Every Thursday, from Feb 27 to Mar 27, an Open workout is posted by CrossFit HQ

1. Open Workouts will be held on Saturday each week starting at 9am. This will replace our usual 8 and 9am classes. However, we will have Open Gym from 730-830am each week. All athletes are encouraged to bring friends and family out to the gym Saturday to spectate and cheer. Even if you are not participating in the Open I want you at BOLT! This is a fantastic community event and you won’t want to miss out.

2. In the case of work travel, previous commitments or my discretion; athletes competing in the Open may complete the WOD on Friday or Monday morning class time. All athletes officially doing the open must coordinate with me by Tuesday the week of, to schedule a Friday/Monday session. Email getbolt@gmail.com

3. Each week we will email, and post to the blog, a heat list for Saturday with approximate start times

4. If you are not a member of BOLT but would like your score validated you must attend our Saturday session. Cost -$25

5. Our workout of the day on Friday of each week will be the Open WOD. All BOLT athletes not signed up to do the open will complete the workout with a judging partner. As always the weight and movements will be scaled to your ability level, however you will still be judged and likely be asked to practice judging another athlete not competing in the Open.

6. Those competing in the Open will have a programmed practice/prep WOD on Friday to prepare for Saturday.

7. Many of you have expressed your interest in judging. Please send me an email getbolt@gmail.com with your Saturday availability and to receive further correspondence for BOLT Judges. The CrossFit judges course is not mandatory for all Open judges, however it is a great resource and I encourage you to complete. You can find it here https://oc.crossfit.com/

Finally remember, this competition is all about you and your journey to be better (physically, psychologically and spiritually). Have fun, challenge yourself, and rely on our amazing community!

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As most of you are aware some of our BOLT athletes will be competing in the Dallas Europa CrossFit Competition at the Dallas Convention Center.  All of our coaches will be competing or attending the event so we will not have class on Friday Aug 17th @515pm.  We will have class Saturday Aug 18th at 9am.  Below is more information on the competition, I would love to see the StormCenter out in full force!  There will also be individual challenges to compete in and a host of other activities to watch and participate in.

Friday Aug 17th Competition

Competitiors – Cass, Janet, Courtney and Myself

Event Schedule

04:00 pm – Athlete Check in

04:30 pm – Athletes meeting for movement standards

05:00 pm – Team total 1 rep Max of Ground to Overhead

06:30 pm – Labrada WOD

07:30 pm – Awards Ceremony

Sat Aug 18th Competition

Competitors – Cass, Janet, Sam, Josh M, and Myself

Event Schedule

Who wants to compete? We currently have 1 team signed up for the Friday event and 1 team signed up for the elite competition on Saturday. I have been talking with several of you about doing the intermediate competition on Saturday. There is also still time available to submit another team for Friday’s comp which will be focused on lifting heavy/strongman type of workouts. It looks like we may have enough competitors to fill 2 intermediate teams. Each team can have up to 5 members (2 of which must be females); only 4 team members will compete in each workout.

The first workout announced for the Saturday comp is
200 Back Squats (50 each)
Elite – 225/165
Intermediate – 185/135

Below is a StormCenter list of interested athletes
JP
Myers
Karen
Jamie
Mark Bryant
Shayne

Please comment below if you are interested and we will get the teams put together

For more info

http://www.westplanocrossfit.com/europa-dallas

Not Destroyed

by Scott Zagarino

You sign up. You make it into Special Operations training. There are a million moments you think will destroy you. They don’t. You finish. Not destroyed.

You take your seat on a plane to Afghanistan. Headed for the fight. You leave the base in a Humvee with your buddies. Just driving down a dusty road. Another day. A distant sound that reminds you of something you heard on a warm 4th of July years ago. Suddenly the whole world explodes. Slowly your brain begins to absorb the burned and twisted remains that used to be a Humvee, the bodies of your friends no longer what or who they were. You breathe, know you’re still alive and they aren’t. Your leg doesn’t look like a leg anymore. Not destroyed.

A face leans over your bed and a disembodied voice tells you the leg has to come off. You refuse. There’s something that needs to be done for the other guys and that leg is necessary for a little while longer. Not destroyed.

You limp to the starting line on a hot, humid morning in Miami, Florida months later, looking 100 miles down the road to Key West and you look down and tell the scarred, twisted leg, this is what I kept you for, now do your damn job.

60 miles and the leg says no. A doctor leans in and tells you he can’t let you go on. You look at the leg, you sign the papers that say you understand and accept the risk, and you get up on the leg that shouldn’t still be there and you run 40 more miles. You finish. Not destroyed.

They ask you to count backwards from 100 and when you wake up your leg is gone, wrapped in plastic and thrown into a trash bin somewhere. Not destroyed.

You walk into a CrossFit box for the first time and look at a whiteboard that tells you all of the things you can’t do with only one leg. You suited up, you showed up, and you finish up. Your first WOD. Not destroyed.

On September 17th, Keith Zeier will stand next to brothers and sisters at Alamo CrossFit in San Antonio, Texas who also refused to be destroyed. This first group has missing parts too, but they all know that on this day, if you want that t-shirt, you finish what you started, and Rick Martinez gave them a chance to prove it. You’re all waiting for the call. 3-2-1 Go. 17 minutes later Fight Gone Bad 6 is done. You, your brothers and sisters have done the work, raised the money, and stand together with chests heaving, sweat pouring through t-shirts. Not destroyed.

A woman standing off to the side, nervously bouncing from one foot to the other, catches Keith’s eye and without a word spoken between them, he tells her that you can only be destroyed if you give in, if you let yourself be destroyed. His prosthetic leg is the authority that makes what he’s telling her true. Only you decide when and if you’ll be destroyed.

3-2-1 Go. Not destroyed.

Keith decided not to be destroyed because he had a responsibility to those brothers of his that had given their lives, not their legs, to see to it that their children got to college, so he raised the money because that’s what you do.

Got 17 minutes now?

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