So that Friday, after my 3 days of elements class, I was ready to start.  I knew that if I didn’t start on Friday, it’d be hard to go on Monday.  I showed up way early.  There was one person there, one of the trainers named Clay.  He was very nice and was there working and lifting an insane amount of weight. 

          There were about 6 people in the class.  Scott was the instructor.  I had never met him before.  I introduced myself and asked for a composition book.  If I was going to be there, this stuff was going to be documented, by darn.  It was hard because I didn’t know a soul, but I was determined.  It was a workout involving thrusters and kettle bell swings.  I wasn’t sure what weight to do on either, so Scott had me do a 15 pound bar and an 18 pound kettle bell.  A few months later we did the same workout and I did 65 pounds on thrusters and 35 pound kettle bell.  Cause I’m awesome like that, ha ha .

          I didn’t hurt myself during the workout and I really liked the feeling when I was done.  I met another person there who was a little bit older and also a teacher, so she helped me out a lot.  She would be my buddy for about the next month.  She showed me how to do things and the warmups etc.  I’m super sad she doesn’t come anymore.

          I will admit for the first month I cherry picked what days I was going to come workout.  I just couldn’t make myself go when I things on there like a ton of running/burpees, etc.   I went to the 6:30 pm class, because it was the smallest.  I was also still attending yoga a few times a week.

          On Memorial day, we did a workout called Murph.  I had already decided no way in hades was I going to get up and go do this crazy workout.  It consists of a mile run, 100 pullups, 200 pushups and 300 squats. Then you run another mile.  That’s it right?  But on the night before on the facebook page, they mentioned that you could do a half or a quarter.  I thought I could do that!  Just cut it in half, with ring rows instead of pullups( they werent’ even close to there, and it was driving me crazy!), and 800s instead of a mile.  I was so surprised when I showed up and there were people everywhere!  It was such a fun atmosphere.  I did half in 42+ minutes or something like that, but I felt awesome afterwards!  I think this was the moment I was officially hooked.  I couldn’t get crossfit off my mind after that.  It was now my happy place.  I spent a ton of time online looking at how to get better , watching Greg Amundson goal setting videos and even reading about that crazy paleo diet.  More about my summer later………