Movember!

                                                                       Movember

Take a close look at all these men..... Yes they all are sporting mustaches to help raise awareness for prostate cancer.

This is your last week to enjoy gazing at these handsome men and donate to the cause they have all full heartily supported for the month of November!

As much as I want to be a supportive wife, looking at my husband with that hair on his upper lip has been quite difficult. Who would of thought a little facial hair would make such a big difference in how he looks to me... (lets all be real for a minute, part of the reason we married our men is because we were attracted to them) So needless to say I'm looking forward to Dec 1st. Although Rich threatened to keep it to the end of Dec.... He actually thinks it looks good. Not! I told him if he keeps it till the end of Dec. I get to pluck each and every one of those mustache hairs with tweezers. As you all know I love my husband dearly and I think he is absolutely handsome....... just not as much with a mustache.

I think he believes it looks good because he has had a few people tell him he "looks sexy" or "really handsome" COME ON..... really! What are people gonna say to your face...?

So here are a few men from our Crossfit Box who have joined the cause and raised money! Go to their facebook pages and donate now.

Enjoy!

                                                                          Rich (my husband)

                                                                       Jer and Leif

                                                                             Pat

                                                                             Dave

                                                                    Walt and Ryan

                                                                           Ryan

                                                                  Our dog Chewy

Murph!

Me, My beautiful sister Lucita in the middle and one of our besties, and awesome crossfit coach Michelle after doing Murph.

First and foremost I want to thank every single one of our veterans for their service!

Then I want to thank our veterans for the WOD Crossfit calls Murph....
Murph is a bench mark WOD.

This WOD is named In memory of Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y., who was killed in Afghanistan June 28th, 2005.

It is done every year on veterans day across the country, but for some reason this is the first time I have had the opportunity to enjoy the pain. I most likely looked at this workout last year, (I started crossfit in Nov) and had to modify it or I missed that day.

This is Murph:

1 mile run
100 pull ups
200 push ups
300 squats
1 mile run

Time: 47:56

I lay on the floor of our box for at least 10 Min's after wondering if I was gonna be sick...
I loved it and hated it at the same time. I sometimes wonder whats wrong with me in that I enjoy the pain so much?

Rich suggested that I do it Cindy style... (another WOD)
So I did it by doing :
5 pull ups
10 push ups
15 squats
20 times

I have to say that I am so thankful that my hands didn't rip from the pull ups.  I was able to do all my pull ups butterfly. (yeah for me)

I will say that the push ups were my Achilles tendon in this WOD. I was reduced to doing singles on the last 8 rounds. Every once in a while I did two in a row. But not very often that deep into the WOD. I just told myself that if I did one at a time I had to keep moving.

The squats were not so bad.... with that being said I like to play mind tricks with myself and tell myself that they are active rest.....

Once the work load was done the first 800 of the last mile was HARD.... but being that running is my thang I was able to push it all the way in for the last 800 and promptly collapse once back in the box.

This is my story of Murph. So to all of those of you out there doing Murph today. Enjoy and Kick Ass! (and remember what our service folks have done for us)