Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. Today’s edition was chalked up while hanging out at Red Wolf CrossFit in Huntington Beach, CA.
Stop in and say hello if you’re in the area.
P.S. Do these doughnuts make us look fat?
QUOTE OF THE DAY
CHALK UP IN 2 MINUTES
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU HIT THE BOX
Michele Letendre is now training to compete in the 2017 Pan Ams in Miami. FloElite combines all the regionals athletes into one leaderboard to see how athletes’ Regionals performance stacks up against the rest of the field. Happy Birthday Dani Horan. Apparently, Noah Ohlsen tore his pec two weeks before Regionals but still managed to compete and win. Kristi Eramo brings rings with her camping so she can do muscle-ups. Dan Bailey shows you that even when you’re injured you can still find a safe way to scale and get in a workout. Sheila Barden is going in for shoulder surgery tomorrow. An Ex-Marine was working out at his CrossFit box in Stockton, CA when he saw a building on fire, ran inside and saved some 43 lives. How many different synchro exercises can you do with the worm?
For your next weightlifting competition…proper etiquette for the warm-up area, or pretty much anywhere people are weightlifting.
Chalk this up under headlines we never thought we’d read...the accused NSA leaker Reality Winner is an avid CrossFitter. NY Post got it wrong though when they said she competed at Regionals.
REGIONALS REFLECTIONS
THINGS TO…
WATCH: CrossFitting Blind
WATCH.
DO: Brute Body is Back
TIME TO GROW.
EAT: Chicken Veggie Bake
30 MINUTES.
BUY: Patriot AF Shorts
SHOP.
CHALK UP AFFILIATES
HIDE YA KIDS, HIDE YA WIFE, HIDE YA ROWING MACHINE…
PAINT BY DOUBLE-UNDERS…
CHALK UP READS
Strip away the award ceremonies and medals. Ignore the thunderous screams and applause of the crowd, the deafening emcees and the music thumping as an overlay. This was never about the noise. It was about the silence. The dark moments alone full of sleepless nights, exhaustion and tears, wondering -fearing-that perhaps her best athletic days were behind her.
This is about Mallory Lawson proving -no, refusing- to give in to the notion that being a new mother and a high-level athlete are two mutually exclusive things.
It’s about a woman fighting and clawing to get back into shape, racing against the clock for months before Lawson stood on the podium with CrossFit 417, the second-place Games-bound team out of the CrossFit Central Regional.
“Sibling Rivalry” by Brittney Saline, CrossFit Games
Ben Smith ties Rebecca Voigt for most individual CrossFit Games appearances after spending half the weekend out of contention, Alec Smith joins his brother on the podium, and Cassidy Lance-McWherter takes the new title as the Atlantic’s fittest woman.
Like a 195-lb., 5-foot-11 security blanket, Ben Smith has just always been there. The last man still competing from the Aromas days, he’s competed in every CrossFit Games since 2009, finishing on the podium four times and winning it all in 2015. He’s won his Regional six times, and he also holds the record for most Regional event wins by a male individual athlete (19 before the 2017 Atlantic Regional; 20 afterward).
When he finished Day 1 in 19th overall, 42 points out of a qualifying spot, CrossFit fans everywhere were asking if this was real life. What seemed like smart pacing on Event 1—Smith’s air squats were markedly slower than the rest of the field’s—translated to an 18th-place event finish. He did even worse in Event 2, finishing 19th.