Three words: "Go, daddy, go!"- Anxiety makes me a better athlete.
- Fear makes me eat my broccoli.
- "Feeding The Baby" – I'd probably just stand there and pantomime everything if I wasn't competing.
- Gotta represent the "unnaturals" who didn't play sports their whole lives
- Got an Army to feed!
- Next year, Sectionals may require prequalification
- This is year One of my 15-year training plan for the Masters division
- Ray Gowlett: "It's like unwrapping your Christmas presents!"
- The worst-case scenario (last place?) really isn't bad at all.
- It's not a fashion show, and I support that.
- It's my sport.
- I love my team.
- Carolle, who showed up for every single Team WOD every single Friday.
- Competing at CrossFit = winning at life.
- Two rounds of 7 hours' good conversation with my wife on the long drive.
- My kids tend to try the stuff they see me doing. Anyone else ever notice that?
- I get to wear 3 of my favourite hats in the same day: cheerleader, coach, and athlete.
- The next day, I'll wear my fourth favourite, when I write about it.
- I get to watch Josh Deluco up close. This kid's something special.
- Get to hang with other Affiliate owners and friends!
- I'll do anything for a cool t-shirt.
- Feeling my lizard brain writhe during the last 10 seconds before the start.
- Frequent exposure to physical stress makes me better at dealing with other stress. It's a physiological fact.
- If you knew me in high school, you'd never have guessed I'd be here.
- CTV news, baby!
- Participation is good for the sport.
- 48 hours of post-Sectional glee. Almost like a refractory period.
- The incredible photography that shows up afterward!
- Watching the CrossFit community flex its collective muscle.
- Watching the CrossFit philosophy flex its solid muscle.
- I just don't have the opportunity to be amazed that often anymore.
- I know how hard it's been to get to my current level, and if there are 100 better, that's going to be incredible to watch.
- If I keep meeting new people, I don't have to learn any new jokes.
- This train only goes forward or backward.
- Posting the WODs on my facebook wall got 21 responses…in the first 10 minutes.
- I think this is the 'right' carrot to hang in front of people.
- I'm going to learn like crazy.
- I'll have more people to cheer for at CrossFit Games 2010 in Aromas (hey! I warmed up with that guy!)
- Event #4 might just be a max deadlift. You never know.
- I'm never going to be this young again.
- OPT.
- It's all about the story.
- I get to see if the wiring and the plumbing work well together.
- I get to carry my blue foam roller through downtown Toronto.
- I'll get to see Whit compete against other girls. Yikes.
- "The walk" over in the morning with the Team. Nervous jokes are double-funny!
- 'Recovery' swimming with my kids.
- I'd like to get it done so I can get back and try 'Muscle Murph' – 50 muscle-ups, 100 clapping pushups, 150 x 95lbs front squat, with a mile before and after
- Writing this list is really easy – that's reason enough!
- Test, revise curriculum, repeat.
- My form will be checked against the highest standard.
- How else would I know?
- I'm building an exercise habit, too. You don't ever stop.
- I've already got the calluses.
- So I can convince 20 people to come next year.
- As long as I can keep Clint healthy, I'm not the oldest.
- Some of the most athletic physiques in the country….and not a single mirror.
- Best seats in the house are on the stage. See # 4, "feeding the baby."
- Gotta stop Josh from eating the jar of pickles before the pickle-eating contest.
- I know the family's watching back home.
- My sister's flying across the country to be there.
- I'll share a chalk dish with some of the best lifters,writers,and businesspeople in the country.
- More people wearing Chucks in one room than anywhere else north of Westside Barbell!
- "This is a truth derived through competition, not debate." – Greg Glassman
- Brent's outfits are best experienced in person.
- Exercise theory funneled down to a fine point. Either it's true, or you lose.
- Only the bullfighter really knows what it's like in the arena.
- Ray's "game face."
- It's nice to be in an environment where "lockout" doesn't refer to striking auto workers.
- The soundtrack is always excellent.
- The sound of 20 bars slamming the ground in unison.
- Solidarity.
- Alecia smiling while she links pullup after pullup.
- There will be deadlifts there.
- A glimpse of the next level, waiting for my footprint soon.
- CrossFit Huronia owes me a shirt.
- This essay.
- It will keep me humble for another year.
- Proud, but humble.
- The competition IS my reward.
- Not too many years ago, I would have chickened out.
- My wife does CrossFit now!
- The other Sectionals events were AWESOME!
- The three brand-new CrossFitters who signed up this week.
- The Saturday Morning, 9am group is doing the same workouts!
- 40 first-timer, never–evers finished Murph last weekend!
- The anticipation is always worse than the action.
- There just aren't many sunsets left to ride off into.
- We're collectively nudging the human genome back in the right direction.
- The species didn't go through this whole evolutionary process to be better at watching Oprah.
- EVERY time we've called, the Catalyst Family has answered. Time to repay the favour.
- Brad Rennison: boy wonder. (You want me to try the 3k row for you? Sure!)
- WWPDD? (What would Pam Didonato Do?)
- Now, I can link muscle-ups and do HSPU on the parallettes. I couldn't until I committed.
- Some athletes are complaining about the workouts already, 8 hours after they've been posted.
- I get to live like a professional athlete for the whole weekend (thanks, Ray!)
- I have a reason to train hard, eat right, and sleep. Also, complain.
- I stole Philsy's rope, and I need an excuse.
- I can. Therefore, I must.