How Does Your Race Calendar Look?

JakeArticles, Endurance

The holidays are over and it’s time for endurance athletes old and new to start looking at how they want to fill up their race calendar. This is probably the most stressful time of the year for us since any race you commit to means money spent upfront that weather, injuries or annoying life events can abruptly cancel with no …

Be an Athletic Supporter….

JakeArticles, Endurance

If you’re smelling blue liquid all over the place, you’ve either passed out behind the porta johns at Coachella, or it’s race time in Richmond! The Richmond Marathon, Half Marathon and 8K are on Saturday the 15th. We already know it’s going to be tough to get around so why not get outside early and cheer some people on? We …

Rebels Go Ragnar 2: Portajohn Boogaloo

JakeArticles, Endurance

Last weekend myself and 11 of my craziest friends decided it would be a good idea to run 200 miles from Cumberland, MD to Old Town Alexandria. You know the joke, How do you know a crossfitter is at your party? Give them 3 minutes and they’ll tell you. The Crossfitter talking about Crossfit has become a trait so pervasive …

Rebels Go Ragnar

JakeArticles, Endurance

This week several of our Endurance regulars are going to tackle their first Ragnar Race. A Ragnar is a team relay race that covers around 200 miles. In this case from Cumberland MD to Washington DC. Our race starts at 6:30am Friday and ends sometime Saturday afternoon/early evening. Each runner tackles 3 legs of varying difficulty and distance. Total distance …

Endurance, We’re Different

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Photo by Kat: Milo after a 6 mile run. While it’s not uncommon to see similarities in our Endurance programming and the regular daily wod.  We need to look more closely at the differences. I’ve said it before. Crossfit Endurance will only work in conjunction with regular strength and conditioning workouts. This is why Endurance is scheduled to take advantage …

It’s a New Year, now what?

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A little late in coming, but I would like to once again thank everyone who made it out for a very successful 2nd Annual Tacky Lights run. I believe we had 21 runners, 3 dogs and a stroller travelling the course. There were lots of lights and other groups were taking pictures of us so we must have been doing …

2nd Annual Rebels Tacky Lights Run

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The Rebels 2nd Annual Tacky Lights Run is a go!! We had a great time doing this last year and I’m hoping this year will be bigger and better. When is it? Wednesday December 18th at 6:30pm Where are we meeting? 26 N Morris Street (Outside of Crossroads Coffee) 1 block west of Harrison bet Floyd and Main The route …

Post Race Post

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Another race season is coming to an end and first and foremost I want to congratulate all the runners who took part in one of the races last Saturday. I know of at least six runners from our box who tested themselves on the 16th and I’m sure there are a few I don’t know about. Tere ran her first …

Line Up the Porta-Johns! It’s About To Get Real.

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The big races are this week so shine up your racing socks! Before I talk to the endurance folk, I’d like to address the non-endurance people out there. On Saturday the 16th the Richmond Marathon, Half Marathon and 8K will likely come through your neighborhood. Instead of using this as an opportunity to bitch about the traffic or worry about …