The weather cooperated and the athletes from CrossFit Fenway running in the 2012 BAA Half Marathon had sunny, albeit chilly, great conditions on Sunday morning. It was so good to see so many familiar faces out on the course, and awesome to see everyone smiling, and in good spirits after the race. Between our crew running the half, plus Albert and Meghan running the Chicago Marathon, our community ran 235.8 miles on Sunday! (thanks for crunching the numbers, and being there Les) I can’t wait to hear about everyone’s experiences and PRs. Now sit back, relax, and enjoy one more perk of using CrossFit to train for endurance events, outstanding ability to recover.
October 8, 2012
Strength:
Front Squat 5-5-5
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Great job by all of the runners on Sunday. Way to represent!
FS: 80kg
WOD:
5/2012: 4:35 @100kg
10/2012: 3:59 @110kg
Great way to start off the week. Awesome job by the 6am!
Congrats to all! Way to go!
FS: 125#. Sets of 5 are not my friend.
WOD: 4:27 at 145#.
To those of you that have today off, [I hate you, but] I hope you enjoy it!
What a great weekend. Congrats to everyone who ran!
FS: 60 kg
WOD: 5:13 @ 60 kg
I’m pretty sure the weights were heavier today. I’m just saying. Good work 6 am!
congrats to the runners, good job!
repped CFF today while visiting CrossFit Minneapolis. Super cool gym, very similar set up as CFF.
WOD:
500m row
10x:
3 power snatches (90% 3 rep max) so 95# for me
10 box jumps (24″)
30 m bear crawl
500 m row
time: 17:37 rx
and happy birthday!! welcome to the world of legal drinking.
FS: 50 KG
WOD: 6:38
First class back after ten days off and was seriously jet lagged. Felt good to be back!
Way to go runners! And awesome job Nat, you killed it (Even though you didn’t get your time)
FS: 75 kg
WOD: 5:36 @ 110kg (242#)
HUGE jump from 5:07 @ 40kg(90#) a few months ago!
FS – 35kg, as Joe pointed out, that’s 90% of my (still-pretty-modest) 1RM!
WOD – 5:53 @ 45kg
Cheers to the four *6:00a.m.*-ers who opened CFF this morning!
Sincerely,
Midwesterner baffled by why New England celebrates Columbus Day
FS – 130kg
WOD – 5:02 Rx
May – 6:56 Rx
I wasn’t posting to the blog back in May but had my trusty wod app in full effect. Glad I did too, wouldn’t have realized the progress without it!
You runners are so impressive! Congrats on a fantastic weekend!
Erika and I baked up a paleo storm and enjoyed ourselves a “Yoga Fail.” It means showing up to yoga class too late and having the doors locked. Rejection is a terrible, terrible feeling. Happy to be back at the box and it was great to see some friendly faces (although I was asleep)…
FS: 60kg
WOD: 5:09 at 80kg
Congrats to all the runners! I almost took Eric up on his offer of running…almost
FS: 40kg…did 4 at 50kg but that last one I was stuck no matter how hard everyone yelled
WOD: 5:12 using 65kg
May: 5:54 @ same weight.
I actually thought my May time was faster so I am really glad I decided to listen to my coaches and go for speed instead of strength….and I didn’t want to get yelled at for my rounded back.
Well done to all the runners. Gutted to not be able to do it so I erged a half marathon instead. 21097m in 1:29:24
Front squat 46kg
WOD 5:17 Rxd
0_0 wow. that’s a lot of rowing.
May: 55k, 5:55
Today: 65k, 6:01
I’m okay with slowing down a few seconds, because daaaaang, that’s 10 kilos heavier!
FS: 70kg
WOD: 5:10 with 200# DL