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My New {CrossFit} Home

September 27, 2012 by Hillary 11 Comments

The skin of my pink palms is tight as I type, the stiffness in my shoulders trails into my trapezius, my quads to my ankles are expelled of all energy.

For the last four weeks, I have been a gym-less gym rat. 

I made do during that month of homelessness. I avoided transforming into a couch potato – phew! There were probably a few more rest days than typical, but that was to be expected. I didn’t have the motivation from the WREC encouraging me to slip into my brightly colored workout clothes and kicks after eight hour work days.

I had a few roads to take. 1) Turn into said couch potato. 2) Turn into an ultra-marathon runner. 3) Get out and explore the possibilities around me. 


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I chose #3. Unfamilar with most fitness facilities in the area, I laced up my Frees and frolicked around town in search of my new home.

I left the first gym in tears. I conquered a sweaty circuit workout at the second. The third was a possibility. 

Then I gave in. I walked into the newest spot to sweat in town, North Rim CrossFit, and was introduced to my first official WOD.

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I had my first sip of Kool Aid two weeks ago and I haven’t been able to rinse the sweet taste out of my mouth since.

More Kool Aid, please!

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I made it a goal via my fall bucket list… and I plan to stick to it! 

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Running Tuesday’s WOD

It’s easy to explain why I’ve been to the box three days in a row. Besides the fact that my one month membership is unlimited (and I want to make the most of my mullah), I seem to have a strong magnetic force between me and the box. There’s something that’s pulling me there.

I know exactly what it is.

HAPPINESS.

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I’ve left the box beaming all three evenings. You’d think as a newbie, I’d feel uncertain and unsure. Big weights are intimidating, I will give you that, but intimated is anything but what I have felt this week. I feel at ease — comfortable, welcomed, and challenged.

For as shy as I have a natural tendency to be, my true bubbly personality shines through when I sweat… when I am in my element. 

In a post-WOD, endorphin-induced email to my mom, I wrote something quite simple.

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It clicked. It cancels out all impracitcality that is driving across town multiple times weekly to exercise in a bakery-turned-crossfit box for a hefty monthly fee. 

Find your happiness — if you haven’t already. Do what it takes. Even if the road is a bit long.

Life is too short to do otherwise.

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  1. Jacki (@JackiRHayes) says

    September 27, 2012 at 6:49 am

    I used a Groupon to join a box for a month. I downed an entire pitcher of KoolAid during that first WOD. Each visit gave me confidence and I never once felt I wasn’t welcome. Unfortunately, membership prices for all the boxes here are just way too high. So I joined the Y (entire family membership is significantly less than the box membership for 1) and find ways to create WODs that work at the Y. It is not the same, I miss the community, the coaches, and the feel of working out with others enduring the same hell. But I won’t give up on the CrossFit workouts just because I can’t be at a box.

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  2. Maggie says

    September 27, 2012 at 8:50 am

    Love this! Glad you found your new fitness home. :)

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  3. Paige @ Your Trainer Paige says

    September 27, 2012 at 11:13 am

    How exciting! I keep encouraging my husband to try cross fit – I’m certain he’d love it!

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  4. Caroline says

    September 27, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    Yay! I’m so glad you’ve found a new home : )

    Reply
  5. Life's a Bowl says

    September 28, 2012 at 11:56 am

    I ***loveee*** the last picture – great quote and beautiful background!!!

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    • Hillary says

      September 29, 2012 at 10:51 am

      Thanks :) I made it with Picasa.

      Reply
  6. Karla @ myhighonlife says

    September 28, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    SO EXCITED for you. I wish I could afford a CrossFit box. But I have a gym membership and it’s the equivalent to how the WREC was for you. I modify and do CrossFit like workouts!

    Great quotes :)

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  7. Alicia Orozco says

    September 29, 2012 at 7:38 am

    It seems like you found your element! Can’t wait to see more about CrossFit!

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  8. Lauren @ Fun, Fit and Fabulous! says

    September 30, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    That’s amazing! Finding your fitness home is so important to finding your inner happiness. You go girl!

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  9. Katelyn Block says

    October 12, 2012 at 6:41 am

    THIS MAKES ME SO STINKIN HAPPY!!!!!!

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    • Hillary says

      October 12, 2012 at 7:50 am

      I think of you often when I’m covered in chalk or busting out box jumps. You are a huge CrossFit inspiration :)

      Reply

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