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Wednesday, 02.22.12: tis' the season

The 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games get started today. Open WOD #1 will be announced at 7:00pm CST...here we go.

What CrossFit Is and Isn't...by someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I came across an article yesterday while on Jim Wendler's website. For those of you that don't know, Jum Wendler worte the popular and highly effective strength program/protocol 5-3-1. I'm a huge fan of 5-3-1 and of Jim. But that is not the point of this post.

While on Jim's site, he referenced an article called "What CrossFit Is and Isn't" written by a trainer named Dewey Nielsen. As you can see, I've linked it so you can read it for yourself and decide what you think. I'm writing my thoughts on the article here.

When I first read the article, I was furious. Luckily, the article doesn't have the ability to leave comments. I have no doube I would have written my response reactively and deensively instead of objectively.

So, I went to bed and reread the article again this morning.

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Monday, 02.20.12: wow

John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74
by Margalit Fox - The New York Times

He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there.

He made both crossings in a rowboat, because it, too, was there, and because the lure of the sea, spray and sinew, and the history-making chance to traverse two oceans without steam or sail, proved irresistible.

In 1969, after six months alone on the Atlantic battling storms, sharks and sncroaching madness, John Fairfax, who died this month at 74, became the first loan oarsman in recorded history to traverse any ocean. In 1972, he and his girlfriend, Sylvia Cook, sharing a boat, became the first people to row across the Pacific, a yearlong ordeal during which their craft was thought lost. (The couple survived the voyage, and so, for quite some time, did their romance.)

Both journeys were the subject of fevered coverage by the news media. They inspired two memoirs by Mr. Fairfax, "Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic" and, with Mrs. Cook, "Oars Across the Pacific," both published in the early 1970's.