CrossFit Open 2014 – Weeks 4 and 5
Low blood sugar… Persistent low blood sugar. This was my life leading up to 14.4. I was not digesting food at the rate I normally do, which is ultra fast. In reading a book on diabetes recently, I learned that…
Jimmy the Giant Speech
Processed food… One by one the conveyor belt pushes another package of potato chips, Tastykakes, and TV dinners forward. One by one America gets bigger, burgeoning with bloat and belches. That’s the thought process running through my head at the…
CrossFit Open – Weeks 2 and 3
14.2 In my last post I vowed to do better in the next week’s CrossFit Open workout. I didn’t account for one tiny detail. The workout could be much, much harder. It was. At least for a born and bred,…
CrossFit Open 2014 – Week 1
“3, 2, 1…GO!” And so begins another year of the CrossFit Open. 175,000 people in 132 countries compete with each other to determine who is the fittest person on earth. At the sound of that countdown, each of those 175,000…
Journey Through the CrossFit Open Competition (Week 3, Week 4, Week 5)
Note - If you haven't read the previous post, you will not have the full context, so you may want to check it out. Then again, this is a long post, so you may want to dive right in. Week…