Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while watching tons and tons of Word Record attempts.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Don’t be that one CrossFittter than didn’t bother to pay attention to the warning signs; Dave Castro has spoken and you’ve been warned. Spencer Hendel and Austin Malleolo announced they’re going teams this year competing with Reebok CrossFit One. 300 pounds is in the crosshairs as Alyssa Ritchey squats 290 pounds at a bodyweight of 114 pounds. What’s Andrew Ross Sorkin’s secret to having lots and lots of energy? CrossFit. Alethea Boon decided it was time to get her CrossFit L1. Lauren Fisher celebrated turning 23.
Morghan King’s Spotlight — What’s the biggest misconception people have about being a female athlete? “I think for me is we as women are supposed to be dainty and girly. My mother always joked that she never had a dainty domesticated daughter. I’ve always made my own path and never cared really what people think. Ironically now, I love fashion and absolutely love cooking. We can be athletes while being ‘girly.’” Full Interview.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Well if this doesn’t get you pumped up for the CrossFit Open we don’t know what will: the Fittest on Earth trailer is out.
If you skipped the first line of what you need to know before you hit the box, go back and read it. If not, this demo video of dumbbell overhead walking lunges that CrossFit HQ posted yesterday will make sense.
ON THE RADIO
CHALK UP READS
It should have been her “aha” moment, Annie Giddens now admits.
She’d developed a hemorrhage on her optic nerve. Excess spinal fluid was building up inside her skull, causing symptoms that mimicked multiple sclerosis. It was a condition called pseudotumor cerebri that most often strikes morbidly obese women of childbearing age.
But the longtime single mom who was used to working 12-hour nursing shifts and shuttling two boys to travel soccer practice had zero experience focusing on herself. She took the medication she was prescribed and trudged on.
That led to what her doctor called medication-induced type 2 diabetes.