Last night we did “Karen”. (That’s what he said)
“Karen” was my introduction into CrossFit, back in October 2008. On my first day to CrossFit, I went in not really knowing anything about CrossFit and intimidated by the photos on the website. My friend and workout buddy, Natalie, was determined to try this new place out. I was up for something new, the boot camp we were attending was starting to get cold and dark anyways. WOD was “Karen”. That meant nothing to us. 150 Wall Balls also meant nothing to us. We did our introductions. Bayou City CrossFit was fairly new back then and Natalie and I were the only ones in the class. So we learned about CrossFit, did some basic steps type of things, learned some of the terminology and so forth. Vic then ask what are exercise routine currently was and we mentioned that we attend a boot camp and have a personal trainer once a week among other things we randomly throw at ourselves, while training for sprint tris and half marathons. He was like well you should be find, lets do today’s WOD. This really wasn’t what I was looking for on the first day, but no wasn’t what he was hearing and 3-2-1-Go we were off. I can’t believe I ever went back after that.
It is 15 months later and I still love CrossFit and look forward to my training there. The great community that we have at Bayou City helps with that, but also because I have gotten stronger from 15 months of CrossFit then anything I have tried before.
My time for “Karen” back in October 2008 was 16:21 and I’m sure that was probably with 8lb ball. January 6, 2010 time 9:50 with Rx’d 12lb ball.
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