Eleven is a nice number.

Gravity's my enemy.

Muscle Ups at 215 - a short analysis from CrossfitCC on Vimeo.

My New Years’ Resolution for 2010 was one thing: to live more simply.

A slew of small enlightened sentences would spring forth from my wee blog in the months to come. There was a lot of change. A lot of movement. A lot of acceptance of things that, had you attempted to warn me of prior to my experience, I would never have believed would happen.

Truth be told, it’s been a year of growing pains in both my personal and professional life.

I wonder whether I really have simplified. I now live in Philadelphia and find keeping myself in service to one business much more fulfilling than two, or three. I now find myself accepting the company of an incredible man who reminds me of the things I want to live for every day I know him. I now find myself imperfectly, but earnestly trying to cast off the forces in my life that weigh me down (my car, my inbox, and my “things” in general) in favor of those that build me up (my friends, my family, my faith, my training, my journey).

Plotting his way to Brazil I'm sure...

2011 presents me with new beginnings galore: a new gym, a new apartment, a new relationship, new friends, and a new outlook. I hope to allow this year to be what it will - everything that is hoped for but nothing that is promised.

Here’s the concrete; 11 things I hope to do in the next year:

1. Certified USA Olympic Weightlifting Coach come May (Totten)
2. Win something - not sure what yet - OR simply compete in my first Oly Meet ever.
3. Finish meeting with DB (my accountant and financial advisor - pretty much) about money and CFCC
4. Go to Colorado and take an anusara class from Heidi.
5. Go to church - not because I must, but because I want to, at least once a month.
6. Read and implement Gray Cook, also Kelly Starrett at CFCC at least 1x a week.
7. Play tennis through the spring, summer, and fall at least a few times a month.
8. Find somewhere to sing.
9. Cook the majority of my food at home and finally buy a grass-fed meat freezer for CFCC.
10. Go to the Mutter Museum.

11. Take a class/get a certification: either anusara, CSCS, another language, sewing, or... SOMETHING.

I'm saving the CrossFit Goals for AFTER HYBRID. :)