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Join Coach James for the CrossFit Life Work Move competition Saturday at 9am.
by Coach Leslie
WOOHOOO! It's #foodiefriday! Since I'm in Nashville, home of fantastic bbq and bourbon, I'm sharing with you an easy bbq chicken recipe you can make this weekend. Click on the image below for a delicious bourbon bbq recipe courtesy of thespruceeats.com. by Coach Leslie Today I'm traveling to Nashville with Meg, Heather R. and Anne A. for GORUCK's Badass Babes weekend. It's my 50th birthday and I wanted to do something really fucking hard to celebrate. I wanted a birthday misogi, and I'm pretty sure I'll find it. I'm super excited to celebrate and suffer with badass TSCF babes and a whole bunch of other badass babes from around the country. Starting tomorrow night at 9pm we are doing a GORUCK Tough. We will be rucking (walking with weight) for an unknown distance, but at least between 15-20 miles, we will be doing an unknown number of workouts, it will take at least 10 hours and probably closer to 12. All the while under the close supervision of former special forces operators. I expect to be wet, sandy, and at times very, very uncomfortable. I also expect that we will accomplish hard physical things, support each other mentally, and cohere as a team of badass babes. We will finish our Tough on Saturday morning and have just a few hours to rest, refuel and prepare for our Basic that starts Saturday at 2pm. As with the Tough, the details of the Basic will not be provided until the event starts. Even then we will likely not know our final rucking distance until we've achieved it. We can certainly expect more miles, more workouts and more team building opportunities. Why are we doing this? Well, we do earn a some very cool patches. While patches are nice, they're not the sole motivation for taking on such an event. In our CrossFit bubble we don't think twice about women in their 50s doing hard shit. We run, jump, lift, throw and do all manner of hard physical things. Outside of our CrossFit bubble the notion of 50 year old women doing hard physical shit is uncommon.
I am inspired to do this event because it stretches my comfort zone. Endurance has never been my strength and I am not at all interested in developing it through running. When I caught the rucking bug in January I was so happy to find an endurance sport that got me outside with friends and was not such an impacting grind on my body. I am strong and carrying heavy weight over long distances is something I can do. Carry heavy weight over long UNKNOWN distances is the aspect of this weekend that appeals to my birthday misogi. I like to be in control. I like to know how many rounds, how many minutes, how many reps are expected of me. This weekend I will be expected to just. keep. going. no matter how much I've already done. I think this is a great metaphor for life, really. My goal in life is to just keep going. To keep moving forward. Because it doesn't matter how much work I've already done to get to this place. What matters is the work I have before me. If you want to join our own Bozeman Badass Babes Basic this Saturday you can! Talk with Sarah, Kerri or Elisa about joining them on their "anti-virtual" Badass Babes Basic. Or, gather your own group of Badass Babes and do your own Basic. Click on the image below to sign up. |
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