Our Epic August Crossfit Trip - Day 1

Dennis and I have always flirted with the idea of taking a cross country road trip and hit up as many Crossfit boxes as we could.  

I think after about a 6-8 months of Crossfiting I became slightly obsessed with going to different boxes in different states to A. Get in a WOD while on vacation and B. Grow my Crossfit Tshirt Collection. 

So in any case, one of my best friends was celebrating her 30th birthday in NYC and I immediately was excited to search for local boxes that would fit into the schedule. 

Since a weekend in NYC calls for much more effort now that we have Shane, we decided to make an EPIC trip out of the whole thing, leaving VA to PA, PA to CT, CT to NY and then back home to VA, with the hopes of going to no less than 3 boxes.  

So Tuesday night after work, Dennis, Shane and I packed the car as best that we could for the traveling week ahead and drove up to Pennsylvania where we would be staying at Dennis' parents house for the night.  

Now last time we stayed at Dennis' parent house we dropped in at Crossfit Royalty.  We really liked that box, but in all attempts to try NEW PLACES we decided to go to Crossfit Valley Forge instead for an 11 o'clock class.  

The facility itself was very unique and nothing like I had ever seen at a Crossfit ever.  The building itself was a sports complex with an astro turf field, a basketball court, a full gym room, and a closed off area with a Crossfit section.  Apparently there was an upstairs too, which is hard to even believe.  

We were a bit early and got to watch the 10am "class" aka one of the trainers do today's WOD.  And gave us time to sign the required wavier.

I was half happy with the WOD we were being asked to do, a 12 Minute AMRAP of Snatches and Wall Balls.  Any guesses on what part I was happy about?  In any case, the class ran like this:

Group Warm Up
Strength
WOD:
12 Minute AMRAP
12 Power Snatches
12 Wall Balls
Cool Down/Stretch

There were more people in the class than I expected for an 11am class on a Wendesday but everybody was very welcoming and friendly.  

It was funny bc when the trainer asked us about our Crossfit background and we said "seasoning" he said very quickly OH THANK GOD!  Which we totally understood because having new people come in on Snatch Day is probably the worst possible situation.  The Snatch is one of the most technical Oly lift and would be extremely frustrating for trainers and new Crossfitters alike.  

I think Dennis and I represented CFC fairly well with our scores: