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Yesterday, we dropped into CrossFit DC for a workout and went over the White House to hang out with some friends. Follow along on our trip to D.C. on Instagram.
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Last May, driving home from the California Regionals, Brooke Ence made a big mistake. Ence, who just finished sixth to come up short of qualifying for the CrossFit Games, was already massively disappointed. After winning her regional in 2015 to advance to the Games, she felt like she had let everyone down at the three-day competition: her family, friends, coaches.
That was until she logged into social media. Ence, who had signed off all weekend to focus, was flooded with the usual trolling comments on her “manly” appearance or accusations of using steroids. That she could handle. What she wasn’t prepared for were the other types of insults: centered around her performance.
“It was like, ‘You’re washed up, you’re a fluke, you’re never coming back,” Ence recalled. “Any question I had in my own head, it verified it.”