I feel like these two pictures encapsulate my 2024 CrossFit Open experience quite well… At the start of the 3 weeks I was as excited as can be (with a pinch of nervousness, let’s be honest 😉). I felt strong, fit, and “ready enough” for whatever workouts would come my way. 💪💪 But then 24.1 … More HAPPY, BUT HUNGRY
Welp, here we go! My first ever “official” CrossFit Open! 🤠 Last year I completed the workouts “unofficially” (no scores posted on the CrossFit Games website). This year everyone in the world will be able to see how much of a novice I still am at this CrossFit thing! 😂 But all kidding aside, I’m … More “DO HARD THINGS”, they say…
Check it out: The Happy, Healthy, and Holy January Jumpstart! It’s 2024 – Meow you doing? Have your New Year’s resolutions been an utter cat-astrophe? I sure hope not. I’d prefer to know that you’re feline fine! Okay, okay. Enough with the cat puns. Time to be done kitten around! 😸 For real, though, it’s … More It’s 2024 – Meow you doing?
NEW YEAR, NEW YOU? 🤷 If you want to be even the tiniest bit happier, healthier, and holier in 2024, this post is for you! 🥳 This month I’m running a 30-day “January Jumpstart” to help fellow Catholics get their 2024 started off on the right foot and I’d LOVE for you to join in … More Announcing… The Happy, Healthy, and Holy January Jumpstart!
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Today at Tangletown CrossFit we did the hero workout, “CHAD”, a workout created in honor of Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson who took his life on October 29, 2018 due to the effects of numerous deployments, several traumatic brain injuries, blast wave injuries and PTSD. From Sara Wilkinson: “My husband, Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson, served honorably … More CHAD1000x – CrossFit Hero WOD
I ❤️ this CrossFit tradition… Celebrating someone’s birthday by doing burpees for every year of their life. 🥳 💪 For someone on the outside looking in, this might seem like a weird way to honor someone, but for a group that sweats together and pushes each other to their physical limits on a regular basis, … More BIRTHDAY BURPEES!
I had another fun (and wet, muddy, and exhausting! 🤪) time taking on the Rugged Maniac course in Taylors Falls, Minnesota this past weekend. This was my 5th time completing this challenge: A 5K (3.1 mile) race up and down the hills of a ski resort (Wild Mountain), interspersed with over 20 obstacles along the … More I came. I ran. I got muddy!
If you listen carefully you can hear one of my kids yell, “You’re not an old man yet!” 😂 This past weekend I got to enjoy family, friends, tractors, funnel cake, and fresh sweet corn – all as a part of “Cascade Hometown Days” in the great state of Iowa! 🌽🐄😃 On Saturday morning I … More Not My Fastest 5K, But One I’m Definitely Proud Of!
Well, I survived. 🙃 Shoutout to my wife and @DavidGoggins (see previous post!) for inspiring me to get out of my comfort zone and try my first ever CrossFit swim workout today! 🥳 And an extra shoutout to my kiddos who cheered Kate and I on the whole time!! 😊❤️ I was definitely the slowest swimmer and … More Well, I survived. 🙃
HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND HOLY 