Yesterday started a bit differently for me. My normal Saturday routine is to get a cup or two of coffee and head to CFC for the Saturday Hopper workouts. Check out the link if you are unfamiliar with Crossfit. However, since I'm heading out of town next Saturday to the Whole 9 Foundations of Nutrition Workshop in Chicago, this was my morning to be Mr. Mom, so my wife could head to the downtown Indianapolis Farmer's Market. Check out her very non-Paleo find here. If you like marshmellows you should check it out. At least she brought back some sweet and spicy buffalo jerky for me.
Upon my wife's return, I headed out to spend just a couple of hours at the Great Lakes Crossfit Invitational at a nearby Crossfit box in Noblesville, IN, just down the road. What an event by Crossfit Indy North. I've been Crossfitting since July and it's changed my life as I've written about in post after post, but I can not begin to describe to you what I experienced in as just an audience member and cheerleader at this event.
The intensity of the athletes! The endurance of the athletes! The passion of the athletes, men and women alike! The athletes!!!!
These folks started competing at 8 a.m. and had 4 workouts to try to finish in the top 20 which allowed them to compete in the final WOD. I watched one guy do the following in just six minutes!!!!!
3 Rounds of...
20 back squats (115 lbs)
20 toes to bar
20 double unders
And that was after 3 previous workouts!!! Unreal.
Made me think of this....
An intended two hour stay turned into six hours of me cheering on the CFC folks who have become my workout friends. Here's some of them.........
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| Reijo doing toes to bar |
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| Kevin and his toes to bar |
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| Keith getting ready to squat and Nick in the back right. |
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| Kyle fighting through his toes to bar |
I wish I would have felt like Superman a few hours later as I knew I was going out to eat with friends. We went to one of the best places around our area:
In the wam months this place encourages tailgating outside while you wait on a table. While it's "controlled and civil" tailgating, it's a blast. And the food inside..........Check out the menu.
This was my second trip here. No tailgating, but our friends are neighbors with the lead chef, so we walked right in and probably pissed off the fifteen people waiting in the foyer near the space heater. Anyone who knows me needs half a second to tell you what I ordered......
If I was tech savvy I would enter an mp3 soundbite here of the Pac Man sound when Pac Man get eaten.
While the cheesy horseradish potatoes are obviously not Paleo, the duck....yes....duck! That heavenly tasting rolled duck with bbq sauce on top and stuffed with some kind of cheese that delicately oozes out of each slice......NOT PALEO........ok folks.......and neither were the three Sun King We Mac Brown Ales that I had.
Not quite part of my 30 Day Paleo Challenge. I've logged the food in my daily journal and today.....well.....I move on......No guilt. No worries. Just back on the wagon and off I go. I don't feel any real impact to my digestion or how I feel this a.m. It's one meal. It was a damn incredibly good meal from start to finish. Not what the 30 Day Challenge prescribes, but.........
While I'm a life-long fan of R.E.M., I'm not Superman. I'm human. Today is a new day and I can't wait to get to Crossfit tomorrow.
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