Being Efficient

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If you’re wondering who’s in the pic, it’s a bunch of the RVA Endurance Rebels with Chris McDougall author of Born To Run,  a bestselling and most enjoyable book about running. We got the chance to go on an early morning run with him through Richmond, and I got my book signed. First a big thanks to the newsletter for …

Start Planning For Next Year

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Many of us have not gotten all our test times. We will reschedule these in the upcoming weeks. If you decide to do them on your own, please get a witness to record your times. The distances were 1 mile run, 400m run, 2K row and 500m row.  You can do a rowing and running test in the same day, …

Testing, testing…

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It’s time to test  with Crossfit Endurance! Over the next two weeks  both the Tuesday 6am class and the Thursday 5:30pm class will be swapping standard distance tests. Tuesday morning will start with a 1 mile time trial run, then we’ll be doing a 500m row followed by a short wod. Thursday afternoon will start with a 2K row followed …

A Good Time To Get Started

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Lot’s of exciting things going on right now with RVA Endurance. There’s still time to register for the Maymont 8 mile race taking place on Saturday.  A couple of us are running this and it’s a fun way to test yourself on the North Bank and Buttermilk trails. http://www.sportsbackers.org/events/maymont-x-country-festival As some of you may know I braved the Northern Va. …

Crossfit’s Drunkard Cousin

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Endurance classes are Tuesdays at  6am and Thursdays at 5:30pm Let’s face it, most Crossfitters try not to think of running or rowing at all. Crossfit Endurance is like Crossfit’s drunkard cousin, you have to invite us to the party, but you kind of hope we don’t show up. If you watched the Games this year you may have noticed …

Why Run When You Can Race?

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RVA Endurance is Tuesday mornings at 6am and Thursday night at 5:30pm First, I want to thank everyone who made our first week of official RVA Endurance wods. I saw some new faces this week, and I hope to see more in the weeks and months to come.  There are a few races coming up that some of are excited …