April 2019
The Open 2019 is over and, as usual, it was a lot of fun! Gary Hetrick completed his first open WOD. He’s new to CrossFit, but modified appropriately and crushed it! Brandt and Lashell got their first ever chest to bar pull up!! Brandt’s was a “buzzer beater!” Lashell went on to complete 5 more! We will now resume our typical Saturday WOD schedule. See you all there!
May 18, there will not be a WOD at the box. Instead, we invite you all the run or walk a 5K with The Washougal Schools Foundation Stride. It’s a really great local event (begins/ends at the high school) and all proceeds go towards our schools. You can find all the information and registration process here: https://www.raceentry.com/wsf-stride/race-information
We encourage you to give it a try. Oh, and wear your Washougal River CrossFit shirt!
Murph will be Memorial Day at the box. It will be our only WOD of the day on May 27. It’s as really good WOD and we encourage everyone to give it a try. You can modify, scale, and/or make it a partner/team WOD. If you don’t already have a partner/team, we’ll find you one when you get there.
We only had a few shirt submissions, so we gave them all to our awesome “shirt guy” to create something great. The final design will be revealed soon. Shirts and tanks are $20 each and are pre-order only. All orders musts be completed by May 5th. Payment can be made at time of order or pick up and we can accept your card on file (or another card), cash, or check.
August 10 is the Spartan Race! Join our team! We will not be running together, but you may choose to make smaller groups and run together, of course. We will have people who just want to do it for fun all the way to people who are trying to go all out and see how well they can do. We welcome all levels of competitors on our team. Run at your own pace.
Our team name is Washougal River CrossFit. Ross is registered to race at 9 am. If possible, race at that time too. The course will be better, it won't be as crowded, and it's better if all team members register for the same time. If you end up needing to race later than 9 am after you register, I believe you can.
Spartan takes the top 4 or 5 finishers from each team and averages their times to determine placing. Just run your race and have fun! We would love to place, but that isn't our focus.
We have a 20% off code for our team members, but it expires 3/31/19 (tomorrow!), so sign up asap! I believe overall prices also go up April 1.
Summer Camps 2019 will be July 9-11 and August 13-15. Save the date! More information will be announced next month.
Finally, when we say “Better Ever Day”, we aren’t just talking about working out, lifting, gymnastics, etc. We mean in every aspect of our lives, we should strive to be better every day. Earlier this month our coaches worked to get better by going through a training on our new AED. We all have CRP/First Aid, but getting training on our specific machine felt important to us. Our AED is behind the desk in a cubby to the far right. Look for stickers identifying the location soon. We hope we never have to even consider using it, but are happy to know it’s there if we do. Thanks to Stephanie for the thorough and interesting training.
Have a fabulous April! Let us know if there are any events you’d like us to share next month.
WRCF Crew