Bonding, sweating, prizes and crying

October 19th, 2009, by Jennie

A special thank you goes out to the 15 ladies who came out on Saturday for our Ladies Only Event. I know that I had an absolute blast spending the afternoon with you guys!

Our agenda for the day looked like this:

Purse Game
WOD
CrossFit Fire Trivia
Nutrition Discussion
Emotional Farewell

The purse game is always a lot of fun. I think we learned a lot about each other by investigating the contents of each other's purses. Example: Kelli had 9 shades of lipstick in her purse! One of our ladies has a pair of UNDERWEAR in her purse. We didn't ask why because we're not here to judge; just to love. Our Purse game winners were Audra, Brittany and Robin.

Next up on our list was the WOD. We did the same WOD as the Team Saturday crew, only the ladies did 150 presses instead of 75, and their weights were scaled back appropriately. I'm proud of you guys for getting through this workout. This workout encompasses two things that a lot of people are afraid of: box jumps and handstand push-ups. Congrats to you guys for sucking it up and pushing each other. Our winning team from the WOD was Connie, Barbie and Jessica. Nice job ladies!

Our last "game" of the day was a round of CrossFit Fire trivia. The questions were everything from "who is the youngest female member of the Fort" to "which two members of the Fort have siblings that own CrossFit Affiliates"? Our trivia winners were Jessica, Brittany and Jeanne.

In addition to prizes for the individual games, we also had overall winners for the day.

1st place - Audra
2nd place - Brittany
3rd place - Jessica

Great job to ALL our ladies! I want to also thank all of the local businesses that donated prizes. Without your generous donations, we wouldn't have had such AMAZING prizes to give away!

Prize Sponsors:
Atmosphair Salon
The Trend Cellar
Chapel Hill BodyWorks
Rave Waves
American Outfitters
The Meat Goat
Tropic Stop Tanning
Celebrating Home

I want ALL the ladies of the Fort to know how proud I am of you. What we do at the Fort is against "the norm". How many other women in your life do you know that lift weights regularly? The ONLY women I know that do, are CrossFitters. You have taken strides to live healthier lives and set good examples for your children/families/coworkers.  Congratulations on being brave enough to be strong. Congratulations on everything you have accomplished. Congratulations on not being a "damsel in distress". You are a special part of my life! HUG!

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Category: CrossFit

13 Responses to "Bonding, sweating, prizes and crying"

  • Jelli (Kelli)
    October 19, 2009, 11:21 am

    I am proud to be a woman of CrossFit :) THANK YOU LADIES!!!!! Love love you all to peices..... Jennie, we couldn't have done it with you!! You are an inspiration to ALL OF US :)

  • Jelli (Kelli)
    October 19, 2009, 11:49 am

    P.s Jennie, the video is soooo cute and full of women power :) It brought a tear to my eye.
    P.s.s Bill, THANK YOU for watching Jeffry, it means a lot!!!!!

  • Barbie
    October 19, 2009, 1:05 pm

    Love the video! Had a great time! Thanks for having the event!! Looking foward to doing it again sometime! :-) It was a lot of fun!

  • Tricia
    October 19, 2009, 5:29 pm

    I had an awesome time with everyone! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Jennie!! It was great to spend time with all of you ladies. I don't get to see a lot of you very much and some of you I do, but it was great to bond! The video is great and so worth the watch! For those of you that don't know, it took Jennie 7+ hours to put this video together! She is great :)

  • Jeanne
    October 19, 2009, 7:20 pm

    I love being part of such an amazing group of women I can’t think of a better place to spend my free time. My team was fantastic, thanks for holding my hand on the box jumps! Jennie you inspire me, thank you!

  • Connie
    October 19, 2009, 9:08 pm

    What an awesome day!! I had such a great time with the ladies at the fort. Ok - i'm a cryer....the video definately made me tear up. It captured so many great bonding moments and of us truely working together as a team!!

    Thank you so much for putting together the day and this inspirational video, Jennie! You are very talented :)

    • Beth
      October 20, 2009, 8:55 am

      *hugs* to everyone!! I'm sorry I couldn't be there for the day! I made it in for some Team Saturday work, but as I left I saw some of you making your way in, and I'd kind of wanted to turn back and do it all over again, just to be with everyone. ^_^

      Great video, Jennie! And awesome work to EVERYONE!!

    • Jess
      October 20, 2009, 9:12 am

      A BIG THANK YOU to Jennie for organizing this event and thanks to my team Connie & Barbie you guys ROCK!!! as Jeanne said you all are an amazing group of women and I am proud to be a part of it.

    • Season
      October 20, 2009, 4:09 pm

      Seriously Jennie, last Saturday was AWESOME!! Thanks so much for your dedication and commitment. I feel so blessed to be part of Cross Fit and to be around such inspirational peeps. I really love the part of the video with Jeanne, Jamie and Trish doing box jumps. It just goes to show the teamwork and the support you get from one another.

    • zach
      October 20, 2009, 9:11 pm

      I loaned out my purse with the undies in it... I won't tell anyone WHO I loaned my purse too, but that was definitely MY purse.

      And...

      I'm glad that everyone had a great time. I don't get to coach too many of you but when I do, your determination is VERY apparent. I know how much Jennie cares about you ladies because you pass it on between each other.

      Congrats!

    • Jamie
      October 21, 2009, 8:15 pm

      Wow to say that Saturday was a blast is an understatment! I'm so proud to be a crossfitter....is that a word??? Jeannie you ROCK sister! I've sent the video to all my friends and all I wrote was this is why i love this place so much! Jeanne youre amazing... Trica you made me not to be afraid of doing the hanstand push up! Oh and here's the story of why i had a Black thong in my purse..it was stuck to my sweat shirt when I was walking into Target... So, I threw it my purse...the funny thing is...its still in my purse... :)
      PS I would like to see zach in it.....

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