A huge congratulations to Brad and his wife Karen on their 30th wedding anniversary today. Just FYI, Brad won’t be at the gym today.

Brad and Mike tag-teaming the prowler.
Also, Happy Birthday to Ean Sonnier (he happens to be Brad’s son-in-law) who turned the big 3-0 yesterday. We had a lot of fun at Terrapin on Saturday night with an epic game of cornhole. Some of the crew went on to celebrate Ean at Casa Mia, while some were jonesing for a nice, big, greasy NY style pizza (lets just say that when Josh is wanting pizza, he’s going to eat A LOT of pizza). From what I hear, the bar crawl afterward was awesome. Sorry I missed it!

Ean demonstrating just why he was a junior Olympic champion.
Saturday, December 18, Open Gym 10-12
HOLIDAY HOURS
We will be open December 20-22, the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Christmas from 5:00-7:00. The gym will close AT 7:00 so please plan accordingly. Monday and Wednesday 12:30 classes are still scheduled.
We will be closed the 23rd-26th. No Saturday Open Gym on the 26th.
We will open 27th-29th, same schedule as before.
We will close on the 30 and re-open the following Monday, January 3rd.

Gotta work off the milk and cookies!
I didn’t write this. But it’s pretty cool. An Ode to the CrossFit Box by Sam Redetsky of CrossFit West.

Laura flipping the tire.
I have an unashamed love affair with the CrossFit box.
First, for those that don’t know, my grandfather has been in in-home hospice care for the last two weeks. Monday morning the nurse said he probably only had about 2 hours left.
Family
That’s what we are all about.
Today’s 12:30 WOD is canceled. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Today’s 12:30 WOD is canceled. Sorry for the inconvenience. Gym will open as scheduled at 4!
BREAKING PERSONAL RECORDS LEFT AND RIGHT!
Cycle 1 of the Wendler 531 program is in the books and we had PRs all over the place. Check out some of the lifts:

Tip pulling 340#.

Victor Power Cleaning 240#

Natalie Bench Pressing 100#
More to come!
YESTERDAYS WOD
Sorry for the ghost post yesterday. Firefox crashed on me before I could get an autosave in and for some reason WP published the post with nothing in it! So. . . Check out this great post:
***To read my follow up to this post where I address many of your questions and concerns please click here