Signed up for my 1st Competition

I have officially signed up for my first CrossFit competition, which will be held in August of 2015. I have also coerced 6 other women from our box into doing it because misery loves company, right? I signed up before I saw the WOD’s and took a leap of faith that I could do them, scaled of course, let’s not be overzealous!

The WOD’s have been released and I am looking forward to the impending challenge. After completing The Open I had a new-found respect for myself and my competitive side. I have always have had high standards for myself but never in an athletic setting.

The Open taught me that I have gained a lot of aerobic endurance, that I can push myself through nine minutes of work (“hell”) and PR in the end and that I can do 72 thrusters with rowing in between sets. A year ago, there is no way I would have thought I would be capable of this and especially wanting to do a competition.

So here I am, roughly three months away from my first competition and I am strategizing my work outs and my training. I am beyond excited that there isn’t any running in the WODs and only one buy in of a 750m row. I am most excited about the 3 rep max for front squats and have been working on pause squats on our “goat work” days to help me build stability in the hole.

I wish I had more access to work on the WOD’s and really prepare for this competition, not because I have any expectations of winning/placing but I want to go in confident that I gave this competition everything I have. I don’t need to finish in the top three to feel I have achieved something, I have already stepped out of my comfort zone by just signing up, step two is showing up!

As CrossFit continues to teach me that I am capable of so much more than I give myself credit for, I will continue to recruit as many awesome ladies as I can (this is a ladies only competition) because I want them to feel as empowered as I do. I have seen so much success by stepping out of my comfort zone that I want all those around me to experience the same amount of joy (and suffering) that I have.

So ladies, let’s go out and kick some tail!