Response

Yeah, I know I put it out there and you felt free to email me that CF'ers are a cult and always injured.  Well, I have some things to say about that.  First of all, when you live 20 years longer and reach an age of 45, you might know a few things more than you do.  Secondly, if you try getting off your arse, you also might figure out that people who are active still get injured and sick.  

From my perspective in the 2 months I've done crossfit and with the 30+ years I've been a competitive athlete (gymnast, soccer) and fitness professional, I know about injury.  When you are younger, competition drives your game.  Competition involves ego and youth involves risk.  You get injured--sometimes it can be prevented and sometimes not.  Crossfitters compete and the elite are competitive athletes.  They train as such.  Injury is part of the sport.  From the part of me (past my prime) that still has dreams of being elite, I know pain is part of anything.  You ache when you get out of bed sometimes--hell, almost every day.  There is soreness and then there is SORENESS.  I've learned how to work around the fact that I'm almost 50.  In my head, I am an athlete.  I revel in the beauty of the human body, but I acknowledge  it's never perfected and sometimes (I know this one really well having watched healthy friends succumb to cancer)--it can't even be bettered.  At some point, we all die.  So, while I'm living and healthy, I'll just keep kicking.

If you want to call it a cult...go ahead.  I've been caught in many vortexes which I am still a part of today--tribal belly dancing, for instance.  Yeah, and I like body modification.  I mean, really like it.  I would be pierced and tattooed all over if I wasn't tempered by my job.  I also am in the eating healthy cult.  Yeah, I don't drink or smoke or eat crap.  So what?  No one's recruiting you.  I'm just sharing.

I know I shared my blog.  If it bothers you to read it, then don't.  I'm not looking for constructive criticism or accolades necessarily (although I'm fine with both).  I'm posting it so I can say 5 years from now...that's where I was.  Wow!