Being Thankful this Thanksgiving
Being Grateful A bunch of my friends have been doing a daily “I am thankful for” post on facebook. I love seeing them all post what is great in their lives — its a great reminder for me and everyone else how lucky we are and there is always someone out there that doesn’t have…
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Time Flies: It’s Thanksgiving Already
Hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week –November is almost done. Crazy how fast time flies. I am sore, sore, sore –split jerks, tabata situps and then today, one of those fancy girls: Cindy. I did CrossFit Benchmark: Cindy using butterfly pull ups and ended up doing almost a round more than last time! PROGRESS!…
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You are Better Than You Were Yesterday
Appreciating the signs of success This morning before my 6A workout, I stopped one of the 5A athletes who I have been keeping my eye on for a while to tell her she is looking fantastic. Her eyes widened and a big smile came across her face –she said thanks, i have lost 15kilos. I…
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Love those Burpees Said No One Ever
Burpees Suck Something I did on Monday tweaked my back a bit. It started yesterday afternoon and it’s not super painful but I decided to take a rest day today to just let it heal a bit. It was a hard decision too. Coach Conan is the scheduled coach –it didn’t hurt that burpees were…
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Seeing Struggle As An Opportunity
Take about 9 minutes to listen to this story about “struggle in relation to learning.” It resonated with me very much as an adult even though its focused on talking about how kids and students perceive the act of struggling. good stuff.
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Caution: Internal Construction
The Dance of Relationships I have been undergoing some self prescribed internal construction lately. I am looking into new strategies and ways to react to certain situations and people to help me improve some aspects of my personality and the way I behave when faced with them that seem to get me into some pickles…
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Intensity is Key
Today’s workout was all about intensity — three fairly innocuous exercises, combined to kill and for twenty minutes to boot! Nothing like a triplet metcon to wake you up and start your week! warmup drom drills skill handstands WOD 20 mins 100m run 10 box jumps 10 HSPU There are a ton of modifications you…
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Veteran’s Day 2012: Thank You
Veteran’s Day 2012 Today is Veteran’s Day –well its the day we celebrate it nationally and many Gov’t and other businesses are closed. My office is open so I will be headed into work shortly. This long weekend is all about honoring the brave men and women and their families who give so much. Saturday,…
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Veteran’s Day: Honoring Wounded Warriors
More than 20 wounded warriors participated at CrossFit Rubicon in Vienna, Va., this past Saturday for the first-ever Working Wounded Games. Hosted in conjunction CrossFit Walter Reed and volunteers from other metro area CrossFit affiliates, the Working Wounded Games allows veterans with combat-related disabilities to compete in an open-style competition that will benefit two new…
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Life is Good
Another beautiful day. Had a date with Scotty: saw Skyfall with Daniel Craig. Love some James Bond action. Did a little shopping. Life is good.