***BEFORE I GET TO THE COMPETITION… MONDAY… 2/18 “President’s Day”… WE WILL HAVE 1 CLASS @ 9:30AM… LETTIN’ YOU LADIES & GENTS SLEEP IN A LITTLE BIT… I’LL BE @ THE STATION EARLY TO CLEAN UP FRIDAY’S MESS & DO MY OWN WOD…***
OK… This Is Just Part 1 Of Many To Come This Week Of Wrap Up Of The Dynamic Duo Competition…
“Silent Competitor/Silent Coach…”
I Honestly Don’t Know Which Was Worse…
My Very 1st Competition As A Competitor…
Or My Very 1st Competition As A “Solo” Coach…
Danielley Will Tell You That The Drive To My 1st Competition Was Horrible For Her… Dead Silence In That Car…
Even Those Who Went To Support Me Will Tell You… Dead Silence From Me In Our Canopy Area…
That Is Until The 1st WOD Was Done… Then It Was All Fun & Games… Well… Until That Stupid “Pull Over” WOD… Not Fun!!!
I Had The Usual Butterflies… But Honestly… After The 1st WOD… I Really Felt Like “It’s Just Another Work Out…”
I Wasn’t On A Team… I Didn’t Have To Worry About Coaching Other Athletes… It Was Just Me… If I F–Ked Up… It Was All On Me… Which I Can Take…
But Yesterday…
Before I Brag About You Ladies & Gents… I’m Going To Talk About Me…
Yesterday Came As No Surprise To Me… I Knew What I Was Going To Feel & How I Was Going To Act On The Day Of The Competition Weeks Ago… When The 1st Team Said They Wanted To Compete…
I Am A Man Of Few Words… I Know It… The Marine Corps Instilled In Me That “God Gave You 2 Eyes… 2 Hears… And 1 Mouth For A Reason…”
I See/Watch/Hear Everything… I Say What Needs To Be Said… Coach What Needs To Be Coached… And Make Sure Everyone Gets Home Safe…
Like It… Love It… Hate It… That’s My Style… That’s What Got My Marines Home…
I Knew Yesterday I Would Be Sitting Back On The Sidelines With Nothing I Can Do But Watch In Silence…
All That I Could Have Said To You… Done For You… Was Said & Done Days/Weeks Before Game Day…
We Practiced All The Movements… We Ran Through All The WODs NUMEROUS Times… We Played Around With Little Tricks Here & There… Sometimes We Agreed On The Plan… Sometimes We Argued On The Plan… But In The End… WE ALWAYS HAD A PLAN!!!
We Even Had A Back Up Plan… Hell… We Even Had A Back Up Plan To The Back Up Plan!!!
I Can Say This With 100% Confidence…
I Would Not Have Changed One Thing As Far As The Coaching & Programming That I Provided For All Of You Leading Up To The Competition…
***Except 1 Thing… But It Was Unexpected… The Tie-Breaker… I Wish I Had More Time To “Coach” You Threw It… A Few Tiny Things Popped In My Head On The Drive Home… But That’s The Fun Part Of It… The UnKnown & UnKnowable… AMAZING JOB Ladies & Gents!!!***
We Knew What We Needed To Work On… We Knew What Our Strengths Were… We Went “Heavier” Or “Higher” On Some Days During The Normal RainCross WODs…
I Feel That I Prepared You Ladies & Gents PHYSICALLY For The Competition…
But As I Said Earlier…
I Knew Yesterday I Would Be Sitting Back On The Sidelines With Nothing I Can Do But Watch In Silence…
Because No Matter How Physically Prepared You Were… I Couldn’t Really Control What Was Going On Between Your Ears…
And That’s The Hard Part For Me…
With The Nerves That I Was Feeling But Trying Not To Show… All I Could Do Was Read Your Faces & Behavior…
I See You Ladies & Gents Every Single Day… I Know You… I Can Tell When You’re Having A Normal Day… A Bad Day… An Excellent Day… A Really Shitty Day… Etc. Etc..
As I Walked Up To You Ladies & Gents In The Early Morning… I Could Already See It… The Nerves… Everyone A Little Quieter Than Usual… Which Is Very Unusual For YOU Ladies & Gents… Normal For Me… But For You Jokesters?!?! And Everyone “Sizing Up” The Competition… Wondering/Asking What Division He Or She Is In?!?! Etc… Etc…
Then The Briefing Came… Then All The Questions/Concerns Over The Slight Changes… Then It Was Time To Warm Up…
Then Before You Knew It… Coach Mike Announced…
“Alright… Heat ‘____’… Judges Ready??? Athletes Ready?!?! 3…2…1…GO!!!”
By The Way… Thanks Mike For Hosting & MCin’ An Amazing Competition!!! And Thank You To All Of The EverNox Crew…
And Then It Was All A Blur…
WOD 1 Was Done & Over With…
For Some Of You… The Butterflies Were Gone!!!
For Others… The Butterflies Hung Around For A Bit…
For All Of You… At Least From What I Could See… You Actually Had Fun!!!
Heaving Breathing… Moans & Groans… Were Followed By Hugs & High Fives!!!
Only To Stick Around To Watch/Support The Next RainCross Team ThrowDown…
I’ll Be The 1st To Admit… The Butterflies NEVER Left Me… They Stuck Around All Freakin’ Day!!!
I Don’t Think My “Game Face” Came Off Once…
But… What Did Make Me Smile On The Inside Was What I Just Wrote Above…
Only To Stick Around & Watch/Support The Next RainCross Team ThrowDown…
Every Time RainCross Had A Team Competing… ALL OF US WERE OUT THERE!!! Even When Teams Were Bench Pressing… You Were Either Right There Next To Them Or With In Eye Sight Yelling Your Lungs Out!!!
And That’s What We’re All About…
Competing As A RainCross Family…
Representing As A RainCross Family…
Supporting As A RainCross Family…
To Say That We Made Our Name Known IS A HUGE UNDERSTATEMENT!!!
The Station… RainCross Strength & Conditioning… RCSC CrossFit…
If They Didn’t Know Who “RainCross” Was Before…
They Know Now!!!
I’m Typing This Up Half Saturday Night/Half Sunday Morning…
And It Isn’t Until Now That I Can Say…
All My Butterflies Are Gone!!!
Again… This Is Just Part 1 Of Many To Come This Week Of Wrap Up Of The Dynamic Duo Competition…
I Have A Lot Of Braggin’ To Do About You Ladies & Gents!!!
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ALRIGHT… HERE WE GO!!!
For Some… Active Rest Day… Get Out & Do Something!!!
For Others…
REST!!! You Deserve It!!!
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3…2…1…GO!!!
Mando
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