Hey Friends!

It’s been a killer week so far!  Some pretty intense workouts and lots of anticipation for 16.5 (or maybe it’s just me).  The Open is always super sexy and exciting on week 1, and generally people are “tired” by week 5.  It makes sense.  It’s difficult to be all jazzed up (unless maybe you ARE Jaz, then you’re always Jazzed up) for 5 weeks straight.  I think we’re going to see a max lift (Snatch or OH squat) AND some sort of typical CF WOD (Hero/Girl WOD?)  We’ll see.

After THAT, we’re back to our normal awesome selves.  The Battle Beyond the Barbell sold in in epically record time.  Holy moly.  I hope it’s a reflection of us running a half decent event.  We’re going to make it a good one.  For anyone planning on being around that day, we could use your help (so long as you’re familiar with the movements we use in CrossFit).  We’re going to need judges, volunteers, and lots of other things (smiles, high fives, generally uplifting words) that day as it’s shaping up to be our biggest year yet, and we are not willing to jeopardize the quality of what we’re doing.  Please let your coach know if you’d like to help out and if you’re able.  One thing I’d really like to ensure is quality of consistency of judging on the movements, so we’ll likely chat about that ahead of time, please.

Also, if anyone in Sudbury knows/is a person/company that would like to help out with our event, all proceeds are being donated to the Janis Foligno Foundation, and we’d love to make this is “Sudbury-wide” as possible.  We aren’t going anywhere, anytime soon, so you can expect this thing to keep growing 🙂  But please reach out and contact me directly (or one of the coaches) and let me know if you’d like to be involved.  All we really want is a smile and some help, and we’ll provide as much exposure/recognition as possible (if that’s what you’d like) in return.

Ben Smith has been doing CrossFit for a little while.  I remember watching these videos when I first got into it.  360# OH Squat at 19 years old.  Dang.

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