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So There's Hope?

Yesterday, I had a jarring conversation with a woman I had just coached through an AMRAP.  She had struggled a lot with the negative pullups, the prescribed scaling option for dead-hang pullups that morning.  She's new to CrossFit and to pullups, and lacked the strength to control herself on the descent.  When I explained how I learned to do pullups by using thinner and thinner bands over the course of many months, she was surprised.  She had assumed that I had walked in on day one being able to do pullups - and that the same was true of the other women at the gym.  In her mind, pullups weren't a learnable skill or an attainable goal - they were something you either have or don't.

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Ciao, 2011!

Ring dips at CrossFit Metropolis2011 was a big year.  I ran the New York marathon and the Vienna half.  My sister became an Ironman.  I tossed an old lady.  I participated in my first CrossFit competition - and then did a few more with Team Metropolis.  I won a trampoline.  I wrote a poem.  There were lots of PRs and epic fails.  And the year's going out with a bang - a ginormous bruise/scrape from (yet another) box jump fail this morning. 

Resolutions really aren't my thing.  Goals I like, though.  So, here's what's on the shortlist for 2012:

• To beat my best half marathon time (1:57:36) in the NYC Half in March.
• To do a muscle up.
• A 200+ lb deadlift (still at 190...since March).
• To string together more than two consecutive double-unders.  This is long overdue.
• To do Fran as Rx'd in under 30 minutes.

I'll keep you posted.  Happy New Year, everyone!

-Gym Belle-