Morning Chalk Up is based out of Santa Ana, CA. We’re in a historic building in the heart of the city so we spend hours and hours every day inside, hearing the building settle and the white noise of traffic outside. Bella, Justin’s White German Shepherd, keeps us company and we count down the time until we get to WOD.
But lately, when we step outside, there’s a super cool phenomenon: The painted lady migration.
In North America, the painted lady butterflies spend the winter around the US-Mexico border. They fly north in the spring, in groups so dense they fill the sky. Their wing dust coats your car. They are orange and black and are often mistaken for the more well-known monarch butterflies. But there’s a key distinction. Painted ladies are typically smaller than monarchs and, when you look closely, they have a little bit of a different shape.
And that’s kind of what the coverage of the Open has been like. CrossFit Media is the monarch and we’re the painted ladies.
Morning Chalk Up headed to Diablo CrossFit in Pleasant Hill, CA for the 19.3 Open announcement. Tommy Marquez and Justin LoFranco ran a live pre-show that included interviews with Craig Howard, Lauren Fisher and Alessandra Pichelli.
And we’re going to do it again. Tuesday, Armen Hammer and Justin will leave for Ireland to provide the live pre-show for the 19.5 Open announcement, hosted by Filthy150 in Dublin. We’ll take what worked from our coverage during 19.3 and do it again, leaving what didn’t work behind so that we can continue to bring you the best CrossFit coverage possible. We’ll do the same for Brazil CrossFit Championship and again for CrossFit French Throwdown.
Like the painted ladies, we’re a little bit smaller and the shape of our coverage is just a little bit different, but we too are on our way to a new place. We plan to keep bringing you more coverage, and we’re moving en masse with voices from experts in the field like Armen Hammer, Tommy Marquez and Op-Eds (keep em coming people) from major players in the industry. We’ll continue to bring you more athlete interviews, more critical commentary and more access to all the fittest news.
We’re pumped to have you with us on the ride.
May the muscle-up gods be ever in your favor this weekend,
Jessica Danger
Managing Editor
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