Rachael smiles while setting the longest-time-in-the-ice-bath record at CFW.
This photo proves it: We’re all a little bit nuts. If you’re interested in ice baths and why they work and whether they’re for you, talk to Jen or Melissa. But whatever you do, don’t challenge Rachael to an ice-bath-off. She’ll win and you’ll never recover feeling in your toes again.
In other news, when entering and exiting the gym during WODs, please use the big grey double doors in the hallway, not the Club Room passageway. Thanks!
Lastly, we’re going to replace the Friday Night Fights food bank collection with a spare change collection jar in the Club Room for a new charitable cause near and dear to one of our members. Details available soon in the Club Room. So, we’re still holding Friday Night Fights, but you can stop raiding your cupboard for old cans of peas and Hungry Man. Thanks for your support!
June 16th, 2010 at 9:44 am
OMG! Best picture ever! We have to fire up the icebath after Murph!
June 16th, 2010 at 9:49 am
For Beery: http://shirt.woot.com/
Pretty sure you are going to need that.
Holy crap Jillian, 17 minutes?! Nice work! My legs are wobbly today fo’ shizzle. Fun times.
June 16th, 2010 at 9:57 am
“Fire up the icebath” . . . love it.
June 16th, 2010 at 10:49 am
Jillian’s 17-minute WOD is UNREAL!!! Nice work, you crushed it. Also impressive showings by Becky, Barry and Big D with weight vests on. Those last 50 squats must have been fantastic. This whole ice bath thing might snowball into something that catches fire!
June 16th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Dry ice bombs anyone? We just got a shipment from Omaha Steak and I’ve got about a pound of it in the freezer.
Okay, speaking of dry ice bombs, this might be news to Becky because I can’t remember how much I told her. When I got home from Saturday’s workout the street next to ours was closed off and there were fire department and police cars all over the place. First thing I think is someone was sick, dead or murdered. I take a shower planning to go over and ask the firemen what’s up but by the time I got out I forgot about it and started pwning n00bs. Turns out it was a bomb. Yeah, take that Watertown. They had the bomb squad up here and everything. If you think that’s pretty cool you can stop reading now. It further turns out that some Holy Cross kids threw a soda bottle bomb on one of the teacher’s lawns. But these kids can’t even get that right and it never exploded so the teacher saw this 2 liter soda bottle smoking on his lawn and called the friggin’ bomb squad. Now I bet everyone is picturing one of those cool robot thingies disarming it like in The Hurt Locker. Nope, these guys disarmed it the same way my friends and I do… with a pellet gun. Boo-ya. Oh, it’s Mr. Whealon’s house if anyone cares.
And yes the last 50 squats were terrible but the beginning of the last 800m run up the street was the worst part. Incidentally, coming down that same hill at the end of the second 800m run was the best part
PS that shirt is awesome Nate.
June 16th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
LOL Beery, that was a great story.
Speaking of t-shirts, the CF Ireland “Institute of Awesomeness” shirts are in! They are sweet! Matt, Dan, and Mikey are going to rock them.
June 16th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
YES!
June 16th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
I think my wife and I couldn’t be anymore opposite…She show up last night and was excited and busted out a 17 min WOD. I was so excited because she got home and told me what the WOD was and I couldn’t make it! Great job to everyone for doing that crazy ass thing.
June 16th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
I would like to nominate Kirk for today’s English Award for displaying conspicuous bravery in metaphor and imagery. It was one f’d up sentence but it was grand. Hear, hear, Kirk. Here, here.