This is part two of my Ragnar Washington DC race report – if you haven’t read part one, you should click on this right now to head over there and read that first. When we left off, we were pulling into Exchange #12 for our first break of the event. The exchange was at a […]
OK – it is time. Let’s talk about Ragnar. So … last Thanksgiving I ran a 10k (still stands as my 10k PR, ahem) with my sister-in-law and very good friends who’s house we were crashing in the DC area. Great morning, great race, really had a good time. During the drive, somebody mentioned a […]
Last week, after a work trip up to North Carolina, I wound up attending an afternoon class at Celebration Crossfit, which is rare. Normally it is either 6am or it doesn’t happen. But, I was there, and the CCF social media guy – and fantastic photographer – Guillermo was also there, but waiting for the […]
On April 18, 2016, one year ago today, I attended my first Couch-to-Crossfit class – and it began. Three weeks later, on May 9, I walked into my first regular Crossfit class. 6am, Monday morning, Celebration Crossfit. I didn’t know anybody. I couldn’t do most of the movements. I weighed about 315 pounds – I […]
Friend, fellow Crossfitter, and super-talented photographer Guillermo Cummings took a picture of me doing 17.3 on Friday that I still don’t quite have a handle on. He posted it across his social media last night, and shortly thereafter: Matt is awesome https://t.co/ktxSORnmkJ — CrossFit (@CrossFit) March 14, 2017
A couple of days ago the owner and head coach at my Crossfit box emailed and asked if they could use my before and now pictures for a post in their social media. I agreed – I don’t like my fat picture, but, as I told him, if I didn’t want it out there I […]
When I registered for the Celebration Half Marathon, I actually viewed it as more of a training run than a goal race. I’m registered for the Gasparilla Half Marathon in late February, and I had registered so early that I believed I could get in a “practice” half marathon and still have time to recover […]
I realize I never added this video. As much as I’m loving Crossfit, what I’m really loving are the days when we do the big powerlifts. This was a month or so ago, and we worked up to 90% of our one rep max. This is 365#. If things go right, I’m running a half […]
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn Wednesday morning at the gym (still can’t call it a box), and we had our normal 6am crew. We show up, we work hard, we go about the rest of our day. The coach this week is JC, […]