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CrossFit Flagstaff’s 2nd Affiliate Challenge

Jen — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:58:50 +0000

Sam: narrowly completes “Lauriel” before the cut-off with the unwavering support of her team mates. Sam was the top CrossFit Works finisher, on the podium, 3rd place overall for the women. Andre: 4th place, men’s division “Lauriel”

The CrossFit community is well known for its ability to pull together, work hard and raise money for someone in need. This weekend CrossFit Flagstaff put on a great fundraising event (in a blizzard!!) for one of their community, Lauriel, who has breast cancer. The first workout of the day was called “Lauriel” . It was 5 movements of 23 reps each representing Lauriel’s chemotherapy schedule of five days on, 23 days rest. Lisa Ray, owner of CF Flagstaff, reminded the athletes that they were working hard for a specific person who was right there watching. This concept exemplifies a part of CrossFit’s tradition, originating with the Hero workouts. A hero is someone who has taken great risk often times resulting in immense suffering or even giving their own lives for others. During a workout like “Lauriel” the mindset of the athlete must reflect the experience of a woman receiving treatment for breast cancer- an experience of great suffering. There are times when an athletic endeavor is for pure fun, and times when it is for personal triumph. This weekend was fun, and there was certainly triumph, but it was really for solidarity, community action, and straight forward giving. It was a great opportunity to spend this day of athleticism in service of someone else.

David B. top male finisher for CrossFit Works, 6th place earned him a spot in the “winner take all” final workout for the top 10 men. Chris G. working his way through 23 reps of a near bodyweight clean and jerk.

Evan: gets all his handstand pushups!!! Liz turns in an amazing “Lauriel” putting her in the top 10 women.

More pictures coming…including pics of Andrew L. that aren’t blurry.

Special Saturday Workout and some Upcoming Events

Jen — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:04:44 +0000

This Saturday CrossFit Works will host a special workout in honor of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry who was killed recently here in Arizona. Open Gym will be cancelled. Everyone is welcome to do this workout. It will be scaleable. We will meet at 9:30 and the workout will get started at 10:00. Please arrive in time to be warmed up and ready to get started at 10:00. The workout will be a fundraiser. There is no set monetary requirement to participate, simply donate what you can. All funds raised will be sent directly to support Agent Terry’s family. Again, everyone is welcome to attend. Come lend your support to Arizona’s Border Patrol agents, some of whom train alongside you every day right here. Due to the large number of people who have expressed a desire to support Agent Terry’s family, but do not live in Arizona, we have set up a PayPal account. This account will be closed at the end of the day Saturday, January 8. To donate through the PayPal account use this link: Border Patrol CrossFit Works Workout Pay Pal Option

Bruce Montoya at CombatFit has several Upcoming Events you can add to your calendars. All events listed below take place here, at CrossFit Works.

Sunday January 2 at 2:15pm Free intro to Israeli Self Defense
Sunday January 16 at 2:30pm Free Kids Safety Class
Sunday January 16, at 3:30pm The Krav Maga Foundations Class
Sunday February 20 at 4:30pm Free intro to Israeli Self Defense

http://combatfit.webs.com/apps/calendar/showMonth?calID=3549305&month=1&year=2011&move=prevMonth

Happy 4th of July

Jen — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:10:23 +0000

WE ARE OPEN REGULAR HOURS ON MONDAY JULY 5th

Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday and supported the Southern Arizona Disabled Firefighters. We had about 65 competitors. You all dove in, got sweaty and raised approximately $600!! Not bad for a few tire flips… Thank you to Jenny LaCoss and Brett Welander who helped organize the event and to the folks from SWAT/CrossFit Tucson, CrossFit Northwest Tucson and Wildcat CrossFit who came out, watched and participated. Thanks also to all the volunteers and to everyone who helped clean up. We had kids, Moms, friends and partners all present and it was a good night. Thank you also to our sponsor – Choice Greens.

Special thoughts to Jay H., Leonard J., Stephanie B. and Nneka A. who are all overseas tonight on behalf of our country. You are on our mind.

Congrats of course to the winners!!

For the 4 person teams: First place Engine 8 from Tucson Fire, Second place Team Mutual Aid from Drexel Heights Fire, Tohono O’Odhom Fire, Tucson Fire and Pascua Yaqui Fire (I hope I got that correct)

For the 2 person teams: First place Summer and Amanda-the homegirls, Second Place Mike L. and Sean from SWAT/CrossFit Tucson

Bryan-it was really sweet of you to let Jenny have a chance to do a little even though it meant giving up first place.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Memorial Fundraiser Workout-Lumberjack CrossFit and Fort Hood

Jen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:28:39 +0000

Early morning CrossFitters take note: because you all wanted to be in the same class, it is not going to make sense to make a schedule change right now. I am anticipating December being a little bit sporadic what with the holidays and all (prove me wrong!) so I am going to hold off changing anything until Jan 1st. Just come to your regular 6:00am classes through the month of December.

http://www.cflumberjack.org/

The following is an excerpt from CrossFit Headquarters.

Lumberjack 20 Memorial Hero WOD

On Nov. 5 at 1:34 p.m., a terrorist named Major Nidal Hasan

attacked fellow soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood, Texas. When

the shooting ended, he had killed 12 soldiers and one civilian

and wounded 43 others. Four of the slain soldiers and 11 of the

wounded were active CrossFitters in the 20th Engineer Battalion,

home to Lumberjack CrossFit. To honor these soldiers, CrossFit

HQ is creating a Hero WOD, and on Dec. 5, one month after

the murderous rampage, fellow Fort Hood affiliate Centurion

CrossFit Fort Hood will host the Fort Hood Massacre Memorial

WOD in an effort to raise money for those affected by this tragedy.

The Lumberjacks will deploy to Afghanistan in January in defense

of this great nation and the freedoms we all enjoy. We would like

for their parting memory to be one of hope and inspiration and

not of the horrific carnage that has so tragically befallen them.

Please join us on Dec. 5 by participating in the FHM Memorial

WOD at your local affiliates and by raising money to help the

victims of the shooting.

Here, at CrossFit Works, Inc. we will participate in this Memorial WOD on Saturday Dec 5 at 12:30pm. Open Gym will be cancelled. We will run the workout in such a way as to get as many people through as possible which will mean staggered starts by just a few minutes. At 2:00 our Free Saturday workout will perform a scaled partner version of the workout. If you want to do the entire thing yourself please come at 12:30 not at 2:00. The 2:00 time will be only for those doing scaled partner versions of the Workout. We will collect donations for the families of the Lumberjack CrossFitters killed at Fort Hood. You can bring 50cents, $5.00 or $500. In addition, $5.00 from the sale of each t-shirt during the month of December will also go to the Fund. You must RSVP to the comment section of this post if you are going to do the workout so that we can be ready for you. I am hoping you all will be here on Dec 5th to join CrossFitters around the world in doing this Workout.