Good Thursday morning! This is the Morning Chalk Up, your daily roundup of the fittest news in the CrossFit world.
Justin is en route to the Sierra Nevadas to #UseHisFitness and Jesse is heading to Granite Games so there won’t be a Friday edition. Bummer I know but we’ll make it up to you, promise!
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” – Walt Disney
THE COMPETITION FLOOR
Tomorrow: Granite Games
September 21: Wodapalooza Online Qualifier for individuals starts
September 24: Cascade Classic (Seattle, WA)
September 24: Ava Will Win blood drive @ NCFit
October 15: The Crush Games
October 24: Wodapalooza Online Qualifier for teams starts
November 3: CrossFit Liftoff
WHAT THE ELITE ATHLETES ARE UP TO — Sheila Barden reminds us not to take ourselves too seriously, but seriously Sheila, thank you for this video.Team Reebok United is back together again and this is what it looked like at CrossFit Terminus finishing up Event #2. Sara Sigmundsdottir is keeping it Icelandic for the CrossFit Team Series. Prepping her PR card, Carly Fuhrer hits5 reps at 94% of her 1RM back squat. Jared Enderton is challenging Lucas Parker for the manliest CrossFit athlete. ON SET filming for Wodapalooza:Andrea Ager. What happens when three ‘Dottirs try and take a selfie?
Rory McKernon would like to remind you that you still have time to signup for the Team Series.
GRANITE GAMES — Watch live at FloElite.
SPEED READ
IN 2 MINUTES — CrossFit Roots in Boulder, Colorado follows theCrossFit.com main site programming at a two-week delay. If you’re in the San Diego area, head down to Bear Republic CrossFit on Saturday where they’re hosting a Lift Up Autism event to raise money to support the families and individuals affected by autism. INC Magazine examines five (possible) reasons why so many entrepreneurs do CrossFit: accountability, stress relief, new challenges, community and variety. A reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealerwill be spending the next month or so experimenting (and writing about)CrossFit “to see if the regimen helps me as it has so many others.”
Coaching Without Words — A follow-up to a previous story about a deaf athlete navigating his way through CrossFit in NYC, this time we’re hearing from his coach Bobby Kiernan of Reebok CrossFit 5th Ave. “To be honest, I was a little nervous because even though I have experience with adaptive athletes, Robert was the first non-hearing athlete I had worked with…I did feel protective over Robert. How would I work to make him feel included? How would I introduce him to my members if I didn’t speak sign language?…By default, Robert has to be a visual learner, so I have to make sure that I am super specific when I gesture to him about the movements. I also have to remind myself to work up the courage to try signing. It’s definitely a challenge!”